Margo Beggs
Margo L. Beggs is a Ph.D candidate in the History of Art at the University of Toronto. Her dissertation is entitled “Harriet Hosmer (1830-1908): Fame, Photography, and the American ‘Sculptress.’” The study re-interprets the career of Hosmer, an American neoclassical sculptor who lived and worked in Rome, by foregrounding the intersection between photography and sculpture in the mid-nineteenth century. Beggs specializes in nineteenth-century painting, sculpture, and visual culture, and has taught courses at the University of Toronto and Ryerson University. Her research interests include artists’ career formation; the birth of celebrity culture; transatlantic artistic exchanges; and sculpture and painting in nineteenth-century Rome.