I am a specialist in early modern art histories and material cultures of the body. Prior to joining the 91制片厂, I taught for three years as a faculty member at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich while simultaneously working as a research associate in the director鈥檚 office at the Zentralinstitut f眉r Kunstgeschichte. I have also held extended research positions at the Warburg Institute in London and the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence.
My work examines how images and objects shaped the ways that bodies, behaviors, and experiences were understood, fashioned, and politicized in the global early modern. In so doing, I explore a broad notion of art history beyond the traditional canon that embraces interdisciplinary and critical methodologies. Currently, I am finalizing a monograph based on my doctoral thesis about early modern armor 鈥 awarded with the Zentralinstitut鈥檚 Applied Arts Prize 鈥 that deals with the interplay of military material culture and humanist body politics, thus embedding armor within contemporary medical, pedagogical, political, and colonial discourses. I am also interested in the histories of prosthetics and more generally the dialogue between art history and disability studies as examined, for instance, in a co-edited volume on聽Dis_ability Art History.
My second book project, tentatively titled聽Early Modern Art Histories of the Mind, seeks to address art鈥檚 ability to promote analytic engagement with the self 鈥 a shift that, in my reading, anticipated 鈥渕odern鈥 psychological practices. Leading up to this new topic, I am preparing two forthcoming publications: the first is an article, titled 鈥淪uggestive Materials,鈥 about the therapeutic uses of artworks in Sigmund Freud鈥檚 consultation room; the second, a co-edited volume, questions the concept of the apotropaic as a means of negotiating art鈥檚 affect and emotional impact.
Other projects include a co-edited special issue of聽Selva, as well as an article, on East German Marxist art history due to be published this year.
Interests
- early modern visual and material cultures
- body histories and disability studies
- art and psychology
- legal imagery
- history of art history
Teaching
- BA1: Early Modern Histories of Art and the Body
- BA3: Lessons in Critical Interpretation
- BA3: The Shape of Thought: Art and Knowledge in the Early Modern Period
- MA Special Option:聽Violent Materials: Art and War in the Early Modern World
Publications
Monographs
Die Ungestalten des Souver盲ns: R眉stungskunst und K枚rperpolitik der Renaissance. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024 [in preparation].
Edited Volumes
惭补谤虫颈蝉迟听Kunstwissenschaft: The Methods of East German Art History =聽Selva, vol. 5, 2024 (with Tamara Golan), URL: https://selvajournal.org [forthcoming].
Dis_ability Art History聽= kritische berichte 48, no. 4 (with Henry Kaap), Ilmtal-Weinstra脽e: Jonas, 2020.
Bilder als Denkformen: Bildwissenschaftliche Dialoge zwischen Japan und Deutschland聽(with Yasuhiro Sakamoto and Jun Tanaka), Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020.
Articles
鈥淪uggestive Materials: Constructing Cure in Freud鈥檚 Collection.鈥 In:聽Bildersammlungen als Denkmaterial: Materialismen, Realismen, Kunst (1900鈥1960), ed. Carolin Behrmann and Steffen Haug. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024 [forthcoming].
鈥淒isability ex Machina: Federico da Montefeltro und die Plattenr眉stung als Anpassungstechnologie,鈥 in:聽K枚rperZeiten: Narrative, Praktiken und Medien, ed. Manuel Bolz, Fabian R枚derer and Constanze Wallenstein, Berlin: Reimer, 2023, 35-58.
鈥淒iplomatie des Spotts: Maximilian I., Heinrich VIII. und der 鈥淗枚rnerhelm,鈥 in:聽Maximilian1: Festkultur am Innsbrucker Hof, ed. Monika Frenzel, Innsbruck: Wagner, 2023, 135-143.
鈥淭he Prince鈥檚 Prosthetic Body: Orthopedic Armor and Material Self-Fashioning in Sixteenth-Century Europe,鈥 in:聽The Art Bulletin聽105, no. 3 (2023), 61鈥89.
鈥淶ur Sichtbarkeit des Rechtsstaats in der Krise鈥 (with Carolin Behrmann and Leva Wenzel), in:聽Politische Ikonographie Heute聽= kritische berichte 30, no. 3, ed. Henry Kaap, Ilmtal-Weinstra脽e: Jonas, 2022, 59鈥66.
鈥Maniera听耻苍诲听Shizen: Zum deutsch-japanischen Dialog 眉ber Bilder,鈥 in:聽Bilder als Denkformen: Bildwissenschaftliche Dialoge zwischen Japan und Deutschland, ed. Yasuhiro Sakamoto, Felix J盲ger and Jun Tanaka, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020, 167鈥173.
鈥淜unshu no Hotetsuteki Shintai: Jy奴roku Seiki ni Okeru Katchu Kaib艒gaku Geijutsu鈥 [= The Prince鈥檚 Prosthetic Body: Armor, Anatomy, and Art in the 16th Century], in:聽Im膿jigaku no Genzai: Warburg kara Shinkeikei Im膿jigaku he, ed. Yasuhiro Sakamoto, Jun Tanaka and Yoshikazu Takemine, Tokyo: Tokyo University Press, 2019, 175鈥196.
鈥淵ugami no Seijigaku: Manierisumu to Merankor墨 no Sh艒z艒鈥 [= The Politics of Deformation: Mannerism and the Melancholy Portrait], in: ibid., 297鈥317.
鈥淏odies of Knowledge: Renaissance Armor and the Engineering of Mind,鈥 in:聽Wearing Images聽= Espacio, Tiempo y Forma 6, ed. Diane Bodart, Madrid: Facultad de Geograf铆a e Historia, UNED, 2018, 89鈥118.
鈥淒ialektik der Genauigkeit: Nicolaus Cusanus und Leon Battista Alberti,鈥 in:聽Bilder der Pr盲zision: Praktiken der Verfeinerung in Technik, Kunst und Wissenschaft, ed. Matthias Bruhn and Sara Hillnh眉tter, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018, 269鈥281.
鈥淔raming the Law: Joos de Damhouder and the Legal Iconology of the Grotesque,鈥 in:聽The Art of Law: Artistic Representations and Iconography of Law and Justice, ed. Georges Martyn et al., Cham: Springer, 2018, 223鈥244.
鈥淪hikou-Keitai to Bunka-Keisyhou to Shite no Im膿ji鈥 (with Yasuhiro Sakamoto), in:聽Shinkeikei Jinbungaku聽= Shi-Sou 1104, Tokyo: Iwanami, 2016, 19鈥33.
鈥淪overeign Infamy: Grotesque Helmets, Masks of Shame and the Prehistory of Caricature,鈥 in:聽Images of Shame: Infamy, Defamation and the Ethics of 鈥渙economia,鈥聽ed. Carolin Behrmann, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015, 169鈥192.
鈥淟e XIXe Si猫cle vu au Travers de ses Crises,鈥 in:聽Signes des Temps: 艗uvres Visionnaires d鈥橝vant 1914,聽exhib. cat., ed. Nikola Doll, Brussels: Racine, 2014, 124鈥135.
鈥淶ergliederungskunst鈥 (with Lena Bader, Judith Berganski and Eva Dolezel), in:聽Von Mehr als Einer Welt: Die K眉nste der Aufkl盲rung, exhib. cat., ed. Moritz Wullen, Petersberg: Imhof, 2012, 59鈥73.