1997 | Ph.D. New York University, Institute of Fine Arts. (Ph.D. dissertation: "Representation and Marriage: Art, Society and Gender Relations in Florence from the Late Fourteenth through the Fifteenth Century," advisor: Jonathan J.G. Alexander). 

Recent Work Experience

• July 2025 – July 2026 | Danish Academy in Athens. Fellow.
• October 2021 – March 2025 | The Royal Collection, Rosenborg Castle. Senior Research Fellow.

Publications

Books

• The Copenhagen Bohun Manuscripts: Women, Representation and Reception in Fourteenth-Century England, Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2019.
• The Christina Psalter: A Study of the Images and Texts in a French Early Thirteenth–Century Illuminated Manuscript, Copenhagen: University of Copenhagen / Museum Tusculanum Press, 2006.

Forthcoming Book

• Italian Paintings Featuring Gold at the National Gallery of Denmark: Reflection, Devotion, Experience (ca. 1320–1450), Rome: Edizioni Quasar, forthcoming 2025/6.

Book Chapters (Since 2015)

• “Miniature Portraits of Danish Royal Children in the Collections of Rosenborg Castle and The National Gallery of Denmark: c. 1580–c. 1670: Identity, Gender, and Visual Representation of Siblings,” in Portrait Miniatures: Artists, Functions, Manufacturing Aspects, and Collections, eds. Bernd Pappe and Juliane Schmieglitz-Otten, Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2025, 69–81.
• “Jewellery Featuring Miniature Portraits of Dagmar of Denmark and Her Royal Relatives: Gender, Identity, and Emotions,” in Portrait Miniatures: Artists, Functions and Collections, eds. Bernd Pappe and Juliane Schmieglitz-Otten, Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2023, 42–52.
• “Devotion, Gold, and the Virgin: Visualizing Mary in Three Fourteenth-Century Tuscan Panels in the National Gallery of Denmark,” in Marian Devotion in the Late Middle Ages: Image and Performance, eds. Andrea-Bianka Znorovszky and Gerhard Jaritz, London: Routledge, 2022, 52–64.
• “Visualizing the Promise to the Serenissima in Venetian 14th-Century Illuminated Documents: Image, Text, and Ritual,” in Illuminierte Urkunden, Beiträge aus Diplomatik, Kunstgeschichte und Digital Humanities, eds. Gabriele Bartz and Markus Gneiss, Wien: Böhlau, 2018, 319–332.
• “Le Psautier de Jacob Sunesen et les transferts culturels franco-scandinaves au Moyen-Âge,” in Ding, ding, ting: Objets médiateurs de culture, Espaces germanophone, néerlandophone et nordique, eds. Kim Andringa, Frédérique Harry, Agathe Mareuge and Bénédicte Terrisse, Paris: Edition L'Harmattan, 2015, 177–188.

Articles (Since 2008)

• “Pious Encounters and Sensory Experiences: Traces of Devotional Activities on Four Tuscan Panels in the National Gallery of Denmark, 1330–1450,” in IX Ciclo di Studi medievali. Atti del Convegno (Firenze, 6–7 Giugno 2023), Vibo Valentia: Libritalia.net Edizioni, 2023, 203–208.
• “The Construction and Transcultural Dissemination of Negative Images of Jews in a French Thirteenth–Century Illuminated Psalter Made for a Danish Reader,” Fund og Forskning i Det Kongelige Biblioteks Samlinger 57 (2018): 7–50.
• “Representing the Ancient Past in the Fifteenth-Century Maffei Tacitus (Copenhagen, Royal Library, MS GKS 496 2°),” Fund og Forskning i Det Kongelige Biblioteks Samlinger 56 (2017): 41–77.
• “UN DEU ENEMI: Jews and Judaism in French and English Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts in the Royal Library,” Fund og Forskning i Det Kongelige Biblioteks Samlinger 55 (2016): 105–141.
• “Devotion, Remembrance, and Identity: The Hagiographic Entries and Obituaries in a Parisian Thirteenth–Century Illuminated Psalter Made for Jakob Sunesen (London, British Library, MS Egerton 2652),” Fund og Forskning i Det Kongelige Biblioteks Samlinger 54 (2015): 183–195.
• “Resemblance and Devotion: Image and Text in a Parisian Early Fourteenth-Century Book of Hours,” Fund og Forskning i Det Kongelige Biblioteks Samlinger 53 (2014): 33–55.
• “Maternity and Faith in the Copenhagen Bohun Women Saints’ Lives (Royal Library, Ms Thott 517 4º),” Fund og Forskning i Det Kongelige Biblioteks Samlinger 52 (2013): 55–80.
• “The Christina Psalter,” in The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture, ed. Colum P. Hourihane, New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, vol. 2, p. 62.
• “Representation and Reception: Women in the Copenhagen Bohun Hours (Royal Library, Ms Thott 547, 4º),” Fund og Forskning i Det Kongelige Biblioteks Samlinger 50 (2011): 77–126.
• “Elizabeth of Bosnia, Queen of Hungary and the Tomb–Shrine of Saint Simeon in Zadar: Power and Relics in Fourteenth-Century Dalmatia,” Studies in Iconography 29 (2008): 136–175.