Part-time Faculty, Art History

Biography    Teaching activities    Publications    Participation activities   

Education

Ph.D. (2018) "All About Eve and Other Stories: Representations of Eve in French Romanesque Sculpture." Art History, Queen's University, Kingston.

M.A. (2010) "Saint-Antoine-de-Padoue Co-Cathedral: Christianity, Victorian Gothic Revival and Quebec's Colonial Hybrid Culture." Art History, Concordia University, Montreal.

B.F.A. (2007) Art History and Classical Archaeology, Concordia University, Montreal.

Research Interests

• Representations of Eve in Romanesque Sculpture
• Digital Humanities
• Issues of Spolia in Christian and Islamic Medieval Architecture
• Romanesque and Gothic Art and Architecture
• Vernacular and Religious Literature
• Sacred Plays
• Theology
• Women Issues
• The Body and Beauty in Medieval Art and Thought
• 19th-century Architecture / Neo-Medievalism

Distinctions & Awards

2014-2017

• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Award

• Alfred and Isabel Bader Graduate Fellowship in Art (Field Research in France)

• Senator Frank Carrel Fellowship

ARTH 363 Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture

Recent Publications

“All About Eve and Other Stories: Representations of Eve in French Romanesque Sculptures (and More).” Interactive Map. ArcGIS, 2018. https://arcg.is/10bL4u.

“Mapping French Romanesque Eve.” Dataverse, Scholars Portal Research Data Platform. Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences (IQSS), Harvard University and Ontario Council of University Libraries, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5683/SP/2Y5C1X.

Research and Digital Contributions for Recent Publications

Creation of 7 digital maps of historical French colonial sites. Bailey, Gauvin Alexander. Architecture and Urbanism in the French Atlantic Empire: State, Church, and Society 1604-1830. Montréal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018. 

Archival research at Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris. Morehead,Allison. Nature’s Experiments and the Search for Symbolist Form. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2017.

Conferences, Lectures, and Seminars

2017
Congress of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (Toronto) "Église Saint-Martin-de-Besse, Aquitaine: A Case Study of Eve's Romanesque Body and Decorative Patterns"

Data Day (Kingston) "Art History and the Digital Humanities: Mapping Romanesque Eve" (invited talk)

Canadian Conference of Medieval Art Historians (St. Catharines) "French Romanesque Sculptures of Eve in the Digital Humanities Age"

2016
Religion and Civil Society (Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain) "Decoding Eve's Romanesque Body" (invited talk)

The Afterlives of Eve Conference (Newcastle and Durham, U.K.) "Shaping the Female Body: French Romanesque Sculptures of Eve"

Canadian Conference of Medieval Art Historians (Quebec City) "Chapelle Saint-Gabriel-de-Tarascon, Provence: A Case Study of Eve's Romanesque Body"

2014
Context and Meaning Conference: Contact (Kingston) "Gothic Revival Architecture and the British Raj: Contact, Culture, and Colonialism"

2013
Renaissance and Baroque Art Seminar (Kunsthistorisches Museum & University of Vienna, Austria) "Parmigianino's Conversion of Saul"