Lecturer

Eva Frojmovic

MA Munich, PhD Munich

Publications and Papers, Research Profile

After studying in Jerusalem and Munich, Eva Frojmovic obtained a Ph.D. in art history from Munich University. She has been a Max Planck Research Fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome and Frances Yates Fellow at the Warburg Institute in London, before taking up a post as Montague Burton Fellow in Jewish Studies at Leeds.

Eva Frojmovic is the founding director of the Centre for Jewish Studies, and a co-deputy director of CentreCATH (AHRC Transdisciplinary Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History), at the University of Leeds. She has taught on the MA in Jewish Cultures and Modernity. Her main teaching interests lie in Medieval and Renaissance history of art and in postcolonial studies in the visual. She is a member of the programming committee of the International Medieval Congress. Her main research interest is in the area of Hebrew manuscript illumination/book illustration and the visual representation of Jews in medieval and early modern culture. She also has a research and supervision interest in all aspects of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, especially when related to theoretical questions related to postcolonial thought and feminism

Research Project in Progress

Masks and Monsters: strategies of difference in medieval Jewish art. A pilot stage of the project was funded by a British Academy Small Research Grant, and the main project has been supported by a Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust.

Publications

"From Naples to Istanbul: the woodcuts in the earliest illustrated printed Haggadah," The Library, 18, 1996, pp. 87-109
Giotto's Allegories of Justice and the Commune in the Palazzo della Ragione in Padua: a Reconstruction, "Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes", LIX, 1996, pp. 24-47
Hebraica and Judaica from the Cecil Roth Collection, Leeds, Brotherton Library, 1997
The Perfect Scribe and an Early Illustrated Esther Scroll, "British Library Journal", Autumn 1997
”Illustrated Circumcision Liturgies,” in: A. Weber ed., Mappot: Blessed He who comes, Osnabrueck 1998
Editor, Imagining the Self, Imagining the Other: Visual Representation and Jewish-Christian Dynamics in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period, Leiden: Brill, 2002
“Travelling to the Circumcision: Early Modern Representations”, in: Circumcision: New Perspectives on an Ancient Rite, edited by R. Wasserfall and E. Mark, Hanover/London: Brandeis University Press/ University Press of New England, 2003
“Gendered Representations of the Circumcision between Family and Community”, in: Framing the Family: Representation and Narrative in the Medieval and Early Modern Period, ed. R. Voaden and D. Wolfthal, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 2005.

Curatorial Work

Hebraica and Judaica from the Cecil Roth Collection, an exhibition at the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds, 1997 (jointly with Frank Felsenstein)

Conference Organisation

Portrait of the Artist as a Jewish Woman, international conference University of Leeds 1997

The Tortoise and the Hare: Modern British Painting in London and Leeds (in collaboration with the Ben Uri Gallery; to accompany the exhibition The Tortoise and the Hare: An Exhibition of the works by William Roberts and Jacob Kramer), University of Leeds 2003

Tel

+44 (0)113 34 35197

Fax

+44 (0)113 34 37226

Email

e.frojmovic@leeds.ac.uk

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