Education

Research interests

• Art and architecture of Northern Europe (c. 1400 – c. 1920)
• Visuality in the Reformation and Counter-Reformation
• Rome and the antique in early modern visual culture
• The Monastic Tradition in the West (c. 600 – c. 1800)
• Women’s histories (c. 1100 – c. 1800)
• Gender and queer theory; history of feminism
• Community identity and formation
• History of photography

Publications

• 2010: "Of Locked Doors and Open Windows: Architectural Strategies at the Court Beguinages in the Seventeenth Century." Chicago Art Journal (In Press).
• 2010: "Unconventual Women: Religion, Politics, and Image in the Court Beguinages of the Low Countries, 1585-1713." Ph.D. Dissertation, Brown University
• 2004: The Theater That Was Rome: 16th-18th Century Views and Maps. Exhibition Catalog, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI. (Co-authored)

Papers presented

• 2010: “Accessing the Divine: Altarpieces for Low Countries Beguine Churches in the Seventeenth Century,” Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Venice, Italy, April 2010
• 2010: “Beguinage Architecture and the Performance of Good Works,” American
  Historical Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, USA, January 2010
• 2008: “The Vita of Anna van Schriek: Gender, Print Culture, and Teresian Spirituality in Seventeenth-Century Flanders,” Cogut Center for the Humanities, Brown University, October 2008
• 2007: “The Decorative Program of the Brussels Beguine Church, 1620-1660,” Ruusbroec Society Annual Lecture Series, Antwerp, Belgium, April 2007
• 2006: “Time, Space, and Prayer: Hans Memling’s St Christopher Altarpiece and the Rebuilding of St James’s Church, Bruges,” Medieval Environments Conference, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, April 2006
• 2003: “Women and Material Culture: The Fifteenth Century Bed as Object,” Medieval Women Symposium, Brown University, December 2003

Teaching experience and training

• '09 - present: Wissenschaftliche Assistentin, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Universität Bern
  Courses taught independently:
     The Portrait in Western Art, Fall 2009
     The Grotesque, Spring 2010
      Italy and the North: Artistic Exchange, c.1400-c.1800, Fall 2010
• '08 - '09: Sheridan Center Teaching Certificate Program, Brown University
• '04 - '06: Teaching Assistant, History of Art and Architecture, Brown University
  Courses assisted:
      Imagining the Global Eighteenth Century, Prof. Dian Kriz
      Baroque: Art and Architecture in Italy 1550-1700, Prof. Jeffrey Muller
     Life as Art and Art as Life (1830s - 1970s), Asst. Prof. Hervé Vanel,
      Introduction to the History of Western Art, Prof. Jeffrey Muller

Honors and Awards

• '08-'09 Graduate Fellowship, Cogut Center for the Humanities, Brown University
• '07-'08 Brown University Dissertation Fellowship
• '07-'08 Flemish Community Research Fellowship
• '06-'07 Belgian American Educational Foundation Fellowship
• '06-'07 Fulbright Fellowship (declined in order to accept the BAEF award)
• '06-'07 Fulbright Trvel Grant
• '05 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• '04, '05, '07 Brown University Graduate School Research Travel Grants
• '04, '05 Program in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Travel Grants, Brown University
• '03, '04, '06 Amherst College Graduate Fellowships
• '03-'04 University Fellowship, Brown University
• '00 Award of Distinction, Amherst College English Department

Affiliations

• College Art Association
• Historians of Netherlandish Art
• Society for the Study of Early Modern Women
• Society of Architectural Historians
• Society for Renaissance Studies
• European Architectural History Network
• Foreign Academic Researchers in Belgium
• The National Organization for Women

Languages

• English: native speaker
• Dutch: fluent
• German: advanced reading, intermediate speaking
• French: advanced reading, intermediate speaking
• Latin: advanced reading
• Spanish: proficient reading, intermediate speaking
• Italian: proficient reading
• Yucatec Maya: advanced beginner