Dr Jas Elsner

Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Corpus Christi College

Corpus Christi College
Oxford,
OX1 4JF

Tel: (01865) 276721

jas.elsner@ccc.ox.ac.uk

http://www.ccc.ox.ac.uk/Fellows/f/7/

Profile

I was born and brought up in London, and then studied Classics and Art History at Cambridge, Harvard and London, taking my doctorate from King's College Cambridge in 1991. I am married with four children, who keep me thoroughly occupied when I am not at work! After a research fellowship at Jesus College Cambridge, I taught the art history of Greek and Roman antiquity at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London for 8 years as a Lecturer and Reader, before coming to the Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellowship in Classical Art and Archaeology at Corpus in 1999. I have been a regular Visiting Professor of the History of Art at the University of Chicago since 2003 and have held visiting attachments at the British School at Rome, the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan and Princeton University. I serve on the editorial boards of a number of Journals around the world and am joint editor of a monograph series, Greek Culture in the Roman World, with the Cambridge University Press.

Research Interests

Classical and Late Antique Art, the Reception of Ancient Art, Ekphrasis

Selected Recent Publications

1995: Pilgrimage Past and Present: Sacred Travel and Sacred Space in the World Religions (with Simon Coleman), London (British Museum Press) and Cambridge Mass. (Harvard University Press).
1995: Art and the Roman Viewer: The Transformation of Art from the Pagan World to Christianity, Cambridge, New York and Melbourne (CUP).
1998: Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph: The Art of the Roman Empire A.D. 100-450, Oxford: Oxford History of Art (OUP).
1998: The Cultures of Collecting (editor, with Roger Cardinal). Translated into Japanese and published in Tokyo (Kenkyusha), 1998., London (Reaktion Books), Cambridge Mass. (Harvard University Press) and Melbourne (Melbourne University Press), 1994.
2005: Pilgrimage in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity: Seeing the Gods. Editor with Ian Rutherford, Oxford University Press.
2007: Roman Eyes: Visuality and Subjectivity in Art and Text, Princeton U.P.

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