Her research focuses on visual and textual portrayals of women artists, especially from the early modern period. Her publications include Life Stories of Women Artists, 1550–1800: An Anthology (Ashgate, 2009), and “Vision and Insight: Portraits of the Aged Woman Artist, 1600–1800,” Occasion: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities (Stanford University Press), vol. 4 (June 14, 2012), http://arcade.stanford.edu/occasion/vision-and-insight-portraits-aged-woman-artist-1600-1800. The research presented in this article for Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide relates to a book-length project (in progress) on the travel writings of May Alcott Nieriker.Email the author: dabbsj[at]morris.umn.edu