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Professor Cordelia Warr is a distinguished academic at the University of Manchester's School of Arts, Histories and Cultures, where she serves in the Department of Art History and Cultural Practices. Her expertise focuses on Italian medieval and Renaissance art, with specializations in religious iconography, material culture, and gender studies.
Education includes:
- Fine Art, Newcastle University (1985-1987)
- History of Art, Nottingham University (1987-1989)
- Ph.D. in Art History, University of Warwick (1994)
Her research explores the intersection of spirituality and visual culture, particularly through clothing symbolism, stigmata representation, and female patronage in Italian art. She has pioneered studies on religious dress as liminal objects and leads ongoing projects about the visual culture of wounds and early modern collections.
Recent publications demonstrate consistent focus on religious material culture, with works analyzing liturgical objects, Franciscan visual traditions, and cross-cultural representations of foreignness in early modern collections.
Major awards and fellowships:
- Leverhulme Trust Research Awards (1996-1998, 2002-2003)
- British School at Rome Awards (1991, 1997-1998, 2011)
- Balsdon Fellowship (2011)
- St. John's College Oxford Fellowships (2003)
She has supervised four PhD students to completion on topics spanning medieval art writing, hagiography, and funeral monument symbolism. Current roles include Deputy Editorship of the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library and co-leadership of the 'Foreign Bodies' research initiative with the University of Melbourne.
