Christopher C. Wilson

Christopher Wilson is a specialist in the art of Early Modern Europe and the Americas. His scholarship concentrates on the intersection of gender and sanctity. He is editor and contributor to The Heirs of St. Teresa of Ávila: Defenders and Disseminators of the Founding Mother’s Legacy (Institute of Carmelite Studies, 2006) and has published essays in Joseph of Nazareth Through the Centuries (Saint Joseph’s University, 2011), Imagery, Spirituality, and Ideology in Baroque Spain and Latin America (Cambridge Scholars, 2010), Approaches to Teaching Teresa of Ávila and the Spanish Mystics (Modern Language Association of America, 2009), and Women and Art in Early Modern Latin America (Brill, 2007). His work has also appeared in Archive for Reformation History, Carmelus, and Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas.

He is a frequent presenter at academic conferences and will give papers on the iconography of St. John of the Cross, constructions of masculinity in paintings by Piero di Cosimo, and the intersection of gender and sanctity in El Greco’s work during the 2026–27 academic year. His article “Queer Painting in Early Modern Spain: El Greco, ‘El Rey de los Maricones’” is forthcoming in a 2027 special issue of Different Visions: New Perspectives on Medieval Art.

Wilson received his Ph.D. in Art History from George Washington University and is a past recipient of the university’s Morton A. Bender Teaching Award.
 

Classes Taught

• Seeing Gender in Renaissance Italy; Italian Renaissance Art, 1300-1500

• Survey of Art Parts I and II.