She specializes in the relationship between art and literature in the nineteenth century and has published widely on French and British novels, paintings, and culture. Her most recent book, Portraits of the Artist as a Young Woman, will be published in 2010. A graduate of Princeton and Columbia Universities, Professor Wettlaufer has held fellowships from the Whiting Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Clark Art Institute, and the National Humanities Center. In 2000 she received the Presidents Associates Teaching Award and in 2007 she was awarded the David Blunk Memorial Professorship for excellence in undergraduate teaching and advising.