Greg Metcalf specializes in research relating to artistic production and its relation to culture. He has a PhD in American Studies from the University of Maryland, and an MFA in painting and graphics from Bowling Green University. He has published and lectured on a range of related subjects including the function of paratextual characters in American culture, the subversive point of view in Mary Cassatt, the serial killer and Ivan Albright, recontextualizing illustrations for Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee, and assorted explorations in popular culture. He occasionally exhibits Congolese-inspired ritual sculpture for the present age which are represented in collections in Europe and America.