CONTACT INFORMATION:

Professor of Art History
School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies
Old Mining Building
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT
 
 

Office Telephone:	0113 3435376
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Active email:	c.e.karkov@leeds.ac.uk
Relevant Webpage:	http://www.leeds.ac.uk/fine_art/people/staff/cek.html

SCHOLARLY INTERESTS:
Current area(s) of research:

Manuscript studies, medieval Anglo-Saxon art, especially manuscripts and sculpture; gender; postcoloniality; issues of subjectivity in early medieval art; the uses of the past
 

Selected publications, recent and forthcoming:

The Ruler Portraits of Anglo-Saxon England. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2004.

Text and Picture in Anglo-Saxon England: Narrative Strategies in the Junius 11 Manuscript. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Conversion and Colonization in Anglo-Saxon England. Edited with Nicholas Howe. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2006.

The Place of the Cross in Anglo-Saxon England. Edited with Sarah Larratt Keefer and  Karen L. Jolly. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2006.

Anglo-Saxon Styles. Edited with George H. Brown. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003.

Theorizing Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture. Edited with Fred Orton. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2003.

Books in Progress:

Art in Early Medieval England (Boydell & Brewer)

Inscribing the Self: Artists, Authors, and Identity in Early Medieval England.

The Visionary Cross, with Daniel O’Donnell, Roberto Rosselli Del Turco and Ian Wood

WUN-IDENTIFIED RESEARCH COLLABORATION THEMES:

Multilingualism in the Middle Ages:

History of the Medieval Book:

Medieval Chronicle Studies:
 

Ph.D.s UNDER SUPERVISION:

Lara Eggleton, ‘Orientalizing the Alhambra’

Hayley Humphrey, ‘Irish High crosses, kings and monastic warriors’
 

STAFF EXCHANGES/ONLINE RESOURCE CREATION/VIDEOCONFERENCING:
 

MEDIEVAL COURSES TAUGHT:

The Work of the Body in Anglo-Saxon Art
Figures and Fragments: sculpture in Anglo-Saxon England
Images and Iconography
Medieval Manuscripts
 
 

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