Anna Russakoff
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
- Department: Art History and Fine Arts
- Office:C-504
- Office Hours:Tuesdays and Fridays 10:00鈥�10:30 or by appointment
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Professor Russakoff is a specialist in Gothic illuminated manuscripts. She has co-edited a volume on the fourteenth-century artist Jean Pucelle, and recently completed a monograph about miraculous images of the Virgin Mary in French illuminated manuscripts. She has also co-edited a volume about humans and animals in medieval France. Her current research project is about illustrations of cross-cultural animal fables. Russakoff has wide-ranging teaching interests, and enjoys broad surveys of art history in addition to more specialized classes. She is particularly enthusiastic about including the monuments and museums of Paris, France and Europe to enhance the classroom experience.
Education/Degrees
- PhD, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
- MA, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
- BA, Brown University
Publications
- 鈥淪ome Reflections from Ground Zero,鈥� 513鈥�515 in 鈥淔orum: Meditations after the fire: Scholars on Notre Dame,鈥� with Coll Thrush, Matthew S. Champion, Kacie Morgan, Una McIlvenna, and Constant J. Mews, in: postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies 10/4 (2019), 513鈥�526, special issue on 鈥淢usic, Emotion,鈥� guest-edited by Helen Dell, Andrew Lynch, and Elizabeth Randell Upton. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41280-019-00149-5.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41280-019-00149-5 - Monograph: Imagining the Miraculous: Miraculous Images of the Virgin Mary in French Illuminated Manuscripts, ca. 1250-ca. 1450. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2019.
- 鈥淭he Jew,聽the Merchant and a Miraculous Image: Comparative Iconography in Gautier de Coinci's聽Miracles de Nostre聽Dame manuscripts,鈥� in聽Jewish Identity and Comparative Studies/Jud茅it茅 et Comparatism: Etudies offertes 脿 Astrid Starck-Adler par ses coll猫gues et amis 脿 l鈥檕ccasion de son soixante-quinzi猫me anniversaire, edited by Roy Rosenstein and Danielle Buschinger. Amiens: Presses du Centre d鈥橢tudes M茅di茅vales de Picardie, 2019, pp. 387-397
- Mobile Fables: Some Preliminary Notes on Cross-Cultural Animals and their Representations in the聽Kalila wa Dimna,鈥� in聽Medieval Manuscripts in Motion: La Circulaci贸n de manuscritos iluminados en la Pen铆nsula Ib茅rica. Edited by Alicia Migu茅lez and Fernando Villase帽or Sebastian. Madrid: CSIC, 2018, pp. 255-265
- 鈥淜alila wa Dimna: les fables, les animaux et leurs images 脿 travers les cultures,鈥� in Mondes animaliers au Moyen Age et 脿 la Renaissance: Actes du Colloque international des 8, 9, 10 et 11 mars 2016 脿 la Maison de la Culture d鈥橝miens. Edited by Danielle Buschinger et al. Amiens: Presses du Centre d鈥橢tudes聽M茅di茅vales de Picardie, 2016, pp. 378-387.
- 鈥淧ortraiture, Politics and Piety: the Royal Patronage of Gautier de Coinci鈥檚 Miracles de Nostre Dame (Paris, BnF NAF 24541).鈥� Studies in Iconography, vol. 37 (2016): 146-180.
- ,聽Co-editor with Ir猫ne Fabry-Tehranchi,聽Rodopi, Faux Titre Series, 2014.
- Collaborative Illumination: Jean Pucelle and the Visual Program of Gautier de Coinci鈥檚 Les Miracles de Nostre Dame (Paris, BnF, n.acq.fr. 24541),鈥� in , volume edited by myself and Kyunghee Pyun. Brepols/Harvey Miller; November 2013.
- 鈥淭he Virgin Hodegetria: an Iconic Formula for Miracle Illustrations in the West?鈥� in La formule au Moyen-脗ge. Edited by Elise Louviot, forthcoming from Brepols (estimated date of publication: May 2013).
- 鈥淢iracles de la Vierge et handicap au XIIIe si猫cle,鈥� in Handicaps et soci茅t茅s dans l鈥檋istoire : l鈥檈stropie, l鈥檃veugle et le paralytique de l鈥橝ntiquit茅 aux temps modernes. Edited by Franck Collard and 脡velyne Samama. Paris : L鈥橦armattan, 2010, pp. 129-144.
- Book review of Gautier de Coinci: Miracles, Music, and Manuscripts, ed. Kathy M. Krause and Alison Stones. Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe (Turnhout: Brepols, 2006), in Studies in Iconography 30 (2009), pp. 250-253.
- Book review of Marina Vidas, The Psalter of Christina of Norway in the Collection of the Royal Library in Copenhagen (Copenhagen: Museum Tuscalanum Press, 2006), published by CAA.reviews on 26 July 2007.
- Book review of Christopher de Hamel, The Rothschilds and their Collections of Illuminated Manuscripts (London: The British Library, 2005) and the French edition published by the Biblioth猫que nationale de France in 2004, in The Book Collector 55, 4 (Winter 2006), pp. 616-619.
- 鈥淭he Role of the Image in an Illustrated Manuscript of Les Miracles de Notre-Dame by Gautier de Coinci: Besan莽on, Biblioth猫que municipale 551,鈥� in Manuscripta 47/48 (2003/2004), pp. 135-144.
Conferences & Lectures
- Kalamazoo, International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 2019; invited to participate in roundtable session sponsored by the International Medieval Society, Paris, entitled, 鈥淚ntroduction to Libraries and Archival Work: Conducting research in Paris and France鈥�
- Lausanne, Switzerland, December 2018: Invited to participate in a doctoral seminar entitled, 鈥淛eux de mains . . . la question de l鈥檃ttribution dans les manuscrits.鈥� Presented a paper entitled, 鈥淟es mains des artistes dans les deux premiers exemplaires du Miroir historial (BnF fr. 316 et Leiden University Library, Vossius Collection, ms. VGG F 3A)鈥�
- Poitiers, France, June 2018: presented a paper entitled 鈥淔ormulas for Animals? Animal Iconography in a Fable and in Bestiaries鈥� as part of the fourth conference in the series 鈥楲a formule au Moyen Age鈥�
- Amiens, France, June 2018: presented a paper entitled 鈥淢iracles and Movement: Miraculous Images of the Virgin Mary in Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts鈥� as part of a conference entitled 鈥楲鈥檕euvre en mouvement鈥�
- Kalamazoo, International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 2017: presented a paper entitled 鈥淐ross-Cultural Animal Fables: Comparative Iconography in Three Kalila wa Dimna Manuscripts.鈥� Session sponsored by the Medieval Academy of America.
- Paris France, October 2016: 鈥淭he Mouse Transformed into a Girl: Cultural Boundary-Crossing in the Kalila wa Dimna鈥� will present a paper as part of a seminar entitled 鈥淭ravelling Texts and Translated Men: Postcolonialism and Migration across Disciplines.鈥� American University of Paris.
- Paris, France, July 2016: invited to speak at the British Archaeological Association Conference entitled 鈥淧aris: the Powers that Shaped the Medieval City鈥� on Parisian illuminators. Paper entitled 鈥淛ean Pucelle, Mahiet and the Fauvel Master: Relationships Between Manuscript Illuminators in Fourteenth-Century Paris鈥澛�
- Amiens, France, March 2016: conference entitled 鈥淢ondes animaliers au Moyen Age et 脿 la Renaissance;鈥� delivered a paper entitled 鈥淜alila wa Dimna: les fables, les animaux et leurs images 脿 travers les cultures鈥�
- St. Louis University, Manuscripta conference at the Vatican Film Library, October 2015; delivered a paper entitled: 鈥淧ainted and Sculpted Images of Mary in 鈥楳iracles of the Virgin鈥� Illustrations鈥�
- Lisbon, Portugal, 鈥淢edieval Manuscripts in Motion鈥� conference, March 2015; presented a paper entitled 鈥淢obile Fables: Cross-Cultural Animals and their Representations in the Kalila wa Dimna鈥�
- Kalamazoo, International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 2014; presented a paper entitled, 鈥淜alila and Dimna (Paris, BnF lat. 8504): Visual Lessons from Cross-Cultural Animals.鈥� Session sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art.
Affiliations
- College Art Association
- International Center of Medieval Art
- Medieval Academy of America
- International Medieval Society, Paris
- Historians of Netherlandish Art
- Hagiography Society
Research Areas
- Illuminated manuscripts
- Image-text relationships
- Miraculous images
- Animals in medieval art