Martha Easton
Lecturer, History of Art
Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Telephone: 610-526-6580
Email: measton@brynmawr.edu
Thomas Hall - Room 231
Office hours: by appointment only
Martha Easton's research interests include medieval illuminated manuscripts,
gender and hagiography, the history of collecting medieval art, and feminist
theory. She is presently at work on a publication examining both medieval
artistic representations and textual accounts of women who cross dress as
men for various spiritual and social ends. In addition, she is working on
a project based on her dissertation dealing with representations of the tortures
of male and female martyrs and the complicated meanings these images had for
late medieval society.
At Bryn Mawr she teaches "Women, Feminism, and the History of Art," "Introduction
to Western Medieval Art," "Gender Issues in the Art of the Later
Middle Ages," "History of Illuminated Manuscripts," "The
Cult of Saints and Medieval Art," "Late Gothic Painting in Northern
Europe," "Gothic Manuscripts," and "Women in Medieval
Art." In the fall of 2004 she will offer "Topics in Japanese Art," another
interest cultivated during the six years she lived and worked in Japan.
Recent and forthcoming publications include:
"Transforming and Transcending Gender in the Lives of Female Saints," The
Four Modes of Seeing: Approaches to Medieval Art, eds. Elizabeth Pastan,
Ellen M. Shortell, Evelyn Staudinger Lane, Ashgate Press, forthcoming in
early 2006.
"The Wound of Christ, the Mouth of Hell: Appropriations and Inversions
of Female Anatomy in the Later Middle Ages," in Illuminations: Medieval
and Renaissance Studies for Jonathan J.G. Alexander, eds. Gerald B. Guest,
Erik Inglis, Susan L'Engle, Harvey Miller/Brepols, in press.
"Pain, Torture and Death in the Huntington Library Legenda Aurea," in
Gender and Holiness: Men Women, and Saints in Late Medieval Europe,
eds. Samantha Riches and Sarah Salih (London and New York, Routledge, 2002),
pp. 49-64.
"Gender Issues in the Art of the Middle Ages," Medieval Feminist Newsletter,
No. 25, Spring 1998, pp. 46-49.
"
Saint Agatha and the Sanctification of Sexual Violence," Studies in
Iconography, Volume 16, 1994, pp. 83-118. |
