Harris, Anne F., Ph.D.
Contact
765-658-4345
aharris@depauw.edu
Art and Art History, Peeler Art Center, Rm 214
Greencastle, IN
46135
University Professor, Associate Professor of Art and Art History and Director of the Women's Studies Program
Ph.D. Medieval Art History, University of Chicago, 1999
Teaching Interests: Medieval Art (from Early Christian to Late Gothic), Medieval Secular Art, Women in Medieval Art, Race in Medieval Art, Art History and Film of the Crusades, Medievalism, the Middle Ages in Film, Art Historiography, Women's Studies
Courses regularly taught:
ARTH131 - Introduction to Art History Ancient to Medieval
ARTH218 Cathedral and Court: Gothic Art
ARTH235 - Women and Medieval Art
ARTH340 - Love and War in Medieval Art and Literature
ARTH350 - Monsters and Marvels: Imagining the Other in Medieval Art
ARTH-FYS - Jerusalem: Crusade and Conflict
WS140 - Introduction to Women's Studies
Courses in progress:
"Ecology of Medieval Art"
"The Draped Universe of Islam: Art and Culture"
Research Interests: Medieval stained glass, its intersection with popular culture and liturgical drama; medieval art and spoken word literature; issues of narrative; art and moral education; medieval art and post-colonial theory; materiality and materialism in medieval art; politics of race and gender in medieval art.
Current research: My research and teaching have been invigorated by post-colonial theory, and its questions of voice, agency, perception, representation, identity, hybridity, and power. I am interested in how colonial ideologies and images of the Middle Ages, and their post-colonial aftermath (after the loss of Jerusalem in 1187, for example), marked the cultures of Western Europe. My present work focuses on the appropriations and manipulations of artifacts and ideas from an expansive and expanding East, stretching from the Holy Land around Jerusalem to Earthly Paradise in India, for the articulation of moral education in late medieval France.
Publications:
"Narrative" - essay contributed to a special issue of Studies in Iconography on new critical terms in medieval art history to appear in 2011.
"Pygmalion Reconfigures Narcissus: questions of rewriting and rereading in images of the Roman de la Rose (MS. Douce 195)" Proceedings of the XIIth Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society held in Lausanne and Geneva, Switzerland, August 2007. Geneva, Droz: 337-351.
"Stained Glass Window as Thing: Heidegger, the Shoemaker Panels, and the Commercial and Spiritual Economies of Chartres Cathedral in the 13th century" in the on-line journal, Different Visions (www.differentvisions.org), 2008
"The Performative Terms of Jewish Iconoclasm and Conversion in Two Saint Nicholas Windows at Chartres Cathedral," in anthology, Beyond the Yellow Badge: New Approaches to Anti-Judaism and Anti-Semitism in Medieval and Early Modern Visual Culture edited by Mitchell B. Merback. Leiden: Brill Press, 2007: 119-141.
"Saint Nicholas in Context: Stained Glass and Liturgical Drama in the Archbishopric of Sens," in Glasmalerei im Kontext; Bildprogramme und Raumfunktionen. Nürnberg: Corpus Vitrearum Deutschland, 2005: 89-99.
"Pilgrimage, Performance and Stained Glass at Canterbury Cathedral," in Art and Architecture of Late Medieval Pilgrimage. ed. Sarah Blick and Rita Tekippe. Leiden: E.J. Brill Press, 2004: 243-281.