Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Fall, 2007
dverkerk@email.unc.edu
Dorothy Hoogland Verkerk received her M.A. and Ph.D. from Rutgers
University. Her area of specialization is in early medieval art, and
her research interests include the interplay between images and texts
in early medieval manuscripts, particularly the ways in which images
interpret the meanings of texts through visual references to
extra-textual elements such as popular sermons, liturgical rites,
political necessities, and catechisms. Also, she is interested in the
fluid and diverse iconography found in early Christian catacombs and
sarcophagi, with rich references to death rituals. She has also
explored Irish high crosses as potential sculptural responses to
pilgrimage to Rome.
Dr.Verkerk's book Early Medieval Book Illumination and the
Ashburnham Pentateuch has recently been published by Cambridge
University Press.
Other recent publications include: "Pilgrimage Ad Limina Apostolorum in
Rome: Irish Crosses and Early Christian Sarcophagi," in From Ireland
Coming..., C. Hourihane, ed., Princeton University Press, 2000, and
"Exodus and Easter Vigil in the Ashburnham Pentateuch," Art Bulletin,
77, 1995, 94-105.
For her class Celtic Art & Cultures, Dr. Verkerk has created an online catalog of Celtic art, which can be viewed at:
www.unc.edu/courses/art111/celtic/.
She was a 1999 Medal Winner, for EDUCAUSE in association with the
College Art Association, and has been featured as a case study in
Syllabus: Technology for Education, Feb. 2000.
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