Profile
Biography
BA, Vassar; MA, York; Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Lisa Reilly is the Fulbright Fellow in the History of Art at the University of York in spring 2015, where she will be researching the stained glass of the parish church of St. Michael le Belfrey.
Lisa Reilly's chief research interest is in the history of Norman architecture in England, France and Italy. She published a monograph on Peterborough Cathedral with Oxford University Press in the series Clarendon Studies in the Fine Arts. She publishes and lectures chiefly on Norman architecture and is currently completing a book on Norman visual culture throughout the Romanesque world. Together with Karen Van Lengen, she wrote Campus Guide: Vassar College for Princeton Architectural Press.
Lisa is a leading early user of digital humanities technology in teaching and research. Her ongoing research project investigates the medieval design process using digital analysis (http://www.medievalarchitecture.org/). She was the editor of the journal Gesta (2009-12) and is a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. She is the 2014 Bonnie Wheeler Fellow.
Publications
Full publications list
Books
The Invention of Norman Visual Culture (under editorial consideration).
The Stained Glass of the Parish Church of St. Michael-le-Belfrey (in progress, Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi of Great Britain volume, co-authored with Mary Shepard).
Skyscraper Gothic (in progress, collection of edited essays with Kevin Murphy).
Vassar College, The Campus Guide Series, Princeton Architectural Press (2004, co-author with Karen Van Lengen).
An Architectural History of Peterborough Cathedral. Clarendon Studies in the History of Art. Denis Farr, no. 17. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. (Reviewed in JSAH 60:1 [March 2001] 87-93.)
Articles & Encyclopedia Entries:
“The Gothic” with Kevin Murphy in Critical Terms in Medievalism Studies ed. Elizabeth Emery & Richard Utz, Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer (In press, peer reviewed).
“The Medieval Design Process at Southwell Minster” with Chad Keller and Edward Triplett in New Approaches to Medieval Architecture, ed. Robert Bork and Abby McGhee, Farnham: Ashgate, 2011 pp. 197-207, (peer reviewed).
“The Medieval Design Process at Southwell Minster” in “Avista at Kalamazoo” published abstracts Avista Forum Journal, 19, ½ Fall 2009, pp. 87-9.
“Medieval Art History” in What Should I Read Next? ed. Jessica Feldman & Robert Stilling, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008, pp. 207-10.
“Forward” with Mary B. Shepard, Gesta (50th anniversary Issue) XLV/2 (2006) pp. 79-80.
“Beating their Swords into Set Squares.” in Perspectives for an Architecture of Solitude, Essays on Cistercians, Art & Architecture in Honor of Peter Fergusson. ed. Terryl Kinder, Turnhout: Brepols, 2004, pp. 369-75.
“Engaging Students from Beginning to End” Teaching Concerns Fall 2004
(http://trc.virginia.edu/Publications/Teaching_Concerns/Fall_2004/TC_Fall_2004_Reilly.htm)
“Durham Cathedral: The Emergence of Anglo-Norman Architecture.” AngloNorman Studies 19, July 1997, pp. 335-51.
“Peterborough Cathedral.” Enciclopedia dell ‘Arte Medievale. Rome: Instituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 1991.
“Gundulf,” “Norman Style,” “Corbel: Structure,” Corbel: Ornament,” “Diaper,” “Dogtooth”, “Gargoyle: Europe,” and “Peterborough Cathedral.” The Dictionary of Art. New York: Grove, 1996.
Contributor to Woodstock: An American Art Colony ed. Karal Ann Marling & Peter Morrin, Vassar College Art Gallery 1977.
Digital Publications
English Medieval Architecture: A Model for Design Process Analysis (author, ongoing).
Focused on Southwell Minster, this publication features the digital models in progress for an ongoing investigation of the medieval design process. Typical of English medieval churches, Southwell incorporates fabric from a wide range of periods. The emphasis of the analysis is on establishing to what degree the physical structure of the extant fabric has a determining effect on the form of the later medieval additions through the development of multi-dimensional dynamic models for a series of case studies.
(www.medievalarchitecture.org)
The Travels of Ibn Jubayr: An Interactive Exhibit, curator, Spring 2013
This site features exhibitions developed by the students in my course “On Hajj with Ibn Jubayr: Reconstructing the 12th Century Mediterranean” using the newly developed Neatline tool (www.neatline.org). The course developed exhibits that animated the diary of the twelfth century pilgrim, Ibn Jubayr. We explored how Damascus and Aleppo have changed over time as well as Aleppo’s ongoing destruction. Another exhibits looks at how the hajj functions spatially as well as how Mecca is changing over time. See in particular “The Evolution of Hajj” http://ibnjubayr.lib.virginia.edu/the-evolution-of-the-hajj and “Ibn Jubayr’s Journey through Damascus” http://ibnjubayr.lib.virginia.edu/ibn-jubayrsjourney-through-damascus
For all student work see:
http://ibnjubayr.lib.virginia.edu/view-exhibits
Book Reviews
Review of Becket’s Crown: Art & Imagination in Gothic England, 1170-1300 by Paul Binski
CAA Reviews, April 2007 ( http://www.caareviews.org).
Review of Norwich Cathedral Close: The Evolutions of the English Cathedral Landscape by Roberta Gilchrist
The Medieval Review, June 2006, (http://name.umdl.umich.edu/baj9928.0608.024).
Review of Fountains Abbey: The Cistercians in Northern England, by Glynn Coppack & The Impact of the Cistercians on the Landscape of Ireland, by Geraldine Carville.
Speculum 80:4 (Oct. 2005), pp. 1244-6.
Review of The Architecture of Norman England by Eric Fernie.
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 61:2 (June 2002), pp. 249-51.
Review of Cathedrals of Europe by Anne Prache, Ian West, Alayne Pullen
Speculum, 77:2 (April 2002), pp. 627-8.
Review of Norwich Cathedral: Church City and Diocese, 1096-1996. ed. Ian Atherton, Eric Fernie, Christopher Harper-Bill, and Hassell Smith.
Speculum. 73:2 (April 1998) pp. 458-61.