School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies

Lecturer

Eva Frojmovic

MA Munich, PhD Munich

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Research Interests

My interests relate principally to questioning and widening the western canon. I research medieval manuscript illumination, Jewish art, and cross-cultural encounters.

I also have an interest in Jewish museums as touchstones of cultural diversity in museology.

I continue my earlier interest in Italian art of the age of Giotto and Dante.

I have been groping my way towards various non-iconographic approaches to the study of medieval art; at present, I am exploring the uses of postcolonial theories (supported by an AHRC research network grant, "Postcolonising the Medieval Image").

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Teaching Interests

At present, I teach courses on the basics of medieval art - I am particularly interested in the relationships between cult images (icons, reliquaries...) and visual narrative. I teach various postcolonial approaches to medieval art, as part of a course called Imagining Others. I teach some more of it in final year and MA courses (Sins, Sinisters and Sciapods: The Margins of Medieval Art). I have recently started teaching Islamic art, especially with a view on the various meeting points between "East" and "West" (Levant, Sicily/Maghreb, Andalusia). I also teach a course on the darker side of the Renaissance, in which we explore the formation of ghettoes as an integral part of Renaissance urbanism.

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I am willing to supervise PhDs on the following topics:

Jewish art, illuminated manuscripts, Medievalism and global renaissance, Postcolonial approaches to medieval art

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Key Publications

'Jewish Scribes and Christian Illuminators: Interstitial Encounters and Cultural Negotiation', in Between Judaism and Christianity Art Historical Essays in Honor of Elisheva (Elisabeth) Revel-Neher, edited by Katrin Kogman-Appel and Mati Meyer, Leiden: Brill 2009, pp. 281-305 http://www.brill.nl/product_id30175.htm

'Ashkenazi Prayerbooks and their Christian Illuminators', in Crossing Borders: Hebrew Manuscripts as a Meeting-place of Cultures, edited by S. Arndt and P. van Boxel, Oxford: Bodleian Library 2009 http://www.bodleianbookshop.co.uk/display.asp?K=9781851243136&aub=Sabine+Arndt&m=1&dc=1

'Giotto's Circumspection', The Art Bulletin, Vol. 89, 2007, pp. 195-210

Imagining the Self, Imagining the Other: Visual Representation and Jewish-Christian Dynamics in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period, Leiden: Brill 2002 http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=227&pid=10425

Series Editor, Visualising the Middle Ages: http://www.brill.nl/vma

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Current PGRs

Rachel Dickson: 'Jacob Kramer and Michael Sadler', submission date 2013

Rahel Kasemaa: 'Micrographic Hebrew Bibles', submission date 2016

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Contact Details

Tel: +44 (0)113 34 35197
Fax: +44 (0)113 34 37226
Email: e.frojmovic@leeds.ac.uk

http://post-col-med.leeds.ac.uk/wordpress
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/icps/

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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