Alexis Monroe

PhD Candidate

Area of interest: American Art

Alexis Monroe is an interdisciplinary scholar of American art, literature, and culture. She received her BA from Dartmouth College in Comparative Literature before beginning graduate study at the IFA, where she is currently the Willner Family Fellow. Her research has been supported by the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Library Company of Philadelphia. In 2021, she won the Walter Read Hovey Award, given to a graduate student in art history who shows exceptional promise in the field. Her work has been published by the MFA Houston and in American Art.