Elise Smith

Elise Smith received her M.A. from Vanderbilt and her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, both in art history, and she is now retired after 37 years at Millsaps College. In addition to a number of journal articles, she has written or co-authored five books. The first two focus on individual artists, the 16th-century Netherlandish painter Lucas van Leyden and the late 19th-century British painter Evelyn De Morgan. The next two, co-authored with a literary scholar at the University of Florida, Judith Page, explore the garden as a personal and professional space for British artists and writers, from the 18th through the early 20th century. Their third book, just out in January, is entitled Southern Women, Southern Landscapes: Cultural Reflections on the Garden, 1870-1970.