Buddhist studies, especially Chinese practices from medieval times to the present; religion and visual culture in China.
Cultural histories of the native Americas and colonial Latin America.
Professor Soussloff teaches history of art, visual studies and theory in the HAVC department. Some of her courses fulfill requirements in Italian Studies and Jewish Studies. She also teaches graduate courses and advises in the Departments of History, History of Consciousness, and Literature and in the Digital Art & New Media M.F.A. program.
Visual cultures of Central Africa; issues of gender, colonialism, post-colonialism and iconoclasm.
European painting (especially French) from 1600 to the 1960s; German art and visual culture between the two world wars; art as social practice; portraiture.
Visual cultures of the Oceania; (inter)nationalism; culture contact; colonial cultures; gender studies; museums, collecting, and exhibition.
Visual cultures of the Mediterranean with emphasis on Ancient Greek, Byzantine and Islamic material. Cross-cultural interactions; continuity and change; politics and religion; gender construction and perception; word and image; ritual and the senses.
Visual cultures of Southeast Asia and its diaspora: religions and materiality, theory of visual narrative, the politics of cultural translation, (Post) colonial and Cultural Studies. Issues of gender, sexuality, race, and trauma.
Modern and contemporary architecture and urbanism; visual and cultural studies; social inequality in space; architectural preservation; history and memory in the built environment; architecture and visual culture in Latin America and Europe.
Visual and conceptual representation in premodern China, especially landscape/painting; Asian art history.
Medieval visual culture, urbanism, and secular building; Gothic architecture, campus planning and architecture.