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Associate Professor of Art History
PhD 1996 (Fine Arts); AM 1992, Harvard University; BA 1989 (Art History) and BA 1988 (Linguistics), University of California, Irvine.
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Areas of Research/Interest: 18th- and 19th-century European art; history of modernism; art historiography.
External Affiliations: Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art, (Vice President, 2008-09; Secretary, 2001-08); College Art Association; Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture.
Fellowships/Honors: National Humanities Center Fellow, 2008-09; Charles Rufus Morey Book Prize, 2008; Millicent C. McIntosh – Woodrow Wilson Fellow, 2003-05; CASE/Carnegie Tennessee Professor of the Year, 2003; Appalachian College Association Post-Doctoral Fellow, 2001-02; Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Fellow, 1994-95; Phi Beta Kappa.
Select Publications:
Too Beautiful to Picture: Zeuxis, Myth, and Mimesis, University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
Making Art History: A Changing Discipline and Its Institutions, Routledge, 2007 (editor).
Art History and Its Institutions, Routledge, 2002 (editor and contributor).
“The New Iconoclasm,” Art Journal, spring, 2005.
“Emilia Dilke: Self-Fashioning and the Nineteenth Century,” in Marysa Demoor, ed. Marketing the Author: Authorial Personae, Narrative Selves, and Self-Fashioning, 1880-1930, Macmillans, 2004.
“Painting in the Philosophical Brothel,” XVIII. New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century (spring 2004): 10-28.
“The Victorian Grand Siècle: Ideology as Art History,” Victorian Literature and Culture 28 (spring 2000): 133-47.
“Victorian Identity and the Historical Imaginary,” Clio 26.2 (1997).