Richard Taws, McGill University
Richard Taws is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University. His interests lie in the field of eighteenth and nineteenth-century art, and he is currently working on a book about print culture in revolutionary France. In 2006-7 he was a J. Paul Getty postdoctoral fellow. His most recent publication is ‘Trompe-l’Oeil and Trauma: Money and Memory after the Terror’, Oxford Art Journal (November 2007), and he has articles forthcoming in The Efflorescence of Caricature (ed. Todd Porterfield) and A History of Visual Culture (eds. Jane Kromm and Susan Bakewell).