Professor Jaś Elsner

Jas' Elsner
Senior Research Fellow
Corpus Christi College
01865 276721
jas.elsner@ccc.ox.ac.uk

Qualifications: BA Hons Cantab  MA Cantab MA London  PhD Cantab

Link to college page: http://www.ccc.ox.ac.uk/Fellows/f/7/

 

Academic Background

Classics, art history, classical archaeology: trained in Cambridge, Harvard, Courtauld Institute London.

Research Interests

Greek, Roman,  early Christian and  Byzantine art and archaeology; the reception of material culture in texts, museums and collecting; art and text, including inscriptions, rhetoric and ekphrasis; art and religion; the history of art history/archaeology; pilgrimage.

Research Keywords

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

Publications

Selected Publications