About
Alexa Sand is Professor of Art History and Associate Vice President for Research/Associate Dean of Graduate Studies at Utah State University, where she has taught since 2004. She earned her PhD in art history UC Berkeley, with an emphasis on medieval French art and literature. Her book, Vision, Devotion, and Self-Representation in Late Medieval Art appeared with Cambridge University Press in March 2014. Since coming to Utah State she has been the recipient of national fellowships including the AAUW American Fellowship for Publication, the ACLS Charles Ryskamp Fellowship, the Gilbert and Ursula Farfel Fellowship at the Huntington Library, a Clark Fellowship, and a Paul Mellon Senior Visiting Fellowship at the Center for the Advanced Study of the Visual Arts (CASVA).
In her teaching, Dr. Sand emphasizes student-centered learning practices, and her longstanding commitment to undergraduate research has led to recognition from students (the Mortarboard Society Top Prof Award) and peers (Caine College of the Arts Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year). She has served on the Council for Undergraduate Research as an arts and humanities councilor and for the past six years, participating actively in a national effort to support and develop research opportunities for undergraduate students across all disciplines. In addition, she is involved the Medieval and Early Modern Studies certificate program and is a corresponding faculty member for the major in Religious Studies Education
University of California, Berkeley: PhD in History of Art, 1999, MA in History of Art 1994
Williams College, Williamstown, MA: BA in History of Art and Anthropology, cum laude, 1991 Publications
Book
Vision, Devotion, and Self Representation in Late Medieval Art. Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Reviews:
Kathryn Smith,
The Medieval Review, 15.08.41 (
https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/19771/25851 )
Elizabeth Hunt,
The American Historical Review, 20.5 (December 2015): 1959-1960
Margaret Hadley,
CAA.reviews (December 28,2016)
http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/2865
Essays
“Virtuous Bodies:
La Somme le roi of Jeanne of Guînes and Eu, 1311,” invited essay in
Tributes to Adelaide Bennett Hagens: Manuscripts, Iconography, and the Late Medieval Viewer, ed. Pamela Patton and Judith Golden (Brepols, 2017), 41-68.
“Religion and Ritualized Belief,” invited essay for
A Cultural History of Hair, Volume 2: The Middle Ages, ed. Roberta Milliken, series editor Geraldine Biddle-Perry (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017), at press.
“And Your Little Dog, Too: Michal’s Lap Dog and the Romance of the Old Testament,” in
Our Dogs, Ourselves: Dogs in Medieval and Early Modern Society, ed. Laura Gelfand (Leiden: Brill, 2016), 165-186.
“Materia Meditandi: Haptic Perception and Some Parisian Ivories of the Virgin and Child, ca. 1300,”
Different Visions: A Journal of New Perspectives on Medieval Art, 4 (January, 2014). Online, URL:
http://differentvisions.org/issue-four/
“
Cele Houre Memes: An English Psalter in the Huntington Library,”
Huntington Library Quarterly 75 (2012): 171-211.
“Visuality,” in
Medieval Art History Today: Critical Terms, ed. Nina Rowe,
Studies in Iconography 33 (2012): 89-95.
“The fairest of them all: Reflections on Some Fourteenth-Century Mirrors,” in
, Push Me, Pull You: Interaction, Imagination and Devotional Practices in Late Medieval and Renaissance Art, Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, eds. Sarah Blick and Laura Gelfand. Leiden: Brill, 2011, 529-559.
“Vindictive virgins: animate images and theories of art in some thirteenth-century miracle stories,”
Word and Image, 26.2 (2010):150-159.
“Inseminating Ruth in the Morgan Picture Bible,”
in Sexuality in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times: New Approaches to a Fundamental Cultural-Historical and Literary-Anthropological Theme, edited by Albrecht Classen. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2008, 535-564.
“A Small Door: Recognizing Ruth in the Psalter-Hours ‘of Yolande of Soissons’”
Gesta, XLVI/2 (March 2007), 19-40.
“Vision and the Portrait of Jean le Bon” in Meaning and Its Objects: Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance France, ed. Margaret Burland, David LaGuardia, and Andrea Tarnowski.
Yale French Studies 110 (November, 2006), 58-74.
“Vision, Devotion, and Difficulty in the Psalter-Hours ‘of Yolande of Soissons’”
The Art Bulletin, 87/1 (March 2005), 6-23.
Projects
Moral Visions: La Somme le roi, 1279-1500. Book manuscript, in preparation for 2017 submission
Puppets and Puppetry Before 1500. Edited volume, in preparation for Medieval Institute Press.
“Birds in Hand: Micro-books and the Devotional Experience, 1250-1517,” invited essay for Sensory Reflections (DeGruyter Press) edited by Fiona Griffiths and Kathryn Starkey, Stanford Humanities Center, accepted for projected 2018 publication. Upcoming Talks and Conferences
2017 Lovis Corinth Symposium, Emory University, Atlanta, GA (November 30-December 2, 2017)
“The Fine Art of Dying: Envisioning Death in the Somme le roi Tradition” (invited talk) Memberships
ICMA
CAA
MAA
