Sarah Elizabeth Thompson School of Art, College of Imaging Arts and Sciences Rochester Institute of Technology 73 Lomb Memorial Drive Rochester, NY (585) 475 4459 setfaa@rit.edu EDUCATION Ph.D. Art History Dissertation: Inventing Gothic : Notre-Dame d Étampes and Architectural Change in the Île-de-France, 1120 1160 Minor Field: The Gothic Revival M.A. B.A. Art History (with Distinction) Thesis Title: The Chapel of Nine Altars at Fountains Abbey and the Character of Thirteenth-Century English Gothic University of California, San Diego History of Art Minor: French Literature Junior year abroad at the University of Warwick ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 2009- Assistant Professor of Art History, School of Art, College of Imaging Arts and Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology 2005-2009 Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History, Foundations Department, College of Imaging Arts and Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology, 2003-2005 Teaching Associate, Department of the History of Art and Architecture, TEACHING EXPERIENCE Rochester Institute of Technology Undergraduate Courses Survey of Western Art and Architecture I, fall 2005-present Survey of Western Art and Architecture II, winter 2006-2012; spring 2014; summer 2007-2011 Survey of Western Art and Architecture III, spring 2006-2013; summer 2006-2008 History of Design, winter 2006 Gothic Art in Europe, spring 2006, winter 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012 Art of the High Middle Ages, fall 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010 The Gothic Revival, spring 2007, 2008, 2010, 2014; winter 2011 Medieval Craft, spring 2009, 2012 Art and Architecture of Ancient Rome, fall 2009, 2011; spring 2013 The Impressionists in Paris, summer 2009 Art History in Paris, summer 2010, 2011
The Gothic Cathedral, winter 2010 The Illuminated Manuscript, spring 2011, fall 2012 Modern Architecture, spring 2013 Early Medieval Art, fall 2013 Art in Paris: Monuments, Museums, Modernity, spring 2014 Graduate Courses The Gothic Cathedral, winter 2010 The Gothic Revival, spring 2010 The Illuminated Manuscript, spring 2011, fall 2012 Art and Architecture of Ancient Rome, fall 2011 Medieval Craft, spring 2012 Gothic Art in Europe, winter 2012 Theories of Representation, winter 2012 Modern Architecture, spring 2013 Medieval Craft and Design, fall 2013 Teaching Associate Art Survey I: Ancient Medieval Art, summer 2001, 2002, 2003; fall 2004 Gothic Painting, winter 2005 Head Teaching Assistant Art Survey I: Ancient Medieval Art, fall 1999, 2000, 2001 Teaching Assistant Art Survey III: Modern Contemporary Art Art Survey II: Renaissance - Baroque Art Survey: History of Photography Art Survey I: Ancient Medieval Art PUBLICATIONS Monographs In progress Picturing Gothic: Visual Representation and the Elusive Meaning of Gothic after the Middle Ages Peer-Reviewed Articles In progress Le Premier des monuments gothiques : Saint-Denis in the History of Style In progress Continuity, Change, and Context in the Twelfth-Century Campaigns of Notre-Dame d Étampes Submitted Gothic for the Poor at Columbia Square Submitted Constructing Identity in the Portals of Twelfth-Century Étampes May 2014 Adaptation and Audience: Remodeling Notre-Dame d Étampes in the Thirteenth Century, AVISTA Forum Journal 22 Dec 2011 Recycling Ruins: the Critical Reception of John Aislabie s Work at Fountains Abbey and the Changing Function of Gothic, Third Text 25:6, 675-686
Solicited Reviews Forthcoming Review of Irish Gothic Architecture: Construction, Decay, and Reinvention, ed. Roger Stalley, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians April 2013 Review of Nigel Hiscock, The Symbol at Your Door: Number and Geometry in Religious Architecture of the Greek and Latin Middle Ages. caa.reviews http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/2027 Sep 2012 Review of New Approaches to Medieval Architecture, eds. Robert Bork, William Clark, and Abby McGehee, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 71:3, 416-418. March 2011 Review of G.R.H. Wright, Ancient Building Technology, Volume 2. The Medieval Review 11.03.07: https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/13037 GAME DESIGN Dec 2013- Researcher, Bosch Project (Rochester Institute of Technology-based team developing an educational videogame based on the Garden of Earthly Delights) CONFERENCES Chaired Sessions May 2012 Trends and Taste in Medieval Art, 47 th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University April 2011 Revisiting La Transition: Twelfth Century Architectural Change, Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference, New Orleans Juried Conference Papers April 2014 Portals and the Public: Sculpture, Difference, and Institutional Identity in Medieval Étampes, Kern Conference on Visual Communication, Rochester Institute of Technology Feb 2014 Soi-disant Gothicisms : The Rejection of Gothic Hybridity in the Nineteenth Century, Session: Queer Gothic, College Art Association Annual Meeting, Chicago May 2013 Gothic as a Moral Force at Angela Burdett-Coutts s Columbia Square Housing Project, Session: Medievalism in Architecture and Design, 48 th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University May 2012 Chartres and the Concept of Gothic, Session: New Approaches to Chartres, 47 th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University April 2012 The Origins of Gothic Design Process, Session: From Idea to Building: Ancient and Medieval Architectural Process, Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Detroit Feb 2012 Tracing Twelfth-Century French Builders, Session: Manuscripts without Moorings, Objects and Their Origins: Stylistic Analysis or Stylistic Attribution? College Art Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles April 2010 Structuring the Gothic Past: the Abbey Church of Saint-Denis in Nineteenth-Century Architectural Scholarship, Session: Medieval Art and Architecture, Plymouth State University Medieval and Renaissance Forum, Plymouth, NH
Feb 2010 April 2009 May 2008 Feb 2007 Feb 2004 April 1999 Canons and Kings: Reassessing the Evidence and Impact of Royal Patronage at the Church of Notre-Dame d Étampes, Session: Patronage in Medieval England and France, Annual Meeting of the Mid-American Medieval Association, Conception, MO Imagery and Audience at the Portals of Saint-Basile and Notre-Dame d Etampes, Session: Piety and the Urban Community, Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, Sewanee, TN Trial and Error: the Choir Vaults at Notre-Dame d Etampes, Session: French Architecture of the Twelfth Century, 43 rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University Recycling Ruins: Fountains Abbey, Studley Royal, and the Question of Authenticity, Session: Ruins, College Art Association Annual Meeting, New York Ordering Disorder: Gothic Made Rational, 1770 1820, Session: Medieval Art History and Historiography, College Art Association Annual Meeting, Seattle Muscular Gothic, Masculine Virtue: the Re-Gendering of the Gothic Revival in the Nineteenth Century, Art History Graduate Symposium, GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS 2010-2013 Faculty Evaluation and Development (FEAD) grant, Rochester Institute of Technology 2009-2014 Interactive Learning Grant, Rochester Institute of Technology 2009 Emeriti Award for Outstanding Dissertation in Art History, University of California, Santa Barbara 2004 Dissertation Fellowship, 2002-2003 Bourse Chateaubriand 2002-2003 P.E.O. Scholar Award 2002 Borchard Foundation Fellowship, 2001 Art Affiliates Fellowship, 2001 VIDDA Research Fellowship, 1999-2001 Humanities/Social Sciences Research Grant, University of California, Santa Barbara 1999-2001 Graduate Student Fee Fellowship,, 1999, 2002 Research Fellowship, Department of the History of Art and Architecture, 1999 Graduate Enrichment Fellowship, Department of the History of Art and Architecture, 1996-1998 Graduate Recruitment Fellowship, SERVICE Rochester Institute of Technology 2013- Member, Curriculum Planning Committee for Digital Humanities 2013- Member, Scholarship and Global Engagement teams, Strategic Planning Committee, CIAS
2013- Member, thesis committee for Ellina Chetverikova (MFA in Fine Arts Studio, expected 2014) 2013- Member, thesis committee for Nadia Adams (MFA in Fine Arts Studio, expected 2014) 2013- Member, thesis committee for Andrew Bonadio (MFA in Furniture Design, expected 2014) 2012- Member, thesis committee for Shuruq Nahas (MFA in Visual Communication Design, expected 2014) 2012-13 Member, Foundations Committee 2011- Member, Curriculum Committee, School of Architecture 2011- Member, search committee for Writing Across the Curriculum director 2011 Member, thesis committee for Lisa Mauro (MFA in Graphic Design, 2011) 2010- Member, Institute Writing Committee 2010- Member, Academic Support Committee 2010-11 Member, Faculty Council Planning Committee, College of Imaging Arts and Sciences 2009- Coordinator, study abroad program in Paris for the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences Field 2013- Treasurer, AVISTA (Association Villard de Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Science, Technology, and Art) 2012- Executive Board Member, AVISTA (Association Villard de Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Science, Technology, and Art) 2009- Create and maintain Art History Resources Online: https://wiki.rit.edu/display/arthistory/home Reader March 2014 Oct 2013 March 2013 Oct 2012 March 2010 Article referee, Speculum External reviewer, Marilyn Stokstad and Michael Cothren, Art History, Volume 1, 4 th edition (Prentice Hall, 2010). PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS College Art Association Medieval Academy International Center for Medieval Art AVISTA (Association Villard de Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Science, Technology, and Art) Society of Architectural Historians