Patterson, Jessica Lee

Jessica Lee Patterson is an art historian with a Ph.D. in History of Art from UC Berkeley. She taught at the University of San Diego for over a decade, focusing on Asian and Modern art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with additional courses on art historical writing and exhibition practices. She has published on Asian and Buddhist art, and was an active speaker at conferences and invited lectures. In 2022 she left academia to work with the Koder Collection, researching the art of role-playing games and fantasy literature. Dr. Patterson co-curated the 2024 exhibition Gateway to Adventure: 50 Years of D&D Art in Lucca, Italy, and is one of the authors of the forthcoming Dungeons & Dragons Encyclopedia (2026).