Kristen Adams is an Assistant Professor of Teaching at The Ohio State University. She specializes in Early Modern European art with an emphasis on textiles. Her research interests include materiality, artistic self-reflexivity, and spectatorship. She has published on Peter Paul Rubens’s Triumph of the Eucharist tapestry series in the Convent of the Descalzas Reales in Madrid and is currently working to publish her dissertation research that charts the development of metatextiles in the Early Modern period. In the classroom her pedagogical interests center on folio thinking and immersive learning.