Medieval books, gender, and digital art history

How did images communicate meaning in the past? How do they operate in the present? These questions guide my work as an art historian in the classroom and beyond. My current research projects embrace gender, queer and trans theory, and digital art history to provide new perspectives on the visual and material culture of medieval Europe. My teaching engages students’ sensory observations to develop their skills of critical thinking and communication about the visual culture of the past and the present. Explore this site to see my publications and read about recent projects in my teaching and research.

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Women readers in the margins of a thirteenth-century book of hours (Cambrai, Médiathèque municipale MS 87, fol. 113r)