Stacey Loughrey-Sloboda
Paul H. Tucker Professor of Art History
Biography
Stacey Sloboda is the Paul H. Tucker Professor of Art History. Her research focuses on eighteenth-century art, design, and material culture in Britain and she teaches courses at UMB on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art, and architectural and design history. Her books include Chinoiserie: Commerce and Critical Ornament in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds: Global and Local Geographies of Art, and A Cultural History of the Interior in the Age of Enlightenment. She is a contributing author to the Art History textbook The History of Art: A Global View.
Area of Expertise
18th and 19th Century visual and material culture, history and theory of design and decorative arts; cross-cultural artistic contact; histories of collecting and display
Degrees
PhD, Art History, University of Southern California, 2004
MA, Art History, University of Southern California, 2001
BA, Art History, Scripps College, 1995
Professional Publications & Contributions
Books:
A Cultural History of Interiors in the Age of Enlightenment, Stacey Sloboda, ed. (Bloomsbury, 2023).
The History of Art: A Global View (Thames and Hudson, 2021). Author of five chapters: “Baroque Art of Europe,” “Art of the Dutch Republic,” “Art of the Enlightenment in Europe and North America,” “Rococo Art in Europe,” and “Neoclassical Art in Europe and North America.” Second edition in preparation.
Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds: Global and Local Geographies of Art, Stacey Sloboda and Michael Yonan, eds. (Bloomsbury, 2019).
Chinoiserie: Commerce and Critical Ornament in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Manchester University Press, 2014).
Journal Articles and Book Chapters:
“St. Martin’s Lane: Neighborhood as Artworld,” Journal18, issue #15 “Cities,” (Spring 2023).
“The Interior in the Age of Enlightenment,” A Cultural History of Interiors in the Age of Enlightenment, Stacey Sloboda, ed. (Bloomsbury, 2023), 1–13.
“London,” in Hogarth and Europe, Alice Insley and Martin Myrone, eds. (Tate Publishing, 2021), 25–9.
“Mapping Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds,” co-written with Michael Yonan, in Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds: Global and Local Geographies of Art, Stacey Sloboda and Michael Yonan, eds. (Bloomsbury, 2019), 1–18.
“St. Martin’s Lane in London, Philadelphia, and Vizagapatam,” in Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds: Global and Local Geographies of Art, Stacey Sloboda and Michael Yonan, eds. (Bloomsbury, 2019), 245–66.
Condensed version published as “Global Chippendale: The Circulation of Ornament in the 18th Century,” in Kent Bloomer: Nature as Ornament (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020), 19–27.
“Chinoiserie: A Global Style,” in Encyclopedia of Asian Design, vol. 4: Transnational and Global Issues in Asian Design, Christine Guth, ed. (Bloomsbury, 2018), 143–54.
“Surface Contact: Decoration in the Chinese Taste,” in Qing Encounters: Artistic Exchanges between China and the West, Petra ten-Doesschate Chu and Ning Ding, eds. (Getty Research Institute, 2015), 248–63.
“Between the Mind and the Hand: Gender, Art, and Skill in Eighteenth-Century Copybooks,” Women’s Writing 21:3 (Autumn 2014): 337–56.
Reprinted in Caroline Franklin, ed. The Material Culture of Women’s Writing (London: Routledge, 2019).>
“Material Displays: Porcelain and Natural History in the Duchess of Portland’s Museum,” Eighteenth-Century Studies 43:4 (Summer 2010): 455–72.
“Fashioning Bluestocking Conversation: Elizabeth Montagu’s Chinese Room,” in Architectural Space in Eighteenth-Century Europe: Constructing Identities and Interiors, Denise Amy Baxter and Meredith Martin, eds. (Ashgate, 2010), 129–48.
“Porcelain Bodies: Gender, Acquisitiveness, and Taste in Eighteenth-Century England,” in Material Cultures 1740-1920: The Meanings and Pleasures of Collecting, Alla Myzelev and John Potvin, eds. (Ashgate, 2009), 19–36.
“Picturing China: William Alexander and the Visual Language of Chinoiserie,” British Art Journal 9:2 (Fall 2008): 28–36.
“The Grammar of Ornament: Cosmopolitanism and Reform in British Design,” Journal of Design History 21:3 (Fall 2008): 223–36.
Additional Information
Professor Sloboda is a specialist in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British visual and material culture, with research interests in the history of design and the decorative arts, geographies of art, and global design history. Her book Chinoiserie: Commerce and Critical Ornament in Eighteenth-Century Britain was published by Manchester University Press in 2014. She writes widely on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art and design, including articles in the Journal of Design History, the British Art Journal, and Eighteenth-Century Studies.
Professor Sloboda is currently researching artists and artisans working in and around St. Martin's Lane for a book on the geography of the London art world in the mid-eighteenth century. She is the co-editor with Dr. Michael Yonan of Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds: Global and Local Geographies of Art (Bloomsbury, 2019), and is the editor of Interiors in the Age of Enlightenment: A Cultural History (Bloomsbury, 2024).
Professor Sloboda’s has held fellowships from the Kress Foundation, the Huntington Library, the Yale Center for British Art, the American Philosophical Society, the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. She is a member of the Editorial Board for Bloomsbury's The Material Culture of Art and Design book series, the Advisory Board for Studies in Romanticism, and the Board of Directors for the American Friends of Attingham.
Courses Taught at UMB
- ART 230: Architecture, Design, and Society
- ART 235: History of Global Design
- ART 315: Eighteenth-Century Art
- ART 317: Nineteenth-Century Art