Raisa Rexer

Raisa Rexer is an assistant professor of French at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. She is also a freelance art critic and regular contributor to Apollo Magazine in the UK. Her academic research focuses on the intersection of literature and the visual arts in nineteenth-century France. She is currently finishing a book on early French nude photography entitled The Fallen Veil: A Literary and Cultural History of the Photographic Nude in Nineteenth-Century France.