Kaylee Kelley

Kaylee Kelley is a first-year PhD student at Boston University focusing on cinquecento portraiture and material culture. Her Master’s thesis entitled ‘“Illustrious Through Her Own Virtues”: An Alternative Vision of Laura in Cinquecento Florentine Portraiture’ investigated the relationship between devotional objects and portraiture vis-á-vis contemporary literature. Prior to her PhD, Kaylee completed a Master’s at The Institute of Fine Arts and a Bachelor’s at the University of St Andrews, where she earned a joint honours degree in the History of Art and English Literature. She was recently awarded a humanities grant by NYU, which will fund her internship at MAP.