I am an art historian at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, where I teach courses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century art and visual culture. My first book, Gustave Doré and the Modern Biblical Imagination (Oxford University Press, 2021), explores biblical imagery in modernity through the lens of French artist Gustave Doré (1832-83), whose work continues to have a profound impact on how the Bible is visualized today.

Current research interests include reproduction and religious kitsch, and representations of faerie and fantasy in nineteenth-century Europe. I'm also co-curating an exhibition, J. R. R. Tolkien: The Art of the Manuscript, which will be mounted at the Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University in Milwaukee in the fall of 2022.