Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen

Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen is an Assistant Professor at New York University, specializing in 19th-century European art and cultural history. She joined NYU in 2023 after serving as Associate Director of the Williams Graduate Program in Art History at the Clark Art Institute. Her research integrates art pedagogy, aesthetic philosophy, and scientific theories of embodiment, with notable focus on animal studies, gender/sexuality, and cognitive linguistics. Collaborations include NYU’s Center for Ballet and the Arts.

Her work examines intersections between art and disciplines like biology, psychology, and early film. Recent publications include Modern Art & the Remaking of Human Disposition (2021), analyzing shifts in human representation. She actively engages with dance history and modern technological media archaeology.

Key features include podcasts discussing her book and essays on Seurat’s Grande Jatte, highlighting evolutionary theory’s impact on art. Her teaching emphasizes cross-field methodologies in art historiography.