Judith Collard

Contact Details

Room 2N1, Arts 1 (Burns) Building
Tel 64 3 479 8334
Email judith.collard@otago.ac.nz
Teaching: ARTH 114, ARTH 212, ARTH 219, ARTH 314, ARTH 320, ARTH 414, ARTH 420

Academic Qualifications

1984: BA (Hons) Melbourne University
1986: MA Melbourne University
1994: PhD La Trobe University

Research Interests

Dr Judith Collard studied at Melbourne University where she did a BA(Hons) and an MA in Art History. Her MA dissertation was on The Cult of St Cuthbert: A study of visual and literary expressions of devotion in the Anglo-Saxon and early Norman Periods. Her Ph.D is from La Trobe University, and her topic was Patronage and Representations of the Kings of England in Thirteenth-Century English Art.

Before coming to the University of Otago she taught in undergraduate courses at Monash and Melbourne Universities. She has had visiting research fellowships at the Institute of Historical Research, London University and Melbourne University. She is currently the Chair of the departmental Graduate Studies Committee. Her most recent research has focused on twelfth and thirteenth-century English illuminated chronicles, particularly those by Matthew Paris. She is also working on the place of scientific diagrams in English medieval manuscripts.

Select Publications

• 2010 Collard, J, 'Matthew Paris, Brother William and the Franciscans', Interpreting Francis and Clare of Assisi: from the middle ages to the present, edited by Constant Mews and Claire Renkin, Broughton Press, Mulgrave, 2010, 93-110.
• Judith Collard, ‘Henry I’s dream in John of Worcester’s Chronicle (Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MS 157) and the illustration of twelfth-century English chronicles,’ Journal of Medieval History, 36 (2010) 105-125.
• 'Effigies ad Regem Angliae and the Representation of Kingship in Thirteenth-Century English Royal Culture,' Electronic British Library Journal (2007)
• King John and the symbol of the falling crown in the Chronicles of Matthew Paris, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History, 3rd series, 6 (2009) 35-52.
• 2008 Collard, J., Flores Historiarum Manuscripts:  The Illumination of a Late Thirteenth-Century Chronicle Series, Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, 71.4, pp. 441-466.
• Catalogue essay, Michele Beevors’ Debbiedoesdisney, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 2008, n.p.
• 'Spiral Women: Locating Lesbian Activism in New Zealand Feminist Art, 1975-1992,' Journal of the History of Sexuality , 15.2 (2006)
• 2002 Collard, J., 'Herrad of Hohenbourg's Hortus Deliciarum and the Creation of Images for Medieval Nuns,' Communities of Women, ed. Barbara Brookes and Dorothy Page.
• 2001 Collard, J., 'A Lesson in Holy Kingship: The thirteenth-century La estoire de Seint Aedward le Rei (Cambridge University Library, MS Ee. iii.59)' South African Journal of Art History, 15 (2001) pp.52-67.
• 2000 Collard, J., "Gender and Genealogy: English Illuminated Royal Genealogical Rolls from the Thirteenth Century,' Parergon, n.s. 17 (2000) pp.11-34.
• 2000 Collard, J. 'Art - Female Homoerotic Themes', Reader's Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies, ed. Timothy F. Murphy, (Fitzroy Dearborn, Chicago, 2000) pp. 54-55.

Recent Conference Papers and Presentations

• ‘Matthew Paris as a Natural Philosopher,’ ANZAMEMS, University of Otago, Dunedin, February, 2011
• ‘Matthew Paris and the Franciscans,’ Interpreting St Francis and St Clare in a Multi-religious Society: from the Middle Ages to the Present, Yarra Theological Union, Melbourne College of Divinity and the Centre for Studies in Religion and Theology, Monash University, 20-21 November, 2009.
• ‘Mixing History, Theology, and Science in the Maps and Diagrams in Matthew Paris and Ranulph Higden’s illuminated chronicles,’ School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne, May, 2009
• ‘The Thirteenth-century La estoire de Seint Aedward le Rei (Cambridge University Library MS Ee.iii.59): Edward the Confessor’s Life as a Lesson in Holy Kingship,' Department für Germanistik, Komparatitk, Nordistik, Deutsch als Fremdsprache, Institut für Deutsche Philologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, January 8, 2009
• Invited speaker, ‘Continuities and innovations in Matthew Paris’s chronicle illustration’, Dublin Medieval Society, February, 2009
• ‘Henry III, St Edward the Confessor and Westminster Abbey: The Visual Culture of a Royal Saint’s Cult’, Mittelalterliche Konstruktionen des Heiligen in Text und Bild/Medieval Constructions of Sainthood in Word and Image, Institut für Deutsche Philologie, Ludwig Maximilians-Universität, Munich, January, 2009.
• ‘Matthew Paris’s ‘Self-Portrait with the Virgin Mary’ (Historia Anglorum, British Library, MS Royal 14 C.VII), continuities and innovations’, Alter Orbis, ANZAMEMS, Hobart, December, 2008
• ‘Continuities and Innovations in Matthew Paris’s chronicle illustration: ‘Self-Portrait with the Virgin Mary’ (Historia Anglorum, British Library, MS Royal 14 C.VII), Fifth International Medieval Chronicle Conference, Institute of Byzantine Studies, Queen’s University, Belfast, 21-25 July, 2008.
• 'John of Worcester’s ‘Dream of King Henry’ and Anglo-Norman chronicle illumination,' Connections: Exploring Illuminated Manuscripts Symposium, Newman College, University of Melbourne, February, 2007.
• 'Maps, Plans and Diagrams in English Medieval Chronicle Manuscripts,' ANZAMEMS, University of Adelaide, Adelaide. (2007)
• 'Cartographic Imaging in English Medieval Chronicles,' AAANZ, Monash University, Melbourne. (2006)
• 'Fifteenth-century illuminated English histories,' ANZAMEMS, Auckland. (2005)
• 'Illustrating History: exploring the range of fifteenth-century illuminated historie texts,' Research Seminar, School of World Art, University of East Anglia, November. (2005)
• 'The body in the box: shifting interpretations of St Cuthbert's coffin, from James Raine to Meyer Schapiro,' Present Pasts - Present Futures, Art Association of Australia and New Zealand, Auckland. (2004)
• 'A Saintly Community: St Cuthbert, Durham and the Visual Arts,' ANZAMEMS, Melbourne. (2003)
• 'Spiral Women: Lesbian Artists/Feminist Art in New Zealand,' College Art Association Conference, New York. (2003)
• 'Presenting the Past: Effigies of the Kings of England ' and the Representation of Kingship in thirteenth-century English Visual Culture,' Medieval Research Seminar, Courtauld Institute, London University. (2001)
• 'Effigies of the Kings of England' and the use of historical romance in thirteenth-century English art' Association of Art Historians Conference, Oxford. (2001)
• 'Bad King John and the Case of the Falling Crown,' ANZAMEMS Conference, Sydney. (2000)
• Collard, J. 'Herrad of Hohenburg's Hortus deliciarum (Garden of Delight) and the creation of images for medieval nuns,' Communities of Women: Historical Perspectives, Dunedin. (2000)

Areas of Research Supervision

Gender Issues in Contemporary and Twentieth-Century Art, Medieval English Art, Medieval Manuscripts, Gay and Lesbian Art

Links

The Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies Eighth Biennial International Conference

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