| Elina Gertsman |
Selected Publications Books The Dance of Death in Middle Ages: Image, Text, Performance. The book explores the origins, intellectual history, performativity, practices of viewing, and reception of the Dance of Death imagery and texts. Under contract with Brepols, Studies in the Visual Cultures of the Middle Ages series. Projected for 2009. Visualizing Medieval Performance: Perspectives, Histories, Contexts. An edited volume of essays on the interdisciplinarity of performance in the Middle Ages. Contributions: critical introduction and Chapter 4: "Performing Birth, Enacting Death: Unstable Bodies in Late Medieval Devotion." Burlington, VT; Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2008. Refereed articles "Signs of Death: the Sacrificial Christ Child in Late Medieval Art." In Alpha es et O: Studies on the Medieval Christ Child. Eds. Theresa Kenney an Mary Dzon. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, projected for 2010. "The Pilgrim's Progress: Devotional Journey Through the Sacred Body." In Push Me, Pull You: Art and Devotional Interaction in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Eds. Sarah Blick and Laura Gelfand. Leiden: Brill Academic Press, projected for 2009. "Death and the Miniaturized City: Nostalgia, Authority, Idyll." Essays in Medieval Studies 25 (2008): 1-10. "The Loci of Performance: Art, Theater, Memory." Mediaevalia 28, no.1 (2007, published in 2008): 119-135. "The Holy Womb: the Medieval Shrine Madonna and the Structure of Devotion.” In Männerwelten-Frauenbilder. Recht und Alltag in Mittelalter und früher Neuzeit, ed. Beatrice Weifenbach. Berlin: Logos Verlag, forthcoming in 2008. “Visualizing Death: Medieval Plagues and the Macabre." In Piety and Plague: from Byzantium to te Baroque. Eds. Franco Mormando and Thomas Worcester, 64-89. Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2007. Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies Series. “Pleyinge and Peyntinge: Performing the Dance of Death.” Studies in Iconography 27 (2006), 1-43. “Visual Space and the Practice of Viewing: the Dance of Death at Meslay-le-Grenet.” Religion and the Arts 9, nos.1-2 (2005): 1-37. “The Berlin Dance of Death as the Last Judgment.” Source: Notes in the History of Art XXIV (2005): 10-20. “Illusion and Deception: Construction of a Proverb in Hieronymus Bosch’s The Conjurer.” Athanor 22 (2004): 33-39. “Tanz, Schauspiel und Gericht: Performativität im Berliner Totentanz.” With Almut Breitenbach. L’Art Macabre 5 (2004): 29-40. “The Dance of Death in Reval (Tallinn): The Preacher and His Audience.” Gesta XLII/2 (2003): 143-159. “Vir iustus atque pefectus: St. Louis as Noah in the Miraculous Recovery of the Breviary Miniature from the Hours of Jeanne D’Evreux.” Source: Notes in the History of Art XXIII, 1 (2003): 1-8. “Gegen-Seitigkeit: Rezeptionsmöglichkeiten des Revaler Totentanzes.” L’Art Macabre 4 (2003): 53-64. “Gertrude of Kiev: Queenly Patronage in the Eleventh-Century Slavic-German Codex.” Oculus: Journal for the History of Art 5 (2002): 14-31. “All Roads Lead to Kiev: Western influences on Eleventh- to Twelfth-Century Manuscript Illumination of Kievan Rus.” Comitatus, A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 31 (October 2000): 39-55. Translated into Russian and published as “Dorogi Vedut v Kiev” in Panorama 994 (2000), 28. Short essays and reviews “Art History,” “Books of Hours” and “Prayer Books.” Entries in The Handbook of Medieval Studies, ed. Albert Classen. New York and Berlin: De Gruyter, forthcoming in 2008. Review of Katie Normington’s Gender and Medieval Drama (Suffolk: D. S. Brewer, 2004), forthcoming in Theatre Survey 47, 2 (2006): 319-321. Review of Performing Medieval Narrative, eds. Evelyn Birge Vitz, Nancy Freeman Regalado and Marilyn Lawrence (Suffolk: D. S. Brewer, 2005) in Theatre Survey 47, 1 (2006): 125-7. Review of Herbert Kessler’s Seeing Medieval Art (Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2004) in Art History 28:5 (2005), 789-791. Twenty-seven critical art reviews published in the following Russian-language newspapers: Kultura (Moscow, Russia), Estonia (Tallinn, Estonia), Den za Dnyem (Tallinn, Estonia) and Panorama (Los Angeles, US), 1991-95. New research projects "The Gap of Death: Passive Violence and Visual Void in the Encounter of the Three Dead and the Three Living" (article project) “Seeing Sacred Bodies: Movement, Visuality and Performative Devotion" (article project) The Gothic Object and the Rhetoric of Unveiling (book project) Aqua Roris: Crying in the Middle Ages (edited book project) Special issue of Centropa, a Journal of Central European Architecture and Related Arts: "Macabre Art in Central Europe" (guest editor) |
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