Pratt Institute

Education

Ph.D., Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
M.S., Pratt Institute
B.A., Vanderbilt University

Biography

Sarah Wilkins is a specialist in late medieval and Renaissance art in Italy. Her research interests include mendicant patronage, Angevin Naples, interactions between text and image, and the cult of the saints—especially the veneration of female saints. Dr. Wilkins' dissertation, “She Loved More Ardently than the Rest: The Magdalen Cycles of Late Duecento and Trecento Italy,” investigating the iconography and patronage of six Italian narrative cycles depicting the life of Mary Magdalen, was completed in 2012. Among the grants and fellowships that she has received are a Fulbright fellowship at the Kunsthistorishes Institut in Florenz—Max-Planck-Institut (2010-11) and a Mellon Finishing Grant (2011-12). Her article, “Imaging the Angevin Patron Saint: Mary Magdalen in the Pipino Chapel in Naples,” was just published in California Italian Studies 3 (2012). Another article, “Adopting and Adapting Formulas: The Raising of Lazarus and Noli me tangere in the Arena Chapel in Padua and the Magdalen Chapel in Assisi,” in La Formule au Moyen Âge, edited by Elise Louviot is forthcoming in early 2013. Her current research investigates Magdalen Eucharistic imagery.