Joy Sperling is an Associate Professor of Art at Denison University where she specializes in nineteenth to twenty-first century American and British art, and the History of Photography.  She has published in the areas of nineteenth century American and British art, Modern art, and on recent art.  Sperling is the author of Famous Works of Art in Popular Culture (Greenwood Press, 2003), Fragonard's Shoe: Jude Tallichet (Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, 2009), and numerous book chapters including "Prints and Photographs in Nineteenth Century England: Visual Communities, Cultures and Class" in A History of Visual Culture: Western Civilization from the 18th to the 21st Century (Berg Press, forthcoming in Spring 2010), "Artists Taking the High Road and the Low Road," in Popular Culture Values and the Arts: Essays on Elitism versus Democratization (McFarland Press, 2009) and "Wot is to Be" : The Visual Construction of Xenophobia at the Great Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations, The Crystal Palace, London, 1857 in Fear and Loathing in Victorian England (forthcoming).  Author of an Exhibition Catalogue for Out of Belfast (Three Women Artists from Belfast): Herbert, Kelly, and O'Baoill, she was also curator for a Denison University Museum exhibit of the same name.  Sperling has co-curated The Anglo-American Artist in Italy, 1750-1820 and edited a special issue of the Journal of American Culture titled "American Art and Visual Culture" (March 2008).  Most recently, her articles have appeared in The Journal of American Culture and Nineteenth Century Art Worldwide.  Her current book project is titled Fred Harvey's Indian Detours: Art, Travel, Trains and the Tourist Gaze in Santa Fe.  She is currently Vice President of PCA/ACA.