Kathleen Corrigan
Associate Professor
Ancient Roman, Early Christian & Byzantine
Ph.D., M.A., B.A. University of California, Los Angeles, 1984
e: kathleen.corrigan@dartmouth.edu
tel: 646-2307
office: 210A Carpenter
Art History 1, Introduction to Art History I
Art History 25, Roman Art
Art History 30, Early Christian Art
Art History 31, Byzantine Art
CoCo 1, Constructing Rome (with K. Jewell)
Kathleen Corrigan also teaches seminars and topics courses on medieval manuscript illumination and Mediterranean cities, 2nd-6th centuries. She also regularly teaches the department's senior seminar on Theory & Method in Art History.
Special Interests
Kathleen Corrigan's research has been primarily in the area of Byzantine manuscript illumination and icons. She is currently working on spas and water cures and their landscape settings. At the most recent CAA she delivered a paper on the Phlegrean Fields, the volcanic area in the Bay of Naples.
Selected Publications
• Visual Polemics in the Ninth-Century Byzantine Psalters (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992).
• Text on the Early Christian and Byzantine period for the documentary The Face: Jesus in Art, for Department of Communications, U.S. Catholic Conference (Educational Broadcasting Corp. 2001).
• "Constantine's Problems: The Making of the Heavenly Ladder of John Climacus, Vatican gr. 394," Word & Image 12 (1996), 61–93.
• "Text and Image on an Icon of the Crucifixion at Mt. Sinai," in The Sacred Image: East and West, ed. R. Ousterhout and L. Brubaker (Champaign, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1995), 45–62.