Nicola Courtright, who received her B.A. at Oberlin College, her M.A. at Yale, and a Ph.D at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University in 1990, has taught the art and architecture of early modern Europe in the Department of Art and the History of Art at Amherst College since 1989. She has also taught at the University of Delaware, Connecticut College, and Princeton.

Professor Courtright has received numerous grants to pursue her research, including a Fulbright, a Rome Prize at the American Academy in Rome, and American Council of Learned Societies and American Association of University Women post-doctoral fellowships. Her book was awarded honorable mention for the Premio Salimbeni per la Storia e la Critica d’Arte.

Professor Courtright was a member of the College Art Association Board of Directors beginning in 2000, Vice President of Publications from 2004-6, and president from 2006-8. Currently she serves as a half-time Associate Dean of the Faculty at Amherst College, where she continues to teach and do her research.