Nicolette Trahoulia

Visual Arts and Art History

BA, UCLA; MA, PhD, Harvard University

Nicolette Trahoulia has been teaching art history at Deree since 1999. She teaches courses on the art of the Medieval West, Byzantium, Islam, and Africa, as well as on feminist theory in art history. She has published on Byzantine art from the tenth to fourteenth centuries, exploring such issues as the interface between oral performance and illustrated books, the culture of the Byzantine palace, and the role of art as critical commentary, both religious and political.