Southeast Asia, Indonesia, gender studies, colonialism, landscape and the human body, material culture

Research:
South and Southeast Asia with an emphasis on Indonesia, colonialism as cultural process, landscape and the human body, gender studies, visual reception and its global/local interface, performance, and material culture.

Teaching:
Art H 407 The Museum and the Object
Art H 580 Problems in Asian Art
Art H 585 Threads of Consequence: Textiles in South and Southeast Asia
Approaches to Asian Art
The Arts of Southeast Asia
The Role of Religion in South and Southeast Asian Art
Water: Art and Politics in Southeast Asia
The Subtle Body: The Art of Tantra in South and Southeast Asia
Art History Proseminar

Books:
Conspiring Siblings in Kamasan Style: Exploring Architectural Habits of Mind in the Politics of "Everyday Life" in Bali [forthcoming].

Select Articles:
"Balancing on Bamboo: Women in Balinese Art," Asian Art and Culture, Oxford University Press, Winter 1995, pp. 74-95.

"Maritime Travelers & Tillers of the Soil: Reading the Landscape(s) of Batur," in Studies in Southeast Asia: Essays in Honor of Stanley J. O'Connor, ed. Nora Taylor, SEAP Publications, April 2000.

"Cartographies in Collision: Silent Vessel 'Tell in Full' Under the Mango Trees (Reclaiming Ekphrasis in New Groves of Academe)," [forthcoming].

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