Affiliate Professor, Art & Art History
Critical Media Practices
Kirk Ambrose is professor and chair of the department of Art and Art History. In addition to many articles and book chapters, he is author of The Nave Sculpture of Vézelay: The Art of Monastic Viewing (2006) and The Marvellous and the Monstrous in the Sculpture of Twelfth-Century Europe (2013). Along with Robert Maxwell (University of Pennsylvania), he edited and translated Current Directions of Romanesque Sculpture Studies (2010). He is currently at work on, among other projects, a volume on Portuguese Romanesque sculpture and an exhibition of women artists in Colorado, 1898-1950. He further serves as editor-in-chief of The Art Bulletin, the journal of record for art historians in America.