She earned a PhD in Art History from McGill University and completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Sainsbury Institute for Art at the University of East Anglia. Her research specialization is Renaissance/Early Modern art, with particular focus on the visual culture of Northern Europe and its colonies in the Atlantic world. Dr. Gobin's research has been funded by a number of agencies including the Renaissance Society of America, Les Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Société et la Culture (FQRSC), the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, the Canadian Centre for Architecture and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.