Michelle Duran-McLure
Professional Biography 1996 A.B. in History, University of California at Berkeley Dr. Duran-McLure's interests are varied and are reflected in the courses she regularly teaches, including Medieval Art, Film as Art, Women in Art and Mexican Art. Her primary research interests are focused around issues of gender and identity in late-medieval Italian painting and she has presented several papers on these topics at a variety of international conferences. She is currently writing a book on some of the illuminated manuscripts produced in trecento Naples, tentatively entitled, "The Ideology of Identity: Imaging Authority in Angevin Naples, 1309-1382." She has an article, "Portals and Pilgrims in Late-Medieval Siena," appearing in a forthcoming book on medieval travel and she recently spent several weeks in Cambridge, U.K. as a fellow at an NEH summer seminar on the sevendeadly sins as cultural constructions in the middle ages. Dr. Duran-McLure's hobbies include knitting, travelling and spending time with her husband, five sons and her beloved dog, luci. |
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