Graduate Students
Sarah Bromberg
Europe before 1750
Bromberg focuses on images associated with visionary, devotional and exegetical forms of biblical commentary that are found in manuscripts used for ritual practices, private prayer and intellectual study. Her undergraduate thesis analyzes Hildegard von Bingen's Scivias illuminations; her Master's thesis examines the Rothschild Canticles. Currently, for the dissertation, Bromberg is working on illuminations found in manuscripts containing Nicholas of Lyra's Postilla that were produced approximately a century after the original manuscript. Methodologies and broader issues of interest are: gender theory, reception history, artistic commerce and patronage.
Education
University of Pittsburgh, Doctoral Student in the History of Art and Architecture Department, Advisor: M. Alison Stones
Tufts University, MA Art History, May 1999, Master’s Thesis, Problematizing Gendered Readings in the Rothschild Canticles, Advisor: Madeline H. Caviness
Brandeis University, BA, Summa Cum Laude with High Honors in English Literature and with Honors in Studio Arts, May 1995, Phi Beta Kappa, Senior Thesis, Hildegard of Bingen’s Symbolic and Practical Use of Garments
Publications
“Gendered and Ungendered Readings of the Rothschild Canticles,” Different Visions 1 (2008). [A peer-reviewed journal.] www.differentvisions.org
Conference Papers
“King Manuel of Portugal’s Postilla as a Case Study in the Relationship between Printed Books and Luxury Manuscripts.” International Center for Medieval Art Conference at the University of Pittsburgh, October 3, 2009.
Participant in roundtable discussion of Deanna Klepper’s 2007 book, The Insight of Unbelievers: Nicholas of Lyra and Christian Reading of Jewish Text in the Middle Ages (University of Pennsylvania Press). International Medieval Congress at Western Michigan University. Kalamazoo, MI. May 7, 2009.
“New Directions in Research on Illuminated Manuscripts containing Nicholas of Lyra’s Postilla litteralis super totam bibliam.” History of Art and Architecture Department Colloquium at the University of Pittsburgh, April 15, 2009.
“A Gendered Reading of the Rothschild Canticles: Investigating Male Identification with the Sponsa,” International Medieval Congress at Western Michigan University. Kalamazoo, MI. May 2006. Also given at the History of Art and Architecture Department colloquium at University of Pittsburgh, April 2006.
“Envisioning the Ordo Virtutum,” International Medieval Congress at Western Michigan University. Kalamazoo, MI. May 5, 2002.
“Glorious Clothes and the Terrors Beneath: Hildegard’s Use of Symbolic Garments in Her Illuminations and Rituals.” Paper was given at the following two conferences:
International Medieval Congress 2001, University of Leeds, Leeds, England. July, 2001.
The Greenest Branch: A Conference on the 900th Anniversary of the Birth of Hildegard of Bingen, St. Michael’s College, Trinity College and the University of Vermont, Burlington, VT. November, 1998.
“Representations of the Rupertsberg Community in the Scivias Illuminations.” Yale-Berkeley Seminar on Hildegard of Bingen and Community Life, Yale University, New Haven, CT. October 1998.
“Hildegard’s Use of Garments as Carriers of Female Spirituality: An Examination of the Scivias Illuminations.” Paper was given at the following three conferences:
Hildegard of Bingen at 900: A Celebration of Her Spirituality and Music, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR. March 1998.
Representation and Interpretation in the Twelfth Century Conference, Canisius College, Buffalo, NY. April 1995.
Medieval Studies Graduate Colloquium, Yale University. New Haven, CT. March 1996.
“The Role of the Virgin Mary in Thirteenth-Century Legends of Theophilus: An Examination of Visual Representations in Notre Dame of Chartres, Notre Dame of Laon, the de Braille Hours and the Lambeth Apocalypse.” Annual Graduate Symposium, Tufts University, MA. March 1997.
Guest Lectures
A Visual Context for the Ordo Virtutum.” Guest Lecture to Prof. Susan Boynton’s class, “Seminar in Historical Musicology: The Middle Ages.” March 2002. Columbia University.
“Private Devotion in the Middle Ages: The Rothschild Canticles.” Guest Lecture to Prof. Virginia Raguin’s class, “Medieval Art.” November 18, 1999. College of the Holy Cross.
Grants and Scholarships
Friends of Frick Fine Arts Travel Award, History of Art and Architecture Department, University of Pittsburgh, Summer 2009
Marstine Family Foundation Dissertation Summer Travel Grant, Summer 2009
Friends of Frick Fine Arts Travel Award, History of Art and Architecture Department, University of Pittsburgh, May 2005
Faculty of Arts Sciences Graduate Fellowship in the History of Art & Architecture Department, Full Tuition and Stipend for academic year 2003-2004 at the University of Pittsburgh
Remis Summer Study Grant, Fine Arts Department, Brandeis University, 1993
Teaching Experience
Humanities Department, Suffolk University, Boston
Adjunct Lecturer: Taught Art, Literature and Music I
September 2002-Dec. 2002
Humanities Department, Fitchburg State College, Fitchburg, MA
Instructor: One-year, full-time appointment; Courses taught: Women, Art and Society, Renaissance Art, Nineteenth-Century Art, Art Appreciation, Survey of Art Forms I
September 2001-May 2002
Humanities Department, Suffolk University, Boston
Adjunct Lecturer: Taught Survey of Art History I
May 2001-June 2001
Sept. 2002-May 2003
Critical Studies Department, Massachusetts College of Art
Adjunct Lecturer: Taught multiple sections of Perspectives in Art History, an introductory, year-long, survey course required for freshmen.
Sept. 2000-May 2001
Art Department. Regis College, Weston, MA
Adjunct Lecturer: Taught Nineteenth-Century Art
Jan. 2001-May 2001
Art Department, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
Adjunct Lecturer: Taught Medieval Art
Jan. 2000-May 2000
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Adjunct Lecturer
Sept. 2000-Dec. 2000
Jan. 2003-April 2003
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Gallery Teacher
July 1999-August 2000
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Graduate Student Gallery Talk Intern
Sept. 1998-May 1999
Department of Art History, Tufts University
Teaching Assistant: Taught weekly section of Art, Ritual and Culture, an introductory survey of art from Ancient to Medieval cultures open to undergraduates.
Sept. 1997-Dec. 1997