CAMILLE SERCHUK Art
JOURNAL ARTICLES PUBLISHED:
"Paris and the Rhetoric of Town Praise in the Vie de St. Denis Manuscript" Journal of the Walters Art Gallery (Winter 1999)
OTHER PUBLICATIONS:
"Review of Carol Duncan, Civilizing Rituals and Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Male Trouble: a Crisis in Representation" in Transformations 9/1 (Spring 1998).
"A Sixteenth Century Khamsah from Shiraz," a lengthy catalogue entry concerning a Persian manuscript of the five romances of the poet Nizami, for a forthcoming catalogue of Islamic Art in the University Museum, Philadelphia.
"History and Design of the Cross," Privately printed, New York, 1987.
CONFERENCE PAPERS ORALLY DELIVERED:
"Visual and Textual Narratives of the Visit of the Emperor Charles IV in the Grandes Chroniques de France" presented at a conference entitled "The Stories We Tell: Narrativity Across the Disciplines" SCSU, 13 March 1999.
"Royal Entry and Royal Identity in Fouquet's Grandes Chroniques de France" presented at the Annual Meeting of the College Art Association in Los Angeles, 13 February 1999.
"The Image of Paris and French National Identity During the Hundred Years War" presented at the Annual Conference of the Association of Art Historians in Exeter, England, 3-5 April, 1998
"Paris and the Rhetoric of Town Praise in the Vie de St. Denis of Philip the Fair" presented at the conference of the Historians of Netherlandish Art in Baltimore, 21 March, 1998.
"The Representation of the 1378 Visit of Emperor Charles IV to The French Court in the
Grandes Chroniques de France" presented 27 June 1994, at the Congress of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences, in Prague.
"Cityscape as Propaganda: Two Views of Jerusalem and the Call to Crusade at the Court of Philip the Good of Burgundy" presented 6 April 1991 at the Frick Symposium on the History of Art, in New York City.
WORKSHOP LEADERSHIP:
"National Consciousness and the Representation of the Landscape" (with John Shanahan) a session convened at the Annual Conference of the Association of Art Historians in Exeter, England, 3-5 April, 1998.
RECENT GRANTS RECEIVED:
SCSU Curriculum Related Activities Grant, 2000
Connecticut State University Research Grant, Summer 1999
Southern Connecticut State University Reassigned Time Research Grant, 1997
SCSU Curriculum Related Activities Grant, 1996
Yale University Dissertation Fellowship, 1990-1
Belgian-American Education Foundation Fellowship, 1988-9
Yale University Western European Studies Grant, Summer 1988
Yale University, History of Art Department
Sumner McKnight Crosby Travel Fellowship, 1987
Foreign Language Area Studies Grant, Summer 1986
Yale University Fellowship, 1985-9
RESEARCH INTERESTS IN GENERAL:
French painting of the fifteenth century; Political propaganda in the Middle Ages; National Consciousness during the Hundred Years War
WORKS IN PROGRESS/FUTURE SPECIFIC RESEARCH PROJECTS:
Art and Politics in the Court of Charles VII (book in preparation)
"Corpus Mysticum and Corpus Regni: Paris in the Pontifical of Poitiers" (article in preparation)
DISSERTATION TITLE:
Images of Paris in the Middle Ages: Patronage and Politics
INSTITUTION GRANTING PH.D. :
Yale University