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1 Department of Art History, Curating and Visual Studies University of Birmingham B15 2TT, UK +44 (0) DR ELIZABETH L ESTRANGE ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS PhD, School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds En/Gendering Representations of Childbirth in 15 th C Franco-Flemish Devotional Manuscripts MA (with distinction) in Medieval Studies Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds BA (Hons) II.i, English Language and Literature (European), School of English University of Leeds (with Erasmus year in Liège, Belgium) PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT Sept Lecturer in History of Art, Department of Art History, Curating and Visual Studies, University of Birmingham April July 2011 Jan April 2011 Oct Nov 2010 Feb Sept 2010 Oct Jan 2007 Feb June 2006 March Feb 2006 Sept June 2003 Boursière, Fondation Darchis (Liège), to conduct personal research in Rome Assistante, English Department and Research and Development, University of Liège Seminar teaching, personal research, and translation Lectrice, English Department, University of Liège Seminar teaching and personal research (maternity cover) Postdoctoral Fellow in Art History, Fonds national de la recherche scientifique University of Liège Lectrice, English Department, University of Liège Seminar teaching, lecturing and personal research English Language Teacher, Institut supérieur des langues vivantes, University of Liège Leverhulme Trust Postdoctoral Fellow, Research into Books of Hours at the University of Liège Postgraduate Teaching Assistant, School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies University of Leeds RESEARCH FUNDING AND PRIZES April 2013 British Academy Neil Ker Memorial Fund award for Anne de Graville s Library ( 1200) Apr-Jul 2011 Grant from the Fondation Darchis for three months research in Rome ( 5100) April 2010 Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship First Book Prize for Holy Motherhood Jan 2007 Post-doctoral Fellowship, FNRS, University of Liège July 2006 Scouloudi Foundation Publication Grant ( 500), IHR, London June 2006 Book Subvention Programme ($2,500), Medieval Academy of America March 2006 Weiss/Brown Publication Subvention ($4,000), Newberry Library, Chicago Leverhulme Trust Postdoctoral Fellow (Study Abroad scheme) Annie Redman-King (MA) and University Research (PhD) Scholarships, University of Leeds 1

2 PUBLICATIONS Current projects Readers, Writers and Reformers: Anne de Graville and the Shaping of Cultural Patronage in Sixteenth-Century France monograph project for submission to Boydell and Brewer s Gallica series Reassessing Bell s Medieval Women Book Owners Thirty Years On project to be launched 2017 Books and Edited Collections Co-editor, with Jonathan Dumont, Samuel Mareel, and Michael Depreter, Marie de Bourgogne: Actes du colloque, Bruxelles, 4-7 mars 2015 (forthcoming 2017 with Brepols) Co-editor, with Laure Fagnart, Le mécénat féminin en France et en Bourgogne, XIV-XVIe, special issue of the peer-reviewed journal Le Moyen Âge, 117 (2011) Co-editor, with Alison More, Representing Genders and Sexualities in Europe, : Construction, Transformation, and Subversion (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011) Holy Motherhood: Gender, Dynasty, and Visual Culture in the Later Middle Ages (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2008; paperback edition, 2012) A double-weighted submission for the 2014 Research Exercise Framework (UK Universities) Winner of the 2010 Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship First Book Prize Book Chapters and Journal Articles Un étrange moyen de seduction: Anne de Graville s Chaldean Histories and her Role in Literary Culture at the French Court in the Early Sixteenth Century, Renaissance Studies (forthcoming, 2016), DOI: /rest Beyond the 1520s: A Bellemare Workshop Manuscript in Liège (MS Wittert 29), in Re-inventing Traditions: On the Transmission of Artistic Patterns in Late Medieval Manuscript Illumination, ed. by J. C. Heyder and C. Seidel (Peter Lang, 2015), pp Re-Presenting Emilia in the Context of the querelle des femmes: Text and Image in Anne de Graville s Beau Roman, in Text/Image Relations in Late Medieval French and Burgundian Culture (14 th C-16 th C), ed. by R. Brown-Grant and R. Dixon (Turnhout: Brepols, 2015), pp Co-author, with R. Dressler, M. Bleeke, J. Borland and M. Easton, Artistic Representations: Women in/and Medieval Visual Culture, in A Cultural History of Women in the Medieval Era, ed. by K. M. Phillips (London: Berg, 2013), pp Introduction, Le mécénat féminin en France et en Bourgogne, XIV-XVIe, special issue of the peer-reviewed journal Le Moyen Âge, 117 (2011), Topsy-Turvy Gender Relations in Fifteenth-Century Italian Households, in Representing Genders and Sexualities in Europe, : Construction, Transformation, and Subversion, ed. by A. More and E. L Estrange (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011), pp Quant femme enfante : remèdes et charmes pour l accouchement au Moyen Âge, in Femmes en Fleurs: Santé, Sexualité et Génération du Moyen Âge aux Lumières, ed. by C. McClive and N. Pellegrin (St-Étienne: Presse Universitaire de St-Étienne, 2010), pp Penitence, Motherhood and Passion Devotion: Contextualising Anne of Brittany s Prayer Book, Chicago, Newberry Library, MS 83, The Cultural and Political Legacy of Anne de Bretagne: Negotiating Convention in Books & Documents, ed. by C. Brown (Cambridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2010), pp Gazing at Gawain: Reconsidering Tournaments, Courtly Love, and the Lady Who Looks, Medieval Feminist Forum, 42 (2009),

3 Images de maternité sainte dans deux livres d heures appartenant aux duchesses de Bretagne, in Livres et lectures des femmes: Entre moyen âge et renaissance, ed. by A.-M. Legaré (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007), pp Sainte Anne et le mécénat d Anne de France, in Patronnes et mécènes en France à la Renaissance, ed. by K. Wilson-Chevalier (St-Étienne: Presse Universitaire de St-Étienne, 2007), pp Le mécénat d Anne de Bretagne, in Patronnes et mécènes en France à la Renaissance, ed. by K. Wilson- Chevalier (St-Étienne: Presse Universitaire de St-Étienne, 2007), pp Anna peperit Mariam, Elizabeth Johannem, Maria Christum: Images of Childbirth in Late-Medieval Manuscripts, in Manuscripts in Transition: Recycling Manuscripts, Texts and Images, ed. by B. Dekeyzer and J. Van der Stock (Leuven: Peeters, 2005), pp Reviews Manuscripts and Printed Books in Europe : Packaging, Presentation and Consumption, ed. by Emma Cayley and Susan Powell (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2013), Cahiers de recherches médiévales et humanistes (forthcoming) From Pregnant to Melancholic : The Many Guises of Mary Magdalene in Late Medieval Northern Art, Penny Howell Jolly, Picturing the Pregnant Magdalene in Northern Art, : Addressing and Undressing the Sinner-Saint (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2014), Oxford Art Journal (forthcoming) From Minor to Major: The Minor Arts in Medieval Art History, ed. by Colum Hourihane (Princeton: Index of Christian Art, 2012), Journal of Art Historiography, 11 (2014), available online David S. Areford, The Viewer and the Printed Image in Late Medieval Europe (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010), Material Religion, 8 (2012), 113 Cynthia J. Brown, The Queen s Library: Image Making at the Court of Anne of Brittany, (Philadelphia and Oxford: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011), H-France, 11 (2011), no. 230 Virginia Reinburg, French Books of Hours: Making an Archive of Prayer, c , (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), Renaissance Quarterly, 66 (2013), Diane E. Booton, Manuscript, Market and the Tradition to Print in Late Medieval Brittany (Aldershot: Asghate, 2010), Bulletin du Bibliophile , Allison Levy, Re-Membering Masculinity in Early Modern Florence: Widowed Bodies, Mourning and Portraiture (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006), Medieval Feminist Forum, 45 (2009), Paula M. Rieder, On the Purification of Women: Churching in Northern France, (New York and Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), Medieval Feminist Forum, 43 (2007), Patronage, Devotion and Gender Roles in Burgundian Art: Andrea Pearson, Envisioning Gender in Burgundian Devotional Art, : Experience, Authority, Resistance (Aldershot: Asghate, 2005) and Women of Distinction: Margaret of York and Margaret of Austria, ed. Dagmar Eichberger (Leuven: Brepols, 2005), Art History, 31 (2008), CONFERENCE ORGANISATION 5-7 March 2015, Marie de Bourgogne: The Reign, the Persona and the Legacy of a European Princess, Brussels and Bruges (organised in collaboration with colleagues at the Universities of Liège, Ghent and Brussels) 3

4 10 May 2010, co-organiser: Reconsidering Women s Patronage in France and Burgundy, 15 th -16 th Centuries, a one-day international conference (University of Liège); proceedings published in Le Moyen Age (see publications) SELECTED CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR PAPERS February 2016, with Cécile Oger, Un manuscrit de l entourage de Noël Bellemare sous le microscope: analyse du MS Wittert 29 de l Université de Liège, François Ier et les artistes du nord, IRPA-KIK, Brussels May 2014, Le «livre d amour» d Anne de Graville : Les Histoires Chaldéenes de Bérose, Au parler que m aprist ma mere: Lire et écrire le français à la fin du Moyen Age, Les Enluminures/INHA, Paris February 2014, Regards croisés sur l allaitement: des textes aux images à la fin du moyen âge for the Research Group Pour une histoire de l'allaitement maternel, Université de Genève October 2013, La Théséide de Boccace et le Beau roman d Anne de Graville, Boccace et la France, Paris-III: Sorbonne-Nouvelle July 2013, Translaté de vieil langaige et prose en nouveau et rime : Anne de Graville s Beau roman and Rewriting Boccaccio for the French Court, Locating Boccacio in 2013, Manchester April 2013, Bellifontaine Frames: The Decoration of Fontainebleau and Sixteenth-Century Manuscript Illumination, Renaissance Society of America, San Diego June 2012, Beyond the 1520s: A Bellemare Manuscript in Liège (MS Wittert 29)?, Re-inventing Traditions: On the Transmission of Artistic Patterns in Illuminated Manuscripts of the Late Middle Ages, Berlin January 2012, Reflections on Text/Image or Image/Text, British Academy-funded research network Text- Image Relations in Late Medieval French Culture, Leeds July 2011, Writing, Depicting and Performing Chivalry and Romance at the Court of Claude of France, International Medieval Congress, Leeds July 2011, Round Table Workshop as part of British Academy-funded research network Text-Image Relations in Late Medieval French Culture, Leeds January 2011, Books of Hours at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century: Problematizing the Shift from Medieval to Early Modern, British Academy-funded research network Text-Image Relations in Late Medieval French Culture, Leeds September 2010, Les manuscrits et le mécénat des reines à la cour française: goût et dévotion, L Art pictural à l aube de la Renaissance, Les Enluminures/INHA, Paris April 2010, The Hours of Anne de Montmorency in Context: Iconography and Interpretation, Renaissance Society of America, Venice July 2009, The Tournament Tapestry at Valenciennes: Depicting (or Not) Historical Events at the Burgundian Court, Biography and Late Medieval French Studies, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York May 2009, Religious Devotion in the Patronage of Anne of Brittany, Sixteenth Century Society Conference, Geneva 4

5 TEACHING EXPERIENCE I have completed the Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (FLTHE) (July 2013) I currently convene, deliver and assess the following modules at Birmingham: Ideas of the Renaissance (level 1, 10 credits) Power, Society, Politics: Religious Art in Northern Europe (level 2, 20 credits) Research Techniques in the History of Art (level 2, 10 credits, co-taught elements) Women and Artistic Culture in Late-Medieval and Early-Modern Europe (level 3 & MA, 20 credits) Turning the Pages: Manuscript and Print, Past and Present (level 3 & MA, 20 credits) The Dissertation (supervision of c. 6 final-year single and joint honours students, 40/20 credits) I contribute to the delivery and assessment of the following modules at Birmingham: Methods and Debates in the History of Art (level 1, 20 credits) Critical Methods in the History of Art (MA level, 20 credits) Approaches to Medieval Studies (MA level, 20 credits) Art History in the Field (level 2 study trip to a European city, 10 credits) I have also taught and assessed the following courses in previous posts: French Court Art, (MA, Liège) British Cultural History, 1066-present (BA Level 2, Liège) Renaissances and Reformations: Sacred Art in Italy, c (BA level 2, Leeds) A Story of Art? Introduction to the History of Art (level 1, Leeds) Introduction to English Literary Texts (level 1, Liège) English conversation and grammar classes (levels 1 and 2, Liège) ADMINISTRATIVE ROLES Admissions Tutor, Department of Art History, Curating and Visual Studies - organising Open Days, Applicant Visit Days, Year 13 Taster Days; liaising with marketing and careers departments; dealing with admissions and transfer enquiries; implementing and engaging in activities to raise the profile of the department Website, Department of Art History, Curating and Visual Studies - setting up and maintaining departmental Facebook page and departmental blog (The Golovine) in collaboration with UG and PG students; updating news items and liaising with web-team to enhance online visibility Welfare Officer, Department of Art History, Curating and Visual Studies - support for some 60 undergraduate students, liaising with student support services Personal Tutor, Department of Art History, Curating and Visual Studies - Progress reviews three times a year and on-going support for a three-year cohort ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES Editorial board, Renaissance Studies Editorial Assistant, Cahiers de recherches médiévales et humanistes ( ) External peer reviewing for Manchester University Press, Boydell and Brewer, Ashgate Invited speaker, Wallace Collection Art History Master Class for year 12 and 13 pupils considering a degree in History of Art (Sept 2012/2013) Art History Speed Workshops, a campus/community activity organised at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham (March 2013, December 2013, March 2014) 5

6 ADDITIONAL SKILLS English mother tongue Fluent French Intermediate Italian Basic Dutch and German Reading knowledge of Latin Palaeography and codicology skills 6

DR ELIZABETH L ESTRANGE

Department of Art History, Curating and Visual Studies University of Birmingham B15 2TT, UK e.a.lestrange@bham.ac.uk DR ELIZABETH L ESTRANGE ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS 1999-2004 PhD, School of Fine Art, History