Associate Professor, History of Art and Program in Women's Studies. Scholarly interests include the art of Renaissance Italy with a special focus on the representation of gender and sexuality and interdisciplinary research on the construction of authority and identity. Publications include "Homosociality and Erotics in Italian Renaissance Portraiture" in Portraiture: Facing the Subject (1997), "Alert and Erect: Masculinity in Some Italian Renaissance Portraits of Fathers and Sons" (1994), "(Check)-Mating the Grand Masters: The Gendered, Sexualized Politics of Chess in Renaissance Italy" (1993), and "Women in Frames: The Gaze, the Eye, the Profile in Renaissance Portraiture" (1992). 763-5073