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Collage - "Disquieting Secrets: Female Body in the Late Middle Ages"

Elina Gertsman, assistant professor of Medieval Art and Women and Gender Studies Affiliate at Case Western Reserve University, will deliver this year’s keynote address at the 6th Annual Collage Arts Colloquium at Agnes Scott College. Her talk, “Disquieting Secrets: The Female Body in the Late Middle Ages” will take place at 5:30 p.m. in Katherine Woltz Reception Room, Rebekah Scott Hall.

Gertsman describes the talk by saying, "The woman’s body, as it was perceived in the late Middle Ages, was a vessel that harbored disquieting secrets. Seen as a monstrous inversion of a proper (male) body, it was meant to contain and release.This talk will explore images of the female flesh, in all its sinful and confusing interiority."

Gertsman’s work concentrates on Gothic and late medieval art. She has been awarded numerous fellowships and grants. She also has published widely and is the author of The Dance of Death in the Middle Ages: Image, Text, Performance (Turnhout: Brepols, 2010). Prior to joining the faculty of Case Western Reserve University in 2010, Gertsman taught at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, University of Chicago, Boston University, and more. In 2011 she joined the Board of Directors of the International Center of Medieval Art. Gertsman received her M.A. and Ph.D from Boston University.

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