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Joy Partridge

Liberal arts professor

Education

  • Ph.D., art history, City University of New York
  • M.Phil., art history, City University of New York
  • M.A., art history, Tufts University
  • B.A., history of art, University of Michigan

Credentials

  • Professor of liberal arts, Fall 2022—present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
  • Visiting assistant professor, 2021–22, Oklahoma State University
  • Visiting scholar, 2020–21, art history department
    Visiting assistant professor, 2017–20, art history department, Emory University
  • Adjunct assistant professor, 2015, department of art and art history, Hunter College
  • Adjunct assistant professor, 2012–13, history department, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • Dissertation Fellowship, Committee for Interdisciplinary Science Studies at the Graduate Center, CUNY
  • Marian Goodman Travel Award, The Graduate Center, CUNY
  • The Huntington Library, W.M. Keck Foundation Fellowship, January 2017
  • University Fellowship, The Graduate Center, CUNY
  • Conference Travel Support, The Graduate Center, CUNY
  • Rare Book School, Director's Discretionary Scholarship
  • Samuel H. Kress Foundation Fellowship, Latin/Greek Institute of CUNY
  • Doctoral Students' Research Grant, The Graduate Center, CUNY
  • Heckman Stipend, Hill Museum and Manuscript Library, January–February 2014

Organizations

  • College Art Association
  • International Center of Medieval Art
  • Medieval Academy of America

Publications and presentations

Selected publications

  • "Picturing the Cosmos: Diagrams, Knowledge, and Wonder in a Medieval Occitan Encyclopedia," book manuscript in preparation.
  • "Elements of Uncertainty: Visualizing the 'Spheres' of Water and Earth in the Late Middle Ages," On Unstable Ground, Special Issue of Different Visions, edited by Rachel Dressler and Ben Tilghman (forthcoming, Spring 2023).
  • "'Between Stability and Motility': A Reconsideration of the Recceswinth Crown" EOLAS 14, October 2022.
  • "Keep Things Strange," blogpost for Material Collective, thematerialcollective.org, June 6, 2014.
  • "Priest holding a reliquary," catalogue entry for the exhibition Objects of Devotion and Desire: Medieval Relic to Contemporary Art. The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery, Hunter College, New York City, January 27–April 30, 2011.

Selected conferences and presentations

  • "Art in the Time of Pandemic: Medieval to Modern," presented at 17th Annual Hurst History of Medicine Symposium, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 2020.
  • "Beyond Instrumentality: Rethinking Medieval Schemata with a Diagram of Precious Stones from the Breviari d'amor," presented at Europe and Beyond Forum, Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 2020.
  • "Cosmic Transformations: Moon Diagrams as Sites of Eucharistic Devotion," presented at 54th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2019.
  • "Representational Failure in the Cosmological Diagrams of the Breviari d'amor," presented at 52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2017.
  • Panel Co-Chair: "Material" and "Collective," Two Roundtable Sessions, co-organized with Alexa Sand, sponsored by the Material Collective, 52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2017.
  • "Visualizing Knowledge in the Breviari d'amor," presented at 20th Biennial International Congress of the New Chaucer Society, London, UK, 2016.
  • "Picturing Order: The Mechanistics and Aesthetics of Cosmological Diagrams in the Breviari d'amor," presented at Interuniversity Doctoral Consortium Medieval Conference, New York, NY, 2016.
  • "Proto-Object-Oriented Ontology in the Cosmological Diagrams of the Breviari d'amor," presented at New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Sarasota, FL, 2016.
  • "Cosmological Diagrams and the Aesthetics of Order in the Breviari D'amor," presented at UC Berkeley Program in Medieval Studies Interdisciplinary Conference, Medieval Ethics and Aesthetics: The Good and the Beautiful?, Berkeley, CA, 2015.
  • "Appropriation and Annotation of Byzantine Reliquaries in the Stavelot Triptych," presented at 6th Annual Medieval Studies Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, Cultural Frontiers in the East and West, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY, 2011.
  • "Framing Sight and Framing Faith in Late-Medieval See-Through Reliquaries," presented at 15th Annual Conference of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, The Five Senses in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Tempe, AZ, 2009.

Selected guest lectures

  • "What can we learn from a 'bad' diagram?" presented at Medieval Maps and Diagrams, Graduate Seminar at Tufts University, Medford, MA, 2017.
  • "Early Christian and Byzantine Art," presented at Introduction to World Art, John John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY, 2015.
  • "Medieval Art in Europe: Romanesque and Gothic," presented at Introduction to the History of Art, Hunter College, New York, NY, 2013.
  • "Later Medieval Art," presented at Introduction to the History of Art, Hunter College, New York, NY, 2012.
  • "Psychoanalysis ant Methods of Art History," presented at Theories and Methods of Art History, Tufts University, Medford, MA, 2008.