Julia Carabatsos focuses on American material and visual culture. Her research interests include relationships between images, texts, and materials in book, periodical, and sheet music design, fashion and textiles and their representation in other media, and women’s work in botany through the creation of albums. She curated Edith Wharton: Designing the Drawing Room, an exhibition for the Yale University Library that explores Wharton’s interest in architecture and interiors alongside her novels’ textual depictions of drawing rooms. In 2022, Julia received an MA from the Bard Graduate Center in decorative arts, design history, and material culture and earned the Clive Wainwright Award for her qualifying paper. Julia graduated from Yale in 2020 with degrees in history of art and in English.
