Sarah C. Schaefer is an historian of modern art and visual culture, whose work focuses on religious media, technologies of reproduction, medieval revivalisms, and archaeological representation. Her writings have appeared in Word & Image, Material Religion, and Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide. She has curated several exhibitions, including The World Turned Upside Down: Apocalyptic Imagery in England, 1750-1850 at Marquette University's Haggerty Museum of Art, and is currently working on a show that explores the manuscripts of J. R. R. Tolkien through the lens of his career as a medieval philologist.