Dr. Richard K. Emmerson
Professor
Late Medieval Art and Manuscript Studies
Chair, Department of Art History
PhD Stanford University
234 Fine Arts Building
(850) 644-1250
remmerson@fsu.edu
Rick Emmerson received his doctorate in English and medieval studies from Stanford University and has taught at Georgetown University, Harvard University, Tufts University, Walla Walla College, and Western Washington University. Before coming to Florida State University, he was the Executive Director of the Medieval Academy of America and editor of its interdisciplinary journal, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies. He has also been an editor of Studies in Iconography and Traditio: Studies in Ancient and Medieval History, Thought, and Religion and has served as the Deputy Director of the Division of Fellowships and Seminars at the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Dr. Emmerson's research is interdisciplinary, studying medieval art, drama, religion, and visionary poetry during the later Middle Ages and early Reformation period. His scholarship over the past decade focuses on the relationship of word and image in medieval English and French manuscripts, literary and devotional. His present project, "Medieval Literacies: Image, Language, and Ideology in Medieval English Illustrated Manuscripts," studies the interdependence of visual and verbal texts in bilingual and trilingual manuscripts, the development of a vernacular iconography in English manuscripts, and the reception of these complex books by various interpretive communities in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
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