My research focuses on the Mediterranean Baroque, in particular the arts and visual culture of Spain and Italy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. I have engaged with a range of topics including violence, skin, sensory perception, caricature, and ugliness. Before coming to Aarhus, I taught art history at Durham University, and I worked as a curator for six years in the US, UK, and Spain. I have published and organized exhibitions on Jusepe de Ribera, Francisco de Zurbarán, Francisco de Goya, and early modern Spanish drawings. I am especially interested in the violent and violated body, which I examined in my Ph.D. thesis on Ribera, and transformed into the volume and exhibition Ribera: Art of Violence, co-curated with Xavier Bray at Dulwich Picture Gallery. With a background in French studies, I am fascinated by word-image relations and the intersections between works of art executed in different media. Additionally, I am interested in the reception of the Spanish School in nineteenth-century France and Britain, as well as broader historiographic questions concerning mythmaking and canon building in the early modern Hispanic world. I am deeply committed to research-led teaching and teaching-led research, and to exploring the space ‘in between’ the museum and the university. My research is underpinned by an object-oriented approach, privileging works of art as physical objects, and adopting the practice of ‘slow looking’. With Karen-Margrethe Simonsen, I co-direct the Center for Early Modern Studies.