Dr. Joan Holladay

Biography

Professor Joan Holladay is a Professor Emerita of Art History at the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in Romanesque Gothic Art. She earned her PhD from Brown University and began her teaching career at the University of Arizona before joining the faculty at the University of Texas in January 1985. Dr. Holladay's research primarily focuses on Gothic art in Germany and France, with particular interest in sculpture and manuscript illumination from the late thirteenth to early fourteenth centuries. Her scholarly work has been published in notable journals such as Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, Journal Medieval History, and Art History. She has contributed to essay volumes and edited significant publications, including "Illuminating Epic: Kassel Willehalm Codex Landgraves Hesse Early Fourteenth Century" as part of the Monograph Series of the College Art Association, and co-editing "Gothic Sculpture America, vol. 3: Museums New York Pennsylvania" published by the International Center of Medieval Art in 2016. Additionally, she has received research grants from the American Philosophical Society and Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, and held the Dorothy K. Hohenberg Chair of Excellence in Art History at the University of Memphis. A distinguished educator, she was awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award from the College of Fine Arts in 2008.

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