ART HISTORY FACULTY

 

Holly Flora
Office: 305 Woldenberg Art Bldg
Phone: (504) 314-2211
Email: hflora@tulane.edu

CV

Holly Flora received her Ph.D. at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University in 2005. Her research explores the intersections of narrative, performativity, imagination, and gender in the devotional art of late medieval and early Renaissance Italy. She has received research fellowships from the American Association of University Women, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy, and the Andrew Mellon Foundation. Her articles have appeared in Gesta, Bolletino Storico Pisano, and Studies in Iconography, as well as several edited volumes of essays. Dr. Flora is currently at work on a book on gender and illustrated manuscripts of the Meditationes Vitae Christi.
Before coming to Tulane, Dr. Flora worked in the museum world in New York, organizing exhibitions such as Cimabue and Early Italian Devotional Painting at The Frick Collection, where she spent two years as a curatorial fellow, and exhibitions on Ethiopian art, Georges Rouault, illuminated Bibles, and images of the Prodigal Son for the Museum of Biblical Art in Manhattan, where she is now a guest curator. Dr. Flora also spent eleven years on the paid lecturing staff of the The Cloisters and enjoys guest lecturing there when she is in New York.