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Beatrice E. Kitzinger is the Behrman Professor in the Humanities Council and Associate Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. She specializes in Western Medieval Art, particularly Carolingian-era manuscript illumination and the intersection of art, liturgy, and ritual. Her research explores medieval book-making, codicological contexts, and the relationship between manuscript decoration and broader artistic practices. Kitzinger holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University (2012) and has held postdoctoral fellowships at Stanford University. She is a founding editor of the 'Sense, Matter, and Medium' series with De Gruyter and has been affiliated with institutions like the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her work emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches to medieval art history, including collaborations with Profs. Kathryn Starkey and Fiona Griffiths. She has taught at Stanford's Prison University Project and Princeton's Prison Teaching Initiative. Key research focuses include narrative and historical intersections in medieval art, art-theater relationships, and medieval materials/techniques.
Affiliations:
- Humanities Council
- Manuscript, Rare Book and Archive Studies at Princeton
- Medieval Studies Program
Grants & Support:
- Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation
- Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
- Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
Research Focus: Her recent work examines Carolingian manuscripts from western France, liturgical space in illumination, and the role of theater in medieval art. She analyzes manuscripts' codicological contexts and their connections to ritual practices and objects beyond books. Her book The Cross, the Gospels, and the Work of Art in the Carolingian Age (2019) is a cornerstone of this research.
Teaching: Courses cover medieval art materials, medieval art and society, and interdisciplinary medieval studies. She contributes to Princeton's HUM sequence and Prison Teaching Initiative.
