Jennifer Nelson

University of Wisconsin–Madison

02/01/2021 - 06/07/2021

Jennifer Nelson is a Clark Fellow and an assistant professor of early modern art history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison; she was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the Michigan Society of Fellows. She is the author of Disharmony of the Spheres: The Europe of Holbein's Ambassadors (Penn State University Press, 2019), as well as three books of poetry. To further her interests in the historiography of art, she recently co-founded the journal Selva with Danny Marcus and Daniel Spaulding. At the Clark, she will be writing about the visual policing of Christendom's literal and conceptual borders in the late sixteenth century.