SMU #51226 Assistant Professor of Art History (Medieval Art)

Job description

Description The Department of Art History in the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University seeks a specialist in the art and architecture of the Medieval period, broadly defined. Applications are welcome from scholars specializing in any period from AD 400-1400, whose research focuses on Europe, the Mediterranean, and/or culturally interconnected artistic traditions (Jewish, Islamic, African/Indian Ocean traditions). The successful candidate will demonstrate a commitment to interdisciplinarity, strong visual analytic skills, theoretical fluency, and a broad knowledge of Medieval visual culture. Potential research interests may address questions of art and thought; institutional and social/historical critiques of artistic production and reception; history and theories of vision, artistic media, and spatial practice; ritual performance and sacrality; interconfessional relations and exchanges; cultural poetics of gender and sexuality, social identity, and the political imaginary; cross-cultural exchange and interculture. We encourage candidates whose teaching would engage the resources and programs of cultural institutions on campus and in the area, including the art...