Profile

Biography

Emily Davenport Guerry came to the University of North Carolina on a
Varsity Volleyball scholarship and left with a passion for gothic
architecture. Since her arrival in Cambridge in 2007, she has focused
on the royal patronage of Anglo-Norman visual culture. She is
delighted to join the History of Art Department at the University of
York in 2011.

Emily examines the relationship between relics, devotion, and the
invention of iconography in thirteenth-century France. She is
particularly interested in the representation of suffering and
kingship in Capetian manuscripts and murals from the reign of Louis
VII to Charles IV (1137-1328). With the generous assistance of the
British Archeological Association, Hamilton-Kerr Institute, Centre des
Monuments Nationaux, and Cambridge Overseas Trust, Emily directed a
fourteen-month fieldwork project on the wall paintings of martyrdom in
the Sainte-Chapelle of Paris. She will submit her dissertation on "The
Wall Paintings of the Sainte-Chapelle" in the History of Art
Department at the University of Cambridge in the summer of 2011 and
publish her work as a monograph.

Career

BA Summa Cum Laude University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2007
MPhil with Distinction at the University of Cambridge 2008
PhD Candidate 2011