Academic Articles
Transmuted: Reconciling the Medieval Scandinavian Marking of the Piraeus Lion
This article examines an Ancient Greek sculpture that was seemingly vandalized by Scandinavian (or Viking-ish) mercenaries during the twelfth century. Featured in UCLA's journal for medieval studies, Viator, it adopts a sympathetic, lightly-narrativized (or world-building) tone. The overall goal of this research, as well as the approach to writing it, was to deploy somaesthetic, reception-and-response, and New Materialist methodologies to re-frame the sculpture's alteration as an act of processing grief, in turn humanizing an oft misunderstood culture. It was published through Brepols.
Distorted, Dismembered, Diffused: Rethinking the Body in Old Norse Material Culture
I was fortunate to have been awarded a Sarah and Thomas Watkins Fellowship to bring this article to fruition in 2021. Targeting an audience of interdisciplinary readers, it deploys narrative, interrogative, and inquisitive tones to persuade readers to examine Old Norse (Viking-Age) depictions of the human body in a new light. It was featured in the fifteen-year anniversary volume of Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft, which is published through the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Book Reviews
Paroma Chatterjee, Between the Pagan Past and Christian Present in Byzantine Visual Culture: Statues in Constantinople, 4th-13th Centuries CE.
This review was written for The Medieval Review, which is a classic internet resource for assessments of medieval-themed monographs. Its target readers are scholars, curators, and graduate students. Accordingly, the piece is clinical in tone and uses advanced language.
Assaf Pinkus, Visual Aggression: Images of Martyrdom from Late Medieval Germany
A review of an experimental study that examined brutal medieval sculptures that depicted acts of unsettling violence. Provided for a volume of Religion and the Arts, the goal of this piece was to summarize a broad academic study within three to five pages of text.
Caroline Walker Bynum, Dissimilar Similitudes: Devotional Objects in Late Medieval Germany
A review of a theoretical monograph, which was provided for the twenty-fifth anniversary volume of Religion and the Arts. The goal of this piece was to summarize the nuanced concepts outlined by the author for a target audience of scholarly and casual readers alike. It was featured on the Zone Books website and the author herself reached out to express her gratitude.
Public Scholarship
Art of the Viking Age
In 2020, I was awarded a Kress Foundation Honorarium to write an introduction to Viking-Age artwork in language that would be accessible for non-art historians. It was published through the non-profit initiative Smarthistory. Most of the image editing for this article was done by me, though the map of Scandinavia and Oseberg ship prow were edited by Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank.