About

Heather Belnap Jensen is associate professor of art history at Brigham Young University. Her research focuses on women in the art world of post-Revolutionary France and transatlantic culture and Mormonism, c. 1900, and she is currently working on book projects in these areas. Jensen is the co-editor, along with Temma Balducci and Pamela Warner, of Interior Portraiture and Masculine Identity in France, 1789-1914 (Ashgate, 2011) and its pendant volume, Women, Femininity, and Public Space in European Visual Culture, 1789-1914 (Ashgate, 2014).

Undergraduate courses that Professor Jensen frequently teaches include methods of art history, nineteenth-century European art, modern art, contemporary art, and women in art and visual culture.

Jensen is a member of the executive committee for the BYU Women’s Studies program, where she oversees WSTAR, its faculty research group; she is also on the BYU European Studies executive committee and chairs the BYU London Centre faculty oversight committee. Jensen currently serves on the College Art Association’s Committee for Women in the Arts and is a regional representative for The Feminist Art Project.

Education

Ph.D. (2007), History of Art, The University of Kansas


M.A. (1997), Humanities, Brigham Young University


B.A. (1994), Humanities and History, Brigham Young University


 

 

Blog Posts

    Publications

    EDITED BOOKS


    Temma Balducci and Heather Belnap Jensen, eds. Women, Femininity, and Public Space in European Visual Culture, 1789-1914. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Press, 2014. [Reviewed in Woman’s Art Journal; Modern & Contemporary France; Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies; Nineteenth-Century French Studies; French Studies]


    Temma Balducci, Heather Belnap Jensen, and Pamela J. Warner, eds. Interior Portraiture and Masculine Identity in France, 1789-1914. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011. [Reviewed in French History; French Studies; Interiors: Design, Architecture and Culture]


    BOOK CHAPTERS & JOURNAL ARTICLES


    Parures, Pashminas, and Portraiture, or How Joséphine Bonaparte Fashioned the Napoleonic Empire.” Fashion in European Art: Dress and Identity, Politics and the Body, 1775-1925. Dress Cultures series. Ed. Justine De Young. London: I.B. Tauris, May 2017.


    “Le privilège des femmes dans la critique d’art en France, 1785-1815.” Trans. Séverine Sofio. Sociétés & Répresentations (Université I Paris/Sorbonne), no. 40 (October 2015): 145-61.


    “Introduction.” Women, Femininity, and Public Space in European Visual Culture, 1789-1914. Co-authored essay with Temma Balducci. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Press, 2014. 1-16.


    “Marketing the Maternal Body in the Public Spaces of Post-Revolutionary Paris.” Women, Femininity, and Public Space in European Visual Culture, 1789-1914. Eds. Heather Belnap Jensen and Temma Balducci. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Press, 2014. 17-33.


    “Amélie-Julie Candeille’s Critical Enterprise and the Creation of ‘Girodet’.” Vanishing Acts: Women Art Critics in Nineteenth-Century France. Ed. Wendelin Guentner. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2013. 73-116.


    “’C.W., académicienne’: Caroline Wuiet and the Woman Art Critic in Post-Revolutionary France.” Vanishing Acts: Women Art Critics in Nineteenth-Century France. Ed. Wendelin Guentner. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2013. 53-72.


    “Staël, Corinne, and the Women Art Collectors of Napoleonic Europe.” Staël’s Philosophy of the Passions: Sensibility, Society, and the Sister Arts. Eds. Tili Boon Cuillé and Karyna Szmurlo. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 2012. 237-62.


    “Modern Motherhood and Female Sociability in the Art of Marguerite Gérard.” Reconciling Art and Mothering. Ed. Rachel Epp Buller. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012. 15-30.


    “Quand la muse parle: Julie Candeille a propos de l’oeuvre de l’art de Girodet.” Plumes et Pinceaux: Discours de femmes sur l’art en Europe (1750-1850). Eds. Mechthild Fend, Melissa Hyde, and Anne Lafont. Paris: Les presses du Réel, 2012. 207-230.


    “Women of Substance, or, The Women of the Weir Dynasty.” The Weir Family, 1820-1920: Expanding the Traditions of American Art, ed. Marian Wardle. Exh. cat. New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 2011. 131-56. Winner of 2010 Wyeth Foundation for American Art Publication Grant and the 2012 Victorian Society of America’s William Fischelis Award.


    “Introduction.” With Temma Balducci and Pamela J. Warner. Interior Portraiture and Masculine Identity in France, 1789-1914. Eds. Temma Balducci, Heather Belnap Jensen and Pamela J. Warner. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011. 15-30.


    “Picturing Paternity: The Artist and Father-Daughter Portraiture in Post-Revolutionary France.” Interior Portraiture and Masculine Identity in France, 1789-1914. Eds. Temma Balducci, Heather Belnap Jensen and Pamela J. Warner. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011. 31-46.


    “Diversionary Tactics: Art Criticism as Political Weapon in Staël’s Corinne, or Italy (1807),” Women Against Napoleon: Historical and Fictional Responses. Eds. Waltraud Maierhofer and Gertrud Roesch with Caroline Bland. Frankfurt: Campus, distributed by University of Chicago Press, 2007. 161-186.


    “The Journal des Dames et des Modes: Fashioning Women in the Arts, c. 1800-1815.” Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide 5.1 (March 2006) [Online journal published by Art Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art]


    APPENDICES & DICTIONARY ENTRIES


    “Biographical Sketch: Amélie-Julie Candeille (1767-1834).” Vanishing Acts: Women Art Critics in Nineteenth-Century France. Ed. Wendelin Guentner. Newark: University of Delaware, 2013. 279-86.


    “Biographical Sketch: Caroline Wuiet (1766-1835).” Vanishing Acts: Women Art Critics in Nineteenth-Century France. Ed. Wendelin Guentner. Newark: University of Delaware, 2013. 327-34.


    “Caroline Wuiet.” Dictionnaire universel des femmes créatrices. Eds. Antoinette Fouque, Mireille Calle-Gruber, Beatrice Didier. 3 vols. Paris: Éditions des femmes, 2013.


    BOOK REVIEWS


    Review of Mothering Mennonite, edited by Rachel Epp Buller and Kerry Fast (Bradford, Ontario: Demeter Press, 2013). For Studies in the Maternal 8(1): 9 (Winter 2016): 1-5.


    Review of The Portrait Bust and French Cultural Politics in the Eighteenth Century by Ronit Milano (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2015). For H-France, online reviews for the Society of French Historical Studies, 16:15 (January 2016).


    Review of Portraits of the Artist as a Young Woman: Paintings and the Novel in France and Britain, 1800-1860 by Alexandra K. Wettlaufer (Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2011). For Nineteenth-Century French Studies. 42.5 (Fall 2014).


    Review of Empress Eugénie and the Arts: Politics and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century by Alison McQueen (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011). For caa.reviews, online reviews for the College Art Association (December 2012).


    Review of Ingres: Painting Reimagined by Susan L. Siegfried (New Haven: Yale UP, 2009). For H-France, online reviews for the Society of French Historical Studies, vol. 11, issue 28 (January 2011).


    Review of Modern Women and Parisian Consumer Culture in Impressionist Painting by Ruth E. Iskin (New York: Cambridge UP, 2007). For French Studies 63 (April 2009): 225-226.


    Review of Delacroix, Art and Patrimony in Post-Revolutionary France by Elisabeth A. Fraser (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004). For H-France, online reviews for the Society of French Historical Studies, vol.4, issue 11 (November 2004).

    Projects

    BOOK PROJECTS


    Art, Fashion, and the Emergence of the Modern Woman in Post-Revolutionary Paris. Work in progress.


    Artistic Frontiers: Mormon Women Artists Abroad, 1880-1945. Work in progress.


    Marianne Meets the Mormons: Mormonism in the French Imaginary 1830-1914. With Corry Cropper and Daryl Lee. Work in progress.


     

    Memberships

    College Art Association


             Committee for Women in the Arts


    Association d’art des universités du Canada


    Association of Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art & Architecture


    Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art


    Nineteenth-Century French Studies Association


    Société de Dix-Neuviémistes


    The Feminist Art Project (TFAP)


    Seminaire du mode (IHTP)


    Mormon History Association


    Mormon Women’s History Initiative

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