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Ph.D. Harvard University, 2004
MA Harvard University, 1998
BA Bryn Mawr College, 1994
Assistant Professor of Medieval Art and Architecture
Director of Undergradute Studies
Email: awwalker@wustl.edu
Phone: 314-935-4487
Professor Walker’s primary fields of research include cross-cultural artistic interaction in the medieval world from the ninth to thirteenth centuries and gender issues in the art and material culture of Byzantium. She is co-editor of the essay collection Negotiating the Secular in Medieval Art. Christian, Islamic, Buddhist (Ashgate, 2009), and is currently at work on a book-length study of Islamic impact on middle Byzantine imperial imagery, The Emperor and the World: Exotic Elements in the Construction of Middle Byzantine Ruler Imagery. She has published essays on the role of women in Byzantine art and culture, the function and meaning of early Byzantine marriage jewelry, and medieval inter-cultural artistic transmission.
Professor Walker is currently a member of the international project Viewing Texts: Word as Image and Ornament in Medieval Inscriptions a Research Network group of Beyond Texts, a program sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
Courses offerings
Professor Walker leads courses on Byzantine, medieval Islamic, and western medieval art, including the following:
Lectures
Art, Architecture, and Ideology in Medieval France: The Reign of Louis IX
Introduction to Medieval Islamic Art: The Fatimids
Byzantine Icons in Byzantine Life
The Gothic Cathedral
Medieval Icons: Painting before the Renaissance
Seminars
Medieval Renaissance: Art and Antiquity in the Middle Ages
Kings, Caliphs, and Emperors: Images of Authority in the Era of the Crusades
Constantinople, Queen of Cities
Publications
“Introduction: Mapping the heavens and treading the earth: negotiating secular and sacred in medieval art,” in eds. Walker and Luyster, Negotiating Secular and Sacred in Medieval Art. Christian, Buddhist, Islamic, pp. 1-16 (Williston, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2009).
“Cross-cultural Reception in the Absence of Texts: The Islamic Appropriation of a Middle Byzantine Rosette Casket,” Gesta 47/2 (2008): 99-122.
“Meaningful Mingling: Classicizing Imagery and Islamicizing Script in a Byzantine Bowl,” The Art Bulletin XC/1 (March 2008): 32-53.
“Wall Decoration: Stucco and Fresco,” in Susan Stevens et al., eds., Bir Ftouha: A Pilgrimage Church Complex at Carthage, Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series, 59, pp. 410-18 (Portsmouth, R.I.: Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2005).
“Home: A Space ‘Rich in Blessings’,” “Marriage: ‘A Golden Team’ Byzantine Wives and Husbands,” “Adornment: Enhancing the Body, Neglecting the Soul?” and entries in Ioli Kalavrezou, ed., Byzantine Women and Their World, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums, October 2002 – April 2003.
“Myth and Magic in Early Byzantine Marriage Jewelry: The Persistence of Pre-Christian Traditions,” in Ann McClanan and Karen Encarnación, eds., The Material Culture of Sex, Procreation, and Marriage in Premodern Europe, pp. 59-78 (New York: Palgrave, 2002).
“A Reconsideration of Early Byzantine Marriage Rings,” in Sulochana R. Asirvatham et al., eds., Between Magic and Religion: Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Mediterranean Religion and Society, pp. 149-64 (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2001).
Recent awards, grants, and fellowships
International Center for Medieval Art Harvey Stahl Lecture Grant Recipient, 2009-2010
Dumbarton Oaks Short-Term Post-Doctoral Research Grant, 2009
Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellow, 2008 to 2009
Stanley J. Seeger Visiting Research Scholar, Program of Hellenic Studies, Princeton University, fall 2008
Certificate of Special Recognition for Excellence in Mentoring, Designated by the Graduate Student Senate and the Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Washington University in Saint Louis, 2008
Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, Columbia University, 2004 to 2006
Recent papers and lectures
“Between Text and Ornament: Pseudo-Arabic ‘Inscriptions’ on Middle Byzantine Monuments.” For the workshop The Limits of Text – Ornament, Aesthetics, Legibility, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK, May 2009.
“The Word as Art.” Gallery talk on objects in the collection of Islamic Art, The Saint Louis Art Museum, February 2009.
“The Byzantine Roots of Renaissance Painting.” Program in Greek Studies Public Lecture Series, University of Missouri, St. Louis, February 2009.
“The Emperor and the Other: Articulating Power in Middle Byzantine Imperial Art.” For the symposium Negotiating Boundaries: Cultural Exchange and Production of the Mediterranean, Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, December 2008.
“Classical Myth and Female Morality in Medieval Byzantium: The Case of the Veroli Casket.” Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, October 2008.
“Off the Page and beyond Antiquity: Ancient Romance in Medieval Byzantine Silver.” Crossroads in the Ancient Novel: Spaces, Frontiers, Intersections, Fourth International Conference on the Ancient Novel, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2008.
“Patterns of Flight: Middle Byzantine Appropriation of the Chinese Feng-Huang Bird.” Ninety-Sixth College Art Association Annual Conference, Dallas, TX, February 2008.
“Networking the Emperor: Cross-Cultural Artistic Exchange and the Middle Byzantine Imperial Image.” For the lecture series Bildgeflecht. Kunst als Phaenomen des Austauschs, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Frankfurt, Germany, October 2007.
“In the Absence of Texts: Medieval Cross-Cultural Exchange as Traced through Objects.” Thirty-Third Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, University of Toronto, October 2007.
“Byzantium and the West: Art, Architecture, and Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Medieval World.” Symposium of the Hellenic American Cultural Association, Denver, CO, April 2007.
Professional service
Member, Governing Board, Byzantine Studies Association of North America, 2006 to 2010
Member, Nominating Committee, International Center of Medieval Art, 2009 to 2010
Secretary, Byzantine Studies Association of North America, 2006 to 2008
Member, Local Arrangements Committee, Thirty-Second Annual Byzantine Studies Conference University of Missouri-St. Louis, November 10-12, 2006
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