Amanda Luyster, Assistant Professor of Art History, Minnesota State University, Mankato.

Amanda Luyster received her bachelorÕs degree in Fine Arts in 1996 when she graduated summa cum laude from Amherst College. In 1994 and 1995, Amanda served as a intern at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Frick (Photography) Collection in New York. She also was an archaeology volunteer in the La Sabranenque program in France (1995), and a cataloguer for the Sardis Exploration project in Turkey (1997).

She then went on to complete a masterÕs (1999) and Ph.D. (2003) in the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. While at Harvard, Amanda Luyster was a Teaching Fellow (1998 Ð 1999) and Graduate Writing Fellow (1999). In 1999, she was awarded the Harvard Core Technological Innovations Grant for developing a course webpage on Alexander the Great. Amanda also served as a co-chair on both the Graduate Student Lecture Committee (1999 Ð 2000), and the Graduate Student Film Committee (1998 Ð 1999).

Amanda Luyster is a member of the International Center of Medieval Art, the Medieval Academy and the International Arthurian Society. Since 2003, she has been an Assistant Professor of Art History in the Department of Art at Minnesota State University in Mankato. At MSU, Professor Luyster has received awards for excellence in teaching for utilizing active learning exercises (2003- 2004), and for developing electronic learning resources (2004). Her research focuses on medieval visual culture.

Select Bibliography

"Text and Image, Memory and Ethics in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." Journal publication, in progress.

"The Courtly Art of Narrative: Wall-Painting in Papal Avignon and the Provinces." Book-length study, in progress.

"The Earliest English Images of Tristan: Love and Chivalry on the Tiles from Chertsey Abbey." Submitted to Gesta. Under review.

"Playing with Animals: The Visual Context of an Arthurian Manuscript (Florence Palatino 556) and the Uses of Ambiguity." Word and Image, volume 20, no. 1 (January Ð March) 2004.

Courtly Images Far from Court: The Family St. Floret, Representation, and Romance. (2003, Ph.D. dissertation)

"The Femme-aux-Serpents at Moissac: Luxuria (Lust) or a Bad Mother?" In Between Magic and Religion: Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Mediterranean Religion and Society. S. Asirvatham, C. O. Pache, and J. Watrous, eds. Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001: 165-91.

"Illuminated Manuscripts: The Luttrell Psalter." In The Western Heritage (Seventh Edition). D. Kagan, S. Ozment, and F. M. Turner, eds. Volume A: To 1527. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2001: 260-1.