Teaching Philosophy, Part 3: Primary Sources
In my teaching, I privilege the close examination of material original to the period of study. I advocate an openness to all sources, whether visual, textual, or material, and I cultivate in my students the intellectual tools - from the disciplines of art history, history and archaeology - that one needs to examine these primary sources. The meaningful contextualization of works of art then results from the interrelating of visual, textual, and material evidence.