intercountry lectureship information of us professors

Fulbright-Kommission · Lützowufer 26 · 10787 Berlin
INTERCOUNTRY LECTURESHIP INFORMATION OF U.S. PROFESSORS
Last Name:
First Name:
Kirch
Miriam
German Host Institution:
Period of Residence in Germany:
Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte
1 Feb.-31 March 2017
Email Address:
Website:
[email protected]
Present Position in the U.S.:
Associate Professor
Previous Positions:
Assistant Professor
Visiting Assistant Professor
Academic Field / Discipline:
Academic Training and Degrees:
art history
2003 Ph.D. art history, Univ. Texas at Austin
1998 M.A. art history, Univ. Texas at Austin
Areas of Research:
Visual and material culture of early modern Germany
Possible Lecture Topics:
Patrician collecting and display in sixteenth-century Frankfurt am Main
Wittelsbach and Hohenzollern portrait medal collecting
Ottheinrich (1502-1559) as collector
Publications (selected):
“A Princely Plant Collector in Renaissance Germany,” Collecting Nature, ed. Andrea
Gáldy and Sylvia Heudecker (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press,
2015), 97-108.
“‘For Amusement, Merrymaking, and Good Company’: Horse Racing at a German
Princely Court,” Animals and Early Modern Identity, ed. Pia F. Cuneo (Farnham,
Surrey, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014), 89-105.
“Death on the Danube,” Aspects of Violence in Renaissance Europe, ed. Jonathan Davies
(Farnham, Surrey, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013), 61-82.
“‘Many kinds of old, heathen, imperial pennies and the like antiquities,’” Journal of the
History of Collections Advance Access article, Nov. 3, 2011, doi: 10.1093/jhc/fhr023),
reprinted in vol. 25, no. 1 (March 2013): 29-42.
INTERCOUNTRY LECTURESHIP INFORMATION OF U.S. PROFESSORS