Aden Kumler
Contact Information
773.702.0266
akumler@uchicago.edu
Cochrane-Woods 266
Affiliate Faculty: Department of Romance Languages & Literatures, Center for Gender Studies, and Medieval Studies Program
Faculty Co-sponsor of the University of Chicago Medieval Studies Workshop.
Education
- PhD, History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
- MA, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto
- BA, General Studies in Humanities, University of Chicago
Research Interests
Western medieval art, architecture & material culture; manuscript illumination & manuscript studies, including codicology & paleography; visual modes of theological discourse; semiotics, medieval & modern; allegory and allegoresis; the history of materials & materiality; numismatics & sigillography; the medieval Eucharist and its theorizations.
Selected Publications
- Translating Truth: Ambitious Images and Religious Knowledge in Late Medieval France and England (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011).
- Awarded a Medieval Academy of America Book Subvention (one of three subventions competitively awarded each year)
- “The Multiplication of the Species: Eucharistic Morphology in the Middle Ages,” RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics 59/60 (2011).
- “‘The Genealogy of Jean le Blanc’: Accounting for the Materiality of the Medieval Eucharist,” in Shaping Objects: Art, Materials, Making, and Meanings, Christy Anderson, Anne Dunlop, and Pamela Smith, eds. [forthcoming]
- “Translating ma dame de Saint-Pol: The privilege & predicament of the devotee in Paris, BnF, MS naf 4338,” in Translating the Middle Ages, Karen Fresco & Charles Wright, eds. [forthcoming]
- “Faire translater, faire historier: Charles V’s Bible historiale (Houghton Library, fMS Typ. 555) and the Visual Rhetoric of Vernacular Sapience,” Studies in Iconography, 29 (2008): 90-135.
Work in Progress
- The Multiplication of the Species: Medieval Economies of Form, Accident and Substance [current book project]
- “The ordeal of substance: Eucharistic theology on the bloody Rue des Billettes (1290)”