SARAH C. SCHAEFER, PH.D.
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Gustave Doré and the Modern Biblical Imagination
(Oxford University Press, 2021)
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Exhibitions Curated

Co-curator, J. R. R. Tolkien: The Art of the Manuscript, Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI (August 19 – December 23, 2022)
Co-curator, “Water and Work," Emile H. Mathis Gallery, UWM, Milwaukee, WI
Curator, The World Turned Upside Down: Apocalyptic Imagery in England, 1750–1850, Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI (October 6, 2017 – January 14, 2018)
Co-curator, Sacred Visions: Nineteenth-Century Biblical Art from Dahesh Museum Collection, Museum of Biblical Art, New York, NY (October 18, 2013 – February 16, 2014)

Scholarly Articles

​"Bibles Unbound: The Material Semantics of Nineteenth-Century Scriptural Illustration," Journal of Art Historiography 26 (June 2022)
“Broken Guardians: The Lamassu and Fragmented Historical Vision in Nineteenth-Century France,” Word & Image 37, no. 1 (May 2021), 31-49.
“Illuminating the Divine: The Magic Lantern and Religious Pedagogy in America, c. 1870-1920,” Material Religion: The Journal of Art, Objects and Belief 17, no. 3 (September 2017), 275-300.
“‘From the Smallest Fragment’: The Archaeology of the Doré Bible,” Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide 13, no. 1 (Spring 2014).

Selected Reviews, Catalogue Essays, and Shorter Articles

"Inscribed on the Book: Gustave Doré's Biblical Aesthetics," The Bible & Critical Theory 18, no. 1 (2022)
“The Biblical Scale of Gustave Doré,” The Ancient Near East Today X, no. 9 (September 2022)
“False Prophets and Fallen Angels,” The Visual Commentary on Scripture
Review of No Idols: The Missing Theology of Art by Thomas Crow, caa.reviews, 2 April 2018
“Art History Today,” co-written with Tina Rivers Ryan, Art History Teaching Resources
“Francisco Goya, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters,” Smarthistory
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