Education: Case Western Reserve University ,
Ph.D., Art History
Williams College, Clark Art Institute ,
M.A., Art History
Oberlin College ,
B.A., Art History
Research Interests: Late Medieval Franco-Flemish manuscript illumination, history of landscape painting, history of textile representation in art, late medieval devotional art and culture, American Folk Art
Publications: Books:
- Space, Place and Ornament: The Function of Landscape in Franco-Flemish Manuscript Illumination (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2014)
- Dressing the Part: Textiles as Propaganda in the Middle Ages, co-edited with Dr. Kate Dimitrova (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2015)
Articles & Chapters:
- "Signs of the City: Seigniorial Power, Vernacular Visual Culture and Urban Memes in Two Northern French Rent-Books” Studies in Iconography 41 (2020), pp. 1-29
- The Burgundian Garden and the Politics of Space” in Landscape and the Visual Hermeneutics of Place, 1500-1700, Walter Melion & Karl Enenkel, eds. (Leiden: Brill, 2020)
- “The Terrier de l’Évêque, an illuminated rent-book for the Bishop of Cambrai”, for an edited volume and facsimile of the Pontifical of Enguerrand de Crequy (Toledo), edited by Alison Stones and Mercedes López-Mayán (in preparation)
- “Artifice and Ornament in the Dit dou Lyon Garden Miniature” for An Illuminated Manuscript of the ‘Collected Works’ of Guillaume de Machaut (BnF, ms. fr. 1586): A Vocabulary for Exegesis, edited by Domenic Leo (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols/Brill series Epitome musical)(in preparation)
- “Painted Ambitions: The Masonic Murals in the Elisha Gilbert House” Journal for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism 6/2 (2015), pp. 148-195
- “Reading the Classics” in Splendour of the Burgundian Netherlands: Southern Netherlandish Illuminated Manuscripts in Dutch Collections, eds. Anne Margreet As-Vijvers and Anne Korteweg (Utrecht: Catherijneconvent/W Books, 2018), pp. 192-201
- “Exploring the Border: the Breviary of Eleanor of Portugal” Push Me, Pull You: Imaginative and Emotional Interaction in Late Medieval and Renaissance Art, Sarah Blick and Laura Gelfand, eds. (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2011), I: pp. 123-148.
- “Style or Master? A Consideration of the Master of the “Older” Prayerbook of Maximilian I” in Manuscript Studies in the Low Countries: Proceedings of the ‘Groninger Codicologendagen’ in Friesland, 2002 (edited by Anne Margreet W. As-Vijvers, Jos.M.M. Hermans and Gerda C. Huisman)(Groningen: Egbert Forsten, 2008), pp. 187-205.( http://www.brill.com/manuscript-studies-low-countries)
- “The Representation and Meaning of Luxurious Textiles in Late Medieval Franco-Flemish Manuscript Illumination” in Weaving, Veiling and Dressing: Textiles and their Metaphors in the Late Middle Ages, Barbara Baert and Kathryn Rudy, eds. (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007), pp. 121-155 ( http://brepols.metapress.com/content/g36j561726276614/)
- “Taking Borders Seriously: the significance of cloth-of-gold textile borders in Burgundian and post-Burgundian Manuscript Illumination in the Low Countries” Oud Holland vol.119, no. 1 (2006), pp. 22-40. ( http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/10.1163/187501706×00267)
Additional Scholarship:
- English editor for The Tuliba Manuscripts: Catalogue of Manuscripts and Miniatures from the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries, authored by Anne Margreet As-Vijvers (Hilversum, 2014)
- Entries for the Encyclopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage, edited by Larissa J. Taylor, et al.
- (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2010)( http://www.brill.nl/encyclopedia-medieval-pilgrimage):
- Textile contact relics, pp. 740-742.
- Shrine, Decoration, Textiles, pp. 682-683.
- Philip the Good of Burgundy, p. 517.
- Abbey of Saint-Denis, pp. 6-9.
- Catalog entry on the Breviary of Eleanor of Portugal (Morgan Library ms. 52) for exhibition Casa Perfeitisssima: 500 Anos da Fundação do Mosteiro da Madre de Deus, 10 December 2009- 11 April 2010 (Lisbon: Museu Nacional do Azulejo, 2010).
Book Reviews
- Review of Timothy Husband, The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2008) for Renaissance Quarterly LXII, n.3 (Fall, 2009), pp. 874-875.
- Review of Klara Broekhuijsen, The Masters of the Dark Eyes: Late Medieval Manuscript Painting in Holland (Brepols, 2009) for Speculum (The Medieval Academy of America), 87.3 (July 2012), pp. 843-844.
- Review of Alixe Bovey, Jean de Carpentin’s Book of Hours: The Genius of the Master of the Dresden Prayerbook (London: Paul Holberton, 2011) for The Medieval Review (Feb. 7, 2013): TMR 13.02.06
- Review of Christian Heck, Le ‘Ci nous dit’: L’image médiévale et la culture des laïcs au XIVe siècle. les enluminures du manuscrit de Chantilly (Turnhout: Brepols, 2011) for the Historians of Netherlandish Art (Spring Newsletter, April 2013)
- Review of Lieve Watteeuw and Catherine Reynolds, Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts Museum Plantin-Moretus Antwerp (Paris/Leuven/Walpole, MA: Peeters, 2013) for the Historians of Netherlandish Art (Fall 2013)
- Review of Kristen Carlvant, Manuscript Painting in Thirteenth-Century Flanders: Bruges, Ghent and the Circle of the Counts (London: Harvey Miller, 2012) for Manuscripta: A Journal for Manuscript Research 58.2 (2014), pp. 276-280
- Review of Elizabeth Morrison and Zrinka Stahuljak, The Adventures of Gillion de Trazegnies: Chivalry and Romance in the Medieval East (Getty Museum, 2015), for Renaissance Quarterly (Spring 2017), pp. 789-790
- Review of Sharon Farmer, The Silk Industries of Medieval Paris: Artisanal Migration, Technological Innovation, and Gendered Experience for Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality53/2 (Winter, 2017), pp. 135-138.
- Review of Elizabeth Morrison, ed. A Knight for the Ages: Jacques de Lalaing and the Art of Chivalry (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2018) for Renaissance Quarterly (2020)
Select Conference Papers:
- Corinth Colloquium, Emory University, 2019 (Corinth, GA): Gardens of Eloquence: The Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Garden as ornamentum of nobility
- International Congress on Medieval Studies 2017 (Kalamazoo, MI): More than Meets the Eye: the ‘Dit dou Lyon’ Landscape Miniature from Ms. C
- Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, June 2016— Signs of the City: Vernacular Urban Culture in the Rent-Book of the Lords of Pamele-Audenarde
- Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library Symposium 2014— Painted Ambition: Notes on Some Early American Masonic Wall Paintings
- Historians of Netherlandish Art 2010—workshop presentation, Space in the Breviary of Eleanor of Portugal (Morgan Library m. 52)
- College Art Association 2009— Space and Place: Landscape in the ‘Veil Rentier’ of the Lords of Audenarde-Pamele
- 19th Annual Graduate Conference, The Centre for Comparative Literature at The University of Toronto (April 2008)— Recognizing the Reader in an Age of Mass-Produced Manuscript Illumination
- International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, MI: May 2007)— Redefining ‘Landscape’ and its Functions in Franco-Flemish Manuscript Illumination
- Sixteenth Century Studies (Toronto: October, 2004)— The Semiotics of Textile Representation in Post-Burgundian Manuscript Illumination
- Groningen Codicology Days (Fryske Akademie, Leeuwarden: March 2002) — Style or Master? Considerations on the Working Methods of the Master of the “Older” Prayerbook of Maximilian I
Awards & Fellowships:
- Research Fellowship, Department of Gardens and Landscape Design, Dumbarton Oaks, Spring 2017
- NMSU Research Mini-Grants, Spring 2010, Summer 2013, Spring 2017
- Residency, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, Fall 2008
- Honorary Faculty Member Omicron Delta Kappa, Alfred University 2006
- NEH Research grant (Alfred University), Summer, 2005
- NEH Research grant (Alfred University), Fall, 2005
- Eva L. Pancoast Fellowship (Case Western Reserve University), 1996
- Butkin Fellowship (Case Western Reserve University), 1995
