Academic interests
In a position divided between the Faculty of Theology and the Museum of Cultural History, I teach and explore medieval and Early Modern art and my research interests center on the making and meaning-making of artefacts ca. 1200–1600. I also pursue an interest in medieval and early modern material culture more broadly, the history and theory of the ornamental, portraiture, the history of dress and fashion, gender studies and historiography.
Currently, I am working on a monograph with the tentative title Christ Appearing to His Mother in Late Medieval Art. Visualizing the Resurrection across Convents, Parishes, and Courts (under contract with Routledge). I am also PI of "Dressing the Saints: Gendering and Othering in Netherlandish Art at the Dawn of a Globalised World" funded by the Research Council of Norway (FRIPRO), Oct 2025 - Sep 2029.
Teaching
I am not teaching during fall 2025
Fellowships and Awards
LECTIO Fellowship (KULeuven, 2024)
Beinecke Senior Visiting Fellowship (National Gallery of Art Washington, 2024)
ERC Seal of Excellence from the Horizon MSCA-2021-PF-01-01 call.
ReIReS Fellowship (KULeuven, 2020) [declined due to Covid-19]
ReIReS Fellowship (KULeuven, 2019)
Fundação de Ciência e Tecnología Visiting Scholar (Gulbenkian Museum Lisbon, 2018)
My research has also been funded by e.g. the Norwegian Non-Fiction Writers and Translators Association (NFFO), the Norwegian Research Council, the Getty Foundation, and Osloforskning.
Background
I hold a PhD in art history from the University in Oslo (2013). I have since been teaching medieval and early modern art history (2013-2014) and medieval history (2015-2017) at the same institution. I am now tenured senior lecturer in art history and visual studies (2023- ) and Head of Art History (2024-).
In 2018-20, I was an ERC Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action and NRC COFUND postdoctoral fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art, and in 2021-22, I was acting as Head of Research and Development at the National Museum of Art in Oslo.
