Teaching

I teach courses on the history of visual and material culture in Europe from 1400 through 1700, a period that is now often described as early modernity. Inquiring into the origins of modernity and how it changed our ideas about what it means to be a human being, an individual, and a citizen, these courses engage students with critical theories and debates to help them historicize today’s forms of visual representation, from selfies and memes to fashion and urban landscape.

Courses Taught at Boise State University 

• ART 596 Investigations into Art, Ecology, and Materiality, Spring 2023 (independent study)

• ART 589 Posthumanism: Art and Culture beyond Anthropocentrism, graduate seminar, Spring 2024

• ART 589 The Lives of Things, graduate seminar, Spring 2021 

• ART 589 Museums and Galleries as Critical Spaces, graduate seminar, Spring 2020 

• ARTH 499 Making Art / Destroying Life: Resource Extraction, Species Extinction, and Early Modern Material Culture, seminar course, Fall 2023

• ARTH 499 Cultural Ecologies: Infrastructures, Environments, and the Early Modern World, seminar course, Fall 2022

• ARTH 499 Transottomanica, seminar course, Fall 2021 

• ARTH 499 Art and the Nation: 1500 to Present, seminar course, Spring 2020 

• ARTH 499 Art and Globalisation: 1500 to Present, seminar course, Spring 2019

• ARTH 386 Beyond Eastern Europe: Art and Architecture in the Middle of Afro-Eurasia, 1400–1800, seminar course, taught twice 

• ARTH 365 On the Cusp of Modernity: Art and Visual Culture in Europe and the World, 1400-1700, lecture course, Spring 2024

• ARTH 365 Baroque Art, lecture course, taught 6 times 

• ARTH 355 Italian Renaissance Art, lecture course, taught 7 times 

• ARTH 354 Northern Renaissance Art, lecture course, taught 4 times 

• ART 298 Methods and Critical Skills, seminar course, Spring 2019 

Courses Taught at McGill University

• ARTH 200 Introduction to Art History, lecture course, Summer 2017

• ARTH 305 Methods in Art History, lecture course co-taught with Abi Shapiro, Winter 2013 

Courses Assisted at McGill University

• BASC 201 Scientific and Technological Controversies, seminar section leader, large lecture course taught by Gabriella Coleman, Fall 2016 

• ARTH 368 Studies in Northern Renaissance Art, lecture course taught by Chriscinda Henry, Fall 2013 

• ARTH 207 Introduction to Early Modern Art, lecture course taught by Samantha Burton and Anuradha Gobin, Summer 2012 

Reading Groups Convened at McGill University

• IPLAI Why History Matters, seminar-style reading group convened with Danijela Zutic, Fall 2013, Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas