Profile

Ariane X. Lo is a first-year PhD in the Department of French and Italian. She received her BA in Art History from Pomona College in 2020. She wrote her undergraduate thesis on the influence of pre-cinema and other technologies in the work of nineteenth-century French author and illustrator Bertall. As an undergraduate, she received the generous support of the Rembrandt Club, the Flintridge Foundation, and the SURP program to research the impact of cultural gamification in the Île-de-France region and the gender dynamics of late nineteenth-century gastronomical spaces in Paris.

Before joining Princeton, she worked for the Singapore National Heritage Board’s innovation unit and the Heritage Conservation Centre’s Time-based Media Working Group. Ariane is interested in the interactions of text and image, materiality, the senses, and the socio-political context of illustrated books in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.