About
I am an art historian interested in late medieval and early modern Italian art and visual culture, with a critical methodology shaped by queer feminist and posthumanist theory. My research approaches history as a layered and non-linear process, attentive to anachronism, reception, and the afterlives (Nachleben) of images and ideas. I am particularly interested in how early modern visual culture continues to shape modern and contemporary ways of thinking about the body, landscape, and the natural world.
My MA thesis examines Marcantonio Pasqualini (1614–1691) Crowned by Apollo (1641) by Andrea Sacchi, analyzing the painting as an intersection of portraiture, landscape, and allegory in seventeenth-century Rome. Drawing on scholarship by Kenneth Clark, Lynda Nead, Leonard Barkan, David Kim, and Patricia Simon, the project explores the afterlives of antiquity and how classical forms are reactivated to negotiate early modern ideas of embodiment, gender, sexuality, and ecology.
I am co-founder of The Queer Ecologies Research Collective, an interdisciplinary initiative that brings together artists, scholars, poets, and other creatives to investigate the common ground between queer theory and ecological thought. My contributions focus on the visual history of nature and landscape as a genre, tracing continuities from the early modern period to contemporary visual culture. Projects include a peer-reviewed article in Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, a screening at New Ear in New York, and ongoing residencies at Mildred’s Lane (2023–2025).
My creative and artistic impulses are expressed through my collaborations with other artists, writers, and scholars. You can see more in my Projects.
I am guided by these words:
To be an astronaut of the void, leave the comfortable
house that imprisons you with reassurance.
Remember,
To be going and to have are not eternal – fight the fear
that engenders the beginning, the middle, and the end.
Derek Jarman, Blue, 1993