Harris, Anne F., Ph.D.

Art and Art History 

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
ARTH290 - Ecology of 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:
Feminist Theory
Islamic Art
 

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 of medieval art have been invigorated by  feminism, post-colonial theory, and eco-criticism and their questions of voice, agency, perception, representation, identity, hybridity, multiplicity, power, and force.  

Publications:
“Medieval Belief and Modern Secularity: Teaching the Middle Ages to Contemporary College Students” article submitted, forthcoming in the journal Literature Compass

“Mobility and Morality: Moving through the Virtual Landscapes of Jean Thenaud’s Triumphe des Vertuz” article submitted, forthcoming in the journal postmedieval 4:2 (Summer 2013)
 

“Sacred Object/Folk Object: the Roodscreen of the Chapel St. Fiacre in Le Faoüet (Brittany)” abstract accepted, forthcoming in Winter 2014 issue (vol. 44, no. 1) of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
 

“From Stone to Statue: the Geology and Art of English Alabaster Panels,” forthcoming in Art and Devotion in Medieval England. Medieval Institute Publications, ed. Stephen Perkinson and Jessica Brantley.
 

“Glazing and Glossing: Stained Glass as Literary Interpretation,” forthcoming in Corning Glass Studies, ed. Mary Shepard and Elizabeth Pastan.
 

“Hewn” forthcoming in Ecologies of the Inhuman, Punctum Books, ed. Jeffrey Cohen and Lowell Duckert.

“Pyromena: Fire’s Doing,” forthcoming in Elemental Ecocriticism, University of Minnesota Press, ed. Jeffrey Cohen and Lowell Duckert.

"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.