Professor Sarah Burns of Indiana University, the Newberry’s 2008–2009 Terra Foundation for American Art Fellow in American Art History, has published on a range of topics, from images of rural life in the nineteenth century to modern art in Gilded Age America. Her presence as a fellow at the Newberry during the planning stages of these conferences will be invaluable for the project leadership team. Burns’s many prize-winning books include Pastoral Inventions: Rural Life in Nineteenth-Century American Art and Culture (Temple, 1989), and Inventing the Modern Artist: Art and Culture in Gilded Age America (Yale, 1996), and Painting the Dark Side: Art and the Gothic Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America (California, 2004). For more information on Professor Burns, visit: http://www.indiana.edu/~arthist/faculty/burns.shtml