Kelli Wood is an interdisciplinary researcher, writer, and curator whose work combines methods from fields such as art history, art criticism, game studies, sports science, and museology. In 2019, she joined the School of Art at the University of Tennessee as an assistant professor of art history and museum and curatorial studies. Wood received her PhD from the University of Chicago in 2016 for her dissertation on the early modern visual and material culture of games and sports. Her work has been generously supported by fellowships including a Fulbright, a Samuel L. Kress Foundation Fellowship at the National Gallery of Art’s Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, a three-year postdoc in the Michigan Society of Fellows, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.