Expertise

Research interests:

  • the history and theories of play; visual jokes and games, especially in northern European art of the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries; enigmatology.

Research Interests:

  • visual jokes and games; early modern conceptions of interpretive skill; northern European art of the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries; history and theory of mechanical puzzle design.

Expertise:

  • 17th Century
  • Art
Communities
European Studies, Arts
Degrees
PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1998
MA, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1991
BA, Reed College, 1989