Laura Camille Agoston received her B.A. magna cum laude in art history from Yale College, began her doctoral studies at Princeton University and completed them at Harvard University. Her work centers on questions of identity, the inter-relationship of art and literature, and has especially focused on the careers of Raphael and Michelangelo. Her articles and reviews have appeared in Art History Renaissance Quarterly, the Art Bulletin, Word & Image, The Medieval Review, and a festschrift for John Shearman. She has received fellowships from Harvard University and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She has lectured widely at the annual meetings of the College Art Association, the Renaissance Society of America, the Sixteenth-Century Studies conference, the American Academy in Rome as well as at invitational symposia. She has taught previously at the State University of New York at Cortland and Geneseo and William Paterson University. She is currently working on a revisionist study of the first texts written about Michelangelo.