April Oettinger

April Oettinger is associate professor of art history at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland. She completed her doctorate, with a specialization in the art and literature of Renaissance Venice, in 2000 at the University of Virginia. Prior to her arrival at Goucher in 2005, she taught at the University of Delaware, the University of Hartford, and for the Colgate University Study Abroad Program in Venice. Oettinger's research interests include Renaissance art and literature, Venetian painting, and the history of the book. Her recent publications, which have appeared in scholarly journals including Artibus et Historiae and The Journal of Word and Image, treat the art of 16th-century Venetian painter Lorenzo Lotto, the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (the topic of her doctoral dissertation), and Michelangelo's snowman, among his most famous "lost" masterpieces. She is the recipient of research grants from the Fulbright Foundation, the Warburg Institute, the William Morris Foundation, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the Renaissance Society of America, and the National Endoment for the Humanities.  She is currently working on a book titled Nature and Vision: Lorenzo Lotto and the Sublime Turn in Venetian Landscape Art.