Art Faculty - Karen Blough
Art Department Chair/Associate Professor
Karen Blough joined the SUNY Plattsburgh art faculty in 1999. She taught previously at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. Prof. Blough received her Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1995 with a doctoral thesis entitled Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Codex Barberini latinus 711: A Late Tenth-Century Illustrated Gospel Lectionary from Reichenau . Prof. Blough has presented her work on early medieval manuscript illumination and female abbatial patronage in the Middle Ages at several professional conferences, including among others the St. Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies, the International Medieval Congress at Leeds (Great Britain), and the Annual International Conference on Medieval Studies at Kalamzoo (Michigan). Her most recent publication is "The Princess-abbesses of Essen and the Golden Virgin," which appeared in De Re Metallica: The Uses of Metal in the Middle Ages , ed R. Bork, Ashgate, 2005, 147-161. Prof. Blough teaches courses on ancient, medieval, and Renaissance art as well as book art and, as the first recipient of the Rabin Fellowship in Judaic Perspectives, Jewish art in antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance.
Education
- Ph.D., Rutgers University
Teaching Areas
- Ancient Art
- Medieval Art
- Renaissance Art
- Jewish Art
- Art of the Book
Areas of Specialization
- Medieval art
- Manuscript illumination
- Ivory carving
- Metalwork
- Issues of patronage
Recent Publications
- "The Princess-Abbesses of Essan and the Golden Virgin" De Re Metallica: The Uses of Metal in the Middle Ages, ed. R. Bork, Ashgate: Aldershot, Hants, 2005, 147-161.
- Review of Catherine Brown Tkacz, The Key tothe Brescia Casket: Typology and the Early Christian Imagination, The Medieval Review (http://www.hti.umich.edu/t/tmr/ ), March 2003
- Review of Adam Cohen, The Uta Codex, Speculum LXXXVIII/3 (July 2003), 856-858.
- Essays on "Ottonian Art," "Ottonian Ivories," "Master of the Registrum Gregorii," "Bernward of Hildesheim," Empress Theophano," and "St. Gall," Medieval German: An Encyclopedia , J.A. Holladay, ed., New York, 2001.
Contact Karen Blough
Office: Myers Fine Arts 211
Phone: (518) 564-2468
E-mail: bloughke@plattsburgh.edu