Felicity Harley-McGowan

Felicity Harley-McGowan is an art historian whose work centres on the origins and development of Christian iconography within the visual culture of Roman late antiquity. She has held research fellowships at the Warburg Institute, University of London, and the British School at Rome; and before coming to Yale was the Gerry Higgins Lecturer in Medieval Art History at the University of Melbourne. Felicity has a strong interest in the receptions of ancient art, including the histories of collecting, and objects inspire her teaching practice as well as research. Her publications have been focused on portable objects, including engraved gems, graffiti and amulets, and on iconographic traditions including depictions of suicide, the Passion, and the Salvator Mundi. Her ongoing research focus is the representation of violence, and she is currently preparing a book on the earliest images of crucifixion (ca. 200-600 AD).