Jo Anna Isaak is the Marion Chair in Art History. This position is established in honor of John L Marion, FCO'54. Her research and writing focus on modern and contemporary art and critical theory and more recently on environmental issues. Her first book traced the connections between visual art and literature in European modernism; her second book was an exploration of laughter as a revolutionary strategy employed by contemporary women artists. She has organized several art exhibitions which have toured the U.S. and Canada including: "The Revolutionary Power of Women's Laughter," "Looking Forward, Looking Black" and "H20," an exhibition about water and the human body.