Revealing the complicated past of reading the future

About the author

Victoria S. Kenyon (she/her and they/them) is a Curatorial Track doctoral candidate in Art History at the University of Delaware. Victoria’s research is focused on the visual and material culture of North America, and they are especially interested in histories of mystical practice in the United States.

Her dissertation project is titled “Stacking the Deck: Fortune-Telling Cards and American Identity in the Long Nineteenth Century.” Victoria’s research has been supported by institutions including the American Antiquarian Society and the University of Delaware Center for Material Culture Studies.

A photo of Victoria S. Kenyon wearing a blue shirt and looking toward the camera.

Photo by Nathan Fiske.