Expert Source: Carol Neuman de Vegvar, Ph.D.

Carol Neuman de Vegvar serves as Ohio Wesleyan’s primary art historian. A medievalist, she also teaches Classical, Renaissance, Baroque, and Islamic art. She has lectured and published internationally on early western medieval art and serves as consultant for several museums and collections in England.

Education:

• A.B., Bryn Mawr College
• Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Areas of Expertise:

• Art history
• The interface between secular and sacred art
• The preservation and destruction of artistic patrimony
• Role of art in culture and society

Selected Publications:

• Neuman De Vegvar, Carol. “Reading the Franks Casket: Contexts and Audiences.” Intertexts: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Culture. Ed. Virginia Blanton and Helene Scheck. Tempe, Arizona: ACMRS, 2008: 141-159.
• “Remembering Jerusalem: Architecture and Meaning in Insular Canon Table Arcades,” Making and Meaning: 5th International Conference of Insular Art, Trinity College Dublin, Aug. 25-28, 2005. ed. Rachel Moss, (Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2007), 242-56.
• “High Style and Borrowed Finery: The Strood Mount, the Long Wittenham Stoup, and the Boss Hall Brooch as Complex Responses to Continental Visual Culture,” Conversion and Colonization in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. Catherine Karkov and Nicholas Howe (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Arizona State University, 2006), 31-58.