Yerkes is now writing a book called Siegelands, which explores early modern siege warfare as a form of ecological and social transformation, in a series of essays on long-term conflict and its relationship to architecture, landscape, and large-format artworks. 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. She continues to think and write about Giovanni Battista Piranesi.

Forthcoming essays

“Piranesi’s Monumental Words.” Monumentality. Eds. Inderbir Riar and Elizabeth Kassler-Taub, Getty Issues & Debates. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2025.