INGRID D. ROWLAND is currently a professor at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture, based in Rome, Italy.

Ingrid Rowland had taught previously at the University of Chicago, where she received the Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, UCLA and Columbia University, as well as in the Rome programs of St. Mary"s College, the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture, and the University of California, Irvine. After completing a BA in Classics at Pomona College, she earned her MA and PhD degrees in Greek Literature and Classical Archaeology at Bryn Mawr College. A Fellow of both the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and the American Academy in Rome, she spent a year as a Fellow at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles..

She writes and lectures on Classical Antiquity, the Renaissance and the Age of the Baroque for general as well as specialist readers. A frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books, she is the author of The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth-Century Rome (1998). She has published a translation of Vitruvius" Ten Books of Architecture (1999), an edition of the correspondence of Agostino Chigi from a Vatican Library manuscript (2001), The Ecstatic Journey: Athanasius Kircher in Baroque Rome (2000), a collection of essays, From Heaven to Arcadia (2005), and a new study entitled The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery (2004).