Emily Jay is an artist-scholar who researches the relationship between female saints and the cities they protect in Sicily utilizing arts-based research methodologies and new materialist philosophies. She is interested in engaging with Italy’s past in creative ways so as to disrupt binary ways of thinking while also re-centering female perspectives into historical narratives. Jay is an Assistant Professor of Art at Ohio Northern University. She earned her BFA from Ohio Northern University, her MFA from Bowling Green State University, her Ph.D. through Texas Tech University.