Aden Kumler

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Aden Kumler (* 1974 in Cambridge (Massachusetts) ) is Professor of Early Art History at the University of Basel .

Life

Kumler received her bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago and a master's degree from the Center for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto . He then did his doctorate in the Department of Art and Architecture at Harvard and received a licentiate from the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto.

From 2004 to 2007 she was funded by a David E. Finley Pre-doctoral Fellowship at the National Gallery of Art and then by an Andrew W. Mellon Post-doctoral Fellowship at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies . From 2014 to 2015 she was a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and from 2012 to 2013 a Fellow of the Voluntary Academic Society at the EIKONES research project at the University of Basel. From 2015 to 2018 Kumler was Councilor of the Medieval Academy of America and from 2017 to 2020 she is an Advisory Board member at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts .

From 2007 Kumler was Assistant Professor and since 2013 Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago . Kumler has been Professor of Early Art History at the University of Basel since 2020 .

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • Translating Truth: Ambitious Images and Religious Knowledge in Late Medieval France and England . Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, United States 2011.

items

  • "Seeing the worldly with a moral eye: Illuminated observation as introspection in the later Middle Ages," in Science, Ethics, and the Transformations of Art in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, Herbert Kessler & Richard Newhauser, eds. (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Press: 2018): 47–63.
  • "Signatis ... vultus tui: (re) impressing the Veronica in the Middle Ages," Convivium, Supplementum 2 (2018): 102-113.
  • "Handling the letter," in St. Albans and the Markyate Psalter: Seeing and Reading in 12th Century England, Kristen Collins & Matthew Fisher, eds., Studies in Iconography: Themes and Variations, 2 (Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2017): 69-100
  • "The Genealogy of Jean le Blanc: Accounting for the Materiality of the Medieval Eucharist," in The Matter of Art: Materials, Technologies, Meanings, c. 1250-1650, Christy Anderson, Anne Dunlop, and Pamela Smith, eds (Manchester University Press, 2014): 119-140.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Predoctoral Dissertation Fellows, 1965 -. National Gallery of Art, accessed February 21, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Aden Kumler, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Art History, University of Chicago. Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, accessed on February 22, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Aden Kumler, Associate Professor of Art History. Department of Art History, University of Chicago, accessed February 22, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Curriculum Vitae Aden Kumler, University of Chicago, History of Art. Academia.edu , accessed February 22, 2019 .
  5. ↑ New professor for older art history | Details | Art history. Retrieved June 26, 2020 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Kumler, Aden
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American art historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Cambridge, Massachusetts