kirk.ambrose@colorado.edu
303-735-0813

An assistant professor at the University of Colorado since 2001, Kirk’s research and teaching interests lie in medieval art and art-historical methodology.  He has published numerous articles in various books and journals, including the Gazette des Beaux Arts, Source, Traditio, and Word & Image. His first book, The Nave Sculpture of Vézelay: The Art of Monastic Viewing (Toronto, 2006), examines the capitals of this celebrated twelfth-century site in relation to various aspects of cenobitic culture. In addition to several articles in progress, he currently is co-editing and co-translating a volume on approaches to Romanesque Sculpture, scheduled to appear in 2007, that features essays by a group of international scholars.  Lastly, he is at work writing a book that examines the uses of pagan mythology in eleventh- and twelfth-century art.

Education

B.A. Oberlin College
M.A. and Ph.D. University of Michigan

Fellowships

Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Memorial Fund Fellowship, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, 2001-2002

Horace H. Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1998-99

Georges Lurcy Fellowship,The Georges Lurcy Charitable and Educational Trust, New York, New York, 1997-98

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