Linda Nochlin is the Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts. Her book Woman as Sex Object: Studies in Erotic Art, 1730-1970,published in 1972, was significant for introducing a feminist perspective to the field of art history and criticism. Nochlin's other publications include Realism and Tradition in Art, 1848-1900, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, 1874-1904,and The Politics of Vision: Essays on Nineteenth-Century Art and Society. Nochlin served as a professor of art history and the humanities at Yale University from 1989-92, Distinguished Professor of Art History at City University in New York (CUNY) from 1980-90, and Mary Conover Mellon Professor of Art History at Vassar College from 1971-79. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and of New York University's Institute for the Humanities. In 1984-85, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Nochlin earned her bachelor's degree in philosophy from Vassar College in 1951, and her master's degree in English from Columbia University in 1952. She received her doctorate in art history from New York University's Institute of Fine Arts in 1963.
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