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SELECTED ARTICLES

“Iconography and the Loss of Representation.”

In The Lives and Afterlives of Medieval Art, eds. Pamela Patton and Henry D. Schilb. Series: Signa. Papers of the Index of Medieval Art 1 (University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 2021), 127-59.

“Playthings: Ivory on Ivory.”

In Games and Visual Culture in the Middle Ages, eds. Elizabeth Lapina & Vanina Kopp. Series: Ludic Cultures, 1100–1700 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2020), 221-37.

“Phantoms of Emptiness: the Space of the Imaginary in Late Medieval Art.”

Art History 41, no. 5 (2018): 800-37.

 “Matter Matters.”

In Feeling Things: Objects and Emotions through History, eds. Sally Holloway, Sarah Randles, and Stephanie Downes, Series: Emotions in History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), 27-42.

“Inciting Despair.”

In Emotions, Communities, and Difference in Medieval Europe, eds. Maureen Miller and Edward Wheatley (London: Routledge, 2017), 121-54.

“Rocks of Jerusalem:  Bringing the Holy Land Home” (with Asa Simon Mittman)

In Natural Materials of the Holy Land and the Visual Translation of Place, 500-1500, eds. Renana Bartal, Neta Bodner and Bianca Kühnel (London: Routledge, 2017), 157-71.

“Wandering Wounds: the Urban Body in Imitatio Christi.”

In “His brest tobrosten”: Wounds and Wound Repair in Medieval Culture, eds. Kelly DeVries and Larissa Tracy, 340-65. Leiden: Brill, 2015.

“Si grant ardor: Transgression and Transformation in the Pühavaimu Altarpiece.”

Different Visions: A Journal of New Perspectives on Medieval Art, special issue: Visualizing Female Sexuality in Medieval Cultures, eds. Sherry Lindquist and Mati Meyer, v. 5 (2014): 1-30

“Multiple Impressions: Christ in the Wine Press and the Semiotics of the Printed Image.”

Art History 36, no. 2 (2013): 310-37.

“Image and Performance: An Art Historian at the Crossroads.”

Research on Medieval and Renaissance Drama 51, special issue: “Opportunities in Medieval and Renaissance Drama,” eds. Mario Longtin and Jill Stevenson (2013): 5-13.

“Image as Word: Visual Openings, Ocular Readings.”

Studies in Iconography 32 (2011): 51-80

“The Facial Gesture: (Mis)Reading Emotion in Later Medieval Art.”

Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures 36, no. 1 (2010): 28-46.

“Pleyinge and Peyntinge: Performing the Dance of Death.”

Studies in Iconography 27 (2006): 1-43.

“The Dance of Death in Reval (Tallinn): the Preacher and his Audience.”

Gesta 42, no. 2 (2003): 143-159.

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