Education

B.A. Smith College; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Columbia University

Area of Specialization

Italian Renaissance

Courses Taught

Introduction to the History of Art (AHLU 1100); Renaissance Centers (AHLU 2430); Michelangelo

Biography

Maria Ruvoldt joined the faculty at Fordham in Fall 2007. She is a specialist in Italian Renaissance art. Maria previously taught at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum Master's Program in the History of Decorative Art, and at the Bard Graduate Center. She was also a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania.

Selected Publications

• The Italian Renaissance Imagery of Inspiration: Metaphors of Sex, Sleep, and Dreams (Cambridge University Press, 2004).
• "Michelangelo's Dream." Art Bulletin 85 (2003): 86-113.
• "Sacred to Secular, East to West: The Renaissance Studiolo and Strategies of Display" Renaissance Studies 20 (2006): 640-657.
• "Responding to the Renaissance," in Renaissance Theory, ed. James Elkins and Robert Williams (London: Routledge, forthcoming 2008).
• "Decorative Arts in Italy 1400-1600," in A History of the Decorative and Applied Arts and Design, 1400-2000, ed. Susan Weber Soros and Pat Kirkham (New Haven: Yale University Press, forthcoming 2009).