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Curriculum VitaeMaranci, ChristinaDept. of Art History |
Christina Maranci teaches Early Christian, Byzantine, Romanesque, and Gothic art and architecture. Her research focuses on medieval Armenia and cross-cultural relations with the Byzantine, Sasanian and Islamic worlds, as well as problems of historiography. Her book, Medieval Armenian Architecture: Constructions of Race and Nation, examines the role of Austrian art historian Josef Strzygowski in shaping the study of the field. In more recent publications, she has explored the cultural appropriation of Byzantine ideas into Armenian architecture and sculpture, and, in the realm of illuminated manuscripts, is pursuing a study of art and performance in the illustrated Armenian Alexander Romance. She is also currently at work on a study of architecture and princely patronage in medieval Armenia, and on an article considering 19th and early 20th-century paradigms of race and nation in the practice of art history. EducationPh.D., Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, 1998 Selected PublicationsMedieval Armenian Architecture: Constructions of Race and Nation (Louvain: Peeters, 2001). A Survival Guide for Art History Students (Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2004). "Building Churches in Armenia: Medieval Art at the Borders of Empire and the Edge of the Canon," The Art Bulletin, December (2006): 656-675. "The Architect Trdat: Building Practices and Cross-Cultural Exchange in Byzantium and Armenia," Journal for the Society of Architectural Historians, September (2003): 294-305. "The Historiography of Armenian Architecture: Josef Strzygowski, Austria, and Armenia," Revue des études arméniennes (2001-2): 287-308. "Byzantium through Armenian Eyes: Cultural Appropriation and the Case of Zuart'noc'," Gesta, 40, no. 2 (2001): 105-24. "The Performative Monument: Ritual and Church Exterior in Early Medieval Armenia," Visualizing Medieval Performance: Perspectives, Histories, Contexts (London: Ashgate, forthcoming). |
