April Oettinger, PhD is Professor of Art History, Chair of the Visual & Material Culture Program, and Director of the recently inaugurated Sweren Wogan Institute for the Study of the Book at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland. Her recent publications, which have appeared in scholarly journals including Artibus et Historiae, The Journal of Word and Image, and Source, explore the relationship of humans and nature in the early modern era, Renaissance print culture and the production of knowledge, and the role of visual and literary culture in shaping early modern natural science. She has been the recipient of a Fulbright Foundation Fellowship and the Dame Francis Yates Fellowship at the University of London’s Warburg Institute. More recently, grants from the Delmas Foundation, the Renaissance Society of America, the American Philosophical Society, the National Endowment of the Humanities, and a Senior Visiting Mellon Fellowship at the National Gallery of Art (CASVA) supported her research for Green Worlds in Early Modern Italy. Art and the Verdant Earth (Amsterdam University Press, 2019), co-authored with Karen Hope Goodchild and Leopoldine Prosperetti, and her current book project, Animating Nature. Lorenzo Lotto and the Sublime Turn in 16th-Century Venetian Landscape Art, 1500-1550.
