Associate Professor, History of Art
About
Paroma Chatterjee’s research focuses on artistic encounters in the medieval Mediterranean, medieval image theories, ekphrasis, relics and icons, and Byzantine sculpture, among other subjects. She has articles published and/or forthcoming in various journals including Gesta, Art History, Word & Image, Dumbarton Oaks Papers, and Oxford Art Journal. Her first book, Living Icons: The ‘Vita’ Image in Byzantium and Italy, 11th-13th centuries (Cambridge University Press, 2014) investigated the emergence and functions of the portrait framed by narrative scenes of saints’ lives in the Byzantine empire and among the Franciscans. A second book project on the historical, philosophical, and conceptual functions of sculpture in Byzantium is in progress. Chatterjee’s research has been supported by fellowships such as the Dumbarton Oaks Junior Fellowship, the Kress Travel Fellowship, Penn Humanities Forum fellowship, and a Millard Meiss Publication Fund Award from CAA. She spent 2012-13 as a fellow at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University.
Fields of Study
- Medieval/Byzantine sculpture
- Cross-cultural relations in the Mediterranean
Recent and Forthcoming Articles
“Iconoclasm’s Legacy: Interpreting the Trier Ivory,” Art Bulletin(forthcoming)
“Charisma and the Ideal Viewer in Nicetas Choniates’ De Signis,” in The Faces of Charisma, eds. Brigitte Bedos-Rezak and Martha Rust, Brill, forthcoming.
“Viewing the Unknown in Eighth-Century Constantinople,” Gesta(forthcoming).
“The Gifts of the Gorgon: A Close Look at a Byzantine Inkpot,” Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics 65/66 (2014-15): 212-23.
“Vision, Transformation, and the Veroli Casket,” Oxford Art Journal 36:3 (2013): 325-44.
