Art & Art History Department’s art history faculty:
Martha Easton specializes in medieval art and architecture. Her research and publications have centered on illuminated manuscripts, gender and hagiography, feminist theory, medievalism, and the collecting of medieval art during later periods. She has taught at several colleges and universities in the mid-Atlantic area, and she lectured at the Met Cloisters for 10 years. She is a founding member of the Material Collective, a collaborative of art historians and others interested in fostering a safe space to think in alternative ways about objects and visual culture in general. In addition to her expertise in medieval art, Easton has taught courses on Asian art, which was her minor in graduate school and an interest developed during the six years she spent living and working in Japan.
Emily Hage specializes in 20th-century European and American art with an emphasis on magazines. She has published on Dada art journals and Dadazines and punk zines from the 1970s, and her recent article in Art Journal analyzes Romare Bearden’s 1968 covers for Time and Fortune magazines. Her current book projects are Dada Magazines: The Making of a Movement and The Art of Fortune Magazine: 1930-1970.
Martha Easton – A Cultural History of Hair in the Middle Ages (1)
Martha Easton – The Four Modes of Seeing
Martha Easton – Gender and Holiness (1)
Emily Hage – Art Journal article on Bearden
