Dr. Michael H. Feinberg is a visiting assistant professor of art history at Cornell College. His broader research and teaching interests center on art and visual culture of the Atlantic World (1600-present). Feinberg holds a PhD in Art History from the University of Wisconsin, Madison (2023).

Feinberg's first book project, Caribbean Landscapes and Agencies Beyond the Human in British Print Culture Surrounding the Haitian Revolution examines how landscape imagery of the Atlantic World enabled Britons to grapple with colonial loss as what has been called the Haitian Revolution unfolded. Taking some of the most influential illustrated works of history and natural history written, edited, or printed while British forces were active in Saint-Domingue (Haiti) as case studies, this project divulges landscape's ability to render some of the least-studied histories of colonial resistance with visibility. 

Feinberg has published various articles and has several under various stages of peer review. His most recent publications have appeared or are about to appear in The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion, and AmLit--American Literatures.

Beyond publications, Feinberg's work has been or will be featured at national conferences including the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (2022), Modern Language Association (2021) and the College Arts Association conference (2020). He has also given guest lectures at the Boston Athenaeum (2020) and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (2019).

Feinberg teaches visual culture and art with a keen eye towards unsettling Eurocentric perspectives. Before arriving at Cornell College, he taught visual culture of the Americas at Hamilton College (Clinton, NY).

Feinberg’s research has been supported by numerous grants from institutions such as the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art, the John Carter Brown Library, the Huntington Library, and the Clark Library at UCLA.