University / institution contact details
Position: Lecturer/Professor
The Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Leeds
The Centre for Jewish Studies
Old Mining Building,
University of Leeds
Leeds
LS2 9JT
United Kingdom
Teaches (T) and/or researches (R) in:
8. Art, Architecture and Performing Arts: TR
Art (including iconography): TR
Description
After studying in Jerusalem and Munich, Eva Frojmovic obtained a Ph.D. in art history from Munich University. She has been a Max Planck Research Fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome and Frances Yates Fellow at the Warburg Institute in London, before taking up a post as Montague Burton Fellow in Jewish Studies at Leeds.
Eva Frojmovic is the founding director of the Centre for Jewish Studies, and a co-deputy director of CentreCATH (AHRC Transdisciplinary Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History), at the University of Leeds. She has taught on the MA in Jewish Cultures and Modernity. Her main teaching interests lie in Medieval and Renaissance history of art and in postcolonial studies in the visual. She is a member of the programming committee of the International Medieval Congress. Her main research interest is in the area of Hebrew manuscript illumination/book illustration and the visual representation of Jews in medieval and early modern culture. She also has a research and supervision interest in all aspects of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, especially when related to theoretical questions related to postcolonial thought and feminism
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