James D'Emilio
Associate Professor of Humanities
CPR 107
University of South Florida
Tampa, Florida 33620
e-mail is the most reliable way to contact me:
demilio@shell.cas.usf.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D., History of Art, Courtauld Institute of Art ,
University of London, 1989. Dissertation: Romanesque
Architectural Sculpture in the Diocese of Lugo, East of the Miño
.
B.A., Medieval Studies,
Reed College , 1977. B.A. thesis: Sheep in the midst of
Wolves: Heresy and the Church, 1000-1215 .
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2003-04, 2007-08: Visiting Scholar, Department of
History,
University of California, San Diego
1997- : Associate Professor of Humanities, University of South
Florida.
1989-97: Assistant Professor of Humanities, University
of South Florida.
1988: Instructor of Humanities, University of
South Florida.
1986-87: Visiting Instructor of Art History, Newcomb
College, Tulane University.
1984-86: Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History
and Humanities, Reed College.
COURSES TAUGHT
-University of South Florida: Studies in Culture/Ancient through Medieval ;
Foundations of Western Civilization; The Arts in Medieval Europe; The
Culture of Ancient Greece; The Culture of Ancient Rome;
Ancient Narratives; Epic Narratives; The
Cultures of the Early Middle Ages; The Culture of the High Middle
Ages; The Early Middle Ages: the Formation of Christianity; Monasticism and the Arts; Themes in
Humanities: Medieval Religious Experience and the Arts; Medieval
Biographies; The Cultures of Medieval
Spain; The Arts in Dante's Italy
-Newcomb College: Survey of Western Art; Early Christian
and Byzantine Art; Medieval Art; Romanesque Sculpture; Sculpture in
Europe: 1140-1220
-Reed College: Freshmen Humanities: Greece, Rome and the
Middle Ages
PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS
Editor and contributor: Culture and Society in Medieval Galicia: a
Cultural Crossroads at the Edge of Europe, in preparation for
E.J. Brill, publication expected in 2009. Twenty-five international
authors are contributing articles. I am translating fourteen articles,
writing an introduction, prefaces to the five sections, a two-part
article on the Galician church, and a bibliographic essay.
PUBLICATIONS: ARTICLES
-“Cistercian Iberia”, 3000 word article requested for Cistercian Art, eds. Roberto
Cassanelli and Terryl Kinder (Milan: Jaca Books, publication expected
in 2010).
-2008a: “The Cathedral Chapter of Lugo in the
Twelfth
and Thirteenth Centuries:
Reform
and Retrenchment”, in Cross,
Crescent, and Conversion: Studies on Medieval Spain and Christendom in
Memory of Richard Fletcher, eds. Simon Barton and Peter
Linehan
(Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2008), 193-226.
-2007a: “The Art of the Cistercians in Galicia
and Portugal: A Review Article. (Arte de Cister em Portugal e
Galiza/Arte del Císter en Galicia y Portugal),” Cîteaux: Commentarii cistercienses
58, 305-27.
-2007b: “Inscriptions and the Romanesque Church:
Patrons, Prelates, and
Craftsmen in Romanesque Galicia”, in Spanish Medieval Art: Recent Studies,
ed. Colum
Hourihane (Tempe: Arizona
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies,
2007), 1-33.
-2005a: “
The Legend of
Bishop Odoario and the Early Medieval Church
in Galicia,” in Church,
State, Vellum and Stone: Essays on Medieval
Spain in Honor of John Williams, ed. J. Harris and T. Martin
(Leiden: E.J. Brill), 47-83.
-2005b: “The Royal Convent of Las Huelgas: Dynastic Politics, Religious
Reform and Artistic Change in Medieval Castile”,
Studies in Cistercian Art and Architecture , ed. M. P. Lillich,
VI, 189-280. Winner of the 2005
Bishko Prize, awarded by the Society for Spanish and Portuguese
Historical Studies
-2004: “The Cistercians and the Romanesque Churches of
Galicia: Compostela or Clairvaux?” in Perspectives for an
Architecture of Solitude. Essays on Cistercians, Art and Architecture
in Honour of Peter Fergusson , ed., T. Kinder, co-edition Cîteaux:
Commentarii cistercienses (Studia et documenta 13)and Brepols
(Medieval Church Studies 11) (Turnhout: Brepols), 313-27.
-2003: “Writing is the Precious Treasury of Memory: Scribes and
Notaries in Lugo (1150-1240)”, in La
collaboration dans la production de l’écrit
médiéval: actes du
XIIIe colloque du Comité international de paléographie
latine
(Weingarten, 22-25 septembre 2000), ed., H. Spilling (Paris:
École
des Chartes), 379-410.
-1999: “Looking Eastward: the Story of Noe at
Monreale Cathedral”, in Image and Belief:
Studies in Celebration of the Eightieth Anniversary of the Index of
Christian Art , ed., C. Hourihane (Princeton: Princeton
University Department of
Art and Archaeology), 135-150.
-1997a: “La formación de la parroquia en
la Galicia medieval”, Relaciones: Estudios de Historia y Sociedad
(El
Concepto de Región en Ciencias Sociales) XVIII, no. 72,
59-86.
-1997b: “The Romanesque Churches of Galicia: the
Making of a Provincial Art”, in Proceedings of the 4th
International
Conference on Galician Studies, vol. II, ed., Benigno
Fernández
Salgado (Oxford: Oxford Centre for Galician Studies), 547-72.
-1996a: “Working Practices and the Language of
Architectural Decoration in Romanesque Galicia: Sta. María de
Camporramiro and its Sources”, Arte Medievale II serie X, no.
1, 69-90.
-1996b: “Los documentos medievales como fuentes
para el estudio de las parroquias e iglesias gallegas: el distrito de
Monte de Meda (Lugo)”, Cuadernos de Estudios Gallegos XLIII,
no. 108, 37-96.
-1992a: “The Building and the Pilgrim's Guide”, in
The Codex Calixtinus and the Shrine of St. James, eds., J. Williams
and A. Stones (Tubingen: Gunter Narr), 185-206.
-1992b: “Tradición local y aportaciones
foráneas en la escultura románica tardía:
Compostela, Lugo y Carrión”, in Actas. Simposio
Internacional sobre: ‘O Pórtico da Gloria e a Arte do seu Tempo’
(Santiago de Compostela: Xunta de Galicia), 83-101.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
-Review of Amancio Isla Frez, Memoria, culto y monarquía
hispánica entre los siglos X y XII (Jaén:
Universidad de Jaén, 2006). Requested for The Medieval Review <http://quod.lib.umich.edu/t/tmr/>.
-Articles requested and submitted to the Oxford
Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. R. E. Bjork (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, forthcoming, 2008): Braga,
archidiocese; epigraphy;
Galicia;
King Afonso III of Portugal; King Afonso IV of Portugal; King Dinis I
of Portugal; King Manuel I of Portugal; literacy
and writing;
Mudejar art; proprietary churches; Santiago
de Compostela, pilgrimage
-2008: Review of María Bullón-Fernández, ed., England and Iberia in the Middle Ages,
12th-15th Century. Cultural, Literary, and Political Exchanges
(New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). The
Medieval Review, 2007 <http://quod.lib.umich.edu/t/tmr/>
-2007: Review of Günter Bandmann, Early Medieval Architecture as Bearer of
Meaning, translated by Kendall Wallis (New York: Columbia UP,
2005). Newsletter of the American
Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain, fall 2007,
pp.
3-5.
-2002a: “ Making a
Mark: Episcopal and Notarial Signs in Twelfth-Century Lugo, ” Bulletin of the Society for
Spanish
and Portuguese Historical Studies XXVII, no. 1, 26-27.
-2001a: “Tenth-Century Charters and the Ecclesiastical Culture of the
Leonese Kingdom,” Bulletin of the Society for Spanish and
Portuguese Historical Studies XXVI, no. 1, 15-16
-2001b: Review of Reyna Pastor, Esther Pascua
Echegaray, Ana Rodríguez López and Pablo Sánchez
León, Transacciones sin mercado: Instituciones, propiedad y
redes sociales en la Galicia monástica. 1200-1300 .
(Biblioteca de Historia, 36.) Madrid: Consejo Superior de
Investigaciones Científicas, 1999. Speculum LXXVI, no.3,
778-80.
-1999: “The Patronage of Romanesque Church
Construction in Galicia,” Bulletin of the Society for Spanish and
Portuguese Historical Studies XXIV, no. 2, 13.
-1997: “The Formation of the Parish in Early
Medieval Galicia,” Bulletin of the Society for Spanish and
Portuguese Historical Studies XXII, no. 2, 33-34.
-1996: Articles for The Dictionary of Art
, ed. J. Turner (London: Macmillan): Avila (vol. 2, pp. 863-67);
Carrión de los Condes (vol. 5, pp. 882-83); Martín de
Solórzano; Romanesque Stone Sculpture in Spain after c. 1150
(vol. 26, pp. 608-09); Sto. Domingo de la Calzada (vol. 27, p. 799);
Silos, Sto. Domingo (vol. 28, pp. 727-28), and Zamora (vol. 33, pp.
604-05).
-1995: “Writing is the Precious Treasury of
Memory: Scribes and Notaries in the Diocese of Lugo, 1150-1270,”
Bulletin
of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies XX,
no.
2 , 29.
-1994: “Itinerant Masons in Romanesque Galicia:
the Middlemen of Cultural Exchange,” Bulletin of the Society for
Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies XIX, no. 2, 23.
-1993: “The Proprietary Church in the Diocese of Lugo,
1130-1270,” Bulletin of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese
Historical
Studies XVIII, no. 2, 21.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
-2009: “La reforma eclesiástica en Galicia en la
época de Alfonso VI: una revaluación de sus antecedentes
y alcance,” Congreso internacional: Alfonso VI y Galicia, Santiago de
Compostela, Spain
-2008a: “Tenth-Century Galician Monasticism: the
Forgotten Legacy of St. Fructuosus,” Foundations
of Medieval
Monasticism, UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Ahmanson
Conference Series, Los Angeles, California
-2008b: “Remembering and Forgetting: Looking Back
on the Early Medieval Galician Church,” 43rd
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan
-2007: “The
Papacy and Church Reform in Late Twelfth-Century León and
Castile,” 42nd
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo,
Michigan
-2006a: “Inscriptions and the Romanesque
Church: Patrons, Prelates, and Craftsmen in Romanesque Galicia,” Symposium
on Spanish Medieval Art, Index of Christian Art,
Princeton University.
-2006b: “Santiago
Cathedral and the Romanesque Art of Galicia,”
41st
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
-2005a: “ The
Charter of Theodenandus: Writing, Ecclesiastical
Culture, and Monastic Reform in Tenth-Century Galicia,” California
Medieval History
Seminar, Huntington Library
-2005b: “The
Inscriptions of Galician Romanesque Churches: Regional Traditions and
Responses to Santiago Cathedral,” XVe Colloque international
de
Paléographie
latine, Vienna, Austria.
-2004a: “Program or Assemblage? Looking for
Meaning in Romanesque Sculpture,” College Art Association Meetings,
Seattle,
Washington.
-2004b: “Galicia and the Asturian kings,”
39th
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan .
-2004c: Santiago Cathedral,
the Pilgrimage, and the Art and Architecture of Twelfth-Century Spain,” University
of California at Santa Barbara, Medieval
Colloquium
-2003a: “Saints' Cults and Communities
in Early Medieval Galicia,” 38th
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo,
Michigan .
-2003b:
“ Responses to Santiago
Cathedral in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Galicia, ” Santiago de
Compostela: Cathedral, Monastery and Countryside, a Symposium on the
Virtual Reality Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, UCLA
-2002a: “Making a Mark: Episcopal and
Notarial Signs in Twelfth-Century Lugo,”
Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, 33rd Annual
Meeting , Athens, Georgia.
-2002b: “The Formulaic Clauses of Charters: Creation,
Diffusion and Variation,” 37th
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan .
-2002c: “Church Dedications and Saints’ Cults in
Medieval Galicia: Sources and Findings,” Fourth Annual Colloquium of
the Trans-National
Database and Atlas of Saints' Cults , Göttingen, Germany
-2002d: “Royal Patronage of the Cistercians in
Twelfth-Century Iberia,” Court and Monastery in Medieval Spain: a
Symposium in Honor
of John Williams, Meadows Art
Museum , Dallas, Texas.
-2001a: “The Legend of Bishop Odoarius and the
Ecclesiastical Organization of the Galician Countryside in the Early
Middle Ages,” session sponsored by the Medieval Academy, annual
meeting, American Historical Association,
Boston .
-2001b: “Tenth-Century Charters and the Ecclesiastical
Culture of the Leonese Kingdom,”
Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, 32nd Annual
Meeting , Santa Fe, New Mexico.
-2001c: “Widows and Communities: the Cistercian
Nunneries of León and their Architecture”, 36th
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan .
-2000a: “The Architecture of Cistercian Nunneries
in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Leon and Castile,” 35th
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan .
-2000b: “Notaries and Scribes in Lugo
(1150-1250),”
XIIIe Colloque international de Paléographie latine ,
Weingarten, Germany.
-1999a: “The Episcopacy and the Monastic Church
of Tenth-Century Gallaecia,”
Genus Regale et Sacerdotale : the Image of the Bishop Around the
Millennium , University of Chicago.
-1999b: “The Patronage of Romanesque Church
Construction in Galicia,”
Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, 30th Annual
Meeting , San Diego, California.
-1997a: “Local Traditions and Monastic Reform in
Tenth-Century Iberia: Samos and Calvor,” 32nd International Congress on
Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
-1997b: “Looking Eastwards: the Story of Noe at
Monreale Cathedral,” Index of
Christian Art , 80th anniversary conference, Princeton University
-1997c: “The Formation of the Parish in Early
Medieval Galicia,” Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical
Studies, 28th
Annual Meeting, Minneapolis.
-1997d: “Five Plus One: Spanish Art around the
Year 1200,” ASHAHS sponsored session, College Art Association
Meetings, New York.
-1996: “The Cathedral Chapter of Lugo
(1150-1270),” SSPHS sponsored session, Annual Meeting, American
Historical Association, Atlanta.
-1995a: “The Transmission of Architectural Motifs
in the Romanesque Churches of Galicia,” 30th International
Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo.
-1995b: “Writing is the Precious Treasury of
Memory: Scribes and Notaries in the Diocese of Lugo: 1150-1270,”
Society for
Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, 26th Annual Meeting, Toronto.
-1994a: “The Documents of the Cathedral of Lugo:
1100-1270,” Newberry Library, Center for Renaissance Studies Summer
Institute
(Medieval Western Europe 1100-1500: the Latin Archival Sources)
-1994b: “Cistercian Architecture in the Kingdom
of León (1157-1230): the Ambulatory with Radiating Chapels,”
29th
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo.
-1994c: “Romanesque Architecture of the Late
Twelfth Century in León and Castile: Where Do We Go from Here?”
Annual
Meeting, Society of Architectural Historians, Philadelphia.
-1994d: “Itinerant Masons in Romanesque Galicia:
The Middlemen of Cultural Exchange,” Society for Spanish and Portuguese
Historical Studies, 25th Annual Meeting, Chicago.
-1994e: “The Romanesque Churches of Galicia: the
Making of a Provincial Art,” Fourth Conference of the International
Association of Galician Studies, The Queen's College, Oxford, England.
-1993a: “The Artistic Influence of the Cistercian
Abbey of Meira: Patronage and Politics in Late Twelfth-Century
Galicia,” 28th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo.
-1993b: “The Proprietary Church in the Diocese of
Lugo, 1130-1270,” Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical
Studies, 24th Annual Meeting, San Antonio.
-1992: “Lay Patrons, Church Reform and the
Construction of Romanesque Churches in the Diocese of Lugo (Galicia,
Spain),” Eighth Biennial New College Conference on Medieval-Renaissance
Studies, Sarasota, Florida.
-1990a: “Tradición e innovación en
el románico rural gallego,” Primer Congreso Internacional da
Cultura Galega, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
-1990b: “The Impact of the Cistercians on
Architectural Decoration in Galicia, 1160-1230,” Association of Art
Historians, 16th Annual Conference, Dublin, Ireland.
-1990c: “The New Church of Ss. Trinità di
Venosa: Spain, Languedoc and Early Romanesque Art in Norman
Apulia,”
Seventh Biennial New College Conference on Medieval-Renaissance
Studies,
Sarasota, Florida.
-1988a: “The Building and the Pilgrim's Guide,”
The Codex Calixtinus and the Shrine of St. James, University of
Pittsburgh.
-1988b: “Tradición local y aportaciones
foráneas en la escultura románica tardía:
Compostela, Lugo y Carrión,” O Pórtico da Gloria e a Arte
do seu Tempo, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
-1988c: “The North Transept Portal of the
Cathedral of Lugo,” South Gulf Chapter, Society of Architectural
Historians, Tulane University, New Orleans.
-1987a: “Conservatism and Change in a Provincial
Art: the Architectural Decoration of Romanesque Churches in Galicia,”
College Art Association Meeting, Boston.
-1987b: “The Dissemination of the New Sculptural
Style of Avila and Carrión de los Condes in the Early 1170s:
Evidence from Lugo Cathedral and Sta. María de Piasca,” 22nd
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
OTHER CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION: SESSIONS CHAIRED
OR ORGANIZED
-2009: Organizer,
“King Alfonso VI of León-Castile: 900th Anniversary,” four
sessions (“The Three Religious Communities in Eleventh- and
Twelfth-Century Iberia,” sponsored by AARHMS; “Family, Dynasty and
Legitimacy,” co-sponsored by AARHMS and SSPHS; “Religious Reform and
Cultural Change: Iberia and Europe in the Eleventh and Twelfth
Centuries,” sponsored by SSPHS; and “The Legacy of Alfonso VI: History,
Literature and Legend,” sponsored by SSPHS), at the 44th
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
-2008:
Organizer, “Churches and
Shrines of Early Medieval Iberia: Memory and Invention” (session sponsored by the American Academy
of Research Historians of Medieval Spain); organizer and chair, “Making Meaning: Workshop Practices and the
Meaning of
Imagery in Iberian Romanesque Churches” (session
sponsored by the American Academy
of Research Historians of Medieval Spain); and organizer (with Tessa
Garton,
College of Charleston) and commenator, “Making
Meaning: Workshop Practices and the
Meaning of Imagery in Romanesque Churches” at the 43rd
International Congress on Medieval Studies,
Kalamazoo, Michigan.
-2007: Organizer,
“Reading Medieval Charters,” (session sponsored by AARHMS) and “The
Papacy and Medieval
Iberia” (session sponsored by SSPHS), at the 42nd
International
Congress on Medieval
Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
-2006a: Organizer (with Michael
Kulikowski, University of Tennessee), six
sessions on Culture and Society in Medieval Galicia, sponsored by SSPHS
and AARHMSpain and supported by
grants from the Program for
Cultural Cooperation Between Spain's
Ministry of Culture and United States' Universities and from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 41st
International
Congress on Medieval Studies , Kalamazoo, Michigan.
-2006b: Chair, “Medieval Galicia II: Church,
Society, and Culture in Medieval Galicia” and “Medieval Galicia III: Galicia in the Asturian and Leonese Kingdoms,” 41st
International
Congress on Medieval Studies , Kalamazoo, Michigan.
-2006c: Chair, “Power and Identity in Medieval
Iberia,” 37th
Annual
Meeting, Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies,
Lexington, Kentucky
-2005a: Organizer (with Cynthia Robinson,
Cornell University, and Adnan
A. Husain, New York University), “ The Mediterranean, 1000-1500: Conversion, Propaganda and
Polemic ” , two sessions,
Medieval Academy Meetings
, Miami Beach.
-2005b: Organizer and chair: “ Medievalists in a Digital Age: Rethinking Authorship,
Editing, and Reading ”,
roundtable sponsored by La Corónica , 40th
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan .
-2005c: Organizer, inaugural meeting of Florida MedievaList, at the
University of South Florida, Tampa.
-2004a: Organizer, “Religious Traditions and Political Legitimacy in
the Asturian and Leonese Kingdoms”, “Iberian Jewry in the Wider
World”, “New Christians and Iberian Culture”, three sessions
sponsored by SSPHS,
39th
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan .
-2004b: Panelist, “ The
Virtual Reality Model of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela ”, 39th
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan
-2004c: Panelist, “ The Relevance of Spanish History I: Conflict, Crusade and
Convivencia ”, 35th Annual
Meeting, Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies ,
UCLA.
-2004d: Commentator, “
Reconstructing Lost Works of Spanish Medieval Architecture ” , 35th Annual
Meeting, Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies ,
UCLA.
-2003a: Organizer, “Communities and Identities in Medieval Iberia, ” four sessions sponsored by SSPHS,
38th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan
-2003b: Presider, “
Communities and Identities in Medieval Iberia II: a Multiconfessional
Society, ” and “ Communities and Identities in
Medieval Iberia III: Frontier-Crossing and Communities at War, ” 38th
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan .
-2002: Organizer, “Writing, Literacy and Oral Culture in Medieval
Iberia”, four sessions sponsored by SSPHS, 37th
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan .
-2001a: Organizer, “Women’s Patronage in Medieval
Iberia,” “Inventing the Past: the Making of the History of Medieval
Iberia,” two sessions sponsored by the Society for Spanish and
Portuguese Historical Studies, 36th International Congress on Medieval
Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan
.
-2001b: Presider, “
Methodologies and Historiography of Spanish Art History I,
” 36th International Congress on Medieval Studies,
Kalamazoo, Michigan .
-1997: Chair, “Aesthetics and Culture in
Modern
Spain,” Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies,
28th Annual Meeting, Minneapolis.
-1996: Chair, “Romanesque Humanism and Art,” 10th
Biennial New College Conference on Medieval-Renaissance Studies,
Sarasota, Florida.
-1990: Chair, “Medieval Art,” Seventh Biennial
New College Conference on Medieval-Renaissance Studies, Sarasota,
Florida
EXTERNAL GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS
-2006a:
2005 Bishko
Memorial Prize, awarded by the Society for Spanish and Portuguese
Historical Studies for the best article published in 2005 by a North
American scholar in the field of medieval Iberian history: “The Royal Convent of Las Huelgas: Dynastic Politics,
Religious Reform, and Artistic Change in Medieval Castile,” Studies in Cistercian
Art and Architecture, ed. M. P.
Lillich, VI, 191-282
-2006b: Samuel H. Kress Foundation,
grant for
the Practice of Art History and Conservation (Sharing of Expertise),
funding the participation of three European scholars in sessions on
Medieval Galicia at the 41st International Congress on Medieval
Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
-2005a: Program for
Cultural
Cooperation Between Spanish Ministry of Culture and
United States' Universities . Project title: The Inscriptions
of Galician Romanesque Churches: Regional Traditions and Responses to
Santiago Cathedral.
-2005b : Program for
Cultural Cooperation Between Spanish Ministry of Culture and United
States' Universities . Grant for Conference Support. Project
title: Culture and Society in Medieval Galicia.
-1999a: Graham Foundation for
Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts . Project title:
The Romanesque Churches of Galicia: the Making of a Provincial Art
-1999b: Edilia and François-Auguste de
Montêquin Senior Fellowship in Iberian and Latin American
Architecture, Society
of Architectural Historians.
-1999c: National
Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend. Project title:
The Development of the Parish in Medieval Galicia.
-1995-96: National
Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers.
Project title: Galicia in the High Middle Ages, Cultural Change in a
Provincial Society.
-1994: National Endowment for the Humanities
Stipend to attend the 1994
Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies Summer Institute
(Medieval Western Europe 1100-1500: the Latin Archival Sources).
-1990-91: Fellowship from the George A. and Eliza
Gardner Howard Foundation. Project title: the Romanesque Churches
of Galicia: the Making of a Provincial Art.
-1979-82: Marshall scholarship for study at the
Courtauld Institute.
-1979: Undergraduate summer internship at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art.
-1977-78:
Thomas J. Watson fellowship to study Medieval saints' cults.
-1977: Elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
INTERNAL GRANTS AND AWARDS
-2008:
Faculty
Research Award, Humanities
Institute, University of South Florida. Project title: Culture and
Society in Medieval Galicia
-2006:
Grant for conference support, College of Arts and Sciences (for the
spring 2007 meeting of the Florida MedievaLists)
-2005:
Faculty
Research Grant, Humanities
Institute , University of South Florida. Project title: the
Romanesque Inscriptions of Galicia.
-2003: President's Award for Faculty Excellence, University of
South Florida
-2001: Research award, College
of Arts and Sciences , University of South Florida. Project
title: Medieval Iberian
Culture.
-2000a: Research and creative scholarship award,
University of South Florida. Project title: France and Spain:
Cultural
Exchange in High Medieval Europe
-2000b: International travel grant from the
University of South Florida for delivery of a paper at the XIIIe
Colloque international de Paléographie latine, Weingarten,
Germany
-1999: Research award, College of Arts and Sciences ,
University of South Florida. Project title: The Romanesque
Churches of Galicia: the Making of a Provincial Art.
-1998: Research and creative scholarship award,
University of South Florida. Project title: The Diocese of Lugo
in the Central Middle Ages: Tradition and Change in a Local Church.
-1997: Research award, College of Arts and Sciences ,
University of South Florida. Project title: Parishes and Parish
Churches in Medieval Galicia
-1996: Research and creative scholarship award,
University of South Florida. Project title: Cultural Change in
Medieval Galicia (Spain): the Role of Scribes and Notaries.
-1995a: International travel grant, University of
South Florida, for delivery of a paper at the 26th Annual Meeting of
the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Toronto,
Canada.
-1995b: Teaching award: Teaching Incentive
Program, University of South Florida.
-1994a: International travel grant, University of
South Florida, for delivery of a paper at the Fourth Conference of the
International Association of Galician Studies, The Queen's College,
Oxford.
-1994b: Research and creative scholarship award,
University of South Florida. Project title: Parishes and Parish
Churches
in Medieval Galicia: the Formation of Rural Communities.
-1993: Nominee of the University of South Florida
for an NEH Summer Stipend
-1990: International travel grant, University of
South Florida, for delivery of a paper at the 16th Annual Conference of
the Association of Art Historians, Dublin, Ireland.
-1989a: Nominee of the University of South
Florida for an NEH Summer Stipend
-1989b: Research initiation grant, the University
of South Florida. Project title: the Romanesque Churches of
Galicia: the Formation of a Provincial Art
-1985: Junior faculty grant from Reed College for
summer research in Spain.
-1982: Central Research Fund (University of
London) grant for research.
-1981: Courtauld summer school for the study of
Medieval art in Lombardy.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
2006-
Dante Society of America
1997- Metropolitan Museum
of Art
1994-
Archaeological Institute of America
1992- American
Historical Association , Society of
Architectural Historians
1990- Avista, Medieval Academy of
America
1989-
American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain ,
American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies, Friends
of the Road to Santiago, Galician Studies Association, Society for
Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies
1989-98 Florida Historical Society
1985- International
Center for Medieval Art
1982- College
Art Association
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
-Journal
of Medieval Iberian Studies, member of editorial board (2007-)
-The
Medieval
Review: review editor (2006-08 ), member of editorial board (2008-)
-Florida
MedievaList: (a working group of medievalists in Florida, participating
in a listserv and meeting twice annually to present research, discuss
teaching and curriculum, and plan joint initiatives for the development
of Medieval Studies in Florida). I have been (with Felice Lifshitz,
Carrie Benes and others) one of the organizing members, the
organizer of the first five meetings (2005-07), the webmaster, and a
member of the Executive Committee and the Planning and Local
Arrangements Commitee.
-American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain: coordinator
of sponsored sessions at the International Congress on Medieval Studies
at Kalamazoo (9 sessions/2006-)
-Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies: Bishko prize
committee, member (2006); Best
Dissertation Committee, member (2004-05); Best First Article Committee,
member (2002-03); webmaster (with Ana Varela Lago) (2002-); coordinator
of sponsored sessions at the International Congress on Medieval Studies
at Kalamazoo (30 sessions/2001-).
-International Center for Medieval Art, state of the discipline
committee, member (1994-95); advocacy committee, member (2008-10);
nominee, Board of Directors (2008)
-American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies,
selection committee for the Eleanor Tufts award for a distinguished
publication, member (1992, 2003), chair (1993, 2004)
-Reviewer of book manuscripts in art history, medieval
studies, and Hispanic studies for Brill, the Modern Language
Association, State
University of New York Press at Binghamton, University of Chicago
Press, and University of Toronto
Press, and article manuscripts for the Art Bulletin, Gesta, Peregrinations, and the Transactions of the Philological Society.
PUBLIC LECTURES
-2006:
“The Paradox of Galicia: A
Cultural Crossroads at the Edge of Europe,” Humanities Institute, University of South
Florida
-2005a: “Archaeology, History, and Identity in Atlantic
Spain,” Archaeological Institute of America, Tampa Bay Chapter.
-2005b: “Deformed Beauty, Beautiful Deformity: Monsters in the
Romanesque Church,” Florida Southern College Medieval Symposium
-2004a: “Exploring Medieval Galicia:
A Cultural Crossroads at the Edge of Europe,” Occidental College, Los
Angeles.
-2004b: “The Paradox of Galicia: A
Cultural Crossroads at the Edge of Europe, ” Center for Galician Studies/Medieval
Studies Program, University of California, Santa Barbara.
-2000: “The
Architecture of Cistercian Nunneries in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century
Spain,” Lecture Series, Department of Humanities and American Studies,
University of
South Florida.
-1997: “Local and Itinerant Craftsmen in
Romanesque Galicia,” Archaeological Institute of America, Tampa Bay
Chapter.
-1996: “Medieval Spain: a Multicultural Society?”
Lecture Series, Dept. of Humanities and American Studies,
University of South Florida.
-1994: “Parishes and Parish Churches in Medieval
Galicia: the Formation of Rural Communities,” Lecture series, Dept. of
Humanities and American Studies, University of South Florida.
-1993a: “Galicia: Crossroads of Cultures,”
Hispanic Heritage Month, University of South Florida, Tampa.
-1993b: “The Romanesque Churches of Galicia
(Spain),” Archaeological Institute of America, Tampa Bay Chapter.
-1992a: “Galicia: Crossroads of Cultures,”
Cultural Diversity Week, University of South Florida, Tampa.
-1992b: “The Romanesque Churches of Galicia: the
Making of a Provincial Art,” Humanities Dept. Lecture Series,
University
of South Florida, Tampa (repeated at the University of South Florida,
St.
Petersburg).
-1983: “The Cathedrals of Avila and Lugo and the
Problem of the Transition in Spain,” Courtauld Institute,
Work-in-Progress
Seminar.
-1982: “Romanesque Churches in the Diocese of
Lugo: Cistercians, Military Orders and Private Patrons,” Courtauld
Institute, Work-in-Progress Seminar.
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
University
of South
Florida: Department committees and student advising
-Undergraduate advisor, 2000-03
-Library Representative, 1991-2003, 2005-2006
-Executive Committee, 1994-95 (chair), 1997-98, 2000-01
(chair), 2001-02, 2005-07 (chair), 2008-09 (chair)
-Search Committees, 1992-93, 1997-98 (chair), 2000-01
-Curriculum Committee, 1989-90, 1991-92, 1996-97 (chair)
-Scholarship Committee, 1996-97
-Governance Committee, 1993-94
-Faculty Advisor, Humanities Society, 1989-90, 1993-94
-Senior Seminar Committee, 1989-90
<>University
of South
Florida: College of Arts and Sciences committees
-Computing Committee, representative from Humanities/American
Studies, 2008-
-Graduate Committee, reviewer of proposals for Graduate Research
Symposium, 2006
-Library Committee, chair 1994-96
University
of South
Florida: university committees
-Library Council, 1994-97
-Admissions Committee, 1991-98, chair 1994, 1997-98
-Instructional Services Council, 1989-95
Reed
College
-Faculty Secretary, 1985-86
-Rotational service on the syllabus, paper topics and
final examination committees of the freshman Humanities course, 1984-86
-Educational Policies Committee, student member, 1976-77
LANGUAGES
Spanish:
near fluency
French, Latin, Italian, German, Galician, Catalan,
Portuguese, Ancient Greek: good reading knowledge for research
Revised July 22, 2008