Biography

Amy Buono is a specialist in the arts of Colonial Latin America and the Portuguese Atlantic. She was trained at the University of New Mexico (B.A.), and the University of California, Santa Barbara (M.A. and Ph.D.). She has received fellowships from Fulbright, Fulbright-Hays, the Social Sciences Research Council, the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.), the Center for Cross-Cultural Studies (Ascona), and the John Carter Brown Library. Her research interests include the intersections between art history and natural history, cultural performance and identity formation, and the art of travel and cartography in the colonial nexus. Her current book projects include Feathered Identities and Plumed Performances: Tupinambá Interculture in Early Modern Brazil and Europe, a study of Brazilian featherwork, and a critical edition and translation of the Coleção de varias receitas de segredos particulares (1766), an illustrated Jesuit medicinal book from missions in Brazil, Goa, and Macau.