CONTACT INFORMATION:
Associate Professor of Art History
Department of Art History
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802 USA
| Office Telephone: | (814) 865 4880 |
| Office Fax: | (814) 865 1242 |
| Active email: | exs11@psu.edu |
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SCHOLARLY INTERESTS:
Current area(s) of research:
Gothic architecture in Tuscany
Selected publications, recent and forthcoming:
“San Clemente a Casauria: the story in the Chronicon and the story in the stones,” in Medioevo: Racconto e Immagine, Atti del Convegno internazionale di studi, Parma, 2000, Electa, Milan, forthcoming.
“An American in Medieval Paris: The Impact of Europe on Early American Collectors of Medieval Art,” Festschrift Hjalmar Torp, Supplement volume to Acta ad Archeologiam et artium historiam pertinentia, Norwegian Institute of Rome, forthcoming.
“La Chiesa di Casamari,” in Officina monastica. Le sacre artes nel monastero cistercense. Casamari e la sue filiazioni, exhibition catalogue, Abbazia di Casamari, forthcoming.
“Models for the Extraordinary: Abbot Leonate and the Façade of S. Clemente a Casauria,” in Medioevo: I Modelli, Atti del Convegno internazionale di studi, Parma, 27 settembre-1 ottobre, 1999, Electa, Milan, 2002, pp.463-476.
“L’Inghilterra,” in La Scultura d’Età Normanna tra Inghilterra e Terrasanta: Questioni Storiografiche, Acts of the Conference at the Centro Europeo di Studi Normanni, Ariano Irpino, Sept, 1998, Rome: Laterza, 2000, pp. 3-25.
“Between the Enlightenment and the Know-Nothings: William Poyntell (1756–1811), Early American Collector of Medieval Art,” Memory & Oblivion: Proceedings of the XXIXth International Congress of the History of Art held in Amsterdam, 1–7 September, 1996, ed. Wessel Reinink and Jeroen Stumpel, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999, pp. 173–182.
“Ars Mechanica: Gothic Structure in Italy,” The Engineering of Medieval Cathedrals, ed. Lynn Courtenay, Aldershot: Ashgate, 1997, pp. 219–233.
Technology and Resource Use in Medieval Europe: Cathedrals, Mills and Mines, co-edited with Michael Wolfe, Aldershot: Ashgate, 1997.
“Early American Collectors of Medieval Art: Romantics or Pragmatists?” Zeitschrift für Schweizerische Archäologie und Kunstgeschichte, Band 54 1997, Heft 2, pp. 207–214.
Medieval Art in America: Patterns of Collecting 1800-1940, University Park, PA: Palmer Museum of Art, 1996.
WUN-IDENTIFIED RESEARCH COLLABORATION THEMES:
Multilingualism in the Middle Ages:
History of the Medieval Book:
Medieval Chronicle Studies:
Other Possible Themes:
Visual Culture
Ph.D.s UNDER SUPERVISION:
Heather McCune Bruhn, “Late Gothic Architectural Monstrances in the Rhineland.”
STAFF EXCHANGES/ONLINE RESOURCE CREATION/VIDEOCONFERENCING:
Yes, I am interested in staff exchanges with WUN partner institutions, in development of online research resources, and in possibly participating in and/orconducting a videoconferencing seminar or course.
MEDIEVAL COURSES TAUGHT:
Art of the Early Middle Ages
Romanesque and Gothic Art
Problems in Medieval Sculpture
Monastic Architecture
The Gothic Cathedral
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