I teach as a lecturer for the program in Art History. My office and mailbox are with the Art History program; my office hours vary by semester. I teach courses focusing on aesthetic theory, history and theory of photography, visual culture, feminist theory, race, and cultural memory. My doctorate is from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

I am the author of five books of scholarship. The Posthumous Voice in Women’s Writing (2006), Francesca Woodman and the Kantian Sublime (2010), Witnessing Sadism in Texts of the American South(2014), Francesca Woodman's Dark Gaze (2016, Women Photographers and Feminist Aesthetics(2017), 16 Ways of Looking at a Photograph (2019), and The Photographic Uncanny (2019); as well as six books of poetry and a chapbook of poetry, The Gleaners (2013), Museum of Snow (2013), Motels Where We Lived (2014), After Houses (2014), Television (2016), Tartessos and Other Cities (2016), State Fair Animals (2018), Substance of Fire: Gender and Race in the Classroom (2018), and Ransom Street (2019).

My concern in my scholarship, writing, and teaching, is in sounding out the silenced places of culture, and in better understanding and limning the ways that visual culture and fine art shape our public and private lives. I take a formalist approach to every analysis, applying aesthetic theory to questions of culture.

My hobbies are long-distance running; and virtually any activity that involves spending time with my son!