Image: Tim Correira Photography
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 and ASAP/Journal, 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’m the co-curator of Christian Walker: The Profane and the Poignant, which originated at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in 2023 before traveling to Tufts University Art Galleries and Atlanta Contemporary. 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.
Currently a Project Manager in the Public Engagement Division at the Yale Center for British Art, I have recently held positions at the Harvard Art Museums, Tufts University, the Stonewall National Museum and Archives, and the MIT List Visual Arts Center. I have 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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