Current Trends in Medieval Art History
Aden Kumler
Thursday 13 September, 2012
5:30pm, $0/Rsvp
Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th Street
Aden Kumler is Assistant Professor of Art History and affiliate faculty in the Department of Romance Languages & Literatures, the Center for Gender Studies, and the Medieval Studies Program at the University of Chicago. She received her B.A. with Honors in Humanities from the University of Chicago and her M.A. in Medieval Studies from the University of Toronto. In 2007, she received a Ph.D. in the History of Art and Architecture from Harvard University and has since completed a License in Mediaeval Studies from the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. Dr. Kumler has been the recipient of several prestigious fellowships, including a Mellon postdoctoral fellowship at the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies and a David E. Finley fellowship at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts (CASVA) at the National Gallery of Art. In addition, her book, Translating Truth: Ambitious Images and Religious Knowledge in Late Medieval France and England (Yale University Press, 2011), was awarded a Medieval Academy of America Book Subvention and shortlisted for the ACE/Mercer's International Book Award.