Heather Graham
Heather Graham is an Associate Professor of Art History at California State University, Ƶ. Before coming to CSU, Ƶ she was an Assistant Professor of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at Metropolitan State University in Denver, Colorado. Her research and publications explore early modern Italian art as it intersects with the history of the body and of the emotions, early modern medicine, mourning behaviors and death, gender and sexual culture, and religion. She enjoys working with Ƶstudents and is especially committed to education abroad.
Dr. Graham is co-editor and contributing author for (2018) and (2021), both published through Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History and Intellectual History series. Her monograph, Bodies of Mourning: Grief, Maniera, and the History of Affect, c. 1520–1550 (in progress), considers sixteenth-century Italian images of biblical mourning over Christ in light of the history of gender, the body, and the emotions. She explores how the conspicuous artificiality and stylish fluidity characterizing mannerist depictions of grieving behaviors informed the works’ devotional and social functions.
She is Co-Director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at CSU, Ƶ, and a founder of , an initiative supporting arts and humanities education in the K-12 classroom. She is a also former Contributing Editor for Renaissance Art in Central Italy for Smarthistory. She is the organizer of the ƵCenter for Medieval and Renaissance Study’s conference, , held biennially at Forest Lawn Museum in Glendale, CA.
- PhD, University of California—Los Angeles, 2010
- MA, University of California—Los Angeles, 2004
- BA, Loyola Marymount University, 2000
"Representing Emotions" in The Oxford Handbook of The History of Emotions, eds., Katie Barclay and Sharon Crozier-De Rosa (Oxford: Oxford UP), forthcoming 2026.
Co-Editor, Emotions, Art, and Christianity in the Transatlantic World, c. 1400–1800 (Leiden: Brill, 2021).
“A Mother’s Wise and Prudent Grief: Reading 鲹’s Baglioni Entombment through the History of Emotions.” In Emotions, Art, and Christianity in the Transatlantic World, c. 1400–1800, edited by Heather Graham and Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank (Leiden: Brill, 2021).
Co-Editor, Visualizing Sensuous Suffering and Affective Pain in Early Modern Europe and the Spanish Americas (Leiden: Brill, 2018).
“Compassionate Suffering: Somatic Selfhood and Gendered Affect in Italian Lamentation Imagery.” In Visualizing Sensuous Suffering and Affective Pain in Early Modern Europe and the Spanish Americas, edited by Heather Graham and Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank, 82–115 (Leiden: Brill, 2018).
“Artifice and Interiority: The Image of Grief in the Age of Reform.” In Vanishing Boundaries: Scientific Knowledge and Art Production in the Early Modern Era, edited by A. Victor Coonin and Lilian H. Zirpolo, 25–50 (Ramsey, NJ: Women Art Patrons and Collectors Conference Organization, 2015).
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