Marta Faust is a historian of art and visual culture in early-modern Europe, ca. 1400–1600, with an emphasis on printed images and print culture through the 1820s. Her recent work examines the circulation of images in the Low Countries and German language regions, and investigates questions of reception, media, forms of memory, and relations between pictures and literary translations. Research support has come from the German Studies Association, the Newberry Library, the Albert and Elaine Borchard Foundation, and United University Professions/State University of New York. Faust earned a PhD in the History of Art and Architecture from the University of California, Santa Barbara. An article based on portions of her 2019 doctoral dissertation appeared in the Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art. Another peer-reviewed article is forthcoming in the journal Word & Image.

In 2020–2021 Faust was Max Kade Postdoctoral Fellow in the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, where she began working on a book on the late resurgence and reception of prints designed in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. She has taught courses in Art History at the University of California and the State University of New York, Oneonta.