I am currently writing an art, architecture, and media history of greenhouses, aquariums, and colonial gardens in Paris, c. 1860-1940—excavating imperial, environmental histories embedded in French modernism.

This research has been supported by the Gerda Henkel Foundation, the Buell Center, DFK Paris, the Huntington Library, the Society for French Historical Studies, Dumbarton Oaks, the Stanford-Leuphana Summer Academy, and the Lee MacCormick Edwards Charitable Foundation.

My research primarily examines ecological ideas across media, including architecture, photography, and video. I have a secondary interest in excavating queer and feminist surrealist history.

As an undergraduate at Stanford University, I double majored in Art History and Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. I am currently the Managing Editor of the journal Grey Room. For my complete CV, click here.

I’ve been the instructor of record for an ecological art seminar and an introductory art history course and have previously led discussion sections on photography, 19th-century art, and 20th-century art.

I recently contributed essays to Remedios Varo: Science Fictions (2023) at the Art Institute of Chicago. I curated a show on representations of women in Viennese modernism at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford (2016). I’ve also participated in MoMA’s MRC Study Sessions (2020) and worked as a research assistant at SFMOMA on René Magritte: The Fifth Season (2018).

My essays for a public readership have been published on Slate, Projects + Perspectives at SFMOMA, MoMA, and the Stanford Arts Review.

Creatively, I am interested in exploring media ecologies through my photographic narratives that capture how people encounter nature via multisensory and multimedia modes.