Lela Graybill is an Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Utah, specializing in the art and visual culture of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She received her Ph.D. in Art History from Stanford University in 2006. Her dissertation, The Wound and the Weapon: The Visual Culture of Violence in the Age of Reform, 1757 - 1832, examines how shifting social attitudes, political practices, and technological developments transformed the staging of violence in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Her research and teaching examines historical relationships between the fine arts, popular culture, media technologies, visuality and display.