Johanna Fassl (Instructor for Art in Venice) is an Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Communication and department chair at Franklin University Switzerland and served as the Resident Director of Casa Muraro from 2004–2014. She received her PhD (with distinction) from Columbia University and has since been the recipient of numerous fellowships, including a Mellon and Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship for her research. Her areas of specialization include the art and architecture of Venice; her book Sacred Eloquence: Giambattista Tiepolo and the Rhetoric of the Altarpiece was published with Peter Lang was in 2010.