Christopher C. Wilson

Christopher Wilson is a specialist in art of Early Modern Europe and Colonial Latin America. His work concentrates on the intersection of gender and sanctity, with particular focus on the iconography and artistic patronage of the Discalced Carmelite Order. 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 the volumes 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 appeared in the journals Archive for Reformation History, Carmelus, and Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas.  He has been a frequent presenter at academic conferences, including the Sixteenth Century Society in 2023. He is currently writing about constructions of masculinity in male saints such as Peter of Alcántara and John of the Cross. He received his Ph.D. in Art History at George Washington University and is a past recipient of the university’s Morton A. Bender Teaching Award.