Monograph

 The Art of Allusion: Illuminators and the Making of English Literature, 1403-1476 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018; paperback edition, 2021).

  • High Commendation for Exemplary Scholarship on the Period before 1600, Historians of British Art

  • Subventions: ICMA-Kress Publication Grant; Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Publication Grant;      College Art Association Millard Meiss Publication Fund Grant

  • Reviews: Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Speculum, The Medieval Review, Journal of British Studies, Medium Aevum, CAA Reviews, Journal of the Early Book Society, English Historical Review, The Antiquaries Journal, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Studies in Iconography, Peregrinations, Parergon

Guest Editor, Special Journal Issues

Seeing Codicologically: New Explorations in the Technology of the Book, ed. Sonja Drimmer, Lynley Ann Herbert, and Benjamin Tilghman, special issue of the Journal of the Walters Art Museum 76 (2023).

Race-ing Queens. Special Issue of Barnard Center for Research on Women’s The Scholar and Feminist Online, ed. Mira ‘Assaf Kafantaris, Treva B. Lindsey, and Sonja Drimmer (2022).

Manual Impressions: Visualizing Print in Manuscript, c.1450-1850, ed. Sonja Drimmer, special issue of Digital Philology 9.2 (2020).

translation

Erwin Panofsky, " 'The Problem of Style in the Visual Arts,'" trans. William Diebold and Sonja Drimmer, Critical Inquiry 49.4 (2023): 676–84.

Articles and Book Chapters

most links below are to full text pdfs or to open access versions online

“Hildegard von Bingen’s Scivias in Weimar Germany: Media Theory by Hand,” Old ‘New Media’ and Literary Studies before 1960, ed. András Kiséry and David Nee, special issue Modern Language Quarterly 84.4 (2023): 443–464.

with William Diebold, "Panofsky's Debut," Critical Inquiry 49.4 (2023): 663–75.

  • introduction to our translation of Erwin Panofsky, " 'Das Problem des Stils in der bildenden Kunst'" (1915).

with Christopher J. Nygren, "Art History and AI: Ten Axioms," International Journal for Digital Art History 10 (2023): 5.01–10.

“The Rollodex: An Experiment around the Prepositional Paradigm through Peter of Poitiers’s Genealogia Christi,” in Seeing Codicologically: New Explorations in the Technology of the Book, ed. Sonja Drimmer, Lynley Ann Herbert, and Benjamin Tilghman, special issue of the Journal of the Walters Art Museum 76 (2023): 1–32.

with Mira ‘Assaf Kafantaris and Treva B. Lindsey, "Introduction," Race-ing Queens. Special Issue of Barnard Center for Research on Women’s The Scholar and Feminist Online, ed. Mira ‘Assaf Kafantaris, Treva B. Lindsey, and Sonja Drimmer (2022).

“The Sanguine Art (Four Fragments),” in Destroyed–Disappeared–Lost–Never Were, ed. Beate Fricke and Aden Kumler (Penn State University Press, 2022), 49–60.

"Connoisseurship, Art History, and the Paleographical Impasse in Middle English Studies," Speculum 97.2 (2022): 415–68.

“The Shapes of History: Houghton Library, Richardson MS 35 and Chronicles of England in Codex and Roll,” in Beyond Words: New Research on Manuscripts in Boston Collections, ed. Lisa Fagin Davis, Anne-Marie Eze, Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Nancy Netzer and William Stoneman (Toronto: PIMS, 2021), 253-68.

“Introduction: The Manuscript Copy and the Printed Original in the Digital Present,” Manual Impressions: Visualizing Print in Manuscript, c.1450-1850, special issue of Digital Philology, ed. Sonja Drimmer 9.2 (2020): 93-119.

“Post Script,” Manual Impressions: Visualizing Print in Manuscript, c.1450-1850, special issue of Digital Philology, ed. Sonja Drimmer 9.2 (2020): 228-230.

 “A Political Poster in Late Medieval England: British Library, Harley MS 7353,” in Harlaxton Medieval Studies Volume XXX, Performance, Ceremony and Display in Late Medieval Britain: Proceedings of the 2018 Harlaxton Symposium, ed. Julia Boffey (Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2020), 333-59.

“The Severed Head as Public Sculpture in Late Medieval England,” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 50.2 (2020): 293-321.

“The Manuscript as an Ambigraphic Medium: Hoccleve’s Scribes, Illuminators, and Their Problems,” Exemplaria 29.3 (2017): 175-94.

“Unnoticed and Unusual: An Illustration in a Manuscript of John Lydgate’s Fall of Princes,” Journal of the Early Book Society 20 (2017): 209-18.

“The Painters of Late Medieval London and Westminster,” Burlington Magazine CLIX (2017):  445-49.

“The Disorder of Operations: Illuminators, Scribes, and John Gower’s Confessio Amantis” Lias: Journal of Early Modern Intellectual Culture and Its Sources. Special Issue on Critical Bibliography, ed. Vera Keller 44.1 (2017): 5-28.

“The Hieroglyphs of Kingship: Italy’s Egypt in Early Tudor England and the Manuscript as Monument,” The Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 59/60 (2014/15): 255-83.

“Failure before Print (The Case of Stephen Scrope),” Viator 46.3 (2015): 343-72.

“Questionable Contexts: A Pedigree Book and Queen Elizabeth’s Teeth,” in Scholars and Poets Talk About Queens, ed. Carole Levin and Christine Stewart-Nuñez (New York: Palgrave, 2015), 203-24.

“Beyond Private Matter: A Prayer Roll for Queen Margaret of Anjou,” Gesta 53.1 (2014): 95-120.

  • Awarded the Richard III & Yorkist History Trust History Prize, 2015.

“A Medieval Psalter ‘Perfected’: Eighteenth-Century Conservationism and an Early (Female) Restorer of Rare Books and Manuscripts,” The British Library Journal (2013): 1-38.

“Picturing the King or Picturing the Saint: Two Miniature Programmes for Lydgate’s Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund,” in Manuscripts and Printed Books in Europe, 1350-1550: Packaging, Presentation  and Consumption, ed. Sue Powell & Emma Cayley (Liverpool: University of Liverpool Press, 2013), 48-67.

 “Visualizing Intertextuality: Conflating Forms of Creativity in Late Medieval ‘Author Portraits,’” in Citation, Intertextuality and Memory in the Middle Ages and Renaissance vol. 2: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Medieval Culture, ed. Yolanda Plumley and Giuliano Di Bacco (Liverpool: University of Liverpool Press, 2013), 82-101.

with R.I. Vane-Wright, “Elizabeth Denyer’s Paintings of William Jones’s British Butterflies: Their Discovery and Significance,” Antenna: The Bulletin of the Royal Entomological Society 36 (2012): 239-46.

“Illuminating Remediation: Recapturing Medieval Modes of Reading and Looking in the Classroom,” special issue, “Teaching the Middle Ages with Manuscripts in the Twenty-First Century,” ed. David Watt, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 17 (2010): 47-64.

Catalogue Essays

 Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination, ed. Scot McKendrick, John Lowden, and Kathleen Doyle (London: British Library, 2011), nos. 21, 28, 30, 31, 32, 34, 43, 44, 73, 109, 110, 111, 115, 119, 133, 136, 146 (approx. 750 words each).

  • short-listed for the William M.B. Berger Prize for British Art History, 2012

Reviews

Review [Daniel Wakelin, Immaterial Texts in Late Medieval England: Making English Literary Manuscripts, 1400–1500 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022).] Studies in the Age of Chaucer 45 (2023): 421–25.

Review [Elaine Treharne, Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts: The Phenomenal Book (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021)] Manuscript Studies 8 (2023): 147–51.

“Art History is Not a Robot” [Review of Amanda Wasielewski, Computational Formalism: Art History and Machine Learning, MIT Press, 2023] Art in America (Summer 2023): 50–54.

Review [Jeffrey Hamburger, Diagramming Devotion: Berthold of Nuremberg’s Transformation of Hrabanus Maurus’s Poems in Praise of the Cross. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020.] West 86th 29 (2023): 125–28.

Review [Laura Slater, Art and Political Thought in Medieval England, c. 1150–1350 (Woodbridge, UK: Boydell, 2018)], Speculum 95 (2020): 904-06.

Review [Denise Borlée and Laurence Terrier Aliferis, eds. Les modèles dans l’art du Moyen Âge (XIIe–XVe siècles). Actes du colloque. Modèles supposés, modèles repérés: leurs usages dans l’art gothique, Université de Genève (3–5 November 2016) = Models in the Art of the Middle Ages (12th–15th Centuries). Conference Proceedings. Supposed Models, Identified Models: Their Uses in Gothic Art, University of Geneva (3–5 November 2016). Turnhout: Brepols, 2018.], Studies in Iconography 41 (2020): 219-22.

Review [Torsten Hiltmann and Laurent Hablot, eds., Heraldic Artists and Painters in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times (Heraldic Studies 1. (Ostfildern: Thorbecke, 2018)], Speculum 95 (2020): 255-57.

Review [Kathleen E. Kennedy, The Courtly and Commercial Art of the Wycliffite Bible (Turnhout: Brepols, 2014)], Journal of English and Germanic Philology 116 (2017): 382-85.

Review [Kathryn M. Rudy, Postcards on Parchment: The Social Lives of Medieval Books (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015)], College Art Association Reviews (January 2017).

Review [Rosemarie McGerr, A Lancastrian  Mirror for Princes:  The Yale Law School New Statutes of England (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011)], The Medieval Review (September, 2012).