Faculty Directors
Esther da Costa Meyer is an associate professor in art history in the Departm
ent of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. Born in São Paulo, Brazil, she graduated from the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and received her Ph.D. from Yale University. She specializes in modern and contemporary architecture. Her published works explore the interface between architecture and the other visual arts— painting, film, literature, and music, and her essays have appeared in Assemblage, Modernism/Modernity, New German Critique, Harvard Design Magazine, and Artforum.
Mallica Kumbera Landrus teaches the art and architecture of
the Indian subcontinent with particular focus on India and the intersection of art, architecture, politics, religion, and social life. Her research interests include transculturalism in Indian art, the reflection of power and politics in Christian and Hindu religious architecture, Colonial art and architecture in India, Vijayanagara temples and sculpture, Female representation in eighteenth-century Mughal and Rajput paintings, and Indian popular cinema. She is currently a lecturer at the Rhode Island School of Design and a visiting professor at Brown University; in 2008–09 she was a visiting fellow at Princeton University. Landrus received her Ph.D. from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
