Felicity Harley-McGowan is an art historian whose work centres on the origins and development of Christian iconography within the visual culture of Roman late antiquity. She has held research fellowships at the Warburg Institute, University of London, and the British School at Rome; and before coming to Yale was the Gerry Higgins Lecturer in Medieval Art History at the University of Melbourne. Felicity has a strong interest in the receptions of ancient art, including the histories of collecting, and objects inspire her teaching practice as well as research. Her publications have been focused on portable objects (including engraved gems and amulets), graffiti, and iconographic traditions (including depictions of suicide, the Passion of Jesus, and the Salvator Mundi). With Henry Maguire, Felicity edited the volume, Ernst Kitzinger and the Making of Medieval Art History (Warburg Institute: 2017); and while continuing to research the Christian wall paintings excavated at Dura Europos, she is preparing a book on the earliest images of crucifixion in the art of late antiquity (ca. 200-600 AD).
