Dr. Paula Gerson
Professor of Medieval Art
PhD Columbia University
Directive status: Doctoral
234 Fine Arts Building
(850) 644-1250
pgerson@mailer.fsu.edu
Paula Gerson received her doctorate from Columbia University and has held appointments at Washington University , Princeton, Carnegie Mellon, Columbia, UNC, and Rutgers. Before coming to Florida State University, she was the Executive Manager of the International Center of Medieval Art at the Cloisters in New York City. She became the Chair of the FSU Department of Art History in 1996. Her major fields are Romanesque and Gothic Art and Architecture. In addition to her art history scholarship, Dr. Gerson is an avid photographer who has exhibited her work in solo and group shows.
Selected Publications
"Body-Part Reliquaries and Body Parts in the Middle Ages," with Caroline Bynum, Gesta, 1997, 1.
The Pilgrim's Guide to Santiago de Compostela: A Gazetteer (Harvey Miller Publishers, 1995) with A. Shaver-Crandell and A. Stones.
Medieval France, An Encyclopedia (Garland Publishing Co., 1995), articles on the Liber Sancti Jacobi, Pilgrimage, Relics and Reliquaries, and St. Martin of Tours.
"Margins for Eros," Romance Languages Annual
(in press): The Sound and Touch Teaching System and Textbook of Art History, Art Education for the Blind.