Maria Maurer offers courses in Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque art history. Her research focuses on intersections between image, space, and gender in Italian art of the sixteenth century. She is particularly interested in the ways in which artists and visitors experienced works of art and used them to construct gender identities. She is also interested in using critical theory to investigate and understand the art of the Renaissance. She is currently at work on a book-length project on Palazzo del Te, a sixteenth-century palace created by the artist Giulio Romano, and its continued use as space in which ideal masculinity was created, enacted, and negotiated.