Sherry C.M. Lindquist

Visiting Assistant Professor of Art

General Interests
"I study how art and imagery constructs identities and influences societies. I specialize in medieval and Northern Renaissance visual culture with particular interests in gender, theories of perception, artistic identity, illuminated manuscripts, early printing, medievalism, art historical method, and the history of museums. Works in progress include The Meanings of Nudity in Medieval Art, Attitudes towards Artistic Imagery in Late Medieval Europe, and "Jean Gerson and Art."

Years at Knox: 2009 to present

Education
Ph.D., 1995, Northwestern University.
M.A., 1987, Northwestern University.
B.A., 1986, Northern Illinois University.
A.A., 1984, William Rainey Harper College.

Teaching Interests
Ethical dimensions of the production, exhibition and reception of art, art and vision in the later Middle Ages, early Christian and medieval art, gothic art, northern Renaissance art; Bosch and Bruegel, gender and Medieval art; history of the illustrated book, history of medieval manuscripts; research methods in art history, and attitudes towards artistic imagery in late medieval art.

Recent Recognition
Awards
Finalist, Art Historians Interested in Pedagogy & Technology Innovative Course Design Award, 2007.

Saint Louis University Awards: stipends for Learning Communities project (1999) and Ethics Across the Curriculum course design (2000); Travel Awards, 1997-2003; Mellon Faculty Development Awards, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002.

Grants
Samuel H. Kress Foundation Subvention Grant for Agency, Visuality and Society at the Chartreuse de Champmol, 2006.

Fellowships
Kress Visiting Research Fellow, Warburg Institute, University of London, 2008-2009.

Fulbright Research Fellow to France. For "Jean Gerson and Late Medieval Art: Image, Vision, Society." Affiliated with the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, 2003-2004.

J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Art and the Humanities. For Agency, Visuality and Society at the Chartreuse de Champmol, 2002.

École des Chartes Exchange Fellowship with the Newberry Library's Center for Renaissance Studies, 1989-1990.

Recent Accomplishments
Publications
Agency, Visuality and Society at the Chartreuse de Champmol. Ashgate Press 2008.

"Masculinity and Medievalism: Memorializing Knute Rockne at Notre Dame." Forthcoming.

"Visual Meaning and Audience at the Chartreuse de Champmol: a Reply to Susie Nash's Reconsideration of Claus Sluter's Well of Moses." Forthcoming.

Review of Corine Schleif, ed. Triangulating Our Vision: Madeline Caviness's Approach to Medieval Art, ebook , for CAA reviews, Forthcoming.

"Luxuriating in Poverty and Philosophy: Some Unusual Nudes in the Manuscripts of Louis of Bruges." Proceedings of "The Splendour of Burgundy (1419-1482): a Multidisciplinary Approach," Bruges, 12-14 May 2009. Brepols, Forthcoming.

Review of Anne D. Hedeman, Translating the Past : Laurent de Premierfait and Boccaccio's De casibus (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2008). Manuscripta Forthcoming.

"Le Puits de Moïse dans l'espace et les dévotions des chartreux." Proceedings of "Autour le Puits de Moïse : pour une nouvelle approche," Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, Oct. 16-18, 2008.

Review of Michael Grandmontagne, Claus Sluter und die Lesbarkeit mittelalterlicher Skulptur: Das Portal der Kartause von Champmol, (Worms: Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 2005). Speculum 83.2 (2008): 702-704.

"A Sympathetic Setting for Medieval Art in St. Louis," for To Instruct and Inspire: A History of Medieval Art in Midwestern Museums, ed. Christina Nielsen (Cambridge Scholars Press), 99-116, 2008.

Review of Andrea Pearson, Envisioning Gender in Burgundian Devotional Art, 1350-1530: Experience, Authority, Resistance (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005). Speculum 82.1 (2007): 226-227.

Review of Bret Rothstein, Sight and Spirituality in Early Netherlandish Painting (Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005). Renaissance Quarterly, 59.2 (2006): 583-585.

"Le Sacré circonscrit: le corps du Christ à la Chartreuse de Champmol," Rencontres de l'Ecole du Louvre (Paris: Ecole du Louvre), 395-408, 2006.

Review of Renate Prochno, Die Kartause von Champmol. Grablege der burgundischen Herzöge (1364-1377) (Munich: Akademie Verlag, 2002). Speculum 80.3 (2005): 951-953.

"'The Will of a Princely Patron' and Artists at the Burgundian Court," The Artist at Court, ed. Stephen J. Campbell (University of Chicago Press for the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum), 46-56, 2004.

"L'organization du chantier de Champmol/The Organization of the Construction Site at the Chartreuse de Champmol," L'Art à la cour de Bourgogne: Le mécenat de Philippe le Hardi et de Jean sans Peur/Art from the Court of Burgundy, 1364-1419 (Paris: Réunion de Musées Nationaux/Cleveland Museum of Art), 71-174, 2004.

"‘Parlant de Moy': Manuscripts of La Coche by Marguerite of Navarre," Excavating the Medieval Image: Manuscripts, Artists, Audiences: Essays in Honor of Sandra Hindman, ed. Nina Rowe and David Areford (London: Ashgate), 197-221, 2004.

"Women in the Charterhouse: the Liminality of Cloistered Spaces," in Architecture and the Politics of Gender in Early Modern Europe, ed. Helen Hills (London: Ashgate), 177-192, 2003.

"A New View of the Chapel of Angels at the Chartreuse de Champmol," Source XXII.4: 2-7, 2003.

"Accounting for the Status of Artists at the Chartreuse de Champmol," Gesta, 41:1: 15-28, 2002.

"Artistic Identity in the Middle Ages." Co-edited with Stephen Perkinson and Elizabeth Sears. Special issue of Gesta 41:1 (2002.)

Introduction to "Artistic Identity in the Middle Ages," special issue of Gesta 41:1 (2002): 1-2. With Stephen Perkinson.

Review of Walter Simons, Cities of Ladies: Beguine Communities in the Medieval Low Countries, 1200-1565 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001). Church History 71.4 (2002): 879-881.

"Nationalism and Nostalgia in Early Fifteenth-Century France: St. Louis Public Library MS Grolier 50," Manuscripta 44 (2000): 135-160.

Review of Calvin B. Kendall, The Allegory of the Church: Romanesque Portals and their Verse Inscriptions (Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1998). Church History 68.2 (1999): 689.

Presentations
"Representing the Sexuality of Women in Medieval Europe and Byzantium." International Congress of Medieval Studies, University of Leeds. Sponsored by the International Center for Medieval Art, 2010.

"Gender," for "Key Concepts in Medieval Art History (A Roundtable)," chaired by Nina Rowe. 45th International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 2010.

"Luxuriating in Poverty and Philosophy: Some Unusual Nudes in the Manuscripts of Louis of Bruges." Colloquium: "The Splendour of Burgundy (1419-1482): An Interdisciplinary Approach," Bruges, 12-14 May 2009.

"The Meanings of Nudity in Medieval Art," Katherine Brown Distinguished Lecture in Art History. Rice University, Houston, March 16, 2009.

"Unorthodox, Obscene and Heretical Images in Late Medieval Europe: What They Reveal." Art History Research Seminars, University of St. Andrews, Scotland. Feb. 11, 2009.

"Defying Description: The Contradictions of Artistic Imagery for Church Authorities in the Later Middle Ages," in "Talking about Medieval Art in the Middle Ages: Verbal Accounts, Hearsay, and Their Impact," 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI. Chaired by Joan Holladay and sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art, 2008.

"Attitudes towards Artistic Imagery in the Later Medieval Europe." Director's Work-in-Progress Seminar, Warburg Institute, London, December 3, 2008.

"Le Puits de Moïse dans l'espace et les dévotions des chartreux. " For the colloquium, "Autour le Puits de Moïse : pour une nouvelle approche," Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, Oct. 16-18, 2008.

"Interpretive Strategies: K-12 Teaching at the Saint Louis Art Museum," at the "Bigger Event for Teachers," October 16, 2008.

"Jean Gerson and Art," in "Jean Gerson," organized by Daniel Hobbins, 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan, 2007.

"The Meanings of Nudity in Medieval Art" (Sessions I and II), 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI. Sponsored by the International Center for Medieval Art, 2007.

"Gendered Responses to Art," Women's and Gender Historians of the Midwest Conference. June 2-3, Maryville University, St. Louis, 2006.

"Art and Vision in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe," College Art Association Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, 2005.

"Teaching, Cultural Assumptions, and Museum Display," Invited presentation to the staff of the Snite Museum, University of Notre Dame, February 22, 2005.

"Medievalism and Masculinity: Memorializing Knute Rockne at Notre Dame," 20th International Conference on Medievalism, Towson University, 2005.

"‘And What is More Amazing, there is Hell Painted Within:'" Vision, Image and Society in the Writings of Jean Gerson," Department of Art History, Northwestern University, November 11, 2004.

"Devotion by Design: the Foundation and Plan of the Chartreuse de Champmol," Colloquium on "Art from the Court of Burgundy (1364-1419)," The Cleveland Museum of Art, October 30, 2004.

"Le Sacré Circonscrit: le corps de Christ à la Chartreuse de Champmol," Colloquium: "La creation artistique en France autour de 1400," Ecole du Louvre, Paris, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, and Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon. July, 7-10, 2004.

"‘Parlant de Moy:' Manuscripts of La Coche by Marguerite of Navarre," for "Excavating the Medieval Book: A Symposium in Honor of Sandra Hindman," The Newberry Library in Chicago, June 4, 2004.

"Images, Rhetoric and Narrative," Manuscripta, Thirtieth Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies, 2003.

Co-organizer with Lisa Deam, "Burgundian Art and Culture," sponsored by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Saint Louis University, 38th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan, 2003.

"The Rhetoric of Silence: Picturing the Book at a Carthusian Charterhouse," Manuscripta, 30th Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies, 2003.

"Intervisuality and the Body in Claus Sluter's Sculpture," College Art Association Conference. In "The Body in Medieval Art; the Body as Medieval Art," organized by Kerr Houston, 2003.

"'When I see an Ass, that Ass Multiplies Asses from Itself:' Art and Vision in the Late Middle Ages," Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL. For the Forum for European Studies, November 20, 2002.

"Optics, Naturalism, and Social Meaning in Late Medieval Art," Annual Lecture for Medieval Studies, 2002-03. Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Saint Louis University, October 9, 2002.

"Artistic Innovation at the Chartreuse de Champmol in Dijon," in "The Very First Time: Artistic Invention in the Middle Ages," organized by Stephen Clancy, 37th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan, 2002.

"Accounting for Artistic Identity at the Chartreuse de Champmol in Dijon," in "Art at the Court of Burgundy" organized by Laura Gelfand, 36th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 2001.

"Introducing Medieval Manuscripts," public lecture at the main branch of the Saint Louis Public Library. November 3, 2001.

Co-organizer with Stephen Perkinson, "Practice and Identity: the Artist in the Middle Ages," 35th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 2000.

Co-organizer with Stephen Perkinson, "The Late Medieval Artist in Theory and Practice," College Art Association Conference. Sponsored by the International Center for Medieval Art, 2000.

Campus & Community Involvement
Advisory Board for Manuscripta Conference, St. Louis Missouri.
Reviewer for Ashgate Press, Penn State Press, Gesta, Studies in Medievalism.
Service on university, college and departmental committees concerned with course evaluations, retention management, ethics across the curriculum, writing across the curriculum, web page design, determining appropriate peer institutions, assessment, awards and scholarships for undergraduates, new faculty searches, research funding for faculty.
State Certified Adult Education and Literacy Volunteer Tutor (Missouri).
Member, College Art Association.
Member, Medieval Academy of America.
Member, International Center for Medieval Art.
Member, Historians of Netherlandish Art.
Member, Renaissance Society of America.

Contact
309-341-7840
slindqui@knox.edu