Lillian is a third year postgraduate research student in History of Art at the University of Edinburgh and is funded by the Chicago Scots R. Harper Brown Scholarship as well as the Kappa Alpha Theta Foundation Scholarship and the Grace United Methodist Church, Paul & Thelma Eicholz Scholarship. Her thesis seeks to address the extent to which the literary celebrity of Walter Scott found currency in nineteenth-century visual and material culture in Britain.  Examining sectors of popular print, portraiture, topographical media, material artefacts, historical dress and reenactment, her research evaluates prevailing conceptions of the author’s literary authority. How Walter Scott and the Waverley Novels informed the political, social, and intellectual fabric of their day is also continually brought into question.

Lillian holds an MA in Modern Art History, Theory & Criticism from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA in Art History and European Studies from DePauw University.  Prior to commencing her doctoral study, she worked in Museum Education and the Department of Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago.