About
I’m a specialist in 18th-century European visual culture, especially in Great Britain. My first book examined the origins of political caricature; my current research project centers on the history of fashion. “Living Statues: Neoclassical Culture and Fashionable Dress in the 1790s– London, Paris, Naples,” is a study of the radical style of undress in the 1790s and its connection to contemporary aesthetic, political, and scientific thought. Education
I received my BA from the University of California, Berkeley, and my MA and PhD from Northwestern University. Publications
Publications relating to my current project on 1790s fashionable dress include:
- “Vitalist Statues and the Belly Pad of 1793,” Journal18: A Journal of Eighteenth-Century Art and Culture, no. 3, 2017.
- “Thomas Lawrence’s Consumptive Chic: Reinterpreting Lady Manners’ Hectic Flush in 1794,” co-authored with Dr. Carolyn Day, Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 49 no. 6, 2016: 455-474.
- “Living Statues and Neoclassical Dress in Late Eighteenth-Century Naples,” Art History, vol. 38 no. 3, 2015: 462-487.
- “From the Studio to the Street: Modeling Neoclassical Dress,” in Justine De Young, ed., Fashion in European Art: Dress and Identity, Politics and the Body, 1775-1975, London and New York: I.B. Tauris (forthcoming, 2017).
My book,
Caricature Unmasked: Irony, Authenticity, and Individualism in Eighteenth-Century English Prints, was published by the University of Delaware Press in 2008.
