Ph.D. 2005 University of California, Santa Barbara
Dissertation: Narrative Performance and Devotional Experience in the Art of Hans Memling
M.A. 1998 Indiana University, Bloomington, indiana
B.A. 1994 Linfield College (cum laude), McMinnvile, Oregon
Areas of specialization: Early modern art in the north; Print culture

Publications

• "Narrative, Memling, and the Devotional Imagination," Manuscript in progress; preliminary proposal accepted.
• 2009 "Alternate Routes: Theme and Variation in Early Modern Stational Devotions." Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies 40 No. 1.
• Winter 2008 "Capell nuncapato Jherusalem noviter Brugis: The Adornes family of Bruges and Holy Land Devotion." Sixteenth Century Journal 39/4.
• "Station to Station: Memling's Passion and Fifteenth-Century Processional Devotions." Article under review.
• "Memling's Munich Theophany and early modern pilgrimage to Bethlehem." Article in progress.
• "The Church of the Holy Sepulcher and the Arma Christi: The Performance of Early Modern Mnemonic Devotions." Article in progress.
• Book Review: "Virtue & Vice: The Personifications in the Index of Christian Art," Visual Resources-An International Journal of Documentation Vol. XVII< No. 2, 2001.

Conference, Guest Lectures

• 2008 Southeastern College Art Conference. "Pilgrimage Devotion and Palm Sunday Celebrations at the Jeruzalemkerk in Bruges."
• 2007 Canadian Association for the Advancement of Netherlandic Studies, Vancouver Chapter. Invited Public Lecture: "Bruges and Hans Memling's International Clientele."
• 2006 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan. "Anselm Adornes' Jerusalem ilgrimage and the Jeruzalemkerk of Bruges."
• 2006 Conference, The Holy City of Jerusalem. Desire and Conflict, Past and Present. Green College, University of British Columbia. Invited Lecture: "Loci sancti and helighe plaetsen: Re-performing the Sacred Spaces of Jerusalem in Fifteenth-century Flanders and Brabant."
• 2004 Rijkuniversiteit Gent, Faculteit Middeleeuwse Geschiedenis, Ghent. Invited lecture, "Narrative Performance and Devotional Experience in the Art of Hans Memling."

Grants and Awards

• 2006 Mallory Award for Doctorate of Philosohy awarded Honors with Distinction, UCSB Deptartment of History of Art and Architecture
• 2003-04 Belgian American Educational Foundation Fellowship
• 2003 UCSB History of Art and Architecture VIDDA Fellowship
• 2002 Graduate Division Summer Dissertation Proposal Award, UCSB
• 2002 Medieval Studies Department Medieval Studies Incentive Award, UCSB
• 2001 UCSB Arts Affiliates Award
• 2000-05 Humanities Special Fellowship, University of California, Santa Barbara

Courses Taught

• ART 200, Art in Context
• ART 274, Survey of Asian Art History

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Phone: 836-5427
Email: MKirklandIves@missouristate.edu