Michael Feinberg

Michael H. Feinberg is a historian of art and visual culture of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His research explores the circulation of print across the Caribbean, Latin America, and Europe. Tentatively titled Tides of Revolution: Landscape and the Establishment of Haiti, Feinberg’s first book project examines the role landscape imagery plays in illustrated books that were written, printed, or edited as British forces attempted to seize Saint-Domingue (1793-1798). Feinberg is also currently working on an article project about visual culture in Jamaican Jewish communities during the nineteenth century.

Feinberg’s teaching centers on art and visual culture (1650-contemporary) with a particular emphasis on cross-cultural exchanges, diasporas, indigeneity, and identity in the Atlantic World. He is also interested in the historical relationships between enslaved people, free people of color, and Jewish persons in Latin America and the Caribbean. 

Distinctions

• Mayers Fellowship, The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens (2022)
• Andrew Wyld Research Support Grant, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (2021)
• Charles H. Watts Memorial Fellowship, John Carter Brown Library (2021)
• Clark Fellowship, Clark Library, UCLA (2020)

Select Publications

• Feinberg, Michael. “Flaming Shadows: Girodet and the Incarnated Spectator.”  The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 65. 3.
• Feinberg, Michael. “Beyond the Imperial Metropole: Queer Anglophone Representations of the Haitian Revolution.” AmLit- American Literatures 4, no. 2 (2024): 82–104.
• Feinberg, Michael. “The Jewish Museum of New York in a Global Context.” In The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion. Oxford University Press. Article published [forthcoming]. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.013.991.

Professional Affiliations

College Art Association
American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture
Association for Jewish Studies

Appointed to the Faculty

2023

Educational Background

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
M.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison
B.A., Sarah Lawrence College