Contact Information

Office Hours Spring 2013: 
Tuesday 1:00-2:00 pm
Wednesday 1:30-2:30 pm
Or by Appointment

Education

• Ph.D., Art History, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 2011
• M.A., Art History, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 2006
• B.A., Art History, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 2003

Regional Focus

Research and Teaching Interests

Courses

• Survey of Western Art (AH 100)
• Late Antique, Early Medieval, and Byzantine Art (AH 232)
• Romanesque and Gothic Art (AH 233)
  
• Renaissance Europe (AH 241)
• The Art of Courtly Love (AH 351C)
• Seeing Sex in the Middle Ages (AH 351C)
  

Publications

Books

• A Desire for Representation: Painting and Identity in Fifteenth Century France.  Book manuscript in preparation.
  
• The Politics of Devotion: Patronage and the Sumptuous Arts at the French Court 1374-1472.  Book manuscript in preparation.

Articles and Chapters

• “Le Temps Venra: Establishing Visual Legitimacy in the Petites Heures of Jean de Berry,” Comitatus 42 (September 2011).
• “Weaving Legitimacy: The Jouvenel des Ursins Family and Constructing Nobility in Fifteenth Century France,” Dressing the Part: Textiles as Propaganda in the Middle Ages, eds. Kate Dimitrova and Margaret Goehring (Turnhout: Brepols, forthcoming 2012).
• “Wicked Wives: The Animate Vulva, Social Satire, and Fear of a Female Pilgrim,” Athanor (2006).

Select Fellowships, Grants, and Honors

• Student Paper Prize, Medieval Academy of America, 2010
• Penelope Mason Dissertation Writing Fellowship, Florida State University, 2009
• Graduate Dissertation Research Grant, Florida State University, 2008
• Penelope Mason Doctoral Research Award, Florida State University, 2007