Norman Land

In 1992-1993 he was the Dorothy K. Hohenberg Chair of Excellence in Art History in the Art Department at the University of Memphis. In the Spring, 1998, he was a Norris Foundation Visiting Fellow in the Department of Art at Oklahoma State University. In 2006-2007 he was President of the South-Central Renaissance Conference. He is the author of The Potted Tree: Essays in Venetian Art (Camden House, Columbia, South Carolina: 1994) and The Viewer as Poet: The Renaissance Response to Art (The Pennsylvania State University Press: 1994). He is the contributing editor of The Samuel H. Kress Study Collection at the University of Missouri, Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia (University of Missouri Press: 1999); and with Anne Barriault, Andrew Ladis, and Jeryldene Wood, he is a contributing co-editor of Reading Vasari, (London and Athens [GA], 2005), which won the 2006 SECAC Award for Excellence in Scholarly Research and Publication. Most recently he is the contributing guest editor of a special issue of Explorations in Renaissance Culture 32, 2 (Winter, 2006), which contains papers in the theme of art and literature. He has published numerous articles in scholarly journals, such as Art bulletin, Art History, Artibus et Historiae, Source, Pantheon, Renaissance Quarterly, and Burlington Magazine, among others. His most recent publications are "The Anecdotes of G.B. Agucchi and the Limitations of Language," in Word & Image 22, 1 (January-March, 2006), 77-82; and "Michelangelo, Giotto and Murder" in Explorations in Renaissance Culture 32, 2 (Winter 2006), 204-224.