Her book, titled Georges Seurat: The Art of Vision, was published in 2015 by Yale University Press and takes the artist’s interest in vision as its central focus. Professor Foa situates Seurat’s body of work as a sustained meditation on different forms of visual engagement with the outside world and as an exploration of the diverse states of mind that these visual experiences can elicit. She is currently at work on a book on Edgar Degas titled The Matter of Degas: Art and Materiality in Later Nineteenth-Century Paris. Other research and teaching interests include the materials of art, Europe’s global encounters in the 18th and 19th centuries, the relationship between art and science, historiography and art criticism, and 19th-century exhibition spaces and practices.