Rachel Eisendrath

Rachel Eisendrath teaches Renaissance poetry and critical theory at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the author of Gallery of Clouds.

An Unsettling Civil War Photograph

An image from the Battle of the Wilderness
Rachel Eisendrath
March 16, 2026

A Miracle at the Met

Siena: The Rise of Painting brings together an astonishing group of artworks
Rachel Eisendrath
January 15, 2025

Rembrandt’s Reclining Female Nude

What the print reveals about a body at rest
Rachel Eisendrath
June 10, 2024

New York Anabasis

In praise of the return to the surface
Rachel Eisendrath
June 12, 2023