Jane Carroll

Senior Lecturer
Northern Medieval & Renaissance
Ph.D. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1987
B.A. Smith College

Courses Taught at Dartmouth

Art History 1, Introduction to Art History I
Art History 16.1, Grace and Power: Medieval Manuscript Illumination (with K. Corrigan)
Art History 32, Early Medieval Art
Art History 33, Gothic Art and Architecture
Art History 43, Northern Renaissance Art
Coco 3, Constructing History (with M. Heck)
Coco 9, Imaging Power: Ideology, Authority and Representation in Medieval Europe (with C. Gaposchkin)

Special Interests

Women and the arts in Medieval Germany; the iconography of female piety; manuscripts, ideology and audience; early woodcuts.

Selected Publications

"Subversive Obedience. Images of Spiritual Reform by and for Fifteenth-century Nuns," in Reassessing Women's Roles as "Makers" of Medieval Art and Architecture, ed. Therese Martin (Leiden: Brill, planned 2012).

"Woven Devotions: Reform and Piety in the Tapestries Done by Dominican Nuns," in Saints, Sinners and Sisters, ed. with Alison Stewart Ashgate, (2003).

"Portraiture as Identity/Identity as Portraiture," in Proceedings of the Groningen University Medieval Symposium (2002).