Margaret Goehring
Associate Professor of Art History, NMSU, PhD Case Western Reserve, goehring@nmsu.edu
Margaret Goehring specializes in late-medieval and Renaissance Northern European manuscript illumination. She has presented at numerous conferences including CAA, the Historians of Netherlandish Art and at the International Congress on Medieval Studies and has published several articles and essays. Her book, Space, Place & Ornament: The Function of Landscape in Medieval Manuscript Illumination has recently been published by Brepols. This study looks at the various roles that medieval landscape imagery have within manuscript illumination, including as a rhetorical element within Carolingian Gospels, as a setting for the transmission of knowledge (especially in encyclopaedic manuscripts), and as a visual record of medieval perceptions of the environment. A second book, entitled Dressing the Part: Textiles as Propaganda in the Middle Ages, which she co-edited with Kate Dimitrova is currently in press. Her secondary area of expertise is in American folk art, and she is currently working on an article on early American Masonic murals (ca. 1805-1815) in homes along the Massachusetts-New York border. She teaches Medieval and Renaissance art history, as well as American Folk art and a survey of the art of China.