For Dorothy Limouze, the best part of teaching is working
individually with students. “It’s rewarding to see them
improve in writing, analytical thought and research,” says
the associate professor of Art and Art History. “I think
of these as life skills, important in any occupation. It's
also especially rewarding to work with students who set up
challenges for themselves and really try to do something
interesting with every assignment.”
Although Limouze’s
teaching occurs at St. Lawrence, her areas of scholarship
and research lie in Northern and Central Europe in the 16th and early 17th
centuries. Most of her papers and publications concern the late Mannerism
and the early Baroque phases of art history. Her doctoral dissertation, at Princeton,
was on Aegidius Sadeler, a Flemish artist who worked in Germany, Italy and Bohemia
at the turn of the 17th century; his drawings are the subject of a book for which
she has a contract with a publisher in Belgium. “A side benefit
of my field of research is travel, which I really enjoy,” she comments.
“In teaching, we are always learning,” Limouze
observes. “I
teach a broad range of courses, and new material is always coming
my way. I've
considered a museum career (curatorial work), but I find the environment
of a college or university much more supportive of intellectual growth.”
