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[email protected] ELINA GERTSMAN PRESENT APPOINTMENT Professor of Art History, Department of Art History and Art, Case Western Reserve University Director of Graduate Studies • Core Faculty, Women's and Gender Studies Program EDUCATION Boston University, Department of Art History: Ph.D., 2004; M.A., 2000. Presidential, Teaching, and Writing Fellow. Dissertation: “Debeo Saltare: Theology, Reception, and Performativity of the Medieval Dance of Death” University of California, San Diego, Visual Arts Department: B.A., 1998 Art History-Criticism: high honors, magna cum laude Centre Parisien d’Études Critiques – La Sorbonne/Paris IV: Critical Studies Program, 1996-97 Coursework in medieval art, modern literature, philosophy of art, and art criticism BOOKS Contracted Nothing Is the Matter: Empty Spaces in Late Medieval Art. Contracted by Penn State Press. The book will explore late medieval concepts of emptiness and void, with a special focus on epistemologically fraught emptiness that inhabits later medieval murals and manuscripts. Supported by the American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (2016 Fellow). (Editor) Beyond the Ornament: Medieval Abstract Art. Contracted by Amsterdam University Press. This collection interrogates the concept of medieval abstraction from a multitude of perspectives—formal, semiotic, iconographic, material, phenomenological, and epistemological. (Co-editor) Contested Spaces: Crossing Medieval Disciplines. Contracted by Brepols. This collection showcases contributions to the history of medieval literature, drama, theology, and art, demonstrating the fruitfulness of the cross-disciplinary approach that has come to define these fields.