Cynthia Robinson

• Associate Professor
• Joint appointment, History of Art and Archaeology
• Medieval and Islamic art

• GM08 Goldwin Smith
• Phone: (607) 255-2176
• Fax: (607) 255-0566
• cr94@cornell.edu

Cynthia Robinson (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1996) is Associate Professor of Medieval and Islamic Art History. Her interests are in the relationships between religion, literature and art, and are focused on the Mediterranean World (Islam, Christianity, Judaism), particularly Spain, between 1000 and 1500 A.D.. She is co-author, together with Oleg Grabar, of Seeing Things: Textuality and Visuality in The Islamic World (Princeton Markus Wiener Press, 2001), and author of In Praise of Song: the Making of Courtly Culture in al-Andalus and Provence, 1065-1135 A.D. (Leiden Brill, 2002). A study entitled Three Ladies and A Lover Mediterranean Courtly Culture through the Text and Images of the 'Hadîth Bayâd wa Riyâd', an Andalusî Manuscript is in progress (RoutledgeCurzon).