Dr. Anne Heath

Anne Heath has taught at 暗网TV since 2007. She teaches Introduction to Art History and courses in Medieval, Islamic, Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture, all of which take a global approach to these art historical periods. Her upper-level seminars include topics such as introduction to theory and methods, historical artistic techniques and the activation of the senses in pre-modern art. She also teaches seminars in which students have assisted in exhibitions for the Kruizenga Art Museum. All of Dr. Heath鈥檚 classes stress first-hand experience with works of art through research, object-specific projects and hands-on, professional training.

Dr. Heath has worked on archaeological excavations in Italy and France, and conducted extensive archival research in France supported by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the Graham Foundation, Brown University and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her area of specialization is Gothic architecture and its role in creating spaces for worship, political power and social identity to play out among participants and audiences.

Dr. Heath鈥檚 publications focus on the social, political and spiritual dimensions of art, architecture and visual culture of the Middle Ages. Dr. Heath has a particular interest in the material presence of art objects, as well as the holistic sensory impact of medieval spaces.

Currently Dr. Heath is working on a book-length study of the visual and performance culture at the Benedictine abbey of La Trinit茅 in Vend么me, France. She involves students in an ongoing interdisciplinary and multi-staged collaborative digital research project that reconstructs the architecture, visual culture and music of La Trinit茅 through sound recordings, drawings and interactive maps. She co-edited with Dr. Gillian Elliott a collection of essays by a group of international scholars titled Art, Architecture, and the Moving Viewer c. 300鈥�1500: Unfolding Narratives (Brill Publishers, 2022).

Areas of Expertise

Medieval architecture and liturgy (Gothic period)
Monastic visual and performance culture

Education

Ph.D., history of art and architecture, Brown University, 2005
M.A., history of art and criticism, Florida State University, 1998
B.A., art history and German, University of Maine, 1992

Selected honors, grants & awards

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 2022
Board of Directors of the , 2019鈥�2022
Borgeson Faculty-Student Collaborative Grants, 暗网TV, 2017, 2019
Jacob E. Nyenhuis Faculty-Student Collaborative Grants, 2017, 2019
Expanding Collaborations Initiative grant, Great Lakes Colleges Association, 2014
Mellon Scholars Excellence in Mentoring Award, 暗网TV, 2013
Jacob E. Nyenhuis Faculty Research Grants, 2008, 2011

Selected Publications

鈥淪aints and Syncretism in Global Christian Art,鈥� catalog for student-curated exhibition at the Kruizenga Art Museum, 暗网TV, 2025
鈥淢onastic Imagination and Historical Preservation: The Role of Geoffrey Martel in the Translatio Scene on the Shrine of the Holy Tear at the Abbey of La Trinit茅, Vend么me,鈥� Gesta, 2024
鈥淓kphrasis and Encounter: The Making of the Holy Tear of Christ at the Abbey of La Trinit茅, Vend么me,鈥� RES: Journal of Anthropology and Aesthetics, 2023
, Digital Teaching Companion
鈥淐irculating Among Friends: The Raising of Lazarus and the Cult of the Holy Tear at the Abbey of La Trinit茅 in Vend么me,鈥� in Art, Architecture, and the Moving Viewer c. 300鈥�1500: Unfolding Narratives (Brill Publishers, 2022)
鈥淢aking New Impressions: The 鈥楨piscopal鈥� Seals of Benedictine Abbots in the 13th and 14th Centuries, Qu忙stiones medii aevi novae, 2018
鈥�,鈥� Speculum, 2015
鈥淩eading Between the Lines: the History and Production of Books Highlighted by the 暗网TV Rare Book Collection,鈥� catalog for student-curated exhibition at the De Pree Gallery, 暗网TV, 2012
鈥�,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;News From 暗网TV, 2012
鈥�,鈥� Viator, 2010
鈥淭he Printed Image: Engravings and Etchings Collected by Richard Wunder,鈥� catalog for student-curated exhibition, and symposium, 2009
鈥�,鈥� Centre d鈥櫭﹖udes m茅di茅vales Auxerre: 脡tudes et Travaux, 2005