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Christina Normore

Office: Kresge 3-550
c-normore@northwestern.edu

Christina Normore (Ph.D. 2008, University of Chicago) is an Assistant Professor of medieval art, specializing in the Western European Middle Ages. Her interests within this field range widely from the edible and performance art of court banquets to the depiction of female ascetics. Her current book project, preliminarily entitled Ethical Estrangement: Art, Image, and Selfhood in the Late Middle Ages examines the close links between confessional/ethical models of self-critique and judgment, political action, and aesthetic categories such as magnificence and the marvelous in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Northern Europe.

An unrelated article, "On the archival rhetoric of some Valois inventories," is forthcoming from the Journal of the History of Collections. She teaches a broad array of courses in late antique, Byzantine and medieval art on topics such as the cult of the saints, book arts, and picturing identity beyond mimesis.