Bowling Green State University

Faculty Member, Art History

Associate Professor

School of Art, College of Arts and Sciences

About

My research focuses on the performative experience of viewing art and architecture in the early modern period, with a particular focus on Italy.  My published research includes several articles and book chapters on Italian modes of viewership, including, most recently, articles in the journals Art History (2010) and Renaissance Studies (2009), as well as significant contributions to the books, Renaissance Theories of Vision (2010) and Sex Acts in Early Modern Italy (2010).  I have co-edited a volume entitled, Beholding Violence in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, which is forthcoming from Ashgate (2012). My book manuscript on "Cosimo de'Medici, Fra Angelico and the Public Library of San Marco" (based on my dissertation from the University of Chicago) is near completion. I am also working on a book on "Somaesthetics & the Renaissance: Viewing Bodies at Work in Fifteenth-Century Florence," an investigation of the ways in which certain individuals actively cultivated their bodies to enhance aesthetic experiences during periods of planned physical exertion (including actors, athletes, pilgrims and criminal offenders). I plan to complete this manuscript in 2012-13 while on leave from BGSU at the Universität Salzburg, where I have been offered a position as a Visiting Research Associate in the Fachbereich Kunst-, Musik- und Tanzwissenschaft.

Currently, I am an Associate Professor of Art History at Bowling Green State University. My work has been supported through several research awards, including a Fellowship at the Institute of the Study of Culture and Society, a Fulbright Fellowship to Italy, a Pittsburgh Foundation Fellowship, two Hannah Holbern Gray Renaissance Studies Fellowships and numerous travel grants from the University of Chicago and BGSU.

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