Better for Haunts: Victorian Houses and the Modern Imagination

Sarah Burns will be speaking tonight at the Sheldon Museum of Art at 5:30 p.m. She is a Ruth N. Halls Professor Emerita in the Department of the History of Art at Indiana University.

Burns researches the sinister side of American architecture, tracing the affinity for ghouls and ghosts in Victorian houses through the painting, photography and mass media of the early 20th century.

Find out more information about the lecture here.

Her most recent work, Painting the Dark Side: Art and the Gothic Imagination in 19th-Century America, was published by the University of California Press.