BA, Minnesota, MA, PhD, Cornell

The research focus of the School allows us to offer expertise in a wide range of interdisciplinary fields, including Western & non-Western art history & fine art practice.

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Research Interests

My research centres on early medieval art, especially Anglo-Saxon art, with a particular focus on questions of voice, gender, identity, nationalism and the postcolonial Middle Ages. I am also concerned with questions of the display, interpretation and preservation of tangible and intangible heritage and the impact these have on the formation of cultures and disciplines.

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Teaching Interests

My teaching focuses on Anglo-Saxon art, on manuscripts, gender, and issues of voice, identity and the postcolonial at both UG and MA levels.

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Key Publications

Books

The Art of Anglo Saxon England. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2011.

The Ruler Portraits of Anglo-Saxon England. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2004.

Text and Picture in Anglo-Saxon England: Narrative Strategies in the Junius 11 Manuscript. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Edited Books

Conversion and Colonization in Anglo-Saxon England. Edited with Nicholas Howe. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2006.

Anglo-Saxon Styles. Edited with George H. Brown. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003.

Theorizing Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture. Edited with Fred Orton. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2003.

Chapters and Articles

'Pictured in the Heart: the Ediths and the Church at Wilton.' (Inter)Texts: Studies in Early Insular Culture Presented to Paul E. Szarmach, ed. Virginia Blanton and Helene Scheck. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Texts, 2008.

'The Frontispiece to the New Minster Charter and the King's Two Bodies.' Edgar King of the English 959–975, ed. Donald Scragg. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2008, 224–41.

'Text and Image in the Red Book of Darley.' Text, Image and Interpretation: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Literature in Honour of Éamonn Ó Carragáin, ed. Alistair Minnis and Jane Roberts, Brepols, 2007, 135–48.

'Evangelist Portraits and Book Production in Late Anglo-Saxon England.' Cambridge Illuminations, ed. Stella Panayotova. London: Harvey Miller, 2007, 55–63.

'Writing and Having Written: Word and Image in the Eadwig Gospels.' Writing and Texts in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. Alexander R. Rumble. Manchester and Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2006, 44–61.

'Text as Image in Ælfwine’s Prayerbook.' Anglo-Saxon Texts and Their Transmission: Essays in Honor of Donald G. Scragg, ed. Hugh Magennis and Jonathan Wilcox. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2006, pp. 95–114.

'Gendering the Battle? Male and Female in the Bayeux Tapestry.' Harold II and the Bayeux Tapestry, ed. Gale Owen-Crocker and David Hill. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2005, 139–147.

'The Body of St. Æthelthryth: Desire, Conversion and Reform in Anglo-Saxon England.' The Cross Goes North, ed. Martin Carver. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2003, pp. 397–411.

'Naming and Renaming: The Inscription of Gender in Anglo-Saxon England.' Theorizing Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, ed. Catherine E. Karkov and Fred Orton. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2003, pp. 31–64.

'Tales of the Ancients: Colonial Werewolves and the Mapping of Postcolonial Ireland.' Postcolonial Moves, ed. Patricia Clare Ingham and Michelle R. Warren. New York: Palgrave, 2003, pp. 93–109.

'Broken Bodies and Singing Tongues: Gender and Voice in the Cambridge Corpus Christi College 23 Psychomachia.' Anglo-Saxon England 30, (2002), pp. 115–36.

'Sheela-na-gigs and Other Unruly Women: Images of Land and Gender in Medieval Ireland.' 'From Ireland Coming...', ed. Colum Hourihane. Princeton: Princeton University Press/Index of Christian Art, 2001, pp. 313–31.

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Current PGRs

Lara Eggleton: 'Re-envisioning the Alhambra: readings of space and form in the palace of the other', submission date 2011

Rahel Kasemaa:'Full page micrographic ornaments found in Ashkenazi (German & French) Bibles between the mid 13th and early 14th century', submission date 2014

Sotaria Kordi: 'Martyrdom and affect in Byzantine art and contemporary media', submission date 2013

William Rose: 'The role of the curator in negotiating dialogical exhibition contexts for film and video art', submission date 2013

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Contact Details

Tel: 44 (0)113 34 35276
Fax: +44 (0)113 34 37226
Email: c.e.karkov@leeds.ac.uk

School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies
Old Mining Building
University of Leeds
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS2 9JT
UK

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