Assistant Professor of Art History, Associate Director for the Madison Art Collection and Lisanby Museum
Year Started at JMU: 2021
Education
- Ph.D. (Art History), University of Cambridge
- M.A. (Art History), Courtauld Institute of Art
- B.A. (Art History), University of Cambridge
Areas of Expertise
- Medieval Mediterranean art and architecture;
- Southern Italy and the ‘Questione Meridionale;’
- Art and Identity;
- Gender and Sexuality Studies.
Scholarship
- ‘Innovation and archaisms in Raimondo del Balzo Orsini’s Santa Caterina in Galatina (c.1385-1391)’, Arte Medievale, IV/XII (2022), 155-174.
- ‘From Provence to Calabria: Filippo Sangineto and Simone Martini’s St Ladislas,’ Convivium, IX/2 (2022), 82-101.
- ‘Icon, Souvenir, Contact Relic: the Metropolitan Museum’s Virgin Eleousa Micromosaic Icon,’ Metropolitan Museum Journal, 56 (2021), 113-131.
- ‘Interrogating remains, destroying the past: art history and heritage conservation in southern Italy’, Immediations: the Courtauld Institute of Art Journal of Postgraduate Research, 18 (2021), available online.
Bio
Dr Harvey is Associate Director of the Madison Art Collection and Assistant Professor in Art History. She read art history at the University of Cambridge before focusing on the arts of the medieval Mediterranean at the Courtauld Institute of Art. She completed her Cambridge PhD in 2019, with a thesis entitled ‘Santa Caterina at Galatina: Late Medieval Art in Salento at the frontier of the Latin and Orthodox Worlds.’ Before joining JMU, Dr Harvey taught in the Department of History of Art at the University of Cambridge as an Affiliated Lecturer (2019-2020). She was awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, in 2018-19 and held a Rome Fellowship at the British School at Rome in 2020-21.
Dr Harvey’s research focuses on the relationship between visual culture and the religiously, linguistically, and ethnically diverse population of southern Italy in the late medieval period. Her book project, on the church of Santa Caterina (Galatina, Lecce), explores ways to centre the histories and experiences of communities who neither commissioned nor are represented in the art of the period. It argues that the encounter with the ‘art of another’ (in this case commissioned by local signori) was an important engine of identity-construction, with the further result that the diversity of audiences functionally produced (and produce) new Sante Caterine (plural).
While continuing to work on Santa Caterina, Dr Harvey has also explored the web of interrelated references that gave meaning to and authenticated a Byzantine micromosaic icon of the Virgin Eleousa in 15th-century Italy and argued that Simone Martini’s panel of St Ladislas was once part of a five-panelled polyptych for the church of Santa Maria della Consolazione, Calabria. She is interested in the relationship between art history as a discipline and the subaltern position of southern Italy vis-à-vis the Italian nation, which she has written about for immediations. She is currently working on a project on art histories’ peripheries, hapaxes, and iconography with Dr Sarah Kozlowski (UT-Dallas; La Capraia).
Classes
- ARTH409: Decolonise the Madison Art Collection
- ARTH426: sex.power.god.: global histories of art and desire
- ARTH427: Saints, sinners, and queens: medieval women in art, architecture, and Manuscript illuminations
- ARTH495: Internship at the Madison Art Collection
- Study Abroad: ‘Where Cultures Meet: Religion, Art and Identity in Medieval Sicily.’ With Dr Uy (Assistant Professor of Religion, JMU). Classes offered: ARTH426, ARTH205, HUM300.
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