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.