I am an art historian specialist in nineteenth and early twentieth American, British, and French art. My research is sociocultural driven with focus on images of modern daily life experiences, leisure entertainment, gendered behavior, and representations of women.

I have been associated with University of Washington as a regular, part-time lecturer since 2012. In addition to UW, I also teach at Seattle Central College, Bellevue College, Seattle Pacific University, and have taught at Cornish College of the Arts and at the University of Sichuan in Chengdu, China. I have worked as a museum educator at Seattle Art Museum, Dallas Museum of Art, and Philadelphia Museum of Art.

I have presented papers at institutions including Oxford University, St. Andrews University, University of London, the Huntington Library, Santa Clara University, Seattle Art Museum, St. Francis College, Brooklyn, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, the Panthéon-Sorbonne, and American University, Paris.

Recent conference presentations and published articles include “The Reflective Eye of Walter Sickert: Mirroring Male Victorian Dominance in the Era of the New Woman,” “The Empowered Ingénue: Women Stepping Out as Solo Performers Onstage,” “Windows on the Soul: Portraits by Major American Artists," "Brawn vs. Beauty in American Brandywine and British Pre-Raphaelite Images of Arthurian Legend," "Justice for Jane: A Mid-Twentieth Century Confrontation between an Artist, His Patron, and a Modern Woman," "The Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood: Model Heroines of Literature," and "Tomboys, Girly-girls, and Little Ladies: Challenges and Transitions to Gender Norms in Late-Nineteenth and Twentieth Century American Art."