Above: Jacopo de' Barbari, Map of Venice(detail), woodcut, 1500Wilson’s teaching and research focuses on Italian Renaissance and early modern art, including portraiture, print culture, costume and cross-cultural encounters. She specializes in the history of Venetian art, the subject of The World in Venice: Print, the City, and Early Modern Identity (winner of the Roland H. Bainton prize for Art History in 2006) as well as a recently-completed book Facing Early Modernity: Portraits, Physiognomy, and Naturalism in Northern Italy, 1550-1650. Her interest in Venetian images of Turks and Turkish costume – on which she has published several important articles – has informed her current research project, which looks at Renaissance depictions of the Ottoman Empire. Other recent and forthcoming publications include Making Publics in Early Modern Europe: People, Things and Forms of Knowledge (2010, with Paul Yachnin) and The Erotics of Looking: Materiality, Solicitation and Dutch Visual Culture (2011, with Angela Vanhaelen). Wilson has taught at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and McGill University, Montreal. She has held fellowships at the Villa i Tatti in Florence and theFolger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC, among other institutions in Europe and North America. Wilson will join the School of World Art Studies and Museology in August 2012, as Professor of Art History.Photograph of Prof Wilson (McGill Publications)