Tatiana String

Adjunct Associate Art Professor; Adjunct Associate History Professor

55 Hamilton Hall
Campus Box 3195
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599
919-962-5553 (phone)
tcstring@email.unc.edu

M.A. Florida State University, 1989
Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin, 1996

Research and Teaching Interests

Tania String came to UNC in Fall 2010 from the University of Bristol, where she was a Senior Lecturer in the History of Art. She specializes in the art and culture of Early Modern Europe, with particular interest in Henry VIII’s England. Dr String is engaged with ideas about the efficacy of art as propaganda, a topic explored in her book Art and Communication in the Reign of Henry VIII (Ashgate: 2008). Issues of gender are the primary focus of her current book project on masculinity and the male body in Renaissance art.

Dr. String is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and was the Kress Doctoral Fellow at the Warburg Institute in London. She has been a historical consultant for the BBC and for Historic Royal Palaces at Hampton Court. Before leaving England she was involved in curating two exhibitions with the National Portrait Gallery in London: ‘On the Nature of Women’: Tudor and Jacobean Portraits of Women, 1535–1620 and Imagined Lives: Mystery Portraits from the National Gallery, 1520–1640. She has received research funding from the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.

Courses Offered (as schedule allows)

• HIST 292 -- Art and Culture in Tudor and Stuart England

• HIST 178H -- Art and Power in Early Modern Europe

• ART 089 -- Art, Gender and Power in Early Modern Europe

• ART 272 -- Northern European Art: Van Eyck to Bruegel