Education

• PhD Candidate in Art History, Yale University
• M.A. in Art History, University of Oregon
• B.A. in Art History, Washington University in St. Louis

Teaching Interests

• Medieval Art History; Illuminated Manuscripts; Iconoclasm

Courses Taught

• Introduction to Western Art History; Medieval Art of Love; Smashing Images: Iconoclasm and Iconophobia in a Global Context

Research Interests

• Medieval illuminated manuscripts; the history and materiality of reading practices; visual manifestations of courtly love and eroticism

Selected Awards and Publications

• Fishing for Meaning: Reading the Frontispieces of the Codex Manesse; In Proceedings of the XVth Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society, ed. Gloria Allaire (publication forthcoming, 2018)
• Fascinated by Fascination: Female Privacy and the Leipzig Love Magic Panel.; In Visions of Enchantment: Occultism, Spirituality ; Visual Culture, eds. Daniel Zamani and Judith Noble (Proceedings from the 2014 Cambridge conference of the same name; publication forthcoming, 2018).
• 2016 Emerging Scholar Award, International Society of Courtly Literature.
• October 2014 First Prize for Innovative Research and Presentation Delivery, 40th Annual Cleveland Symposium, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH.
• April 2014 - Yale Department of Art History Conference Grant.
• August 2010 ; July 2012 Richard J. Franke Fellow, Yale University