Rate My Professor Maeve Doyle

Maeve Doyle is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Art and Art History at Eastern Connecticut State University. She holds a Ph.D. in History of Art from Bryn Mawr College (2015), with a dissertation entitled “The Portrait Potential: Gender, Identity, and Devotion in Manuscript Owner Portraits, 1230–1320”; an M.A. from Bryn Mawr College (2009); and an A.B. in Art and Medieval & Renaissance Studies from Vassar College (2007, cum laude with departmental honors). Doyle joined Eastern Connecticut State University in 2017 as Assistant Professor of Art History, promoted to Associate Professor in 2022 and with tenure in 2023. Prior appointments include Lecturer at Bryn Mawr College (Spring 2017) and Adjunct Faculty at Temple University (Fall 2016), Saint Joseph’s University (Spring 2016), and Moore College of Art & Design (Fall 2015–Spring 2016). Her teaching portfolio features courses such as Introduction to Art History: Prehistory to 1400, Medieval Art & Architecture, Women, Gender, and Art, Histories of Portraiture, and Islamic Art, fostering skills in visual analysis, critical thinking, and research in small-class environments.

Doyle's research centers on the visual and material culture of late medieval Europe, with emphasis on illuminated manuscripts, portraiture, gender in representation, and digital art history. Select peer-reviewed publications encompass “Beyond Comparative Analysis: Making Arguments with Similarity Metrics and Structured Manuscript Data, with a Case Study in Marginal Iconography,” co-authored with Alexander Patrick Brey (Manuscript Studies 8, no. 2, 2023); “Identity, Indeterminacy, and Audience: The Semantics of Portraiture in the De Brailes Hours” (Studies in Iconography 43, 2022); “Looking Beyond the Binary: Gender and Reception of Owner Portraits in Medieval Devotional Manuscripts” (Different Visions 8, 2022); “Picturing Men at Prayer: Gender in Manuscript Owner Portraits around 1300” (Getty Research Journal 13, 2021); “Visual Pleasure and the Illuminated Prayer Book,” in Pleasure in the Middle Ages (Brepols, 2018); and “Prayer, Seduction, and Agency in a Thirteenth-Century Psalter” (Essays in Medieval Studies 30, 2014). Awards include the Fulbright Fellowship to France (2011–2012), Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation Fellowship in the Humanities (2014–2015), Research Fellow at Wesleyan University’s Center for the Humanities (Fall 2023), and multiple Connecticut State University grants. As co-PI of the Manuscript Connections project, she pioneers computational analysis of medieval manuscripts. Doyle delivers public lectures, such as at Wesleyan University (2023), participates in international conferences, and serves as Co-Director of Women’s and Gender Studies, chairing faculty committees and advising student research.