Kathleen Corrigan
 Associate Professor
Ancient Roman, Early Christian & Byzantine
Ph.D., M.A., B.A. University of California, Los Angeles, 1984

kathleen.corrigan@dartmouth.edu
tel: 646-2307
office: 210A Carpenter

Courses Taught at Dartmouth
 Art History 1, Introduction to Art History I
Art History 25, Roman Art
Art History 30, Early Christian Art
Art History 31, Byzantine Art
Art History 16.1 Medieval Manuscript Illumination (Spring 2009, with Prof. Jane Carroll)


Kathleen Corrigan also teaches seminars and topics courses on medieval manuscript illumination, Mediterranean cities 2nd-6th centuries, and early Byzantine icons.  She also teaches the department's senior seminar on Theory & Method in Art History, and the Art History Foreign Study Program in Rome.

Special Interests

Kathleen Corrigan's research has been primarily in the area of Byzantine manuscript illumination, icons, and image theory.  She is presently working on a project on early Byzantine icons. . She has also worked on spas and water cures, and the relationship between landscape, health, and spirituality.

Selected Publications and Lectures

•Visual Polemics in the Ninth-Century Byzantine Psalters (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992).

•“The Three Hebrews in the Fiery Furnace: an Early Byzantine Icon at Mt. Sinai,” in ΑΝΑΘΕΜΑΤΑ ΕΟΡΤΙΚΑ: Early Christian, Byzantine and Armenian Studies in Honor of Thomas F. Mathew, (Mainz, Philipp von Zabern, forthcoming 2009)

•"Iconography" in Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies, ed. R. Cormack, J. Haldon, and E. Jeffries (Oxford, Oxford Univ. Press, forthcoming 2008)

•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.

•“The Lure of the Phlegrean Fields,” College Art Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, February 2006

•"Visualizing the Divine: the Sinai Icon of the ‘Ancient of Days,’ 3rd Lavy Colloquium, “Judaism and Christian Art,” Johns Hopkins University, Leonard and Helen Stulman Jewish Studies Program, October 11-12, 2007