Elizabeth Pastan is the president of the American Corpus Vitrearum, and professor of art history at Emory University, where she received the Distinguished Teaching in the Humanities Award. Her work focuses on the reception of monumental narrative cycles, and has focused on stained glass and textiles. Her first book on the stained glass of Troyes Cathedral (Les vitraux du choeur de la cathédrale de Troyes) was published by the French Corpus Vitrearum, and she is the only American to have been invited to publish in this series. Her publications have appeared widely, including studies in
Viator, Speculum, the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Anglo-Norman Studies, Word & Image, and Gesta. She contributed the chapter on medieval stained glass for Conrad Rudolph’s anthology, Companion to Medieval Art: Romanesque and Gothic in Northern Europe, now in its second edition. She is currently working on a book on early rose windows, provisionally entitled, How to Read a Rose.
She recently co-edited the anthology, Investigations in Medieval Stained Glass: Materials, Methods, and Expressions (Brill, 2019) with her colleague Brigitte Kurmann-Schwarz of the Swiss Corpus Vitrearum. The chapter topics, determined by the expertise and insights of the participating scholars, are grouped into Visual and Documentary Testimonies, Light and the Aperture, Approaches to Glass, Types of Glass, Workshopping the Window, and Post-Medieval Reflections. The book is published in Brill’s Reading Medieval Sources series, although Pastan and Kurmann-Schwarz made a point of emphasizing that in the case of medieval stained glass, where there are few extant documentary sources, the glass itself is the source, and the topics reflect that.
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