Research:
Research mainly on modern art in Western Europe and the US, but also on early modern art in France and Italy.  Emphasis on iconography in painting and sculpture, with a focus on cultural, historical, and political contexts.

Teaching:      
Art H 365   US Art from FDR to Reagan
Art H 260   Introduction to Art History: The Modern Era
Art H 466   Women Artists

Seminar Topics in Modern Art, including:
The Heritage of Abstract Expressionism
The Image of the Self in Art from 1940 to the Present
The Figure in Art since 1940
Problems in Modern Sculpture
Classical Mythology in Twentieth-Century Art
Neo-Expressionism
Art of the Fifties,
The Evolution of Abstract Art in Europe (1910-1920)

Books:

Joan Mitchell, New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1988
           
Under the Spell of Orpheus: The Persistence of a Myth in Twentieth-Century Art, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991
           
Eleanore Mikus (co-authored with Robert Hobbs), Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1991

Poussin and French Dynastic Ideology, Bern: Peter Lang, 2000               

Selected Articles:

"A New Interpretation of Rauschenberg's Imagery," Pantheon (1988) vol. 45:149-64

"Classical Mythology in Twentieth-Century Art: An Overview of a Humanistic Approach," Artibus et Historiae (1993) vol. 14, no. 27:153-83

“Poussin et Diane,” in Actes du colloque Le mythe de Diane en France au xvi siècle (Ecole normale superiéure, Paris,May 2001), Albineana  (2002) vol. 14: 443-62

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