Adam S. Cohen
(416) 946-7554
as.cohen@utoronto.ca
EDUCATION
THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, Baltimore, Maryland
Ph.D. History of Art, May 1995, with honors. Dissertation title: The Uta Codex: Art and Exegesis in the Ottonian Age (advisor: Herbert L. Kessler)
Ph.D. Qualifying Examinations completed May 1989. Examinations in “The Latin West: 200–1050” and “Art and Anthropology”
M.A. History of Art, May 1988
COLUMBIA COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York, New York
B.A. Art History, May 1986
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Eye and Mind: Essays in Anglo-Saxon and Early Medieval Art by Robert Deshman (Kalamazoo, Mich: The Medieval Institute, 2010 )
The Open Book: Reflections on Medieval Art and Experience (in progress)
Laboratories of Thought in Twelfth-Century Germany (in progress)
The Uta Codex: Art, Philosophy, and Reform in Eleventh-Century Germany (University Park, Pa.: Penn State University Press, 2000)
Reviewed in: The Medieval Review (http://dlps4.umdl.umich.edu/t/tmr);
Mediaevistik 13 (2000), 396–398
Early Medieval Europe 11 (2002), 89–90
Studies in Iconography 23 (2002), 206–208
Parergon 19 (2002), 224–226
Catholic Historical Review 88 (2002), 759–761
Speculum 78 (2003), 856–858
Cahiers de Civilisation Medievale 46 (2003), 77–78
H-Net Reviews (http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=212151116881648)
CHAPTERS
“The Historiography of Romanesque Manuscript Illumination,” in A Companion to Medieval Art: Romanesque and Gothic in Northern Europe, ed. C. Rudolph (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006), 357–81.
"L'arte dell'alto medioevo in Europa," in L'arte occidentale: Europa mediterraneo e mondo contemporaneo, ed. R. Cassanelli and J. Sureda (Milan: Jaca, 2008), 175-89.
ARTICLES
“The Art of Regensburg Miscellanies” in Manuscript Miscellanies, ed. Lucie Dolezalova, and Kimberly Rivers (forthcoming)
Entries for the Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art (forthcoming) [Benedictional of Aethelwold, Codex Amiatinus, Uta Codex, Robert Deshman
“Introduction,” Special Issue of Medieval Encounters on “Expanding the Boundaries of Medieval Art;” co-authored with Linda Safran and Jill Caskey (forthcoming)
“Making Memories in a Medieval Miscellany,” in Making Thoughts, Making Pictures, Making Memories in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Essays in Honor of Mary Carruthers, ed. Anne D. Hedeman, Gesta 48 (2009): 135–52
“Magnificence in Miniature: the Case of Early Medieval Manuscripts,” in From Magnificat to Magnificence. The Aesthetics of Grandeur: Art, Sculpture, Literature, and Music, ed. C. Stephen Jaeger (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), 79-101
“Vigentennial Views on Ottonian Art History,” Special Issue of Peregrinations 3 (2010)
“Art, Exegesis, and Affective Piety in Twelfth-Century German Manuscripts,” in Manuscripts and Monastic Culture: Religious Reform and Intellectual Life in Twelfth-Century Germany, ed. Alison Beach (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007), 45–68
“Learning from Medieval Bronze Bowls,” Word + Image 22 (2006): 211–18; co-authored with L. Safran
Entries for the Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages (forthcoming) [Art and Architecture: Ottonian, Abraham of Freising, Adalbert of Bremen, Adalbert of Magdeburg, Albert II of Magdeburg, Alpert of Metz, Altmann of Passau, Anno of Cologne, Aribo of Mainz, Bardo of Mainz, Benno of Osnabruck, Bernward of Hildesheim, Bruno of Cologne, Dietrich of Metz, Egbert of Trier, Frederick of Mainz, Hermann of Metz, Lampert of Hersfeld, Master of the Registrum Gregorii, Michelsberg, Regensburg, Ruotger of Cologne, St. Emmeram, Siegfried of Mainz, Ulrich of Augsburg, William of Hirsau, William of Mainz, Willigis of Mainz, Wolfgang of Regensburg]
“Image and Authority in Anglo-Saxon Art” (in progress)
“Has Arae Tabulas Posuit Suggerius Abbas: Suger’s Object Lesson,” in Re-Visions: New Studies on the Abbey of Saint-Denis, ed. P. Blum, W. Clark, G. Zinn (Under consideration by Penn State University Press)
“Abbess Uta of Regensburg: Patterns of Patronage Around 1000,” Aurora: the Journal of the History of Art 4 (2003): 34¬¬–49
“The Temptation of Women: Bernward and Eve at Hildesheim,” Gesta 40 (2001): 19¬–38; co-authored with A. Derbes
Entries for Medieval Germany: An Encyclopedia [Ottonian Manuscript Illumination, Otto I, Otto II, Otto III, Henry II, Einsiedeln, Freising, Gandersheim, Gernrode] (New York: Garland Press, 2001), 198, 251, 261, 267–268, 341–342, 587–588, 589–590, 592, 598–601
“The Art of Reform Around the Year 1000,” Speculum 74.4 (October, 1999): 992–1020
“The Getty Anglo-Saxon Leaves and New Testament Illustration Around the Year 1000,” Scriptorium 53 (1999): 63–81; co-authored with E.C. Teviotdale
Entries in T. Kren, E.C. Teviotdale, A. S. Cohen, K. Barstow, Masterpieces of The J. Paul Getty Museum: Illuminated Manuscripts (Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1997), 10, 17, 25, 28, 49, 53, 57, 59, 67, 73
“Devotion and Desire: Views of Women in the Middle Ages and Renaissance,” Letter Arts Review 12:4 (1996): 30–35
BOOK REVIEWS
Katrin Kogman-Appel, Illuminated Haggadot from Medieval Spain: Biblical Imagery and the Passover Holiday (University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006), in The Medieval Review (http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.baj9928.0801.019)
Jane Geddes, The St. Albans Psalter: A Psalter for Christina of Markyate (London: British Library, 2006), in CAA.reviews (www.caareviews.org)
Catherine Karkov, The Ruler Portraits of Anglo-Saxon England (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2004), in Notes & Queries 251 [n.s. 53] (2006): 214–16
Nigel Hiscock, ed., The White Mantle of Churches: Architecture, Liturgy, and Art around the Millennium (Turnhout: Brepols, 2003), in The Medieval Review (http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.baj9928.0409.006)
Pierre Alain Mariaux, Warmond d’Ivrée et ses images. Politique et création iconographique autour de l’an mil (Bern: Peter Lang, 2002), in Speculum 79 (2004), 795–798
Dunbar Ogden, The Staging of Drama in the Medieval Church (Newark, Del.: University of Delaware Press, 2002), in Theatre Studies 56 (2004): 331–332
Herbert L. Kessler, Spiritual Seeing (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2000), in Common Knowledge 8.1 (2002): 211–212
Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, The Color of Melancholy: The Uses of Books in the Fourteenth Century (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), in Common Knowledge 7.3 (1999): 169–70
Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Nuns as Artists: The Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), in Common Knowledge 7.3 (1999): 169
Irmgard Siede, Zur Rezeption ottonischer Buchmalerei in Italien im 11. und 12. Jahrhundert (Munich: EOS, 1997), in CAA.reviews (www.caareviews.org)
SCHOLARLY PAPERS AND INVITED LECTURES
What do Steve Jobs and Hugh Hefner Have to Teach Us About Medieval Manuscripts? University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, April 2009 (invited lecture)
Forms and Transformations, in the session “The Medieval Manuscript Transformed,” College Art Association, 97th Annual Conference, Los Angeles, February 2009
The Open Book: Reflections on Medieval Art and Experience, The Julius Fund Lecture in Medieval Art
, Cleveland Museum of Art/Case Western University, September 2008
Masterpieces of Jewish Art, Temple Emanu-El, Toronto, April 2008
Monastic Devotion to the Cross, Third Annual Friends of the Medieval Studies Society Symposium, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, March 2008
Structuring Time and Space in Medieval Books, Canadian Conference of Medieval Art Historians, Vancouver, March 2008
The Open Book: Reflections on Medieval Art and Experience, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, October 2007 (Friends of the Medieval Studies Society, members lecture)
The Gutter Problem in Medieval Manuscript Illumination, Agents of Manuscript Culture: An Interdisciplinary Workshop on Working with Manuscripts, University of Toronto, May, 2007 (invited lecture)
Illustrating the Early Medieval Book in Practice and Theory, University of Western Ontario, February 2007
Painted Place in Medieval Books, Art, Liturgy, and Cult in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, June 2006 (invited lecture)
The Gothic Cathedral: Physics, Faith and Fabrication, and The Gothic Cathedral: Spotlight on Canterbury, Northumberland Learning Connection, Cobourg, ON, April 2006 (invited lectures)
The Open Book: Reflection on Medieval Art and Experience, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, April 2006 (invited lecture)
The Art of Monastic Contemplation in Medieval Bavaria, Canadian Conference of Medieval Art Historians, Kingston, March 2006
Situating the Macrocosm/Microcosm in Medieval German Art, Making Thoughts, Making Pictures, Making Memories in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Mellon Conference in Honor of Mary Carruthers, Urbana-Champaign, September 2005 (invited lecture)
The Romanesque Engraved Bronze Bowls: a Reappraisal, Frauen-Kloster-Kunst. Neue Forschungen zur Kulturgeschichte des Mittelalters, Bonn and Essen, May 2005
“Be Filled Unto All the Fullness of God:” Revelation and Emulation in Medieval German Art, Northern Illinois University, April 2004 (invited lecture)
Byzantine Art, Now and Then, University Art Centre, Malcove Spring Lecture Series, March 2004 (invited lecture with Linda Safran)
Romanesque Manuscript Illumination: A Contradiction in Terms? 39th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 2004
Romanesque: the Tyranny of a Term, Canadian Conference of Medieval Art Historians, Toronto, March 2004
Has Arae Tabulas Posuit Suggerius Abbas: Suger’s Object Lesson, Saint-Denis Revisited: Suger, Art and Architecture, Index of Christian Art, Princeton University, October 2003 (invited paper)
Mimetic Space and Motion in Medieval Art, Smith College, February 2003 (invited lecture)
Artistic Patronage and Saxon Nunneries, Family & Monastery in Europe and the Mediterranean, 300-1100. Workshop sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Board (UK), Georgetown University, Washington, DC January 2003
Art and Ideas in Twelfth-Century German Manuscripts, Manuscripts and Monastic Culture: Admont and the Twelfth Century Renaissance, Admont, Austria, August 2002 (invited paper)
Of Collections and Kings: the Case of Ottonian Germany, in the session “Collecting in the Early Middle Ages, 600–1200,” College Art Association, 90th Annual Conference, Philadelphia, February 2002
Liturgical Drama and Ottonian Art, in the session “Removing Boundaries Between the Arts,” Medieval Academy of America Annual Conference, Austin, April 2000
Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts, presentation to University of Pennsylvania course “An Introduction to Medieval Paleography” (Professors E. Ann Matter and T. Waldman), April 2000
Abbess Uta of Regensburg: Patterns of Patronage Around 1000, Oberlin College, Baldwin Lecture, March 2000
The Lesson of Eve in the Bronze Doors of Bernward of Hildesheim, Sixth International Seminar on Jewish Art, Jerusalem, June 1999 (invited paper)
Ottonian Book Arts and Female Spirituality, 34th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 1999 (invited paper)
Abbess Uta of Regensburg: Patterns of Patronage Around 1000, in the session “No Longer Anonymous: Unmasking the Women Patrons of the Medieval Era,” Women Art Patrons and Collectors: Past and Present, New York, March 1999
1066 and All That: Views of the Eleventh Century, in the session “Defining the Early Middle Ages,” 33rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 1998 (invited paper)
Re/forming Memory: The Visual Culture of a Medieval German Nunnery, Duke University and The University of Texas at Austin, November 1997
Art of the First Reich: Rethinking the Ottonian Renovatio, The Catholic University of America, Medieval and Byzantine Studies Faculty Seminar Series, April 1997
Picturing Imperial Ideology: Otto III and Renovatio from an Art Historical Perspective, in the session “Otto III and Renovatio,” Medieval Academy of America Annual Conference, Kansas City, April 1996
Marking Time in the Uta Codex, in the session “Past, Present, Future: Emblems of Temporality,” College Art Association, 82nd Annual Conference, New York, February 1994
HONORS AND AWARDS
J. Paul Getty Museum Guest Scholar, July–September 2007
SSHRC (Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada) Standard Research Grant, 2007–10
Faculty Research Award, Joint Initiative in German and European Studies, The University of Toronto, November 2004
British Academy, Research Grant, Neil Ker Memorial Fund, October 2003
The College of William & Mary, Minor Research Grant, Spring 2002; Faculty Summer Research Award, Summer 2001
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts and Texts, British Library, June-July 2001
Medieval Academy of America, Independent Scholar Travel Grant, to deliver paper at the Medieval Academy of America Annual Conference, Austin, April 2000
Samuel H. Kress Foundation, publication subsidy for The Uta Codex: Art, Philosophy, and Reform in Eleventh-Century Germany, 1998
Annual Grant, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, 1991–92
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
The University of Toronto, Fall 2003 – Present
The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. Visiting Professor, Fall 2000–Spring 2003
The University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware. Visiting Professor, Spring 2001
The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. Adjunct Lecturer, Fall 1998, Spring 1997
The University of California, Berkeley. Visiting Lecturer, Spring 1998
The University of Texas at Austin. Visiting Lecturer, Fall 1997
The American University, Washington, D.C. Adjunct Lecturer, Spring 1997
Harford Community College, Bel Air, Maryland. Instructor, 1992–93
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, School of Continuing Studies. Instructor, Fall 1992
MUSEUM EXPERIENCE
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, California. Consultant, Department of Manuscripts. Conceived and prepared exhibition titled “The Art of Giving in the Middle Ages,” November 21, 2000–February 4, 2001
Chizuk Amuno Museum, Baltimore, Maryland. Curator of Judaica collection. Research on and reinstallation of collection of 17th- to 20th-century liturgical objects; instituted collection management and development policies, February 1997–August 1997
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, California. Intern, then Curatorial Assistant, Department of Manuscripts. Research assistant; conceived and prepared the exhibition “Devotion and Desire: Views of Women in the Middle Ages and Renaissance,” September 1994–June 1996
Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. Visual Resources Intern. Responsible for initial work on Weitzmann Photographic Archive, Summer 1988
The Cloisters Museum, New York. Education Intern. Involved in study of collection, seminars in museum work, developing and delivering thematic tour, Summer 1985
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Associate Director, Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Toronto, 2008–
Nominating Committee, Medieval Academy of America, 2006–2008
Undergraduate Coordinator, University of Toronto, Dept. of Fine Art, 2005–2007
Advisor, International Center for Medieval Art (ICMA), 2001–2006
Membership Committee, International Center for Medieval Art (ICMA), 2006–2007
Assistant Editor for Medieval Studies and Art History, Common Knowledge, 1998–
Advisory Board member, Aurora, 1999–
Editorial Board, “Studies in the Visual Cultures of the Middle Ages” (Brepols)
Editorial Board, The Medieval Review, 2000–02
Manuscript reviewer for Art Bulletin, Speculum, Gesta, Viator, Princeton University Press, Penn State Press, Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, University of Toronto Press, University Press of New England
Early Medieval Specialist for Harcourt Brace College Publishers. Reviewed Chapter 10 (“Early Medieval Art”) for the revised eleventh edition of Gardner’s Art Through the Ages, 1997
DISSERTATIONS SUPERVISED (University of Toronto)
Sarah Guérin, “’Tears of Compunction’: French Gothic Ivories in Devotional Practice”
Amy Miller, “The Lithic Landscape: Transformations in Stone in Medieval Cumbria”
Adam Stead, “Decorating St. Kunibert: Art, Patronage, and Institutional Identities in Thirteenth-Century Cologne”
John McQuillen, “In Manuscript and Print: The Fifteenth-century Library of Scheyern Abbey”
DISSERTATION COMMITTEES
Christine Kralik, University of Toronto
Stephen Wagner, University of Delaware
Kristen Collins, University of Texas
Christine Sciacca, Columbia University