2005: A.B.D. University of Virginia (Nineteenth-Century Art History)
“Lucrezia's Renaissance: Art, Historiography and the Nineteenth Century” (J. McGann)
2003: M.A. University of Virginia (Italian Renaissance Art History)
Thesis: “An Exploration of Michelangelo’s Bacchus” (P. Barolsky)
2000: B.A. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Cum Laude, with Distinction)
(Jan.-May 1999) Study Abroad, Scuola di Lorenzo de’ Medici, Florence
2005: McIntire Department of Art History, Graduate Teaching Award
2000: Phi Beta Kappa
Memberships in Academic Associations
2004 to Present: Student Member, College Art Association
Professional Service
2004: President, Art History Graduate Student Association
2002-2003: Member, Selection Committee for McIntire Lecture Series
Conferences/Presentations
April 2005: “William Barnes and the Representation of the British Rustic Landscape,”
The Nine Lives of Victorian Poetry, Victorian Studies Conference University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Feb., 2002: “Michelangelo’s Bacchus”
Jefferson Scholars Graduate Conference, University of Virginia
Research Projects in Progress
Dissertation:
“Lucrezia’s Renaissance: Art, Historiography and the Nineteenth Century” is a study of the representation of Lucrezia Borgia in Victorian art and culture. Examining the re-imagination of this Renaissance femme fatale across numerous media (both visual and textual), I will demonstrate the ways in which these images responded to and informed the historical record, ultimately contributing to the characterization and definition of ‘Renaissance’ as a nineteenth-century construct.