Jennifer Borland, PhD
Stanford University
Assistant Professor
Art History

Jennifer Borland is an art historian specializing in medieval art and architecture, and teaches courses in medieval, Islamic and Renaissance art history at OSU. She received her Ph.D. in Art History from Stanford University in 2006, completing a dissertation entitled "Unstable Women: Transgression and Corporeal Experience in Twelfth-Century Visual Culture.” She joined the OSU faculty in 2007.

Borland’s research and teaching interests range from medieval theories of corporeality and vision, to audience and reception, representations of gender, medical and scientific imagery, feminist theory, and cinema studies. Her recent publications include “The Forested Frontier: Commentary in the Margins of the Alhambra Ceiling Paintings” in Medieval Encounters 14.3 (Dec. 2008) and “The Immediacy of Objects: Reassessing the Contribution of Art History in Feminist Medieval Studies” in Medieval Feminist Forum (44.2, Dec. 2008). Forthcoming projects include articles on gynecological manuscripts containing images of the fetus-in-utero, a twelfth-century manuscript depicting the Passion of Saint Margaret, and a Sheela-na-gig sculpture from the Nuns’ Church at Clonmacnoise, Ireland. She is also working on a study of the late medieval illustrated manuscripts of Aldobrandino of Siena’s Régime du corps (“Regimen of the Body”), a popular late-medieval regimen of health, and has been awarded a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship with the Penn Humanities Forum at the University of Pennsylvania to conduct research related to this project.

Upon receiving her B.A. in Art History from the University of Pennsylvania in 1996, Borland worked at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. She has also been the recipient of awards from the Kress Foundation, the Mabelle McLeod Lewis Memorial Fund, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (now the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research) at Stanford University, the Oklahoma Humanities Council, and the University of Iowa Obermann Center for Advanced Studies.