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Visiting Lecturer in the Dept. of Art History
University of Nottingham
PhD with Distinction, Columbia University, 2011
MPhil, Columbia University, 2007
MA, University of York, UK, 2004
BA, Brown University, 2003
Gothic art (England, France, Low Countries); manuscript illumination (c. 1300-1550); image-text relations in vernacular manuscripts; royal spectacle and visual propaganda, particularly of the fifteenth century; theories of queenship and its visual construction; medieval representations of history; semiotics; application of digital technology to medieval studies
My doctoral dissertation centered on a copy of John Gower's Confessio Amantis (Pierpont Morgan MS M.126), made c. 1472 for Edward IV of England and Queen Elizabeth Woodville. Through an examination of the ways in which images in this manuscript renegotiate pre-existing imagery, I traced book artists' increasing cultural and political agency in a society reconceptualizing its notions of authorship and authority. Key to this study was an imaginative reconstruction of this manuscript’s contexts of production and consumption in London’s thriving book trade and in Edward IV’s royal library.
Other recent projects include a comparative study of two manuscripts of John Lydgate's Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund (British Library, MS Harley 2278 & MS Yates Thompson 47), as well as an examination of a copy of Stephen Scrope's Épître Othéa (Cambridge, St John's College MS H.5). I am also currently preparing articles on visual propaganda in the reign of Edward IV, and illustrated manuscripts of humanistic literature made for Henry VII.
I have received fellowships and grants from numerous institutions, including the Robert H. and Clarice Smith fellowship from CASVA at the National Gallery of Art, the Whiting Foundation, the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, the Medieval Academy of America, and from Columbia University. I have also received support for conference participation from AMARC (The Association for Manuscripts and Archives in Research Collections).
“Picturing the King or the Saint: Two Miniature Programs for Lydgate’s Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund.” In Packaging, Presentation and Consumption: Manuscripts and Printed Books in
Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe.. Ed. Sue Powell & Emma Cayley. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, forthcoming 2011-12.
“Visualizing Intertextuality: Conflating Forms of Creativity in Late Medieval ‘Author Portraits.’ ” In Citation, Intertextuality and Memory in the Middle Ages and Renaissance vol 2: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Medieval Culture. Ed. Yolanda Plumley and Giuliano Di Bacco. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, forthcoming 2012.
Seventeen essays (approximately 750 words each) in Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination . Ed. Scot McKendrick, John Lowden, and Kathleen Doyle. London: British Library, 2011.
“Illuminating Remediation: Recapturing Medieval Modes of Reading and Looking in the Classroom.” SMART: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 17.2 (Fall, 2010): 47-64.
“The Presence of Print.” If: Book. May 7, 2009. Institute for the Future of the Book.
“Remediating Orwell's Diaries.” If: Book. August 14, 2008. Institute for the Future of the Book.
"A Manuscript of Horapollo's Hieroglyphica and the Quest for a Royal Patron," British Library Royal Conference, December 2011.
Conference Papers
"Amans in Humilitatio," Second International Congress of the John Gower Society, Valladolid, Spain, July 18-21, 2011.
"Royal Devotion on a Roll," Twelfth Biennial Conference of the Early Book Society, York, UK, July 3-7, 2011.
"Furnishing the Copy," Courtauld Institute Sixteenth Annual Postgraduate Colloquium, London, February 5, 2011.
"History's Hall of Mirrors in The Illustrated Life of Edward IV," 56th Annual Conference for the Renaissance Society of America, Venice, April 8 - 10, 2010.
“ 'Though It Be Noght in the Registre of Venus': Illustrating Gower's Learned Interlude,” 98th Annual Conference for the College Art Association, Chicago, February 10 - 13, 2010.
“From Othéa to Christine to Stephen to Bremschett” presented at “The History of the Book: Culture, Community, Criticism,” Conference at Chetham’s Library, Manchester, UK, January 21, 2010.
“Picturing the King or Picturing the Saint: Two Miniature Programs for Lydgate's Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund” presented at the The Eleventh Biennial Early Book Society Conference, hosted by the University of Exeter, July 9 - 12, 2009.
“The Phenomenology of Intertextuality: Conflating Forms of Creativity in Late Medieval Literary Manuscripts” presented at the interdisciplinary colloquium, “At the Boundaries of the Image,” University of Arts and Design (HfG), Karlsruhe, Germany, June 29-30, 2009.
“Allusive Images: Intervisuality in Late Middle English Manuscripts” presented at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Exeter, Conference on "Citation, Intertextuality, Memory in the Middle Ages," January 29-30, 2009.
"Illuminating Remediation: Recapturing Medieval Modes of Reading and Looking in the 21st Century Classroom" presented at the 2008 International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo.
"A Unique Manuscript of the Confessio Amantis and the Reconfiguration of Conventions" an invited lecture for the Guild of Bookworkers on June 20, 2007.
"Stabilizing Auctoritas in an Illuminated Manuscript of John Gower's Confessio Amantis" presented at the Columbia University Medieval Guild Conference, October 14, 2006.
Websites
Introduction to Saussure
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Contact Information
Email: sd2263 at columbia dot edu
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