Janice Mann

Art & Art History

Janice Mann, the Samuel H. Kress Professor of Art History. She has taught art history in the Department of Art and Art History at Bucknell University since 1995. She holds a Ph.D. in the history of art from Columbia University. Prior to teaching at Bucknell, Janice taught for five years at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. She is currently in the second year of a three-year appointment as Assistant to the President of Bucknell, Stef Rogers. Her courses cover the art and architecture of the ancient Mediterranean world, the European Middle ages, and the early Islamic dynasties. Some of her classes stem from her concern with contemporary theoretical issues, such as representations the body in recent and historical art and Gothic-revival architecture in the former British colonies.

The sculpture and architecture of 10th-12th century Christian Spain and the historiography of the field are Janice Mann's main research areas. Her most recent publications include, "Georgiana Goddard King and A. Kingsley Porter Discover the Art of Medieval Spain," in Spain and the United States: The Origins of American Hispanism, ed. Richard Kagan University of Illinois Press, A New Architecture for a new Order: The Building Projects of Sancho el Mayor (1004-1035) to be published in The White Mantel of Churches: Architecture, Liturgy and Art around the Millennium, ed. By Nigel Hiscock coming out from Brepols Press, 2002, and "Hark the Herald Angels Sing: Here's to Georgiana Goddard King," in a volume on female scholars of the Middle Ages, called Women Medievalists in the Academy edited by Jane Chance for University of Wisconsin Press, 2003. She is also editing a volume of the Bucknell Review on the historiography of the art of medieval Christian Iberia which will be published early next year.