I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at Queen’s University. I specialize in modern art, with particular interests in the French, German, and Scandinavian art of the late nineteenth century, as well as the intersections of art, science, and medicine, and the exhibition history and reception of the art of psychiatric patients and mediums. In my research and teaching I often combine critical gender theory with approaches drawn from visual and material culture studies. I have been the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, including those from the Whiting, Kress, Rhoades, and Brocher Foundations, the Social Science Research Council, and a Junior Research Fellowship from King’s College, Cambridge. My book, Nature’s Experiments and the Search for Symbolist Form, published by Penn State University Press in 2017 and funded by a Standard Research Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, considers symbolist painting and printmaking in light of late nineteenth-century practices and discourses of psychological experimentalism. Current projects include the exhibition Edvard Munch and Medicine, which will show the work of the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch alongside objects drawn from the history of medicine, a co-edited volume entitled Modernisms and Medicines, and a monograph, funded by a SSHRC Insight Development Grant, entitled Gambling and the Modern Imaginary.
Research Areas:
Modern art and modernism; Art, science, and medicine; History of collecting, museums, and exhibitions; Critical gender theory; Visual and material culture studies
Photos taken at the Museum of Health Care
Photo Credit: Sarah Bodri