"The Rhetoric of the Flesh in Late Medieval Art," public lecture by Sherry Lindquist, visiting speaker in Art History

Thursday, April 25, at 5:30 pm, in Room 116, Art Building West

Professor Sherry C.M. Lindquist came to Western Illinois University in 2012. She specializes in medieval and Renaissance visual culture with teaching and research interests in artistic identity, cultural exchange, gender, sexuality, theories of perception, illuminated manuscripts, late medieval Burgundy, Islamic art, early printing, medievalism, the social history of art, art historical method, and the history of museums.Her work has been recognized by fellowships and grants from the Newberry Library, the Kress Foundation, the Getty Research Institute, and the U.S. Fulbright Commission, among others.She is the author of Agency, Visuality and Society at the Chartreuse de Champmol (Ashgate, 2008); and the editor of The Meanings of Nudity in Medieval Art (Ashgate, 2012).