Jeffrey Hamburger is the Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture at Harvard University. A distinguished expert on the art of later medieval Germany, Professor Hamburger has a special interest in the work of female artists and in the pictorial representation of mystical visions. He has been the recipient of Fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung. His many publications include Nuns as Artists: The Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent (1996); The Visual and the Visionary: Art and Female Spirituality in Late Medieval Germany (1998); and The Mind’s Eye: Art and Theological Argument in the Medieval West (2005). He has received five major national book awards. Professor Hamburger is a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America.