I am an intersectional art historian; gender, queer, and de/post-colonial studies guide my work as a researcher and instructor. I study global contemporary art (after 1960) with a focus on Francophone and Anglophone visual cultures. My research and teaching interests center on performance, ephemeral, and multimedia art particularly as they relate to themes of gender, sexuality, and (de)colonization. My courses center on artistic identities, production, and reception through a global lens. 

I graduated with Honors in Art History, minors in Modern European History and Gender Studies, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2013. I completed my MA at Florida State University in 2016, writing my qualifying paper on violence and representation in surrealism. In 2021, I completed my doctoral studies at FSU with my dissertation "Feu à Volonté!--Fire at Will!: The Tirs of Niki de Saint Phalle, 1961–1964."