About Joan Coutu Joan Coutu is associate professor of art history and visual culture at the University of Waterloo, and author of Persuasion and Propaganda: Monuments and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire. Books by Joan Coutu Politics and the English Country House, 1688–1800 edited by Joan Coutu, Jon Stobart & Peter N. Lindfield Politics and the English Country House, 1688-1800 edited by Joan Coutu, Jon Stobart & Peter N. Lindfield Then and Now Collecting and Classicism in Eighteenth-Century England by (author) Joan Coutu Persuasion and Propaganda Monuments and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire by (author) Joan Coutu