Michelle Duran

Associate Professor of Art

Art History

Professional Biography

1996    A.B. in History, University of California at Berkeley
1998    M.A. in Art History, University of California, Santa Barbara
2003    Ph.D. in Art History, University of California, Santa Barbara
            major field: Gothic Painting
            minor field: Modern Mexican Painting

Dr. Duran's interests are varied and are reflected in the courses she regularly teaches, including Medieval Art, Film Art & Theory, Women in Art and Mexican Art. Her primary research interests focus around issues of gender and identity in late-medieval Italian painting and her current book project (The Ideology of Identity: Imaging Sovereignty in the Reign of Giovanna I, 1343-82) addresses these issues as relates to the Angevin Kingdom of Naples. In 2006 she spent several weeks in the U.K. as an NEH
fellow at Darwin College (Cambridge University) in a seminar on the seven deadly sins in the middle ages and her most recent article, "Portals and Pilgrims in Late-Medieval Siena," appeared in _The Art, Science, and Technology of Medieval Travel_ in 2008. She is currently involved in a collaboration with Dr. Lieve Watteeuw of the Royal Institute for the Study and Conservation of Belgium¹s Artistic Heritage (KIK-IRPA) and her forthcoming essay on the Anjou Bible, which is currently undergoing restoration at KIK-IRPA, will appear in the volume dedicated to the manuscript as part of Illuminare¹s Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts series in Fall 2010.