PhD Student; Renaissance Art, President; GSHAAA, Junior Editor; SEQUITUR Teaching Fellow; CAS AH365
she/her/hers
Isabella is interested in the ways that eroticism, desire, and sensuality operate in paintings and prints of the female body from the Early Modern period, and especially how these concepts function in depictions of bodies who have been subjected to sexual violence.
Besides Art History, Isabella loves to run and find bits of nature in Boston. She is originally from Northern California but her heart is in Ithaca, NY.
Research Interests:
- Early Modern prints
- Gender and Sexuality
- The nude female body
MA Paper:
“Folds: Female Sexuality in Artemisia Gentileschi’s Danaë”
2024-2025:
President, Graduate Student History of Art & Architecture Association
Junior Editor, SEQUITUR
2023-2024:
President, Graduate Student History of Art & Architecture Association
2022-2023:
Student / Faculty Liaison; Graduate Student History of Art & Architecture Association