Education

Ph.D. Northwestern University, 2002; M.A. University of Texas at Austin, 1994; B.A. Oberlin College, 1990

Area of Specialization

Medieval Art, Nineteenth-Century Medievalism

Courses Taught

AHRU 1100 Introduction to Art History (Artists, Patrons and Viewers in Context)
AHRU 2320 Medieval Art (The Power of the Image in the Middle Ages)
AHRU 3350 The Age of Cathedrals
HPRU 1051 Medieval Art and Literature (Encountering the Image in the Middle Ages) [with Katherine Little, Dept. of English]
MVGA 5070 Manuscript Culture (Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts: History and Historiography)

Biography

Nina Rowe specializes in the art of northern Europe in the high Middle Ages (12th-14th century). Her work has examined Christian representations of Jews and Judaism in contexts ranging from monumental cathedral façade sculpture to miniature hand-held carved ivories. She is also interested the production and reception of illuminated manuscripts in both the medieval and the modern eras.

Selected Publications

• “Synagoga Tumbles, a Rider Triumphs: Clericals Viewers and the Fürstenportal of Bamberg Cathedral,” Gesta (2006).
• “Idealization and Subjection at the South Porch of Strasbourg Cathedral,” in Beyond the Yellow Badge: Anti-Judaism, Antisemitism and European Visual Culture before 1800, ed. Mitchell Merback (Leiden: Brill, 2006).
• Excavating the Medieval Image: Manuscripts, Artists, Audiences – Essays in Honor of Sandra Hindman (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Press, 2004). Co-Editor with David Areford.
• Manuscript Illumination in the Modern Age: Recovery and Reconstruction (Evanston, IL: Block Museum of Art, 2001; distributed by Oak Knoll Press). Co-Author with Sandra Hindman, Michael Camille and Rowan Watson; Co-Editor with Sandra Hindman.