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Skidmore College
Filene Building
815 North Broadway
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866

DEPARTMENT CHAIR:
Katherine Hauser
Telephone: (518) 580-5054
Office: 118A

Office Hours Spring 2012
Tuesdays: 3:30-5:00 pm and Fridays: 10:00-11:30 am, by appointment.

See Prof. Hauser for: signature on study abroad forms, major/minor forms, and AP credit.

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT:
Terri Brandt
Office: 113

Jennifer Courts
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History

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Contact Information

Office: Filene 111
Email: jcourts@skidmore.edu
Phone:  518-580-5051

Office Hours Spring 2012: 
Mon. 1:00-2:00 pm
Thurs. 2:30-3:30 pm
Or by Appointment


Education

  • Ph.D., Art History, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 2011
  • M.A., Art History, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 2006
  • B.A., Art History, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 2003

Regional Focus

France, Netherlands

Research and Teaching Interests

Valois France; Gift Economies; Ludic Studies; Romance Literature; Medieval Manuscripts; Early Modern Painting

Courses

  • Survey of Western Art (AH 100)
  • Renaissance Europe (AH 241)
  • The Art of Courtly Love (AH 351C)

Publications

Books

  • The Politics of Devotion: Patronage and the Sumptuous Arts at the French Court 1374-1472.  Book manuscript in preparation.

Articles and Chapters

  • “Le Temps Venra: Establishing Visual Legitimacy in the Petites Heures of Jean de Berry,” Comitatus 42 (September 2011).
  • “Weaving Legitimacy: The Jouvenel des Ursins Family and Constructing Nobility in Fifteenth Century France,” Dressing the Part: Textiles as Propaganda in the Middle Ages, eds. Kate Dimitrova and Margaret Goehring (Turnhout: Brepols, forthcoming 2012).
  • “Problematizing Patronage: The Book as Gift and the Repackaging of Harley MS 4431,” Special issue of Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures, Rethinking Late Medieval Patronage Dynamics, ed. Deborah McGrady (forthcoming 2013).
  • “Wicked Wives: The Animate Vulva, Social Satire, and Fear of a Female Pilgrim,” Athanor (2006).

Select Fellowships, Grants, and Honors

  • Student Paper Prize, Medieval Academy of America, 2010
  • Penelope Mason Dissertation Writing Fellowship, Florida State University, 2009
  • Graduate Dissertation Research Grant, Florida State University, 2008
  • Penelope Mason Doctoral Research Award, Florida State University, 2007