Publications "Beyond Spiritual Maternity: An Addendum to the Iconography of Sancia of Majorca" in Francesco Aceto, Stefano D'Ovidio and Elisabetta Scirocco, eds, La Chiesa e il Convento di Santa Chiara committenza artistica, vita religiosa e progettualità politica nella Napoli di Roberto d'Angiò e Sancia di Maiorca, Battipaglia, pp. 165-194 (2014) “Notable Changes in Medieval Images of ‘Saint’ Humility after Counter-Reformation Documents”, Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, vol. 75, no. 1 (2012) “New Notices from the Florentine Baroque on the Trecento Chiarito Tabernacle”, Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, vol. 54, no 2 (2010-2012) “Duecento Fertility Images for Females at Massa Marittima’s Public Fountain”, Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, vol. 69, no. 4 (2006) “The Art of Alessandro Botticelli through the Eyes of Victorian Aesthetes” in John E. Law and Lene Ostermark-Johansen, editors, Victorian and Edwardian Responses to the Italian Renaissance (Ashgate, Hants, 2005) “The ‘Passion’ cycle: images to contemplate and imitate amid Clarissan clausura” in Janis Elliot and Cordelia Warr, editors, The Church of Santa Maria Donna Regina Art, Iconography and Patronage in Fourteenth-Century Naples (Ashgate, Hants, 2004) “Fictive Frescoes with a French Connection”, Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, vol. 67, no. 1 (2004) “Book review; Diana Norman, Siena and the Virgin: Art and Politics in a Late Medieval City State (New Haven, 1999), Speculum- A Journal of Medieval Studies, vol. 77, no. 4 (2002) “A Medieval Franciscan Image of a ‘White Marriage’ Reconsidered”, Arte Cristiana, ns.vol. 88, fasc. 801 (2000) “Pictures of Penitence from a Trecento Neapolitan Nunnery”, Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, vol. 61, no. 2 (1998) “Sovereignty and Closure in Trecento Naples: Images of Queen Sancia alias ‘Sister Clare’”, Arte Medievale, 2nd series, vol. 10, no. 1 (1996) “A Proposal for the ‘lost’ Clarissite Church of San Giovanni a Nido in Naples”, Arte Cristiana, ns., vol.84, fasc. 776 (1996) “Assisi: San Francesco: Painting”, The Dictionary of Art, vol. 20, (London, 1996) “Isaac Master”, The Dictionary of Art, vol. 2 (London, 1996) “Master of the St. Francis Legend”, The Dictionary of Art, vol. 20 (London, 1996) “The Franciscan Provenance of Simone Martini’s Angevin St. Louis in Naples”, Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, vol. 58, no. 1 (1995) Letters to the Editor (in response to Robert Gibbs and Joseph Polzer), Art History, vol. 17, no. 1 (1994) “Beata Stirps, Royal Patronage and the Identification of the Sainted Rulers in the St. Elizabeth Chapel at Assisi”, Art History, vol. 15, no.3 (1992) “The dedication of the St. Elizabeth altar at Assisi”, The Burlington Magazine, vol. 133, no. 1054 (January 1991) Book review; Paul Hills, The Light of Early Renaissance Painting (New Haven, 1987), Medevalia et Humanistica, ns. No. 17 (1991) Book review; Rona Goffen, Spirituality in Conflict. Saint Francis and Giotto’s Bardi Chapel (University Park and London, 1998), Southeastern College Art Conference Review, vol. 11, no. 5 (1990) “St. Martin of Tours: His Transformation into a Chivalric Hero and Franciscan Ideal”, Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, vol. 50, no. 4 (1987) “The Antique Origins of an Emperor by Simone Martini”, Paragone, ns. arte, vol. 443, no. 1 (1987) Letter to the Editor (in response to Gordon Moran and Michael Mallory), Gesta, vol. 26, no. 1 (1987) “The Identity of a saint in the Chapel of St. Martin at Assisi”, Arte Cristiana, ns., vol. 74, fasc. 3 (1986) “A New Document for Simone Martini’s Chapel of St. Martin at Assisi”, Gesta, vol. 24, no. 2 (1985) Catalogue entries in John Hutton and Sandra Gilbert, eds., Christian Images in French Nineteenth Century Art (The Shepherd Gallery, New York, 1980) “Allegorical Personifications in Rubens’ Title pages” and catalogue entries in Julius S. Held, ed., Rubens and the Book (Williamstown, MA, 1977) In Preparation “Beyond Spiritual Maternity: An Addendum to the Iconography of Sancia of Majorca”, in Francesco Aceto, editor, Committenza artistica, vita religiosa e progettualità politica nella Napoli di Roberto d’Angiò e Sancia di Maiorca. La Chiesa di Santa Chiara “Holy People in Angevin Provence and their Lost Monuments for the Franciscans at Marseille” (for the Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte) “Blessed Saint Douceline and the Queen: Sancia of Majorca’s Patronage of the Ladies of Roubaud” “The Poor Clares of Aix-en-Provence and their Italian Gothic Panel Paintings” Conference Papers/Public Lectures “La Memoria del Cardinale Gentile Partino da Montefiore nella Basilica di San Francesco ad Assisi” (“The Commemoration of Cardinal Gentile Partino da Montefiore in San Francesco at Assisi”) Giornata di Studio (Day of Lectures) in honor of the Seven hundredth Anniversary of the death of Cardinal Gentile Partino, Comune of Montefiore dell’Aso (Marches, Italy) Winter 2012 “Sancia di Maiorca: Iconografia e Istanze Religiose Francescane a Napoli e in Provenza” (The Iconography of Sancia of Majorca within Franciscan Naples and Provence”) Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II” (University of Naples “Fredrick II”) Naples, Italy Spring 2011 “The King’s Sainted Brother: Louis of Anjou’s Translation amid the Franciscans at Marseille” International Medieval Society, Paris, France Summer 2010 “Douceline of Digne’s Vision of the Man of Sorrows” International Medieval Society, Paris, France Summer 2008 “How Very Botticellian”: The Art of Alessandro Botticelli through the Eyes of Victorian Aesthetes Renaissance Society of America, Florence, Italy Spring 2000 “Pictures of Penitence from a Neapolitan Nunnery”, European Paintings on Fabric Supports in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries Courtauld Institute of Art, London, England Spring 1998 “The Queens and the Cloister: Angevin Patronage of Franciscan Art” The British Institute of Florence, Italy Spring 1993 “Sovereignty and Closure during the Trecento: Queen Sancia’s Patronage of the Poor Clares in Naples” International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI Spring 1993 “The Art of Simone Martini: Problems in Attribution and Style” Studio Art Centers International, Florence, Italy Winter 1992 “Mary of Hungary, Franciscan Piety, and the Nuns’ Choir of Santa Maria Donna Regina at Naples” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI Spring 1991 “The Chiarito Tabernacle: A Study of Trecento Vision Imagery” International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazzo, MI Spring 1998 “St. Martin of Tours: His Transformation into a Chivalric Hero and Franciscan Ideal” International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI Spring 1987 “Pacino di Bonguida’s Chiarito Tabernacle and Art Patronage in Mid-Fourteenth Century Florence” Medieval Society, Los Angeles, CA Fall 1985 “Robert of Anjou and Simone Martini: The State of Research” College Art Association, Los Angeles, CA Spring 1983 Fellowships and Awards First Alternate Fulbright Faculty Travel Grant- Italy (1988-89 ) NEH Summer Institute in Italian Archival Science, Newberry Library, Chicago, IL (1988) Italian Studies Center Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania/ Università degli Studi dell’Aquila degli Abruzzi (1980-81) Kress Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Art History (1980-81) First Alternate Fulbright Doctoral Grant- Italy (1980-81) Williams College Fellowship (1976-78) Washington Square University College Scholarship, New York University (1974-76) Languages French, German, Italian, and Latin Membership in Professional Organizations International Medieval Society, Paris, France Editorial Board Member of the "Comitato Scientifico"(scientific committe) for the electronic Journal, Atlante, Revue d'études romanes (Université Lille 3) http://cecille.recherche.univ-lille3.fr/revues/atlante/article/redaction