Jas' Elsner
Contact Information
773.702.7946
jas.elsner@corpus-christi.oxford.ac.uk
Jas' Elsner is Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow in Classical Art at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Visiting Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago.
Selected Publications
- Ekphrasis: Special Edition of Classical Philology 102 (2007), editor with Shadi Bartsch
- Severan Culture, editor with Stephen Harrison and Simon Swain, Cambridge (CUP), 2007
- Roman Eyes: Visuality and Subjectivity in Art and Text, Princeton (Princeton U.P), 2007
- "Viewing Ariadne: From Ekphrasis to Wall Painting in the Roman World" Classical Philology 102 (2007) 20-44
- "Art and Text" in S.Harrison (ed.), A Companion to Latin Literature, Oxford (Blackwell) 2005, 300-318
- "Sacrifice and Narrative in the Arch of the Argentarii in Rome" Journal of Roman Archaeology 18 (2005) 83-98
- "Piety and Passion: Contest and Consensus in the Audiences for Early Christian Pilgrimage" in J. Elsner and I. Rutherford (eds.), Pilgrimage in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity: Seeing the Gods, Oxford (Oxford University Press), 2005, 411-434
- "Classicism in Roman Art" in J. Porter (ed.), Classical Pasts: The Classical Traditions of Greece and Rome, Princeton (Princeton U.P), 2006, 270-97
- "Perspectives in Art" in Noel Lensky (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine, Cambridge (CUP), 2006, 255-77
- "Reflections on the 'Greek Revolution': From Changes in Viewing to the Transformation of Subjectivity’ in S. Goldhill and R. Osborne (eds.) Rethinking Revolutions Through Ancient Greece, Cambridge, 2006, 68-95
- "From Empirical Evidence to the Big Picture: Some Reflections on Riegl’s Concept of Kunstwollen", Critical Inquiry 32.4, Summer, 2006. 741-66
- "Physiognomics: Art and Text" in S. Swain (ed.), Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul: Polemon’s Physiognomy from Classical Antiquity to Medieval Islam, Oxford (OUP) 2007, 203-224
- "The Rhetoric of Buildings in the De Aedificiis of Procopius" in E. James (ed.), Art and Text in Byzantium, Cambridge (CUP), 2007, 33-57
- "Philostratus Visualises the Tragic: Some Ekphrastic and Pictorial Receptions of Greek Tragedy in the Roman Era" in C. Kraus, H. Foley, S. Goldhill and J. Elsner (eds.), Visualising the Tragic, Oxford (OUP) 2007, 309-37