Thea Goldring is a Ph.D. candidate in the History of Art and Architecture Department at Harvard University. She specializes in eighteenth and nineteenth century French art, with a particular interest in the intersection of histories of science and art history. Her dissertation, entitled Matters of Life And Art, examines how French materialism, a philosophy that proposed that matter’s innate power to determine its own form created the natural world, transformed the subjects and conditions of artistic practice in the second half of the eighteenth century.
