Portrait of Dr. Emily Fenichel

Emily Fenichel, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts & Letters

Florida Atlantic University

Visual Arts and Art History

Boca Raton Campus

Emily Fenichel (DAA Committee)   Emily   Fenichel received her M.A.  and   Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. Dr. Fenichel’s research focuses on the interaction of art  and   religion in the Renaissance, particularly in the art of Michelangelo. Her essays have appeared in Renaissance Quarterly, Source: Notes on the History of Art,  and   Artibus   et Historiae. She is currently completing a book manuscript on Michelangelo’s late sculpture, poetry, drawing  and   collaborations. This project examines these works as reactions to  con   temporary criticism of the artist’s Last Judgment fresco in the Sistine Chapel (1541)  and   against the backdrop of Counter-Reformation Rome. Dr. Fenichel is also the Co-Director of a Digital Humanities initiative entitled the  The   Arquin   Slide Collection Digitization Project. This project aims to create an interactive, searchable database of FAU’s collection of Florence  Arquin’s   25,000 slides of Central  and   South America, which were a product of  Arquin’s   employment by the State Department  and   her research on Diego Rivera.