Courses
Exoticism and Primitivism in Modern Art; Caricature: The Culture and Politics of Satire; Modern Art in Fin-de-Siecle Europe, 1880-1907; Realism and Impressionism

Research Interests
Professor Childs is a specialist in Modern Art. She has special interests in European visual culture in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her areas of research include the intersections of art and politics, exoticism (especially Gauguin), the history of caricature, photography and prints, issues of gender in modern art, the visual cultures of travel and imperialism, as well as both traditional and contemporary Native American and Oceanic art.

Selected Publications:

Daumier and Exoticism: Satirizing the French and the Foreign, Peter Lang Press, 2004.

"Catholicism and the Modern Mind: The Painter as Writer in Late Career," in Gauguin: Tahiti, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 2004, pp. 223-242.

"Gauguin as Author: Writing the Studio of the Tropics," The Van Gogh Museum Journal, 2003, pp. 70-87.

"Eden's Other: Gauguin and the ethnographic grotesque," in Frances Connelly, ed. The Grotesque and Modern Art, Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 175-192.

Editor. Suspended License: Censorship and the Visual Arts (University of
Washington Press, 1997)