About

Hello! I’m a writer, curator, educator, and art historian living in New Haven.

My essays have appeared in the New York Times, Boston Globe Magazine, The Baffler, Boston Review, Poetry, Los Angeles Review of Books, and throughout the art press. I have published academic articles in American Art, ASAP/Journal, and Afterimage, and contributed to edited books, including Modernism, Art, Therapy and Otherwise: Imagining Queer Feminist Art Histories. I am completing a book about global AIDS cultural activism.

With Noam Parness, I was the co-curator of Christian Walker: The Profane and the Poignant, which originated at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in 2023 and appeared on the New York Times “Best Art of 2023” list. My exhibition As the World Burns: Queer Photography and Nightlife in Boston, organized in partnership with Laurel V. McLaughlin, was on view at Tufts University Art Galleries in 2024.

I work at the Yale Center for British Art, where I am curating an exhibition about British landscape photography that opens in July, and serving as a project manager in the Public Engagement Division. I am also currently a lecturer at Yale College. I have held positions at the Harvard Art Museums, Tufts University, the Stonewall National Museum and Archives, and the MIT List Visual Arts Center; taught undergraduate courses at Tufts University and the Rhode Island School of Design; and given public lectures at the Worcester Art Museum, the Memorial Art Gallery, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. I received my Ph.D. in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Art and Architecture from MIT.

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