Jessica Maratsos is Associate Professor and Fellow to the Kay Fortson Chair in European Art at UT Austin. She is a specialist in early modern art, particularly the Italian Renaissance, with an emphasis on intermedial exchange, religious practice, and pictorial innovation. These issues were explored in her first book, Pontormo and the Art of Devotion, which was published by Cambridge University Press in 2021. Her current research examines the epistemology of the body, investigating relics as sites of transformative materiality and transnational mobility in the sixteenth century. In addition to edited volumes, her scholarship has appeared in various notable journals, including Renaissance Studies, Art History, and The Art Bulletin.
Before coming to Austin, she was Associate Professor of Renaissance and Early Modern Studies in the Italian Section at the University of Cambridge. She has also held the Keith Sykes Research Fellowship in Italian Studies at Pembroke College (2018–2022), and previously taught at the American University of Paris, Columbia University, Vassar College, and Harvard University. Her work has been supported by grants from Pembroke College, Cambridge; the Medici Archive Project, and the Renaissance Society for America. She holds a PhD from Columbia University.
Jessica Maratsos is Associate Professor and Fellow to the Kay Fortson Chair in European Art at UT Austin. She is a specialist in early modern art, particularly the Italian Renaissance, with an emphasis on intermedial exchange, religious practice, and pictorial innovation. These issues were explored in her first book, Pontormo and the Art of Devotion, which was published by Cambridge University Press in 2021. Her current research examines the epistemology of the body, investigating relics as sites of transformative materiality and transnational mobility in the sixteenth century. In addition to edited volumes, her scholarship has appeared in various notable journals, including Renaissance Studies, Art History, and The Art Bulletin.
Before coming to Austin, she was Associate Professor of Renaissance and Early Modern Studies in the Italian Section at the University of Cambridge. She has also held the Keith Sykes Research Fellowship in Italian Studies at Pembroke College (2018–2022), and previously taught at the American University of Paris, Columbia University, Vassar College, and Harvard University. Her work has been supported by grants from Pembroke College, Cambridge; the Medici Archive Project, and the Renaissance Society for America. She holds a PhD from Columbia University.