Dr. Jennifer Davis Taylor is a scholar and creative practitioner whose work explores the mannered choreography of visual culture, literary form, and gendered meaning in early modern France. Merging archival research with poetic insight, her interdisciplinary practice moves between scholarly writing, long-form poetry, book arts, and embodied critical methods. Her upcoming book, Designing Women: The Iconography of Charles Perrault, reframes Perrault not merely as a fairy tale author but as a theorist of design whose collaborative studio practice staged radical allegories of female agency. Whether animating seventeenth-century ceilings, reimagining cinematic ghosts, or tracing sacred archetypes through myth and material culture, Taylor’s work reveals how ornament, rhetoric, and narrative become sites of power, memory, and transformation.

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