Rate My Professor Susanne Meurer

Meurer’s research centers on the intersection of technique and aesthetics in printmaking and the cultural impact of prints in local and global contexts, as well as Renaissance and Baroque collections of artists’ lives and their influence on art historical canons. Key publications include “The Earliest German Recipe for Copper Etching” (2023), “‘It All Turns to Shit’: The Land of Cockaigne in Sixteenth-Century German Woodcuts” (2023), “Translating the Hand into Print: Johann Neudörffer’s Etched Writing Manual” (Renaissance Quarterly, 2022), “Changing Perceptions of Marcolf the Trickster” (2022), “A Little-Known Collector and the Early Reception of Dürer’s Self-Portraits” (Burlington Magazine, 2020), and “Johann Neudörffer’s ‘Nachrichten’ (1547): Calligraphy and Historiography in Early Modern Nuremberg” (2014). She co-edited “Die Künstler der ‘Teutschen Academie’ von Joachim von Sandrart: Aus aller Herren Länder” (Brepols, 2015). Awards include the Eleanor M. Garvey Fellowship in Printing and Graphic Arts (Harvard, Houghton Library) and the Hixson-Lied Visiting Scholarship (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2017). She reviews for Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, Parergon, and Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, and serves as Honours Coordinator for History of Art at UWA. She has given invited lectures, such as at the Dürer Haus, Nuremberg.