************************************************************************ NAME: Judith Steinhoff POSITION/TITLE: Associate Professor and Area Coordinator of Art History OFFICE ADDRESS: 100 Fine Arts Buidling OFFICE TELEPHONE: (713) 743-2839 WORK EMAIL: Jsteinhoff@uh.edu ************************************************************************ EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND/TRAINING Princeton University, Ph.D. in Fine Arts (Art History), January 1990 M.F.A. in Late Medieval Art, January 1983 Doctoral dissertation: Bartolommeo Bulgarini and Sienese Painting of the mid- fourteenth century (supervisor: John Shearman) Sarah Lawrence College, B.A., May 1976 New York University, New York, NY, 1972-73 RELEVANT TEACHING EXPERIENCE Prof. Steinhoff has taught at University of Houston since 1996. She teaches Art & Society: Prehistoric Medieval and various upper level courses on Medieval Art, including a survey of Medieval Art; Arts, Artists, and Patrons In Medieval Europe; Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts; and Italian Gothic Art and Patronage ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIP/RESEARCH/CREATIVE ENDEAVORS CURRENT PROJECTS R e p r e s e n t a t i o n s a n d R i t u a l s o f D e a t h, B u r i a l, a n d G r i e v i n g in Gothic Italy: The Roles of Women (working title for current research and eventual book project) M u s i c i n M e d i e v a l M a n u s c r i p t s. E x h i b i t i o n w i t h C a t a l o g to open in the University of Houston Anderson Library, Special Collections, fall 2012 Page 1 of 6
ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION W e e p i n g W o m e n : S o c i a l R o l e s a n d I m a g e s i n 1 4 t h c e n t u r y Tuscany Forthcoming in Crying in the Middle Ages: The Tears of History Elina Gertsman, ed. Routledge Press, forthcoming Fall 2011 Art as Politics in Late Medieval and Renaissance Siena. Co- Editor with Timothy Smith and contributor ( Urban Images and Civic Identity in Medieval Sienese Painting ) Ashgate Press, Forthcoming Spring 2012 T h e B l a c k D e a t h a n d i t s I n f l u e n c e o n M e d i e v a l A r t Throughout Western Europe Essay solicited by Grove Art, Encyclopedia of Medieval Art Covers historiography, the relationship between death rates and artistic production and commissions, types of works of art patronized, geographical patterns, and the influence of the Black Death on iconography. PUBLICATIONS Sienese Painting After the Black Death: Artistic Pluralism, Politics, and t he New Art Market Cambridge University Press, 2007 "Reality and Ideality in Sienese Renaissance Cityscapes" L. Jenkens, ed., Renaissance Siena: Art in Context, (Sixteenth Century Studies Series), Truman State University Press, 2005, 21 45. P r e g n a nt Pages: Marginalia in a Book of Hours (PML ms. M.754 and BL, Add. 36684) in Between the Picture and the Word, C.P. Hourihane, ed., Princeton2001 University Press, 2005 "A Mysterious Magdalen: Miracles, Monastic Politics and a Lost Altarpiece for Lecceto", in L.R. Jones and L.C. Matthew, eds., Coming About...A Festschrift for John Shearman. Cambridge, MA, 2001, 19-23 "Artistic Working Relationships after the Black Death: a Sienese 'compagnia', Page 2 of 6
ca. 1350- ca. 1363(?)" Renaissance Studies, XIV, no. 1 (March), 2000, 1-45 "Bartolommeo Bulgarini", The Dictionary of Art. London, 1995 Page 3 of 6
A T r e c e n t o A l t a r p i e c e R e d i s c o v e r e d : B a r t o l o m m e o Bulgarini's Altarpiece for San Gimignano", Zeitschrift fur Kunstgeschichte, LVI, 1993, 102-112 "The St. Victor Altarpiece in Siena Cathedral: A Reconstruction", Art Bulletin, LXVIII, Dec. 1986, pp. 610-31 (co- authored with E. Beatson and N. Muller) SELECTED PAPERS and PRESENTATIONS G r i e v i n g i n T r e c e n t o T u s c a n y : R e p r e s e n t a t i o n a n d Regulation Trecento Conference in Memory of Andrew Ladis, Athens, GA November 2010 M o u r n i n g i n 1 4 th - century Tuscany in Painting and Law Texas Medieval Association conference, Dallas Sept. 2010 P r e v e n t i n g T r e s p a s s i n g : C o n t r o l l i n g G r i e f i n L a t e M e d i e v a l Tuscany" 45 th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo May 2010 W e e p i n g W o m e n : R e p r e s e n t a t i o n s a n d R i t u a l s i n T u s c a n Trecento Painting Presented at the 44 th International Congress on Medieval May 2009 M e d i e v a l B o o k s a n d T h e i r R e a d e r s Invited presentation at the Nelda and Lutcher Stark Museum, Orange, TX in connection with the exhibition, P ictured Prayers: Medieval Books of Hours November 20, 2008 U r b a n I m a g e s a n d C i v i c I d e n t i t y i n M e d i e v a l S i e n e s e Painting Presented at the International Congress on Medieval May 2007 and (a revised version) at the International Medieval Congress, Leeds, England, July 2007 P a i n t i n g i n S i e n a A f t e r t h e B l a c k D e a t h : T r a d i t i o n s a n d Transitions Presented at the International Congress on Medieval May 2005 Page 4 of 6
"The St. Victor Altarpiece for Siena Cathedral as a Civic Icon" Presented at the International Congress on Medieval May, 2004 "Image and Identity in the Fourteenth Century: Continuity and Change in Some Fourteenth- Century Sienese Civic Images" Presented at Kalamazoo, May, 2003 "The St. Victor Altarpiece for Siena Cathedral as a Civic Icon" (version 1) TEMA (Texas Medieval Association) conference, San Antonio, Sept. 2001 "Reality and Ideality in Sienese Renaissance Cityscapes" College Art Association (CAA) conference, Toronto, Feb. 1998 SELECTED OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES TEMA (Texas Medieval Association): Conference Co- organizer with Sally Vaughn and Program Chair for Art History, 2005 and 2012 Conference Crossing Boundaries: Visualizing Jewish/Christian and Jewish/Muslim Relations in Medieval and Early Modern Times Rice University March 14 March 15, 2010 Conference session chair Review: T he Maestà of the Palazzo Comunale in Pistoia: Civic Art and Marian Devotion in the Pistoiese Commune of the Fourteenth Century for Art Bulletin, Sept. 2006 Co- c h a i r, A r t a s P o l i t i c s i n L a t e M e d i e v a l a n d R e n a i s s a n c e S i e n a Session for CAA conference, Boston, 2006; with Dr.T. Smith, Birmingham- Southern College Exhibition Curator: Lustre: Spiritual Treasures & Sensory Pleasures. Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts in Houston Collections M.D. Anderson Library, University of Houston, Oct. 14, 2005 Feb. 17, 2006 Curated exbihit and produced catalog with the assistance of Julie Grob, Curator, Special Collections and students from seminar classes on Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts Page 5 of 6
Member of Internship Selection Committee, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Spring 2004-2008 TEMA (Texas Medieval Association): Chair for Art History 2002 Conference Program AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS University of Houston Small Grant, 2008 2010 For research for my book on R e p r e s e n t a t i o n s a n d Rituals of Death, Burial, and Grieving in Gothic Italy: The Roles of Women FDIP Grant A, University of Houston, 2007-2008 For development of web materials and Blackboard site for my course, Italian Gothic Art and Patronage FDIP Grant A, University of Houston, 2005-2006 For development of a Webct site for my course, Medieval Art RIG (Research Initiation Grant), University of Houston, Summer 1997 NEH fellowship to participate in a summer seminar on Medieval Manuscripts, Under the directorship of Prof. Robert Calkins, Cornell University, Summer 1993 Harvard University- Danforth Center Teaching Award, 1986-87 Princeton University Department of Art & Archaeology. Dissertation fellowship, 1985-86 Fulbright/Italian Government Grant. For dissertation research in Italy, 1983-84 Page 6 of 6