Department of Art History

eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art and aesthetics; visual piety in the modern age; German art, 1750 to 1920; art in the Third Reich, 1933-1945; portraiture, performance, and the tableau vivant, 1700-the present; digital arts and humanities

Articles (most recent in English)

“Aesthetic Religion, Religious Aesthetics, and the Romantic Quest for Epiphany.” In A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Art, edited by Michelle Facos. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 175-192.

“Symbols of Time: Ariosto, the Nazarenes, and the Poetics of Epic Fresco.” In Revision, Revival and Return: The Italian Renaissance in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Lina Bolzoni and Alina Payne. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018, 341-366.

“Raphael’s Madonnas Domesticated: A Return to Purity and Piety in German Prints”& “Outline and Arabesque: Simplicity and Complexity in German Prints.” In The Enchanted World of German Romantic Prints, 1770–1850, coedited with John Ittmann, 68-91 & 228-247. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2017.

“Schwind’s Symphony: Beethoven, Biedermeier, and the Cruelty of Romance.” In Rival Sisters; Art and Music at the Birth of Modernism, edited by James H. Rubin and Olivia Mattis, 225-248. Burlington: Ashgate, 2014.

“Notes from the Field: Appropriation.” Art Bulletin 94, no. 2 (2012): 175-78.

• Getty Travel Grant, “Rethinking 1800: German Art and the Birth of Romanticism”
• Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers
• Publication grant, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
• Hans Kohn Fellowship, Princeton Institute for Advanced Study
• Senior Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
• Senior Fellow, Kolleg BildEvidenz, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
• Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung doctoral fellowship
• Fulbright Award (graduate studies)