Professor Debra Strickland

  • Professor of Medieval Art History. (History of Art)

telephone: 01413306359
email: Debra.Strickland@glasgow.ac.uk

History of Art, 8 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QH

Import to contacts

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469

Research interests

My office is located in 11 Southpark Terrace, Room 202.

Office Hour: Tuesday, 3-4 (or by appointment)

Research interests

I am concerned with the foundational presence and significance of non-humans and non-Christians in medieval and early modern visual cultures, with theoretical interests in animality, monstrosity, and hybridity. My research examines a broad range of Western medieval and northern Renaissance art, especially illuminated manuscripts, early printed books, world maps, and the painting of Hieronymus Bosch. Much of my published work focuses on representations of animals (especially in bestiaries), monsters, women, and Others in the art of England, France, Germany, and The Low Countries.

I welcome PhD thesis topics related to any of my research areas. 

Biography

Prior to my appointment in History of Art, I served as Director of the Glasgow Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Before affiliating with the University of Glasgow, I taught History of Art at the University of Edinburgh, the University of Toronto, and the University of Oregon; and served as Acting Director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Oklahoma. 

  • MA, MPhil, PhD (History of Art), Columbia University
  • MA (Anthropology), Columbia University
  • BM (Music), University of Colorado, Boulder

Publications

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2025

Strickland, Debra Higgs ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (Ed.) (2025) Medieval Bestiaries: New Approaches. Series: Reading medieval sources, vol. 9. Brill. ISBN 9789004429697

Strickland, Debra Higgs ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2025) Insects in and around the Bestiaries. In: Strickland, Debra Higgs (ed.) Medieval Bestiaries. Series: Reading medieval sources (9). Brill, pp. 273-321. ISBN 9789004429697 (doi: 10.1163/9789004734937_010)

Strickland, Debra ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2025) Medieval Bestiaries: Text, Image, Ideology. Cambridge University Press; Yale University Press, 2025: Cambridge; New Haven.

2022

Strickland, Debra Higgs ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2022) Antisemitism in Medieval Art. In: Katz, Steven T. (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Antisemitism. Series: Cambridge companions to religion. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 248-270. ISBN 9781108494403 (doi: 10.1017/9781108637725.017)

Strickland, Debra ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2022) Otherness on the Hereford World Map (c. 1300). IKON: Journal of Iconographic Studies, 15, pp. 19-28.

Strickland, Debra Higgs ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2022) The female presence on the Hereford World Map. Different Visions: New Perspectives on Medieval Art, 8, pp. 1-57.

2020

Strickland, Debra Higgs ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2020) Figuring Racism in Medieval Christianity. By Lindsay Kaplan. Pp. xiv + 283. Illustrated. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. isbn978 0 19 067824 1. Hardback £22.99; e-book. Journal of Theological Studies, 71(1), pp. 384-386. (doi: 10.1093/jts/flaa034)[Book Review]

2019

Strickland, Debra Higgs ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2019) Foreign bodies in the Nuremberg Chronicle. Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 95(2), pp. 19-42. (doi: 10.7227/BJRL.95.2.2)

Strickland, D.H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2019) The Bestiary and the Hereford World Map (c. 1300). In: Baumgärtner, Ingrid, Debby, Nirit Ben-Aryeh and Kogman-Appel, Katrin (eds.) Maps and Travel in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period: Knowledge, Imagination, and Visual Culture. Series: The Middle Ages: Perspectives in Medieval Research (9). De Gruyter: Berlin, pp. 37-73. ISBN 9783110587333 (doi: 10.1515/9783110588774-003)

Strickland, D.H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2019) Monsters, demons, and Jews in the painting of Hieronymus Bosch. In: Idelsohn-Shein, Iris and Weise, Christian (eds.) Monsters and Monstrosity in Jewish History: From the Middle Ages to Modernity. Bloomsbury Press: London, pp. 42-68. ISBN 9781350052147

Strickland, Debra Higgs ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2019) The bestiary on medieval world maps. In: Morrison, Elizabeth (ed.) Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World. J. Paul Getty Museum: Los Angeles, CA. ISBN 9781606065907

2018

Strickland, Debra Higgs ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2018) Sylvia Huot, Outsiders: The Humanity and Inhumanity of Giants in Medieval French Prose Romance. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2016. Pp. ix, 348; 5 black-and-white figures. $40. ISBN: 978-0-268-03112-1. Speculum, 93(4), pp. 1216-1218. (doi: 10.1086/699847)[Book Review]

Strickland, Debra Higgs ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2018) Edward I, Exodus, and England on the Hereford World Map. Speculum, 93(2), pp. 420-469. (doi: 10.1086/696540)

2017

Strickland, Debra Higgs ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2017) Animal iconography. In: Hourihane, Colum (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Medieval Iconography. Series: Routledge companions. Routledge: London ; New York, pp. 504-517. ISBN 9781472459473

2016

Strickland, Debra ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2016) The Epiphany of Hieronymus Bosch: Imagining Antichrist and Others from the Middle Ages to the Reformation. Series: Studies in medieval and early Renaissance art history, 77. Harvey Miller: London. ISBN 9781909400559

Strickland, Debra Higgs ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2016) Gazing into Bernhard Blumenkranz's mirror of Christian art: the fourteenth-century tring tiles and the Jewishness of Jesus in post-expulsion England. In: Buc, Philippe, Keil, Martha and Tolan, John (eds.) Jews and Christians in Medieval Europe: The Historiographical Legacy of Bernhard Blumenkranz. Series: Religion and law in Medieval Christian and Muslim societies (7). Brepols Publishers: Turnhout, pp. 149-188. ISBN 9782503565163

2015

Strickland, Debra Higgs ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2015) Looking back: the Westminster psalter, the added drawings, and the idea of 'retrospective crusade'. In: Lapina, Elizabeth, Morris, April Jehan, Throop, Susanna A. and Whatley, Laura J. (eds.) The Crusades and Visual Culture. Ashgate: Farnham, Surrey, pp. 157-184. ISBN 9781472449269

Strickland, Debra Higgs ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2015) Herbert L. Kessler and David Nirenberg (eds.). Judaism and Christian Art: Aesthetic Anxieties from the Catacombs to Colonialism. Ars Judaica, 13, pp. 97-100. [Book Review]

2014

Strickland, Debra ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2014) Meanings of Muhammad in later medieval art. In: Gruber, Christiane J. and Shalem, Avinoam (eds.) The Image of the Prophet Between Ideal and Ideology: A Scholarly Investigation. De Gruyter: Berlin, pp. 147-163. ISBN 9783110312546

Strickland, Debra Higgs ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2014) Mitchell B. Merback. Pilgrimage and Pogrom: Violence, Memory, and Visual Culture at the Host-Miracle Shrines of Germany and Austria. Renaissance Quarterly, 67(2), pp. 586-588. (doi: 10.1086/677432)[Book Review]

2013

Strickland, Debra ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2013) Saracens, eschatological prophecies, and later medieval art. In: Weiser, Veronika (ed.) Abendländische Apokalyptik: Kompendium zur Genealogie der Endzeit. Series: Kulturgeschichte der apokalypse (1). Akademie Verlag: Berlin, pp. 505-520. ISBN 9783050057989

2012

Hourihane, C., Strickland, D.H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 and Simonetta, M. (Eds.) (2012) The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture. Oxford University Press: New York, NY. ISBN 9780195395365

Strickland, D.H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2012) Monstrosity and race in the Late Middle Ages. In: Mittman, A. and Dendle, P. (eds.) The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous. Series: Ashgate research companion. Ashgate: Aldershot, UK. ISBN 9781409407546

2011

Strickland, Debra Higgs ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2011) Cynthia White, From the Ark to the Pulpit: An Edition and Translation of the “Transitional” Northumberland Bestiary (13th Century) . (Publications de l'Institut d'études médiévales: Textes, Études, Congrès, 24.) Louvain-la-Neuve: Institut d'études médiévales, Université catholique de Louvain, 2009. Paper. Pp. xxix, 436 plus black-and-white figures. €55. Speculum, 86(3), pp. 816-817. (doi: 10.1017/S0038713411002181)[Book Review]

Strickland, D.H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2011) Antichrist and the Jews in Medieval art and Protestant propaganda. Studies in Iconography, 32, pp. 1-50.

2010

Strickland, D.H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2010) Introduction: The future is necessarily monstrous. Different Visions: A Journal of New Perspectives on Medieval Art, 2, pp. 1-13.

Strickland, D.H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2010) The sartorial monsters of Herzog Ernst. Different Visions: A Journal of New Perspectives on Medieval Art, 2, pp. 130-164.

Strickland, D.H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 and Mittman, A. (2010) Monstrosity [Volume editor]. Different Visions: A Journal of New Perspectives on Medieval Art, 2,

2009

Strickland, Debra Higgs ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2009) The Jew in the Art of the Italian Renaissance. By Dana E. Katz. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2008. Pp. xii, 228. $55.00. ISBN 978-0-812-24085-6.). Catholic Historical Review, 95(4), pp. 822-823. [Book Review]

2008

Strickland, D.H. (2008) The exotic in the later Middle Ages: recent critical approaches. Literature Compass, 5(1), pp. 58-72. (doi: 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2007.00507.x)

Strickland, D.H. (2008) The Jews, Leviticus, and the unclean in medieval English bestiaries. In: Merback, M.B. (ed.) Beyond the Yellow Badge: Anti-Judaism and Antisemitism in Medieval and Early Modern Visual Culture. Series: Brill's series in Jewish studies (37). Brill: Leiden, Netherlands, pp. 203-232. ISBN 9789004151659

Strickland, D.H. (2008) Text, image, and contradiction in the Devisement dou monde. In: Iannucci, A.A., Akbari, S.C. and Tulk, J. (eds.) Marco Polo and the Encounter of East and West. University of Toronto Press: Toronto, Canada. ISBN 9780802099280

2007

Strickland, Debra Higgs ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2007) Das Bestiarium aus Peterborough. MS 53 (Fol. 189-210v), the Parker Library, College of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary, Cambridge: Kommentar zur Faksimile-Edition, 1 . Christopher de Hamel , Hans Zotter Das Bestiarium aus Peterborough. MS 53 (Fol. 189-210v), the Parker Library, College of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary, Cambridge: Kommentar zur Faksimile-Edition, 2 . Lucy Freeman Sandler , Christopher de Hamel. Speculum, 82(2), pp. 421-422. (doi: 10.1017/S0038713400009507)[Book Review]

Strickland, D.H. (Ed.) (2007) Images of Medieval Sanctity: Essays in Honour of Gary Dickson. Series: Visualising the Middle Ages. Brill: Leiden, Netherlands. ISBN 9789004160538

Strickland, D.H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2007) The holy and the unholy: analogies for the numinous in later medieval art. In: Strickland, D.H. (ed.) Images of Medieval Sanctity: Essays in Honour of Gary Dickson. Series: Visualising the Middle Ages (1). Brill: Leiden, Netherlands, pp. 101-120. ISBN 9789004160538

Strickland, D.H. (2007) Picturing antichrist and others in the Prado 'Epiphany' by Hieronymous Bosch. In: Nichols, T. (ed.) Others and Outcasts in Early Modern Europe: Picturing the Social Margins. Ashgate: Aldershot, UK, pp. 11-35. ISBN 9780754655572

2005

Strickland, D.H. (2005) Artists, audience, and ambivalence in Marco Polo's Divisament dou monde. Viator, 36, pp. 493-529.

2003

Strickland, D.H. (2003) Saracens, Demons, and Jews: Making Monsters in Medieval Art. Princeton University Press: Princeton, USA. ISBN 9780691057194

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Articles

Strickland, Debra ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2022) Otherness on the Hereford World Map (c. 1300). IKON: Journal of Iconographic Studies, 15, pp. 19-28.

Strickland, Debra Higgs ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2022) The female presence on the Hereford World Map. Different Visions: New Perspectives on Medieval Art, 8, pp. 1-57.

Strickland, Debra Higgs ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2019) Foreign bodies in the Nuremberg Chronicle. Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 95(2), pp. 19-42. (doi: 10.7227/BJRL.95.2.2)

Strickland, Debra Higgs ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2018) Edward I, Exodus, and England on the Hereford World Map. Speculum, 93(2), pp. 420-469. (doi: 10.1086/696540)

Strickland, D.H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2011) Antichrist and the Jews in Medieval art and Protestant propaganda. Studies in Iconography, 32, pp. 1-50.

Strickland, D.H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2010) Introduction: The future is necessarily monstrous. Different Visions: A Journal of New Perspectives on Medieval Art, 2, pp. 1-13.

Strickland, D.H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2010) The sartorial monsters of Herzog Ernst. Different Visions: A Journal of New Perspectives on Medieval Art, 2, pp. 130-164.

Strickland, D.H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 and Mittman, A. (2010) Monstrosity [Volume editor]. Different Visions: A Journal of New Perspectives on Medieval Art, 2,

Strickland, D.H. (2008) The exotic in the later Middle Ages: recent critical approaches. Literature Compass, 5(1), pp. 58-72. (doi: 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2007.00507.x)

Strickland, D.H. (2005) Artists, audience, and ambivalence in Marco Polo's Divisament dou monde. Viator, 36, pp. 493-529.

Books

Strickland, Debra ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2025) Medieval Bestiaries: Text, Image, Ideology. Cambridge University Press; Yale University Press, 2025: Cambridge; New Haven.

Strickland, Debra ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2016) The Epiphany of Hieronymus Bosch: Imagining Antichrist and Others from the Middle Ages to the Reformation. Series: Studies in medieval and early Renaissance art history, 77. Harvey Miller: London. ISBN 9781909400559

Strickland, D.H. (2003) Saracens, Demons, and Jews: Making Monsters in Medieval Art. Princeton University Press: Princeton, USA. ISBN 9780691057194

Book Sections

Strickland, Debra Higgs ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2025) Insects in and around the Bestiaries. In: Strickland, Debra Higgs (ed.) Medieval Bestiaries. Series: Reading medieval sources (9). Brill, pp. 273-321. ISBN 9789004429697 (doi: 10.1163/9789004734937_010)

Strickland, Debra Higgs ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2022) Antisemitism in Medieval Art. In: Katz, Steven T. (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Antisemitism. Series: Cambridge companions to religion. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 248-270. ISBN 9781108494403 (doi: 10.1017/9781108637725.017)

Strickland, D.H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2019) The Bestiary and the Hereford World Map (c. 1300). In: Baumgärtner, Ingrid, Debby, Nirit Ben-Aryeh and Kogman-Appel, Katrin (eds.) Maps and Travel in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period: Knowledge, Imagination, and Visual Culture. Series: The Middle Ages: Perspectives in Medieval Research (9). De Gruyter: Berlin, pp. 37-73. ISBN 9783110587333 (doi: 10.1515/9783110588774-003)

Strickland, D.H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2019) Monsters, demons, and Jews in the painting of Hieronymus Bosch. In: Idelsohn-Shein, Iris and Weise, Christian (eds.) Monsters and Monstrosity in Jewish History: From the Middle Ages to Modernity. Bloomsbury Press: London, pp. 42-68. ISBN 9781350052147

Strickland, Debra Higgs ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2019) The bestiary on medieval world maps. In: Morrison, Elizabeth (ed.) Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World. J. Paul Getty Museum: Los Angeles, CA. ISBN 9781606065907

Strickland, Debra Higgs ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2017) Animal iconography. In: Hourihane, Colum (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Medieval Iconography. Series: Routledge companions. Routledge: London ; New York, pp. 504-517. ISBN 9781472459473

Strickland, Debra Higgs ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2016) Gazing into Bernhard Blumenkranz's mirror of Christian art: the fourteenth-century tring tiles and the Jewishness of Jesus in post-expulsion England. In: Buc, Philippe, Keil, Martha and Tolan, John (eds.) Jews and Christians in Medieval Europe: The Historiographical Legacy of Bernhard Blumenkranz. Series: Religion and law in Medieval Christian and Muslim societies (7). Brepols Publishers: Turnhout, pp. 149-188. ISBN 9782503565163

Strickland, Debra Higgs ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2015) Looking back: the Westminster psalter, the added drawings, and the idea of 'retrospective crusade'. In: Lapina, Elizabeth, Morris, April Jehan, Throop, Susanna A. and Whatley, Laura J. (eds.) The Crusades and Visual Culture. Ashgate: Farnham, Surrey, pp. 157-184. ISBN 9781472449269

Strickland, Debra ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2014) Meanings of Muhammad in later medieval art. In: Gruber, Christiane J. and Shalem, Avinoam (eds.) The Image of the Prophet Between Ideal and Ideology: A Scholarly Investigation. De Gruyter: Berlin, pp. 147-163. ISBN 9783110312546

Strickland, Debra ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2013) Saracens, eschatological prophecies, and later medieval art. In: Weiser, Veronika (ed.) Abendländische Apokalyptik: Kompendium zur Genealogie der Endzeit. Series: Kulturgeschichte der apokalypse (1). Akademie Verlag: Berlin, pp. 505-520. ISBN 9783050057989

Strickland, D.H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2012) Monstrosity and race in the Late Middle Ages. In: Mittman, A. and Dendle, P. (eds.) The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous. Series: Ashgate research companion. Ashgate: Aldershot, UK. ISBN 9781409407546

Strickland, D.H. (2008) The Jews, Leviticus, and the unclean in medieval English bestiaries. In: Merback, M.B. (ed.) Beyond the Yellow Badge: Anti-Judaism and Antisemitism in Medieval and Early Modern Visual Culture. Series: Brill's series in Jewish studies (37). Brill: Leiden, Netherlands, pp. 203-232. ISBN 9789004151659

Strickland, D.H. (2008) Text, image, and contradiction in the Devisement dou monde. In: Iannucci, A.A., Akbari, S.C. and Tulk, J. (eds.) Marco Polo and the Encounter of East and West. University of Toronto Press: Toronto, Canada. ISBN 9780802099280

Strickland, D.H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2007) The holy and the unholy: analogies for the numinous in later medieval art. In: Strickland, D.H. (ed.) Images of Medieval Sanctity: Essays in Honour of Gary Dickson. Series: Visualising the Middle Ages (1). Brill: Leiden, Netherlands, pp. 101-120. ISBN 9789004160538

Strickland, D.H. (2007) Picturing antichrist and others in the Prado 'Epiphany' by Hieronymous Bosch. In: Nichols, T. (ed.) Others and Outcasts in Early Modern Europe: Picturing the Social Margins. Ashgate: Aldershot, UK, pp. 11-35. ISBN 9780754655572

Book Reviews

Strickland, Debra Higgs ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2020) Figuring Racism in Medieval Christianity. By Lindsay Kaplan. Pp. xiv + 283. Illustrated. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. isbn978 0 19 067824 1. Hardback £22.99; e-book. Journal of Theological Studies, 71(1), pp. 384-386. (doi: 10.1093/jts/flaa034)[Book Review]

Strickland, Debra Higgs ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2018) Sylvia Huot, Outsiders: The Humanity and Inhumanity of Giants in Medieval French Prose Romance. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2016. Pp. ix, 348; 5 black-and-white figures. $40. ISBN: 978-0-268-03112-1. Speculum, 93(4), pp. 1216-1218. (doi: 10.1086/699847)[Book Review]

Strickland, Debra Higgs ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2015) Herbert L. Kessler and David Nirenberg (eds.). Judaism and Christian Art: Aesthetic Anxieties from the Catacombs to Colonialism. Ars Judaica, 13, pp. 97-100. [Book Review]

Strickland, Debra Higgs ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2014) Mitchell B. Merback. Pilgrimage and Pogrom: Violence, Memory, and Visual Culture at the Host-Miracle Shrines of Germany and Austria. Renaissance Quarterly, 67(2), pp. 586-588. (doi: 10.1086/677432)[Book Review]

Strickland, Debra Higgs ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2011) Cynthia White, From the Ark to the Pulpit: An Edition and Translation of the “Transitional” Northumberland Bestiary (13th Century) . (Publications de l'Institut d'études médiévales: Textes, Études, Congrès, 24.) Louvain-la-Neuve: Institut d'études médiévales, Université catholique de Louvain, 2009. Paper. Pp. xxix, 436 plus black-and-white figures. €55. Speculum, 86(3), pp. 816-817. (doi: 10.1017/S0038713411002181)[Book Review]

Strickland, Debra Higgs ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2009) The Jew in the Art of the Italian Renaissance. By Dana E. Katz. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2008. Pp. xii, 228. $55.00. ISBN 978-0-812-24085-6.). Catholic Historical Review, 95(4), pp. 822-823. [Book Review]

Strickland, Debra Higgs ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (2007) Das Bestiarium aus Peterborough. MS 53 (Fol. 189-210v), the Parker Library, College of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary, Cambridge: Kommentar zur Faksimile-Edition, 1 . Christopher de Hamel , Hans Zotter Das Bestiarium aus Peterborough. MS 53 (Fol. 189-210v), the Parker Library, College of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary, Cambridge: Kommentar zur Faksimile-Edition, 2 . Lucy Freeman Sandler , Christopher de Hamel. Speculum, 82(2), pp. 421-422. (doi: 10.1017/S0038713400009507)[Book Review]

Edited Books

Strickland, Debra Higgs ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 (Ed.) (2025) Medieval Bestiaries: New Approaches. Series: Reading medieval sources, vol. 9. Brill. ISBN 9789004429697

Hourihane, C., Strickland, D.H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-8469 and Simonetta, M. (Eds.) (2012) The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture. Oxford University Press: New York, NY. ISBN 9780195395365

Strickland, D.H. (Ed.) (2007) Images of Medieval Sanctity: Essays in Honour of Gary Dickson. Series: Visualising the Middle Ages. Brill: Leiden, Netherlands. ISBN 9789004160538

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Grants

  • University of Glasgow - Radboud University Collaborative Fund Award, 2020-21
  • AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award (with the Victoria and Albert Museum), 2014-2016
  • Library Journal award for Best Reference Source (print) 2012, 2012 (for The Grove Encyclopedia of Art and Architecture)
  • Faculty of Arts Strategic Allocation Research Grant, University of Glasgow, 2008
  • 2006 Domestic Lecturer, International Center of Medieval Art
  • Honorary Research Fellow, Glasgow Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, 2004-06
  • Honorary Fellow, Department of History of Art, University of Edinburgh, 2001-08
  • Furthermore Foundation Publication Subvention, 2002 (for Saracens, Demons, & Jews)
  • Visiting Fellow, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Princeton University, 2001-02
  • Research Grant, British Academy, 2000
  • U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1999
  • Visiting Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, 1998-99
  • University of Oklahoma Research Council Grant, 1997
  • Newberry-British Academy Fellowship for Study in Great Britain, 1997
  • Research Development Grant, University of Oklahoma, 1997
  • Junior Faculty Fellowship, University of Oklahoma, 1997
  • Visiting Research Fellowship, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of Toronto, 1997
  • University of Oklahoma Arts and Sciences Faculty Enrichment Grant, 1997
  • University of Oklahoma Research Council Grant, 1996
  • President’s Fellow, Columbia University: 1992, 1989-90, 1988-89
  • Whiting Fellow, 1991-92 
  • Jerry Stannard Memorial Award, University of Kansas, 1991

Supervision

‘Holy (Mis)conceptions: Late Medieval Depictions of the Visitation Featuring the Occupied Womb and their Female Monastic Audience’

‘Tears of Our Lady: Digital Engagement with the Burrell’s Medieval Collection’

'The Paradoxical Realism of Monsters in Early Modern Printed Images’

'The Intervisceral Encounter: The Survival of Premodern Images and Visuality in Contemporary Life Cast Sculpture’

‘Christ’s Wounds and the Image of the Well in Late Medieval English Texts and Images’

‘Queering Christ’s Wounds in Late Medieval Texts, Images, and Performances and in Western Modernity’

‘Opus Anglicanum’

‘Diagrams in Late Medieval English Medical Manuscripts’

‘The Iconography of Synagoga in Late Medieval Art’

‘Images of the Virgin Mary in Vernacular Art and Literature and Their Popular Reception in England’

‘Gender and Monstrosity in Old English Texts and Images’

Teaching

  • History of Art Level 1
  • History of Art Level 2
  • Antichrist, Apocalypse, and the End of Time in Medieval Art (Junior Honours)
  • The Worlds of Hieronymus Bosch: Enemy Painter (Junior Honours)
  • Monsters, Women, and Jews: Medieval Art and Identity (Senior Honours)
  • Death and the Art of Dying in the Renaissance North (MLitt)
  • Making Time: Performing and Thinking Temporalities in the Creative Arts (MLitt)
  • Research Methods and Skills (MLitt)

Additional information

Earlier Publications (pre-2005)

N.B.: Publications earlier than 2001 were published under the name, Debra Hassig.

Books 

Medieval Bestiaries: Text, Image, Ideology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2025 [electronic version])

The Mark of the Beast: The Medieval Bestiary in Art, Life, and Literature, ed. Debra Hassig (New York: Garland, 1999; paperback ed.: New York, Routledge, 2000)  

Articles

‘Monsters and Christian Enemies’, History Today 50/2 (2000), pp. 45-51

‘He Will Make Alive Your Mortal Bodies: Cluniac Spirituality and the Tomb of Alfonso Ansúrez’, Gesta 30 (1991), pp. 140-53

‘Beauty in the Beasts: A Study of Medieval Aesthetics’, Res 19/20 (1990/1991), pp. 137-61

‘Transplanted Medicine: Colonial Mexican Herbals of the Sixteenth Century’, Res 17/18 (1989), pp. 30-53. (winner of the 1989 Jerry Stannard Memorial Award for best article on materia medica)

Book sections

‘The Iconography of Rejection: Jews and Other Monstrous Races’, in Image and Belief: Studies in Celebration of the Eightieth Anniversary of the Index of Christian Art, ed. Colum Hourihane (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999), pp. 25-46

‘Sex in the Bestiaries’, in The Mark of the Beast: The Medieval Bestiary in Art, Life, and Literature, ed. Debra Hassig (New York: Garland, 1999; paperback Routledge, 2000), pp. 71-93

‘Marginal Bestiaries’, in Animals and the Symbolic, ed. L.A.J.R. Houwen (Groningen: Egbert Forsten, 1997), pp 171-88 

 

Recent and Upcoming Presentations (selected)

'Whales and Kindred Sea Creatures in Medieval English Bestiaries', ticketed lecture presented in tandem with the exhibition, the Whales, by Tessa Campbell Fraser, St Albans, St Albans Cathedral, scheduled 29 January 2026

'The 1290 Expulsion and the Place of Hereford's Jewish Community on the Hereford Mappa Mundi', Hereford, The Woolhope Club, scheduled 3 January 2026 

'Christ Carrying the Cross: Materiality and Messaging on a Late Fifteenth-Century Stained Glass Panel in the Burrell Collection', symposium on 'The Agency of Art', co-organized with Julia Luxford, co-sponsored by St Andrews University and Glasgow Life, Glasgow, Burrell Collection, 28 February 2024

'Teaching with Medieval Images', presentation for workshop series on 'Teaching Medieval French', University of Warwick, 28 April 2023

'Difficult Places on the Hereford World Map (c. 1300)', keynote address, Association for Art History 2023 conference, University College London, 15 April 2023

'Strangers and Others on the Hereford Mappa Mundi', ticketed lecture presented in the Hereford Life and Learning series, Hereford, College Hall, Hereford Cathedral, 13 July 2022

'Otherness on the Hereford World Map', keynote address, Fifteenth Annual International Conference on Iconographic Studies (IKON), Rijeka, University of Rijeka, 10 June 2021

'Hate and the Humanists: Antisemitism in the Nuremberg Chronicle', international workshop on 'Media of Hate: Representations of Religious Persecution and Repression in Early Modern Europe', Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge, 4 October 2019

'Bosch's Bug: Monstrosity, Devilry, and Anti-Judaism on the St John on Patmos panel by Hieronymus Bosch', Irish National Institute for Historical Research seminar, University College Cork, 15 March 2019

 

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Member, Karen Gould Prize Committee, Medieval Academy of America, 2023-  

Chair, New Initiatives Working Group, International Center of Medieval Art, 2020-21

Editorial Board member, Studies in Iconography, 2019-

Exhibition Consultant, The Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World, Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2017-2019

Exhibition Consultant, Monsters, Terrors, Aliens, and Wonders, New York, The Morgan Library, 2016-18

Editorial Board member, Monsters and Marvels: Alterity in the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds (monograph series), Routledge, 2018-

Project consultant, ‘Connecting Collections: Researching and Exhibiting Medieval and Early Modern Collections in Melbourne and Manchester’, University of Manchester / University of Melbourne, 2017-19 

Advisory Board member, ‘Remappings: Christians and Jews in Early England’, digital project sponsored by University of Iowa and University of California, San Diego, 2017-18

Member, Higher Education Teaching and Learning at the Burrell Collection, 2018- 

Burrell Collection Expert Panel, Glasgow Life Burrell Collection Redisplay Project, 2016-2021 

Advisory Board member, ‘Jewish Lives – Scottish Spaces’ University of Glasgow / University of Edinburgh (AHRC-funded project), 2015-19

Editorial Board member, Renaissance Studies, 2013-19

Editorial Board member, Different Visions: A Journal of New Perspectives on Medieval Art, 2006-13

Editorial Board member, Ikon, 2008-11

member, International Center of Medieval Art, 1986- ; Associate Board of Directors, 2005-8

Member, College Art Association of America, 1986- 

Member, Medieval Academy of America, 1985- 

Member, Association of Art Historians, 2013-20 

Member, Society for Renaissance Studies, 2013-19

External Examiner, History of Art, University of Edinburgh, 2011-14

Extern Examiner, History, University College Cork, 2014-18


Peer reviewer for: AHRC, ESRC, Leverhulme Trust, European Research Council, Israel Science Foundation, Austrian Science Foundation, Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada, Centre of Advanced Study Oslo (Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters), American Philosophical Society, Research Centre for the Humanities (Athens), Cambridge University Press, Princeton University Press, Harvard University Press, Penn State University Press, University of Pennsylvania Press, Yale University Press, ACMRS Press, Brill Academic Publishers, Boydell Press, Ashgate Publishers, Routledge Publishers, MIT Press, University of Toronto Press, Reaktion Books, University of Michigan Press, Art Bulletin, Studies in Iconography, Ikon, Viator, Journal of Medieval History, History Compass, Exemplaria, Modern Philology, Gender History, Art in Translation, Preternature, Gesta, Different Visions, Speculum, Digital Philology, Journal of Theological Studies, Parergon, Renaissance Studies, British Art Studies, Bloomsbury Medieval Studies, Art History, Downside Review, Ars Judaica, Antisemitism Studies, Nuncius