Areas of Research/Interest: Early Christian and medieval art, illustrated Gothic manuscripts, the role of images in lay religion. External Affiliations: Board of Directors, International Center of Medieval Art (2007-10); Juror, College Art Association Publication Grant (2005-10); Series Editor, Studies in the Visual Cultures of the Middle Ages (Brepols Publishers), 2004- ; Executive Committee, MARC (NYU), 2002-6; Program Committee, Medieval Academy of America, 2000-2; Comité Consultif, Bourses Chateaubriand, 2001- ; Women’s Faculty Caucus (NYU), 1998- ; Nominating Committee, International Center for Medieval Art, 1996-1998; Steering Committee, Seminar in the History of the Book to 1500, 1993-1995; International Medieval Sermon Society; Medieval Club of New York; Association for Manuscripts and Archives in Research Collections; College Art Association; International Center for Medieval Art; Medieval Manuscripts Society; International Medieval Institute. Fellowships/Honors: Marquis Who’s Who in American Education (2007-); Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Memorial Fund Art History Fellowship, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2007-8); Short-list, Historians of British Art Book Prize, Single Author, pre-circa 1800 category, for 'Art, Identity and Devotion in Fourteenth-Century England: Three Women and Their Books of Hours' (2005); Who's Who of American Women (2004-); National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers (2001); Article of the Month (August), in 'Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index', for 'The Neville of Hornby Hours and the Design of Literate Devotion' (2000); Golden Dozen Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (1999); Mary Davis Predoctoral Fellowship, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art (1993-1995); Fulbright Commission/IIE, Dissertation Fellowship for study in England (1992-1993).
Select Publications:
with Carol H. Krinsky, TRIBUTES TO LUCY FREEMAN SANDLER: Studies in Illuminated Manuscripts
(London and Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2007)
"Books of Hours", in WOMEN AND GENDER IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA, eds. Susan Mosher Stuard, Thomas Izbicki and Margaret Schaus (New York and London: Routledge, 2006), 89-91. "Accident, Play and Invention: Three Infancy Miracles in the Holkham Bible Picture Book", in TRIBUTES TO JONATHAN ALEXANDER: MAKING AND MEANING IN THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE RENAISSANCE, eds. Gerald B. Guest and Susan L'Engle (London and Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2006), 357-69.
Art, Identity and Devotion in Fourteenth-Century England: Three Women and Their Books of Hours, The British Library Studies in Medieval Culture. London and Toronto: The British Library Publications/University of Toronto Press, 2003).
Bibles (essay), and eight catalogue entries, Leaves of Gold: Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections. 2001. The Neville of Hornby Hours and the Design of Literate Devotion. Art Bulletin. 1999. The Destruction of Jerusalem Miniatures in the Neville of Hornby Hours and their Visual, Literary and Devotional Contexts, The Real and Ideal Jerusalem in Jewish, Christian and Islamic Art (Journal of Jewish Art). 1997/8 History, Typology, and Homily: The Joseph Cycle in the Queen Mary Psalter. Gesta. 1993. Inventing Marital Chastity: The Iconography of Susanna and the Elders in Early Christian Art. Oxford Art Journal. 1993. |
