Sarah C. Schaefer is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia in May 2014, and is currently at work on a book, Made in Translation: Gustave Doré and the Modern Biblical Imagination. Her writings have been published in Material Religion, 19th-Century Art Worldwide, and Art in Print, and she has presented lectures at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, the College Art Association Annual Conference, and the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany. She has received numerous awards, including a fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the Department of Drawings and Prints, and the Prize for Best Paper at the Association for Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art's Annual Graduate Student Conference. She is currently pursuing two new research projects. The first, God in and Out of the Machine, uncovers the use of visual technologies in modern religious practice, looking at examples like the magic lantern and early cinema. The second examines the theme of prophecy in British painting from the late-eighteenth to the early-twentieth century, looking at works by artists like William Blake, John Martin, and George Frederick Watts. She also co-hosts and produces State of the Arts, a podcast that explores how art and its history shape our world today.

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