Christina Ferando (she/her) is currently the Head of Academic Affairs at the Yale Center for British Art. She has more than a decade of experience in higher-education leadership and administrative management, university teaching, and academic programs. Most recently, she was Dean of Jonathan Edwards College and Lecturer in the Department of History of Art at Yale University. She has taught at Williams College and Columbia University, where she received her Ph.D., and has received numerous fellowships from institutions such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harvard University, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, and the American Academy in Rome, among others.
A specialist in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art, her interests include the history of display and reception, museology, cultural patrimony and canon formation. Her publications include articles in The Burlington Magazine, Word & Image, and several edited volumes. Her first book, Exhibiting Antonio Canova: Display and the Transformation of Sculptural Theory (Amsterdam University Press, 2023), argues that the display of Canova’s sculptures in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries shaped the legacy of important sculptural theories. She is currently working on a project that examines the intersection of art, industry, and religion in the nineteenth century.
