associate professor
Art History & Visual Studies
University of Victoria
Canada
Erin fell in love with Europe and the art of Titian, Caravaggio, and Rembrandt while studying art history at the University of Toronto.he spent part of her MA program at Kommos, Crete, under the direction of Joseph Shaw, excavating a Minoan road and cataloguing pottery and was determined to pursue a career in Bronze Age archaeology. However, her keen interest in European art was rekindled during the PhD program by Philip Sohm, and while doing research in Venice, Florence, and Rome for her PhD dissertation on Italian art theory and criticism, she developed a passion for Italy that continues unabated.
Early Modern European art and material culture, including cross-cultural connections,Home and the Material culture of the Early Modern domestic interior,Cultural representations of the life stages and old age.