Dissertation:
“The Bible of Naples (Paris, BnF, Ms. Français 9561): Female Power, Piety, and Patronage in Fourteenth-Century Angevin Naples”
Advisor:
Professor Denva Gallant
Eilis Livia Coughlin is a Ph.D. candidate at Rice University. She received her bachelor's degree from La Sapienza Università di Roma and her master's degree in "Art in the Global Middle Ages” from the University of Edinburgh. Her dissertation combines image-text analysis and gender studies to examine the richly illustrated fourteenth-century manuscript known as the Bible of Naples (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Ms. Français 9561). Topics that motivate her research include female patronage and viewership, as well as the representation of marginalized and subaltern bodies in the visual culture of the Mediterranean.
Research Areas
Late Medieval Art and Architecture
Education
University of Edinburgh, MA, Art in the Global Middle Ages
Univ. degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”, BA, Art Historical Studies
Honors & Awards
2025 Italian Art Society Dissertation Research Award
2024-25 Pre-doctoral Research Residency, Center for the Art and Architectural History of Port Cities “La Capraia,” Naples, Italy.
2024 Brown Foundation Co-Teaching Award, Rice University’s Department of Art History.
2023 Graduate Teaching Award for Course Support, Rice University’s Center for Teaching Excellence (finalist).
2023-24 William A. Camfield Fellowship, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Prints and Drawings Department.
2017 Torno Subito Lazio program award, Regione Lazio – Italian Department of Education, Research, School Education, and Universities.
