Sarah Elizabeth Thompson School of Art, College of Imaging Arts and Sciences Rochester Institute of Technology 73 Lomb Memorial Drive Rochester, NY (505) 943-0453 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 Committee: Professor C. Edson Armi (Chair), Professor E. Bruce Robertson, Professor Ann Bermingham Minor Field: The Gothic Revival (Advisor: Professor Ann Bermingham) 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 Committee: Professors C. Edson Armi (Chair), Ann Bermingham, E. Bruce Robertson University of California, San Diego History of Art Minor: French Literature 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; 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; 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 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 (ARTHI 6A), summer 2001, 2002, 2003; fall 2004 Gothic Painting, winter 2005 Head Teaching Assistant Art Survey I: Ancient Medieval Art (ARTHI 6A), fall 1999, 2000, 2001 Teaching Assistant Art Survey III: Modern Contemporary Art (ARTHI 6C) Art Survey II: Renaissance - Baroque Art (ARTHI 6B) Survey: History of Photography (ARTHI 6G) Art Survey I: Ancient Medieval Art (ARTHI 6A) Reader Seminar: Modern Design (ARTHI 186X), Professor C. Edson Armi Late Romanesque and Gothic Architecture (ARTHI 105G), Professor C. Edson Armi Romanesque Art (ARTHI 105F), Professor Larry Ayres PUBLICATIONS Peer-Reviewed Articles In progress Le Premier des monuments gothiques : Saint-Denis in the History of Style In progress Style, Structure, and Change in Twelfth-Century Étampes (in progress) Forthcoming 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 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 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 May 2013 Gothic as a Moral Force at Angela Burdett-Coutts s Columbia Square Housing Project, Medievalism in Architecture and Design, 48 th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University May 2012 Chartres and the Concept of Gothic, New Approaches to Chartres, 47 th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University April 2012 The Origins of Gothic Design Process, From Idea to Building: Ancient and Medieval Architectural Process, Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Detroit Feb 2012 Tracing Twelfth-Century French Builders, 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, Medieval Art and Architecture, Plymouth State University Medieval and Renaissance Forum, Plymouth, NH Feb 2010 Canons and Kings: Reassessing the Evidence and Impact of Royal Patronage at the Church of Notre-Dame d Étampes, Annual Meeting of the Mid-American Medieval Association, Conception, MO April 2009 Imagery and Audience at the Portals of Saint-Basile and Notre-Dame d Etampes, Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, Sewanee, TN May 2008 Trial and Error: the Choir Vaults at Notre-Dame d Etampes, 43 rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan
Feb 2007 Feb 2004 April 1999 University Recycling Ruins: Fountains Abbey, Studley Royal, and the Question of Authenticity, Ruins, College Art Association Annual Meeting, New York Ordering Disorder: Gothic Made Rational, 1770 1820, 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 2009-2013 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 2012- Member, thesis committee for Shuruq Nahas (MFA in Graphic Design, expected 2013) 2012- 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, 2010-2013 2010- Member, Academic Support Committee 2010- 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) Reader March 2013 Oct 2012 March 2010 Article referee, AVISTA Forum Journal 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