Emily P. Bakemeier

Emily Bakemeier, Deputy Provost, has primary responsibility for the foreign language and literature departments, the departments of Sociology, Comparative Literature, History of Art, and the Humanities Program, as well as for the Programs in Film Studies, Theater Studies, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Additionally, she oversees the Center for Language Study, the Whitney Humanities Center, the Center for Writing Instruction, and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Appointments Office. Emily’s academic area of expertise is in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century northern European art, particularly early modern French royal portraiture and iconography. She received her A.B. from Dartmouth College and her M.F.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University.