Asa Simon Mittman

Senior Lecturer

ASU School of Art

Art Building, Room 102

Tempe, AZ 85287-1505

mittman@asu.edu

 

 

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PUBLICATIONS

 

¨     BOOKS

o       Monsters and Maps in Medieval England (New York:  Routledge, 2006) – Currently in its second printing

o       Inconceivable Beasts: The Wonders of the East in the Beowulf Manuscript (Tempe: The ACMRS, 2008), in collaboration with Susan Kim – in preparation

 

¨     ARTICLES AND PAPERS

·        COMPLETED ARTICLES

o       “There from the Beginning: Giants in the Old English Hexateuch,” in Transmission of the Bible in Word, Image and Song, ed. Mildred Budny and Jeff Massey (Tempe: ACMRS and the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, 2008) – in press

o       “The Exposed Body and the Gendered Blemmye: Reading the Wonders of the East,” with Susan Kim, Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture, v. 3, The History of Sexuality in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, ed. by Albrecht Classen and Marilyn Sandidge (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2008) – in press

o       Digital Mappaemundi: Changing the Way We Work with Medieval World Maps,” Peregrinations: The Official Publication of the International Society for the Study of Pilgrimage Art, with Martin Foys (2007) – in press

o       “Inconceivable Beasts: The Wonders of the East in the Beowulf Manuscript,” with Susan Kim, in Conference Proceedings for the Fourth Global Conference on Monsters and the Monstrous, title TBA, ed. Sorcha Ní Fhlainn (Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press E-Book, 2007) – in press

o       “The Other Close at Hand: Gerald of Wales and the ‘Marvels of the West,’” in The Monstrous Middle Ages, eds. Robert Mills and Bettina Bildhauer (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2003), 97-112

o       “Monsters, Here and There: The Anglo-Saxons and the Marvels of the East,” Ex Libris 12/1, 2003, 16-22

o       “‘Light Words,’ Weighty Pictures,” Chronica: The Journal of the Medieval Association of the Pacific, No. 61 (Spring 2002), 4-27

 

·        ARTICLES IN PREPARATION

o       “Serpentine Viewing: The Effect of Dragons on Biblical Manuscripts” – in preparation

o       “Exegetical Illustrations in the Anglo-Saxon Hexateuch” – in preparation

o       “Hats and Horns, Beards and Blood: Illuminating Jewish-Christian Relations in Flavius Josephus’ Jewish Wars” – in preparation

 

¨     DIGITAL PROJECTS

    • Digital Mappaemundi: A Resource for the Study of Medieval Maps and Geographic Texts, Project Director, in collaboration with Martin K. Foys (Co-Director) and Robert E. Bjork, coding by Wei-Tek Tsai, Dawei Zhang and Le Xu, prototype 2007 – in preparation

 

¨     REFERENCE WORKS

    • The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature, ed. Elaine Treharne and Greg Walker (Oxford University Press, 2008) – in preparation
      • Article on “Monsters and the Medieval Exotic,” with Susan Kim
    • Literature Compass, ed. Elaine Treharne (Blackwell Publishing, 2008) – in preparation
      • Article on “The Exotic in the Early Middle Ages,” with Susan Kim
    • World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras (ABC-Clio’s award-winning website, 2008) – in press
      • Article on “The Role of Monasteries in Preserving Ancient Culture”
    • The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. Robert E. Bjork (Oxford University Press and the ACMRS, 2007) – in press
      • Entries for Insular Art and Architecture, Anglo-Norman Art, Norman Art and Architecture, Canon table, Durham (see and cathedral), Ebstorf World Map, Gargoyle, Geography, St Gildas (d. ca. 570), Initials (decorated), Interlace, and Winchester (see and cathedral)
    • The Early Peoples of Britain and Ireland: An Encyclopedia, ed. Christopher Snyder (Oxford: Greenwood International, 2008) – in press
      • Entries for Bayeux Tapestry, Canterbury, Durham, Ely, Hereford, and Vespasian Psalter
    • Holy People of the World, ed. Phyllis Jestice (Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2005)
      • Entries for Saint Clement, Saint Leonard, Saint Liudger, and Saint Sabas the Goth
    •  “A Guide to Editions and Translations of the Chronica Maiora,” Parker on the Web, <http://parkerweb.stanford.edu/manuscript/resources/guide.jsp> 2004

 

¨     MUSEUM PUBLICATIONS

    • “Albert Pinkham Ryder,” in The Gilded Age Exhibition, Gallery Guide, The Cantor Center for the Visual Arts (Stanford: Stanford University, 2001), 13-22.
    • Handbook to the Collections: The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998) (several entries).
    • Private: Exploring Personal Space, Exhibition Catalog, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998) (several entries).
    • Raising the Curtain: Images of Performance in Prints, Exhibition Catalog, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art (Cornell University, 1997) (several entries).

 

¨     BOOK REVIEWS

    • “Review of Lisa Verner, The Epistemology of the Monstrous in the Middle Ages (New York:
    • Routledge, 2005),” Peregrinations, v. 2:3 (2007)
    • “Review of Heather Blurton, Cannibalism in High Medieval Literature (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007),” In the Middle: In the Middle Book Club for Discerning Scholars of Medieval Arcana (ITMBC4DSoMA) <jjcohen.blogspot.com/2007/06/itm-book-club-heather-blurton-on.html> 2007
    • “Review of Pierre Bouet, Brian Levy and François Neveux, eds., The Bayeux Tapestry: Embroidering the Facts of History, The Proceedings of the Cerisy Colloquium (1999) (Caen: Presses Universitaires de Caen, 2004),” H-France, <www.h-france.net> 2004

 

¨     JOURNAL EDITOR

    • Guest Editor, “Monstrosity” issue of Different Visions: A Journal of New Perspectives on Medieval Art, with Debra Higgs Strickland, 2009
    • Editor-in-Chief, ShelfLife: The Bulletin of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, 2004-Present

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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