Judith Collard

Contact Details

Room 2N1, Arts 1 (Burns) Building
Tel 64 3 479 8334
Email judith.collard@otago.ac.nz
Office Hours Monday 2 - 3.
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.

While in Melbourne she was a co-convenor of the Medievalist Discussion Circle and a member of the 'History Inverted' collective. She taught in undergraduate courses at Monash and Melbourne Universities, before coming to the University of Otago. In 2001 she had a Visiting Research Fellowship at the Institute of Historical Research, London University.

Select Publications

• '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

• ‘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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