Jodi Cranston
725 Commonwealth Ave, Rm 302B
Boston, Massachusetts 02215
Telephone: (617) 353-0363
Fax: (617) 353-3243
E-mail: cranston@bu.edu
Associate Professor; Renaissance Art. B.A., Yale University, M.A., Columbia University, M.Phil, Columbia University, Ph.D., Columbia University.
Associate Professor Jodi Cranston received her B.A. in Renaissance Studies from Yale University and her Ph.D. in art history from Columbia University. She is the author of two books, The Poetics of Portraiture in the Renaissance (Cambridge University Press, 2000) and The Muddied Mirror: Materiality and Facture in Titian’s Later Paintings (Penn State University Press, 2010) and has contributed several articles to interdisciplinary Renaissance publications. She was the recipient of a Charles Ryskamp Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies in 2004-5. An active participant in international scholarly conferences in art history and Renaissance studies, Professor Cranston is currently working on the female nude and the interrelationship between beauty and narrative in Italian Renaissance art.