Andrea Snow
Instructional Assistant Professor
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Biography
Andrea C. Snow earned her Ph.D. in Art History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2022. She offers courses in medieval art and visual culture.
Current Courses
ART 242.001 Medieval Art and Architecture
ART 351.001 Special Projects: Art History
ART 351.002 Special Projects: Art History
ART 451.002 Special Projects: Art History
ART 451.003 Special Projects: Art History
Teaching Interests & Areas
Medieval art and culture ca. 450 - 1450; art theory and criticism.
Research Interests & Areas
Medieval art and culture; jewelry and small metals; stone sculpture; medievalism in contemporary media; affect and perception; materiality; somatics; somaesthetics; pre-Christian Scandinavia; German-speaking lands; shifting understandings of the body; visual culture in the context of religious change.
PhD Medieval Art ca. 450-1450
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
Publication Honorarium
Voices of Contemporary Art
2026
ARPA Graduate Degree Completion Grant
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2021
The Thomas and Sarah Watkins Summer Research Fellowship
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2021
Publishing Honorarium
Smarthistory and The Samuel H. Kress Foundation
2020
Dean’s Graduate Fellowship
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2020
Department of Art History Travel Grant
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2019
The Joan and Robert Huntley Art History Fellowship
The Ackland Art Museum & The North Carolina Museum of Art
2019
Chancellor’s Student Undergraduate Teaching Award
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Student Union
2019
Vivian and John Dixon Fellowship
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hil
2018
Research Consultancy Award
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2018
Research Budget Award
Department of Art History, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2017
Book Review
The Medieval Scandinavian Art Reader, eds. Margrethe C. Stang and Laura Tillery (Oslo, Norway: Scandinavian Academic Press, 2023).
Andrea Snow.
(2025), The Medieval Review
Assaf Pinkus, Visual Aggression: Images of Martyrdom in Late Medieval Germany (University Park: Penn State University Press, 2021)
Andrea Snow.
(2022), 26, 410–414, Religion and the Arts
Caroline Walker Bynum, Dissimilar Similitudes: Devotional Objects in Late Medieval Europe (Brooklyn: Zone, 2020)
Andrea Snow.
(2021), 25, 199–201, Religion and the Arts
Paroma Chatterjee, Between the Pagan Past and Christian Present in Byzantine Visual Culture: Statues in Constantinople, 4th–13th Centuries CE. (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021).
Andrea Snow.
The Medieval Review
Book, Chapter
Animal Art from the Scandinavian Late Iron Age
Andrea Snow.
The Routledge Handbook of Art in the European Deep Past, Routledge
Vital Spaces. Supernatural Ecospheres in Viking-Age Adornments
Andrea Snow.
Trivent
Journal Article
Strange Body. Ornament and Figuration in Early Medieval Scandinavian Art
Andrea Snow.
Convivium, 13 (2), (2026)
Transmuted: Reconciling the Medieval Scandinavian Marking of the Piraeus Lion
Andrea Snow.
Viator, 53 (2), 179–214, (2023)
Distorted, Dismembered, Diffused: Rethinking the Body in Old Norse Material Culture
Andrea Snow.
Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft, 16 (3), 332–364, (2021)
Dialogues with Ginnungagap: Norse Runestones in a Culture of Magic
Andrea Snow.
Comitatus, 51, 1–27, (2020)
Study Guide
Art of the Viking Age
Andrea Snow.
Smarthistory, (2020)
Presentations
"Vignettes of Insubordination: Ornament and Art-Historical Medium."
Andrea Snow.
University of Delaware’s 5th CMCS Conference in Material Culture, “What’s the Matter with Description? Form, Practice, and Material Culture.”, Wilmington, DE, April 2, 2027
“Strange Body. Reading Hybridity in Early Medieval Scandinavian Art.”
Andrea Snow.
The International Medieval Congress, “Fragmented, Fluid, and Hybrid: Rethinking Bodies and Power in the Medieval North.”, Leeds, United Kingdom, July, 2026
“Strange Body. Ornament and Figuration in Early Medieval Scandinavian Art.”
Andrea Snow.
The Thirteenth Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, “Philology, Materiality, and Technology.”, St. Louis, MO, June 10, 2026
"Vital Spaces: Ornamental Ecospheres in Medieval Scandinavian Adornments."
Andrea Snow.
The 59th International Congress on Medieval Studies, “Body, Mind, and Matter in Medieval Scandinavia: New Critical approaches to Personhood and the Human Sensorium.”, Kalamazoo, MI, May 10, 2024
“Vital Spaces: Ornamental Ecospheres in Medieval Scandinavian Adornments.”
Andrea Snow.
The Eighteenth International Conference of the Australian Early Medieval Association, “The Natural and The Unnatural in the Early Medieval World.”, Sydney, AUS (online)., September 28, 2023
“The Supernatural Body in Old Norse Art.”
Andrea Snow.
GEM Seminar, Department of Medieval Studies, University of Cambridge., Cambridge, UK., May 27, 2021
“A Creature of Memory: Re-Positioning the Inscriptions on the Piraeus Lion,.
Andrea Snow.
Medieval Studies Colloquium, “Movement,” Cornell University., Ithaca, NY, March, 2021