Job summary
As the Librarian for the Arts, Erin provides research support, consultation, and instruction for students and faculty in the Department of Art, and for interdisciplinary scholars/practitioners doing work related to the arts. She also connects arts units across UVA with library resources and services.
Professional profile
Erin holds a Ph.D. in Art History and an M.S. in Information Science from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and an M.A. in Religious Studies from the University of Chicago. She served as the Chester Dale Predoctoral Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art (’22-’24), the Object-Based Teaching Fellow at the Ackland Art Museum ('20-'21), and the "Learning from Artists Archives" Fellow at UNC ('15-'17). She has also worked for the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, the Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library, the Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center, and the national oral history nonprofit, StoryCorps. Her interests include oral history, digital archives and preservation, media theory and history, the social web, critical disinformation studies, global feminisms, and intersections of art and technology.