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CURRICULUM VITAE

Personal data:

Dr. phil. Beate Fricke

✉ Art History

416 Doe Library

University of California, Berkeley

CA 94720 Berkeley

U.S:A.

@ fricke@berkeley.edu

☎ 001-510-6430523

Academic Qualification:

1999-2004 doctoral dissertation “Götzendienst, Gabentausch und Bildkultur in Anbetracht

der Statue der hl. Fides von Conques. Überlegungen zu einer Genealogie der

Skulptur – Idolatry, gift exchange and image culture. The Statue of Sainte Foy

at Conques and the Revival of Sculpture in Christian Art” (summa cum laude)

1999 University of Karlsruhe: Magister Artium

1994 Enrollment Art History, German Literature and Philosophy at the Universities

of Karlsruhe, Heidelberg (Germany) and Basel (Switzerland)

1993 Mönchsee-Gymnasium, High-school diploma (Abitur)

Work Experience:

2012 Visiting professor, Department of History of Art, LMU Munich, Germany

2010 Visiting professor at the ECNU, Shanghai, China

2009 – Assistant professor (tenure track) at the University of California, Berkeley

2004 – 2008 Teaching and research assistant (wissenschatliche Assistentin) at the

University of Zurich, Switzerland

2004 Lecturer at the John Cabot University, Rome

2001 – 2002 Pre-doctoral research scholar at the University of Trier, Germany, member

of the project: “The Concept of Jerusalem in European Medieval Culture”, in

collaboration with the Hebrew University Jerusalem), University of Trier

1999 – 2000 Pre-doctoral research assistant at the University of Trier, Germany

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Awards and Grants:

2012 Hellman Family Faculty Fund Award for Assistant professors

2012 Visiting professor at the Department for History of Art, LMU, Munich

2012 Samuel H. Kress Travel Grant

2011 – 2012 Academic guest, Center for the History of Knowledge (ZGW), ETH

Zurich/University of Zurich

2011 – 2012 Post-doctoral research scholar, Swiss National Research Foundation (SNF),

Switzerland (130K)

2010 ICMA Travel Grant

2010 Strategic Working Group "Inflections. Inquiry of the Moments of Radical

Transformation" together with Prof. Dr. Alexei Yurchak (Anthropology),

Townsend Center for the Humanties (teaching load reductions for 7 faculty

members)

2008 – 2009 Post-doctoral research scholar, Swiss National Research Foundation (SNF),

Switzerland (130K)

2006 “Förderpreis Kunstwissenschaft 2006”, donated by the Alfred Richterich

Foundation/Verein der Kunsthistorikerinnen und Kunsthistoriker der Schweiz

(VKKS)

2004 Pre-doctoral research scholar of the Graduiertenkolleg “Bild – Körper –

Medium. Eine anthropologische Perspektive” lead by Beat Wyss and Hans

Belting, Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe

2002 - 2003 Pre-doctoral research scholar of the Gerda-Henkel-Stiftung, Germany

2001 – 2002 Summer Institute in the Humanities Seminar, Venice International

University/Delmas Foundation, 700 – 1450: The Private and the Public in

Venice: Absorption, Integration and Reinvention

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Publications:

MONOGRAPHS

1. Ecce fides. Die Statue in Conques, Götzendienst und Bildkultur im Westen, Paderborn 2007 (=

Diss. Universität Trier 2005) Selectd reviews by:

Bruno Reudenbach, in: Sehepunkte 8 (2008), Nr. 10 und Kunstform, 9.2008,10, http://www.arthistoricum.net/index.php?id=276&ausgabe=2008_10&review_id=13672 Sabine Sander in: Theaterforschung 2008, http://www.theaterforschung.de/rezension.php4?ID=443

Carsten Juwig in: ArtHist / Rezensionen, 2008,10/06,

http://www.arthist.net/download/book/2008/081006Juwig.pdf

International Review of Biblical Studies, 54 (2007/2008), p. 480

Peter Hoffmann, in: Theologie und Philosophie 83/4 (2008), p. 617

Nicolas Bock, Reliques et reliquaires, entre matérialité et culture visuelle, in: Perspective 2 (2010/11), pp. 361-69

in preparation:

Fallen Idols, Risen saints. Relics, Image Culture and the Revival of Monumental Sculpture in

Medieval Art (translation of (1)), Turnhout: Brepols, 2014

under review:

Beautiful Genesis. Creation, Procreation and Mimesis in Late Medieval Art (compl. manuscript)

EDITOR OF A COLLECTION OF ARTICLES

together with Markus Klammer and Stefan Neuner: Bilder und Gemeinschaften. Studien zur

Konvergenz von Politik und Ästhetik in Kunst, Literatur und Theorie, München/Paderborn: Fink

2011 (= Eikones)

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS:

Jesus Wept! On the History of Anthropophagy in Christianity. A new reading of a miniature in the

Gospel book of Otto III, in: Res. Journal of Anthropology and Aesthetics 59/60 (2011), pp.

192-205

Zur Genealogie von Blutspuren. Blut als Metapher der Transformation auf dem

Feldbacher Altar (ca. 1450), in: L'Homme. Europäische Zeitschrift für Feministische

Geschichtswissenschaft, 21, 2 (2010), pp. 11-32 (volume on Das Blut, die Milch, der Samen

und die DNA, ed. by Caroline Arni and Edith Saurer)

Fingerzeig und Augenblick. Galileo Galileis Finger zwischen Fetisch und Tabu, in: Kommentieren,

ed. by Philip Arjouri, Jost Philipp Klenner und Cornelia Vismann, Zeitschrift für

Ideengeschichte III (2009), pp. 80-94

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(accepted for publication)

Der Schmerzensmann von Albrecht Dürer. Blutspuren an der Grenze zwischen Leben und Tod im

15. Jahrhundert, in: Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte (2013)

Illuminating origins, representing effect. Tracing lines between natural and artificial life in Late

Medieval painting, in: Images at Work, ed. by Hannah Baader, Ittai Weinryb and Gerhard

W86th Journal (2013)

A liquid history. Blood and animation in late medieval art, in: Wet/Dry, ed. by

Francesco Pellizi and Christopher S. Wood, Res. Journal of Anthropology and Aesthetics

(2013)

Mother of pearl. Matter, meaning and the origins of allegory in spheres of things, in: GESTA (2012),

volume on Res et significatio: The Material Sense of Things in the Middle Ages, ed. by Aden

Kumler and Christopher Lakey

BOOKCHAPTERS AND ARTICLES IN COLLECTIONS:

Kommentare als Archiv. Relektüren der Genesis von Lucas Cranach und Martin Luther, in:

Gewalt der Archive, hg. von Burkhart Wolf und Thomas Weitin, Konstanz University Press

2012, pp. 315-344

Tracce di sangue e ‚finis corporis’. Intorno alla genesi della vita nel Quattrocento. Riflessioni

sull’uomo di dolori di Albrecht Dürer situato a Karlsruhe, in: Estremità e escrescenze del corpo.

Extremities and Excrescences of the Body, ed. by Agostino Paravicini-Bagliani, Micrologus 19

(2012), pp. 357-380

Reliquien und Reproduktion. Zur Präsentation der Passionsreliquien aus der Sainte-Chapelle

(Paris) im Reliquiario del Libretto um 1500 (Florenz), in: Reproduktion, Techniken und Ideen

von der Antike bis heute. Eine Einführung, ed. by Jörg Probst, Berlin 2011, pp. 34-55

Zeugen und Bezeugen. Vom Anfangen, Blicken und Enden. Zu Lot und seine Töchter von Joachim

Patinir, in: Zeugnis und Zeugenschaft. Perspektiven aus der Vormodernehg. von Heike Schlie

und Wolfgang Drews, München/Paderborn 2011, pp. 271-297

Absenz und Präsenz oder die Spur der Ameisen bei Joan Rosató. Überlegungen zum Beitrag

von Paulus zur Genese christlicher Bildkultur, in: Bilder und Gemeinschaften, hg. von

Beate Fricke, Markus Klammer und Stefan Neuner, Paderborn 2011, pp. 43-77

„Artificium divinum und cultus imaginum – Dürers Schmerzensmann und die Geschichte eines

Arguments von Johannes Damaszenus“, in: „Intellektualisierung und Mystifizierung

mittelalterlicher Kunst : "Kultbild": Revision eines Begriffs“, hg. von Rebecca Müller und

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Martin Büchsel, Berlin 2010, pp. 183-206

Schatzgestalten. Diebesgut, Liebespfand und Fesselkünstler am Werk, in: Schatzkulturen im

Mittelalter. Diskurs, Praxis, Vorstellung, hg. von Lucas Burkart, Philippe Cordez, Pierre

Alain Mariaux, in: Micrologus library 17 (2009), pp. 265-282

Schaumgeburten. Zur Topologie der creatio ex nihilo bei Albrecht Dürer und ihre Vorgeschichte, in:

„Medio Mare. Zu einer Ikonologie des Meeres“, hg. von Hannah Baader und Gerhard Wolf,

Zürich 2009, pp. 33-58

„Visages démasqués – un nouveau type de reliquaire chez les Anjou“, in: „Le portrait

individuel. Réflexions autour d’une forme de représentation du XIIIe au XVe siècle, E.H.E.S.S.

Paris, hg. von Dominic Olariu, Bern 2009

zusammen mit Tanja Klemm: „Conceptio – perceptio. Das Weimarer Blatt von Leonardo da Vinci“, in:

Modernisierung des Sehens, hg. von Kai-Uwe Hemken und Matthias Bruhns, Weimar 2008,

pp. 82-99

Spiegelwelten. Verrat und Verschwörung in L'année dernière à Marienbad von Alain Resnais, in:

Topologien der Bilder, hg. von Inge Hinterwaldner, Carsten Juwig, Tanja Klemm und Roland

Meyer, Paderborn 2008, 323-348

Iss von meinem Leib! Zur Geschichte des Vorwurfes der Anthropophagie im Christentum, in: per

imaginem. Bildlichkeit und Souveränität, hg. Von Anne von der Heiden, Zürich: Diaphanes

2006, pp. 59-78

Entlarvende Gesichter – Gedanken zur Genese der Kopfreliquiare in Italien, in: Fragment und

Integrität, hg. von Jeanette Kohl und Rebecca Müller, Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag 2007,

pp. 133-152

Fallen idols and risen saints: Western Attitudes towards the Worship of Images and the ‘Cultura

Veterum Deorum’, in: The Negated Image – Case studies of past iconoclasms, ed. by Anne

McClanan and Jeffrey Johnson, Ashgate 2005, pp. 67-59 (Chinese translation: Jiangsu Fine

Arts Publishing House, PRC, 2009, pp. 93-136)

(accepted for publication)

Maleremail. Ursprung und Funkensprung zwischen syrischem Emailglas und Lasurmalerei, in:

Interdependenzen. Künste und künstlerische Techniken 1430-1550, ed. by Magdalena

Bushart and Henrike Haug, Berlin 2013

Behemoth and double origins in Genesis, in: Synergies. Creating Art in Joined Cultures. Gerhard

Wolf zum 60. Geburtstag, ed. by Manuela de Giorgi, Annette Hoffmann and Nicola

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Suthor, Berlin 2012

REVIEWS

Georges Didi-Huberman: Venus öffnen. Nacktheit, Traum, Grausamkeit, Berlin/Zürich: Diaphanes

2006, transl. by Mona Belkhodja and Marcus Coelen, Paris: Gallimard 1999, in: Historische

Anthropologie 15 (2007), pp. 145-147

Katherine Park: Secrets of Women. Gender, Generation and the Origins of Human Dissection, New

York: Zone Books 2006, in: Historische Anthropologie 16 (2007), pp. 433-435

CATALOGUE-/LEXIKA ENTRIES/DISCUSSIONS

Reliquien, in: Lexikon Kunstwissenschaft. Hundert Grundbegriffe, ed. by Stefan Jordan and Jürgen

Müller, Stuttgart 2011, pp. 287-290

Sainte Foy, in: Encyclopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage, ed. by Rita Tekippe, Brepols 2009

together with: Arno Schubbach, Matteo Burioni, Mladen Gladic, Markus Klammer, Stephane

Montavon, Stefan Neuner und Ralph Ubl, Ästhetische Teilhabe zwischen Politik und Polizei.

Eine Gesprächsrunde über Jacques Rancières Schriften zur Kunsttheorie, in: 31. Das Magazin

des Instituts für Theorie. Nr. 10/11, Dez. 2007: Paradoxien der Partizipation, pp. 9-20

Christus mit der Dornenkrone, Fra Angelico, catalogue entry no. 92 in: Ansichten Christi.

Christusbilder von der Antike bis zum 20. Jahrhundert, ed. by Roland Krischel, Giovanni

Morello and Tobias Nagel, Köln 2005, p. 284.

On the self-portraits from Vvolvinius and Peter Parler, in: Selbstporträt, ed. by Valeska von

Rosen and Ulrich Pfisterer, Leipzig: Reclam 2005

catalogue entries on pictures of Christ in works by Dürer, Pisanello und Fra Angelico, in: Il

Volto de Christo, ed. by G. Morello and G. Wolf, Milano 2000

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Invited Lectures:

15/05/2012 “Zeigen, was vor dem Anfang war – Bilder der Schöpfung im Spätmittelalter”, Department of History, University of Frankfurt, Germany

12/07/2011 “Zeigen, was vor dem Anfang war – Bilder der Schöpfung im Spätmittelalter”, Center for the History of Knowledge, ETH Zurich/University of Zurich, Switzerland

05/03/2010 “Doppelte Anfänge. Der Beitrag von Sapientia zur Schöpfung im Hochmittelalter”, Department of History of Art, University of Zurich, Switzerland

05/05/2009 “Blutspuren an der Grenze zwischen Leben und Tod”, Department of History of Art, Université de Genève, Switzerland

03/25/2009 “Blutspuren an der Grenze zwischen Leben und Tod”, Department of History of Art, University of Vienna, Austria

01/28/2009 “Ein ganz besonderer Stoff. Sanguis und cruor in der Reliquienverehrung” lecture series on Authentizität/Autorität, Center for Medieval Studies, University of Cologn, Germany

02/08/2007 “Schaumgeburten. Zur Geschichte der Genese von Ideen um 1500”, lecture series, Center for the History of Knowledge, ETH Zurich/University of Zurich, Switzerland

01/18/2007 “Reliquiari dell'Alto Medioevo. Immagini, Uso e Liturgia”, Scuola di Specializzazione in Storia dell‘arte, Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy

12/13/2005 “Blutige Zeugen. Verführungen des Auges” lecture series “Wirkung und Wahrnehmung”, Department of History of Art, University of Leipzig, Germany

04/20/2005 “Entlarvende Gesichter. Gedanken zur Genese der Kopfreliquiare in Italien”, Vormoderne-Kolloquium, Department of History, University of Basel, Switzerland

04/13/2005 “Aisthesis in Anbetracht der heiligen Fides von Conques”, Department of History of Art, University of Basel, Switzerland

04/21/2004 “Cranky Lady, playful child, awesome idol or triumphant empress? The exchange of gifts and ‘images’ with Sainte Foy at Conques”, Northwestern University, Chicago

07/12/2003 „Sacer vultus und sacra imago – Sehen, Erblinden und Wahres Schauen angesichts der Hl. Fides von Conques“, lecture series at the University of Münster, Germany

11/11/2002 „Gestürzte Götzen und lebende Heilige – Bildverehrung und die ‘Cultura Veterum Deorum’ im Westen (6-9. Jh.)“, lecture series, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome, Italy

Papers on conferences:

(forthcoming) 09/27-29/2012 “Crafts of blood and shapes of Life”, conference on “Beyond Representation: An

Interdisciplinary Approach to the Nature of Things”, IFA and Bard College, New York, org. by Jas Elsner, Finbarr Barry Flood and Ittai Weinryb (invited lecture)

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04/18-20/2013 “At the treshold”, conference on “Being With ... Affinities—Attachments—Assemblages,” Annual Conference of the IKKM Weimar (Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie) (invited lecture)

(given) 04/21/2012 How sperm became an artist, conference on “Sacred bodily fluids in the Middle

Ages” organized by Julie Luxford and Kathryn Rudy, University of St. Andrews, Edinburgh, Scotland

02/24/2012 Blood matters, Res/Significatio. The Material sense of Things in the Middle Ages, CAA conference, L.A., U.S.A.

12/09/2011 Malermail. Ursprung und Funkensprung, Conference on “Interdependenzen der Künste. Künste und künstlerische Techniken 1430-1550”, organized by Magdalena Bushart, TU Berlin, Germany

11/07/2011 «C´est la copie collacionnee a vray original…» - Nachahmung und Alterität bei der Entstehung des Maleremails, Conference on “Multiples in Pre-Modern Art”, organized by Walter Cupperi and Ulrich Pfisterer, LMU Munich, Germany

03/25/2011 “Bonaguidas Lignum Vitae”, Figura. Dynamiken der Zeichen und Zeiten im Mittelalter, organized by Christian Kiening and Katharina Mertens Fleuy, Deutsches Seminar, University of Zurich, Switzerland

02/25/2011 “…Humanizing What Was Monstrous”? A Remark on the Reception and Aesthetic of the Massacre of Innocents by Nicola and Giovanni Pisano, Beautiful Martyrs: Aesthetics and Violence, organized by Susanna Elm and Christopher Ocker, Graduate Theological Union/UC Berkeley

05/14/2010 “Defining culture by its margins. The ‚massacre of the Innocents’ on the pulpits of Pistoia and Pisa by Giovanni Pisano” panel: “Sculpture and the Medieval City”, organized by Mark Rosen and Ittai Weinryb, 2010 International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo

02/11/2010 “Lust for killing - defining culture by its margins. The ‚massacre of the Innocents’ by Giovanni Pisano and Giusto de Menabuoi” panel: “Innovation, Artistic Agency, and History: Centering the Italian” at the 98th Annual Conference of CAA at Chicago, Illinois

05/28/2009 “Tracce di sangue e 'finis corporis'. Intorno alla genesi della vita nel Quattrocento” Micrologus-conference: “Finis corporis. Eccedenze, protuberanze, estremitá dei corpi”, Lugano (invited lecture)

10/12/2007 “Der eine Leib und die vielen Glieder. Altes Gesetz, fremde Bilder und neue Formen der Gemeinschaftsbildung bei Paulus”, conference on “Netze, Schwärme, Massen. Kollektive ohne Zentrum”, Universität Basel (invited lecture)

06/23/2007 “Artificium divinum und cultus imaginum - Dürers Schmerzensmann und die Geschichte eines Arguments von Johannes Damaszenus”, conference on “Sinn und Un-Sinn des Kultbildes. Die Intellektualisierung und die Mystifizierung mittelalterlicher Kunst”, Universität Frankfurt (invited lecture)

06/01/2007 “Augenzeugenschaft und Evidenz. Blickgefechte für und wider den Schein”, conference on “Ostentation”, org. by Medienwandel – Medienwechsel – Medienwissen. Historische Perspektiven, University of Zurich, Switzerland

01/13/2007 “Artifex ingreditur in artificium suum”, annual conference Jahrestagung der «Zürcher Mediävistik«, University of Zurich, Switzerland

11/25/2006 “Augenzeugenschaft und Evidenz. Blickgefechte für und wider den Schein“, annual

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conference of Brackweder Arbeitskreis, Bremen, Germany 11/16/2006 “Schatzgestalten. Diebesgut, Liebespfand und Fesselkünstler am Werk” conference

on “Schatzkulturen im Mittelalter. Diskurs, Praxis, Vorstellung”, International Conference at the Universities of Basel & Neuchâtel, Switzerland (invited lecture)

09/20/2006 “Triumph der Idole. Cultus imaginum und die ‚Erfindung’ des Kultbildes in der Frühen Neuzeit”, 46. Deutschen Historikertages, Konstanz, Germany

06/17/2006 “Schaumgeburten”, “Medio Mare. Zu einer Ikonologie des Meeres”, Max-Planck-Institute for History of Art (invited lecture)

05/07/2005 “Aisthesis and Exstasy – The Miraculous Image of Ste. Foy at Conques”, 40th International Congress for Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, U.S.A.

12/08/2004 “Entlarvende Gesichter. Gedanken zur Genese der Kopfreliquiare in Italien”, conference on “Fragment und Integrität”, Max-Planck-Institute for History of Art, Florence, Italy (invited lecture)

02/06/2004 “Unmasking the Holy Face and Confronting the Sacred. The Invention of a new Type of Head Reliquary under the Angevins” conference on “Le portrait individuel. Réflexions autour d’une forme de représentation du XIIIe au XVe

siècle”, E.H.E.S.S. Paris, France (invited lecture) 11/23/2003 “Dame excentrique, enfant terrible, idole terrifiant ou impératrice en triomphe ?

Les images de la Sainte-Foy de Conques“, conference on “L’image de la femme au moyen-age“ in Issoire, France

06/30/2002 “Raging horses and the divine doge – Venetian borrowings from imperial representation”, Venice International University, Italy

03/10/2002 “Fides and Idolatry – Western Concepts of the Image and the ‘Cultura Veterum Deorum’” Vagantes – conference, Cambridge, Harvard University

Organization of conferences, panels on conferences and lecture series

spring 2014 “Medieval Art History after the Interdisciplinary Turn”, together with Cecily

Hilsdale panel on “Objects, Agents and Efficacy”, conference committee lead by

Aden Kumler and Danielle Joyner, University of Notre Dame, U.S.A.

3rd-6th march 2013 “Distinct gazes. The invention of the audience”, panel on the conference

“Abrahams Erbe – Konkurrenz, Konflikt, Koexistenz im Mittelalter”, 15.

Symposium des Mediävistenverbandes, Heidelberg, Germany

06/2012 Workshop organized together with Urte Krass, “Die Erfindung des Betrachters

in der Kunst der Antike, der byzantinischen, der islamischen und der

westeuropäischen Kunst des Spätmittelalters”, LMU Munich, Center for

Advanced Studies, Germany

02/2011 Workshop organized together with Susanna Elm and Christopher Ocker,

“Beautiful Martyrs. Aesthetics and Violence”, GTU/UC Berkeley

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2006-2007 Lecture series organized together with Stefan Neuner: “Das Volk, das fehlt?“,

contributions by Susanne Lüdemann, Claudia Blümle, Eva Horn, Oliver

Marchart, Juliane Rebentisch, Albrecht Koschorke, Ralph Ubl, Gesa Ziemer,

Markus Klammer, Stéphane Montavon, Catharina Kahane, Eva Kernbauer,

Bernhard Siegert and Helmut Lethen

2005/2006 Lecture series “Deutungshoheiten“ with contributions by Peter Geimer, Ursula

von Keitz, Valentin Groebner, Hans Belting, Hannah Baader, Anne von der

Heiden and Max Bergengruen

Memberships

(current)

2012 – Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion

2012 - Membership Committee, International Center for Medieval Art

2010 - Science & Technology Studies Center, Berkeley

2009 - Program in Medieval Studies, UC Berkeley

(past)

2011 - 2012 Academic Guest, Center for the History of Knowledge (ZGW), ETH

Zurich/University of Zurich, Switzerland

2007-2009 Gewalt der Archive, DFG-Netzwerk unter der Leitung von Thomas Weitin

und Burkhart Wolf

2003-2007 Graduiertenkolleg „Bild – Körper – Medium. Eine anthropologische

Perspektive“ unter der Leitung von Prof. Dr. Beat Wyss und Prof. Dr. Hans

Belting an der Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe

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Teaching Experience:

2012 (spring) Modifying the Bible in Jewish, Christian and Islamic Art, seminar together with

Prof. Avinoam Shalem, Ludwig Maximilians Universität, Munich, Germany

2010 (fall) HA 200 Proseminar, Methods and History of Art History, Graduate Seminar,

Department of History of Art, University of California, Berkeley

2010 (spring) Cult images, relics and reliquaries. An Introduction to Medieval Art, Upper

division lecture course, Department of History of Art, University of California,

Berkeley

Procreation, alchemy and the divine Artist, Graduate Seminar, Department of

History of Art, University of California, Berkeley

2009 (fall) Beginnings in Medieval Art and Present Theory, Upperdivision seminar,

Department of History of Art, University of California, Berkeley

2009 Verrat im Garten, Proseminar, Department of Art History, University of

Switzerland

Study excursion to Istanbul, together with Prof. Claussen and Prof. Ursprung,

Department of Art History, University of Zurich, Switzerland

2007 – 2008 “Mosaics in Rome”, together with Prof. Claussen, Department of Art History,

University of Zurich, Switzerland

“Dreams and Visions. From Hildegard of Bingen up to Solaris”, together with

Prof. Claussen, Department of Art History, University of Zurich, Switzerland

2007 “Introduction into the study of Art History”, Department of Art History,

University of Zurich, Switzerland

“Painting and book illumination in 15th century: Jan van Eyck, Jean Fouquet,

Barthelmy d’Eyck, together with Prof. Claussen, Department of Art History,

University of Zurich, Switzerland

Art of the Normans and Staufer at South Italy, together with Prof. Claussen,

Department of Art History, University of Zurich, Switzerland

2006 – 2007 “Introduction into the study of Art History”, Department of Art History,

University of Zurich, Switzerland

“Introduction into the iconography of medieval art: Apocalypse, Parousia and

Last Judgement”, together with Prof. Claussen, Department of Art History,

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University of Zurich, Switzerland

“Icon and portrait”, together with Prof. Claussen, Department of Art History,

University of Zurich, Switzerland

2006 “Allegory in Literature and Art” together with Prof. Claussen and Prof. Michel,

Department of German Literature, University of Zurich, Switzerland

“Holbein”, together with Prof. Claussen, Department of Art History,

University of Zurich, Switzerland

2005-2006 “Relics of Christ – The Body of Christ”, together with Dr. Burkart,

Department of History, University of Basel, Switzerland

“Manipulation and Authorship”

Department of History, University of Lucerne, Switzerland

2005 “Relic, reliquary and cult image. Modes of hiding and presenting in the Middle

Ages”, Department of Art History, University of Zurich, Switzerland

2004 – 2005 “Musterbücher” and Villard deHonnecourt, together with Cornelius Claussen,

University of Zurich, Switzerland

2004 “Early Christian and Byzantine Art”, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy

2001 – 2002 “Dream and Vision in Medieval Art”

Department of Art History, University of Trier, Germany

1998 – 1999 “Death - From the Middle Ages until the Twentieth Century in

European History, Philosophy, Art and Literature”,

Department of Philosophy, University of Karlsruhe

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Service 2012 NEH Fellowship Committee

2012 Committee Member for Qualifying Exams (5), chair of Qualifying exams (1)

2010 - Member of the Editorial Board of Representations

2010-11 German Exam

2010 Graduate Advisor (fall)

Second Reader of Honors thesis

Second and Third Reader for Qualifying Papers

Graduate Students

(completed)

Karl Whittington, PhD UC Berkeley, 2008-2010

Current:

Andrew Sears, PhD-candidate UC Berkeley, Department of History of Art, (chair), 2012 –

Alice Goff, PhD-candidate UC Berkeley, History Department, 2010 –

Matthew Culler, PhD candidate UC Berkeley, Department of History of Art, 2010 –

Andrew Griebeler, PhD candidate, UC Berkeley, Department of History of Art, (co-chair), 2010 –

Erik Eschjede, PhD candidate, UC Berkeley, Department of Scandinavian Studies, 2010 –

Sandra Sardjono, PhD candidate, UC Berkeley, Department of History of Art, 2010 –

Yueni Zhong, PhD candidate, UC Berkeley, Department of History of Art, 2009 –

Erin Zion, PhD candidate, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, 2010 –

Heidi Thimann, PhD candidate, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, 2010 –