Art historian experienced in both academic and museum settings with a passion for object-based study and innovative pedagogical approaches. Research, teaching, and curatorial interests include early modern arts of Northern Europe, histories of early modern women artists and patrons, global contexts for Renaissance and Baroque art, the history of representations of night in art, and cinema studies.

 

Education

Ph.D.   2016    University of Delaware

Dissertation: “Godefridus Schalcken (1643-1706): Desire and Intimate Display” (Committee Chair: Dr. H. Perry Chapman); recipient of the 2016-2017 UD Wilbur Owen Sypherd Prize in the Humanities dissertation award

 

M.A.    2010    Tyler School of Art, Temple University

Thesis: “The First of Brave Men: Antiquity, Myth, and Masculinity in Hans Baldung Grien’s Hercules and Antaeus” (Thesis Advisors: Dr. Ashley West and Dr. Tracy Cooper)

 

B.F.A. 2007    Moore College of Art & Design

Valedictorian: Double Major in Art History and 2-D Fine Arts (Painting and Printmaking)

 

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Current Appointment

Coordinator for Academic Partnerships, The Philadelphia Museum of Art 

2017-Present     

• Housed in the Curatorial Division; co-manages the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded partnership between the Museum and the University of Pennsylvania; pursues new initiatives in academic engagement and outreach; works across Curatorial and Conservation departments; coordinates and co-teaches in graduate workshops and seminar sessions; developed and co-manages the Museum’s first Graduate and Post-Graduate Fellows Program.

 

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Curatorial/Museum Experience

2016–2017        Post-Doctoral Fine Art Researcher, Science History Institute, Philadelphia (previously The Chemical Heritage Foundation)

• Conducted comprehensive curatorial research, including provenance research, on the institution’s collections of ~100 early modern European paintings and ~300 European works on paper; supervised interns; collaborated with museum team on exhibition development and public programming, contributed research and final content to Things Fall Apart (2018).

• Humanities Consultant, 2017-present, Age of Alchemy Digital (Video) Game Project (http://goldsmithsdaughter.com/). Co-wrote successful application for a grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Digital Projects for the Public fund.

2016–2018        Collections Project Manager, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia (part-time)           

• Catalogued and researched collection of contemporary ceramics produced on site at The Clay Studio from the 1970s to the present. Also organized conservation work, guided creation of a Collection Plan, and planned for the 2020-21 move of the collection into a new building.

• Collections Committee Advisor, 2017-Present

                                                       

2015–2016        Curatorial and Collections Management Assistant

July–Dec 2014  Curatorial Research Fellow

The Leiden Collection, New York

• Supported Curator and Collections Manager on the diverse activities of this active private art collection, including: curatorial research and object file creation; coordinating exhibition loans to museums and serving as a courier; facilitating scholarly use of the collections (incl. image R&R); coordinating conservation and technical study; acted as internal project manager for the collection’s online scholarly catalogue (www.theleidencollection.com).

 

2008-2010         Art Collection Researcher

Summer 2008    Art Collection Intern

Blank Rome LLP, Philadelphia

 

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Selected Teaching Experience

Adjunct Faculty Instructor, Tyler School of Art, Temple University                           

2018–Present, Recent Courses:

• ARTH2400: “Topics in Baroque Art: Baroque Art in a Global Context” (Fall 2018)

• ARTH2350: “Topics in Early Modern 1400-1750: Nightwatching: Visualizing the Night in the Early Modern World” (Spring 2020, forthcoming)

 

Invited Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania, Department of the History of Art

Fall 2019

• ARTH 761 (graduate seminar): “Concepts of Authorship in Early Modern Art” (Brisman), special session: “Early Modern Women as Artists”

 

Adjunct Faculty Instructor, University of Delaware, Department of Art History                             

Spring 2019

• ARTH304: “Northern Baroque Art: The Netherlands and the World in the Age of Rubens, Rembrandt and Vermeer”

 

Invited Lecturer, Rowan University, Department of TV, Radio, and Film                            

2016-2017

• Special Topics Upper-Level Courses: “Horror Films” and “History of Film I”

 

Instructor, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Department of American Studies        

2014

• Fall: 01:050:325: “Women on the Fringe: Perceptions of Women as Social and Sex-Role Deviants in American Civilization” (cross-listed with Women’s and Gender Studies)

 

Teaching Assistant and Solo Instructor, University of Delaware, Department of Art History          

2011–2014

• Various topics, including “Introduction to Art History I & II,” “American Architecture,” and “Woman as Image and Imagemaker” (cross-listed with Women & Gender Studies)

 

Teaching Artist, Philadelphia Arts in Education Partnership Summer Program                  

2011

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Other Professional Training

2013     Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University Summer Course                                                            

            “Presenting and Researching Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art and History”

• Co-hosted by the Rijksmuseum, RKD, and CODART

 

2012     Folger Institute at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C.

             “Sexuality, Theory, History, Drama,” Fall Semester Seminar with Dr. Mario DiGangi (CUNY)

 

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Publications

In Progress

            Manuscript: Night Interiors in the Dutch Golden Age: Aesthetics, Intimacy, and Seduction in the Nocturnal Paintings of Judith Leyster, Godefridus Schalcken, and Their Romantic Followers (expected 2020).

           

            Essay: “Titia Brongersma’s Polymathic Career and Spheres of Early Modern Creative Friendship,” Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art / Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, Vol. 70: Ars Amicitia: Friendship in Netherlandish Art (expected 2020).

 

Chapters and Essays

2019     “By Candlelight: Uncovering 17th-Century Women’s Nocturnal Creative Lives,” edited volume essay, Women Artists and Patrons in the Netherlands, 1500-1700, edited by Elizabeth Sutton. Amsterdam University Press, 2019.

2015     “Eros, Intimität und Begehren in den Genrebildern von Godefridus Schalcken.” In Schalcken: Gemalte Verführung [Schalcken: Painted Seduction]. Edited by Anja Sevcik. Exh. cat., Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum. Stuttgart, 2015, 72-85.

2015     “Eine alte Frau und ein junger Mann füttern einen Papagei,” In Schalcken: Gemalte Verführung [Schalcken: Painted Seduction]. Edited by Anja Sevcik. Exh. cat., Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum. Stuttgart, 2015, 151-54.

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Film Criticism

2019     “Taking to the Sea: Gender and the oceanic gaze in The Lure (2015, Agnieszka Smoczynska) and Evolution (2015, Lucile Hadzihalilovic),” Film International vol. 17, no. 3, Fall 2019.

 

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Exhibitions

2020     Curator, What Can Paintings Tell Us: Renaissance and Baroque Paintings in Focus, Philadelphia Museum of Art (forthcoming March 2020)

2017     Research and Content Contributor, Things Fall Apart (Winner of the 2018 American Alliance of Museums Excellence in Exhibition Label Writing), Science History Institute

Co-Curator, Prototype of new installation for Transmutations: Alchemy in Art, with Elisabeth Berry Drago, Science History Institute

2016     Curator, Clay on Clay: Ceramic Artists Look Back, The Clay Studio

 

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Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2018     Samuel H. Kress Mid-Career Research and Publication Fellowships in Art History

            Historians of Netherlandish Art Fellowship grant (publication subvention)

2017     University of Delaware Wilbur Owen Sypherd Prize for Best Dissertation in the Humanities

2016     Sewell C. Biggs Dissertation Writing Award in Art History and Preservation Studies                         

2015     University of Delaware Graduate & Professional Education Professional Development Award          

2014     Anna R. and Robert T. Silver Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Delaware                  

2013-14 University of Delaware Competitive University Fellowship

2013     Delaware Public Humanities Institute (DELPHI) Summer Fellowship           

2012     Grant-in-Aid, Folger Institute at the Folger Shakespeare Library

 

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Conference Lectures and Papers

2020

• “‘Gesina ter Borch?’: An Anonymous Woman Artist in the Philadelphia Museum of Art,” Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting. April 2020 (forthcoming).

2019    

• “Titia Brongersma: A Seventeenth-Century Poet-Archeologist in the Netherlands,” Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting. 18 March 2019.

• “Titia Brongersma: an Artist and Patron of the Seventeenth-Century Netherlands,” College Art Association, New York. 14 February 2019.

2017

• “By Candlelight: Uncovering 17th-Century Women’s Nocturnal Creative Lives,” HNA-sponsored Session, Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC). 27 October 2017.

2016

• “The Brush and The Candle: Nocturnal Viewing in Godefridus Schalcken’s Late Self-Portraits,” Session: “Before the Selfie,” College Art Association, Washington D.C. 5 February 2016.

• “From Amoris Causa to Pygmalion's Creative Dream – Godefridus Schalcken and Theories of Love and Art,” International Conference, Schalcken – Painted Seduction, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, Cologne. 22 January 2016.

2015

• “Godefridus Schalcken’s Seduction of the Beholder: Privileging the spectator’s gaze in late seventeenth-century art,” Arbeitskreis Niederländische Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte (ANKK) Conference, Bonn. 2 October 2015.

• “Godfried Schalcken’s Nocturnes: The Aesthetics and Erotics of Night in Seventeenth-Century Painting,” 20th Annual Graduate Student Symposium on the History of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art. 11 April 2015.

2014

• “Schalcken Plays Himself: Erotic Fantasy, Voyeurism, and the Artist's Studio,” Sixteenth Century Society Conference, New Orleans. 18 October 2014.

2011

• “Illuminating Defacement: Graffiti in Pieter Saenredam’s Nave of the Buurkerk, Utrecht, from north to south,” Princeton University Art History & Archeology Graduate Student Conference. 9 April 2011.

 

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Conference Symposia and Panels Organized

2020     Panel co-organizer with Elisabeth Berry Drago, “Recovering Overlooked Makers and Hidden Histories in Northern Europe,” two-part session, Session I:” Material Culture and Marginalization,” and Session II: “Gender and Painting,” Philadelphia (forthcoming)

2018     Panel co-organizer with Elisabeth Berry Drago, “Early Modern Netherlandish Art and the Work of Science,” Historians of Netherlandish Art Conference, Ghent.

2016     Panel co-organizer with Sara Bordeaux, “Early Modern Netherlandish Artists and Their Money,” The Sixteenth Century Society Conference, Bruges.

 

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Public Talks

2017     Introduction to Goltzius and the Pelican Company, film (2012), Chestnut Hill Film Group at the Woodmere Art Museum, 14 November 2017.

2016     Introduction to Schalcken the Painter, film (1979), Chestnut Hill Film Group at the Woodmere Art Museum, October 2016.

2014     “Looking at Beauty and Seduction in Late Dutch Baroque Art,” Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, University of Delaware. 12 March 2014.

 

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Other Experience: Film Production Work

Producer, Casual Encounters: Philadelphia True Crime Confessions (in post-production)

Assistant Producer, Christmas Dreams (2015)

                

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Service

2017-Present     Collections Committee Advisor, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia

2017-Present     Humanities Advisor, Science History Institute (previously The Chemical Heritage Foundation), Age of Alchemy: The Goldsmith’s Daughter, digital game, funded by a Digital Projects for the Public Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

2017                 Volunteer Grant Reviewer, Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts Advisory Panel

2014                 Vetting Committee, Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars, University of Delaware

2012 & 2014     Conference volunteer, Renaissance Society of America annual meeting           

2011-2012         Co-Chair, University of Delaware Art History Graduate Student Lecture Series                      

2009-2010         Co-President, Tyler School of Art Graduate Art History Student Organization

 

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Professional Organizations

American Alliance of Museums

College Art Association                                                            

Historians of Netherlandish Art                                                 

Renaissance Society of America           

 

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Languages

Dutch: intermediate conversational skills and advanced reading skills

French: basic conversational skills and advanced reading skills

German: basic conversational skills and advanced reading skills