Elina Gertsman

Elina Gertsman is is Distinguished University Professor of Medieval Art and Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities in the Department of Art History and Art at Case Western Reserve University. She is the author of The Dance of Death in the Middle Ages: Image, Text, Performance (2010); Worlds Within: Opening the Medieval Shrine Madonna (2015); The Middle Ages in 50 Objects (with Barbara Rosenwein, 2018); The Absent Image: Lacunae in Medieval Books (2021); and Hypothèse abstraite: Écart, excès d’image au Moyen Âge (with Vincent Debiais, 2025). She is the editor of Visualizing Medieval Performance: Perspectives, Histories, Contexts (2008), Crying in the Middle Ages: Tears of History (2011, 2013), Animating Medieval Art: a special issue of Preternature (2015), Abstraction and Medieval Art: Beyond the Ornament (2021), Collectors, Commissioners, Curators (2023), and Scent and Sense in Medieval Material Culture, a special issue of Convivium (2025); and co-editor of Thresholds of Medieval Visual Culture Liminal Spaces (2012), Myth and Mystique: Cleveland's Gothic Table Fountain (2016), and Crossing Medieval Disciplines (2021).

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