Yerkes's forthcoming book, Siegelands: Early Modern Warfare and the Monumental Print, explores artillery warfare as a form of social transformation. In a series of essays on long-term conflict and its relationship to printmaking, the book offers a new history of the emergence of the modern state in sixteenth-century northern European art.

As a sequel of sorts to Siegelands, Yerkes is beginning a new book entitled The End of the Universe: Art and Frontier in the Sixteenth Century. She follows the work of Augustin Hirschvogel (1503–1553) as a line through the religious wars that tore across the Habsburg Empire at midcentury. In particular, she is interested in what happens when people acknowledge that they will never agree, and the aftermath of such compromise. She is also working on Direct Impressions, a book that focuses on the relationship between architecture and experimental printmaking technologies from the sixteenth century to the present, particularly those techniques that use buildings and objects inscribed with texts as printing matrices, such as squeezes and rubbings.

With her colleague Bridget Alsdorf, Yerkes is writing a book about Jacques Callot, the seventeenth-century etcher who transformed printmaking with his technical innovations and artistic ambition, in conjunction with an exhibition to open at the Princeton University Art Museum in spring 2029.

Forthcoming essays

“Piranesi’s Monumental Words.” Monumentality. Eds. Inderbir Riar and Elizabeth Kassler-Taub, Getty Issues & Debates. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2026.