Student of nineteenth-century art, with a focus on the Victorian interest in the Renaissance. Areas of interest include art historiography, Pre-Raphaelitism and visual culture. Dissertation, "Lucrezia's Renaissance: Art, Historiography and the Nineteenth Century," examines the myth surrounding sixteenth-century Rome's legendary femme fatale as it was constructed by writers and artists in Victorian Britain.
Project Manager for a scholarly organization devoted to forging links between the material archive of the nineteenth century and the digital research environment of the twenty-first. Visit nines.org to see our new website in December, 2008.