Education

PhD, MA, Art History // Dissertation: “Charles Nègre in Pursuit of the Photographic” (2012) // Northwestern University

MA, History of Art // Williams College

BA, Art // St. Mary’s College of Maryland

Publications

“Passages, Origins, Margins: Gabriel Cromer, Walter Benjamin, and Photography’s History,” in The Cromer Collection of Nineteenth-Century Photography (Yale University Press, 2022), 204–227. [essay]

Ubiquity: Photography’s Multitudes, eds. Jacob W. Lewis and Kyle Parry (Leuven University Press, 2021). [edited anthology]

“Early Photogravure and the Material Unconscious,” in Photography’s Materialities: Transatlantic Photographic Practices over the Long Nineteenth Century, eds. Geoff Bender and Rasmus R. Simonsen (Leuven University Press, 2021), 43–62. [essay]

“Copies and Clouds: Charles Nègre and the Death of Emulation,” in Photography and Failure: One Medium’s Entanglement with Flops, Underdogs, and Disappointments, ed. Kris Belden-Adams (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2017), 163–179. [essay]

“Gesture, Pose, Practice: Charles Nègre and the Image of Instantaneity,” in Is Paris Still the Capital of the Nineteenth Century? Essays on Art and Modernity, 1850–1900, eds. S. Hollis Clayson and André Dombrowski (Ashgate, 2016), 215–233. [essay]

“Charles Nègre,” Sun Pictures no. 22 (Hans P. Kraus, Jr. Fine Photographs, 2013), 12–71. [exhibition catalogue]

Faking It: Manipulated Photography before Photoshop, exh. cat., ed. Mia Fineman (Yale University Press, 2012), 206–256 passim. [catalogue entries]

“Figure Studies, 1839–1855,” and “Instantaneity and Effect, 1856–1899,” in Photography: The Whole Story, ed. Juliet Hacking (Thames & Hudson, 2012), 54–57, 96–99. [textbook essays]

Experience

Guest faculty, Photographic Arts & Sciences // Rochester Institute of Technology, 2023

Faculty, Art History, Visual and Cultural Studies (VCS) PhD program // University of Rochester, 2015–2022

Academic director, Photographic Preservation and Collection Management (PPCM) MA program // University of Rochester and George Eastman Museum, 2016–2019

Peer reviewer // Bloomsbury Visual Arts and Bloomsbury Academic, 2016–2019

Guest faculty, Art History // Rutgers University, 2013–2014

Guest faculty, History of Art and Design // Pratt Institute of Art and Design, 2012–2014

Faculty, Performing and Creative Arts // College of Staten Island, City University of New York, 2012–2015

Print-room assistant // Clark Art Institute, 2004–2006

Lectures & events

“Pivot to Video: Labor, Vapor, Orality,” seminar talk, October 2024 (forthcoming), in seminar “"Visions of Access: Contemporary Aesthetics against Capital" // Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Conference, New York

“Julia Margaret Cameron and the Romantic Imaginary,” invited online lecture, May 2021 // Rossell Hope Robbins Library, University of Rochester

“Sovereignty, Photography, and Queen Victoria,” lecture, October 2019 // Special Collections, Rush Rhees Library, University of Rochester

“Embodied Vision: Monet, Perception, and the Instant,” dual lecture with Dr. Krishnan Padmanabhan, November 2018 // Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester

“Ubiquity: Photography’s Multitudes,” co-organizer of two-day symposium, April 2018 // The Humanities Center, University of Rochester

“In Real Time: The ‘Everyday’ of Art in the Information Age,” invited lecture, May 2017 // University of California, Santa Cruz

“Orientalism and Photographic Genre,” invited lecture, April 2016 // Bennington College

“Charles Nègre, Photographic Authorship, and the Death of Emulation,” lecture, February 2015, in conference session “Photography and Failure: Examining the Histories and Historiography of a Medium” // College Art Association Conference, New York

“Genre Photography from Humbert de Molard to Jeff Wall,” invited lecture, June 2012 // National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

“Chartres Cathedral and the Photographic Imaginary,” lecture, fellows’ colloquia, June 2012 // National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

“Genre Photography: Charles Nègre and the Technique of Instantaneity,” lecture, fellows’ colloquia, April 2011 // The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

“The Virtual in Second Empire Photography,” lecture, graduate conference, May 2010 // École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris

“Charles Nègre and the Visual Economy of Early Photomechanical Reproduction,” lecture, graduate conference, April 2010 // Université Paris Diderot (VII), Paris

“A Code without a Message: Charles Nègre and the Aesthetics of Reproducibility,” lecture, graduate conference, April 2009 // Columbia University, New York

“We Have Never Been Instantaneous: Charles Nègre in the 1850s,” lecture, February 2009, in conference session “New Directions in Nineteenth-Century Art History” // College Art Association Conference, Los Angeles

“Dissembling the Picturesque: Lala Deen Dayal and Famous Monuments of Central India (1886),” lecture, graduate conference, May 2008 // The Art Institute of Chicago

“Photography and Édouard Manet’s Prints circa 1871,” lecture, conference, April 2008 // Midwest Art History Society Conference, Chicago

Grants & Fellowships

Lisette Model/Joseph G. Blum Fellowship in the History of Photography, 2012 // National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Memorial Fund Fellowship, 2010–2011 // Department of Photographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Kress Travel Fellowship, 2010 // Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York

Miles Fellowship, 2009–2010 // Paris Program in Critical Theory, and Northwestern University

Mark Samuels Lasner Fellowship in Printing History, 2009 // American Printing History Association (APHA), New York