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Betsy Chunko-Dominguez

Art history professor

Education

  • Ph.D., history of art and architecture, University of Virginia
  • M.A., history of art and architecture, University of Virginia
  • M.A., English, Ohio State University
  • B.A., English, University of Pennsylvania

Credentials

  • Professor of art history, 2016–present
    Part-time professor of art history, 2015-16, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
  • Visiting assistant professor of art history, 2014, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
  • Assistant professor of art history, 2013-14, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY
  • Visiting assistant professor of art history, 2012-13, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
  • Ph.D. research fellow, 2011-12, Institute for Cultural Studies (Institut für Kulturwissenschaft), Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • Publication Award, "Playing on Timbrels: The Margins of the Rutland Psalter" in Word and Image, Savannah College of Art and Design, 2016
  • Samuel H. Kress Research Award, English Gothic Misericord Carvings: History from the Bottom Up, International Center for Medieval Art, 2014
  • Faculty Development Research Grant, United States Military Academy, 2014
  • Graduate Research Fellowship, Institute for Cultural Studies (Institut für Kulturwissenschaft), Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, 2011–12
  • Medieval Academy of America and the Richard III Society Schallek Research Award, for research in England, 2011
  • Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Research Support Grant, for research in England, 2011

Organizations

  • British Archaeological Association
  • College Art Association
  • International Center of Medieval Art
  • Medieval Academy of America
  • Misericordia International

Publications and presentations

Publications

  • English Gothic Misericord Carvings: History from the Bottom Up. Series: Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe, 9, Boston and Leiden: Brill, 2017.

Articles and essays

  • "A Sense of Place: The 'London' Cityscapes of BL Royal MS 13.A.III," Electronic British Library Journal, article 1, 2022: 1-21.
  • "Misericords." In The Encyclopedia of the Global Middle Ages, 159–166, London: Bloomsbury Academic/ARC Humanities Press, 2021.
  • "Images of Illness and Abjection in the Medieval Choir," Postmedieval, special volume on Medievalism and the Medical Humanities, 8:2, 2017: 194-201.
  • "Playing on Timbrels: The Margins of the Rutland Psalter," Word and Image 32:1, 2016: 131-141.
  • "Dating the Misericords of Fairford, St. Mary Parish Church," Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 133, 2015: 151-160.
  • "The Iconography of 'Husband-beating' on Late-Medieval English Misericords," The Mediaeval Journal 3:2, 2013: 39-68.

Reference works

  • "Christa Grössinger," "Cluny,” “Holy Sepulchre," "Jean Bony," "Massa Marittima," "Riccardo Francovich," and "Rochester" entries for Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art, edited by Colum Hourihane. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
  • "Aachen," "Autun," "Iona," "Lindisfarne," and "Evolution of Byzantine Pilgrimage Architecture in the Early, Middle, and Late Periods" entries for Brill Encyclopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage, edited by Larissa J. Taylor et al. Leiden: Brill, 2009.

Reviews

  • "Review of Anne L. Williams, Satire, Veneration, and St. Joseph in Art, c. 1300–1550," Speculum 96:3, July 2021: 906-907.
  • "Review of Sonja Drimmer, The Art of Allusion: Illuminators and the Making of English Literature, 1403-1476," The Medieval Review, June 2020.
  • "Review of Anja Selinger and Willy Piron, eds. Choir Stalls and Their Workshops: Proceedings of the Misericordia International Colloquium 2016," Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art & Architecture 6:3, April 2018: 145-148.
  • "Review of Warwick Rodwell, The Coronation Chair and Stone of Scone: History, Archaeology and Conservation," The Medieval Review, Jan. 2015.
  • "Review of P.S. Barnwell and Brian K. Roberts, eds. Britons, Saxons, and Scandinavians: The Historical Geography of Glanville R.J. Jones," The Medieval Review, Nov. 2013.

Selected public lectures and conference activities

  • "History from the Bottom Up," presented at TEDxSavannah, Savannah, Ga., 2018.
  • "Reintegrating Margins: Profanity at the Medieval Edge," presented at the College Art Association, New York, 2017.
  • "Mischief on the Margin: The Edges of Medieval Art," presented to the Telfair Academy Guild of the Telfair Museum, Savannah, Ga., 2017.
  • "The Whole Page: Reintegrating Margins," panel with Amanda Gerber for the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 14–17, 2015.
  • "Out of Context: Unique Iconographies at the Medieval Edge," presented at the Southeastern College Art Conference, Roanoke, Va., Oct. 19–22, 2016.
  • "Aping the Prophet: The Margins of the Rutland Psalter," presented at the New England Medieval Conference, Middlebury, Vt., Nov. 8, 2014.
  • "The Object, the Dreamer and the Dreamwork: A Folio in the Rutland Psalter," presented at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 8–11, 2014.
  • "Images of Illness in the Late-Medieval English Choir," presented at the Mid-Atlantic Conference on British Studies, Bronx, N.Y., April 5–6, 2014.
  • "Women's Bodies / Men's Spaces: Domestic Iconography in Medieval English Choir Stalls," presented at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 12–15, 2011.
  • "Visual Literacy and Secular Art in the Medieval Choir," presented to the Kolloquium in Kunstgeschichte, Kolleg-Forschergruppe Bildakt und Verkörperung, Berlin, Germany, Dec. 15, 2011.