FACULTY


Jeryldene Wood
Associate Professor
Art History and Gender and Women's Studies

jmwood@illinois.edu | CV

Teaching areas:

Italian Art, 14th-16th Centuries

Research areas:

Italian art, the history of women and the arts

Degrees:

M.A. George Washington University, Ph.D. University of Virginia

Jeryldene Wood is an Associate Professor of Art History and holds an affiliated appointment in the Program in Gender and Women's Studies. She teaches a range of courses on Italian Renaissance art and an introductory course on women and the visual arts. Her research interests focus on women, art, and culture in Italy from the late medieval era to the mid sixteenth century. She has published several books, articles in Art History and Renaissance Quarterly, and essays in a number of anthologies. Her research has been supported by a Fulbright-Hays Grant, the Center for Advanced Study at the University of Illinois, and the University of Arizona. She is currently the president of the Italian Art Society.

Selected Work

  • Reading Vasari, co-edited with Anne B. Barriault (London and Athens, GA: Philip Wilson Ltd. and the Georgia Museum of Art, 2005) (Yale U Press)

  • The Cambridge Companion to Piero della Francesca (Cambridge University Press, 2002)

  • Women, Art and Spirituality: The Poor Clares of Early Modern Italy (Cambridge University Press, 1996)