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Pamela M. Fletcher

Affiliation: Art History
Edith Cleaves Barry Professor of the History and Criticism of Art

Pamela Fletcher specializes in the history of British art. Her work centers on Victorian and Edwardian painting, with a focus on questions of narrative, sentiment and play in the context of nineteenth-century exhibition culture. Her most recent book The Victorian Painting of Modern Life (Routledge 2025) tells the story of the emergence and flourishing of British modern-life paintings in the mid-nineteenth century, arguing that these paintings asked sharply contemporary questions about the effects of new technologies, financial and political systems, and rhythms of urban life on people’s private lives and intimate relationships, asking their viewers to reflect on and talk about the emotional contours of modern experience. She also studies the art market, with a particular focus on the development of the commercial art gallery in London and New York over the course of the long nineteenth century.

Her courses at ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ cover the history of European art from the 18th century to the present, as well as contemporary art in the United States. She also teaches courses on the art market, digital literacy and the rise of new media, and histories of women in art. Her courses are cross listed with Digital and Computational Studies, Urban Studies, and Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies.