Leslie Ross, Ph.D.

Professor and Chair of Art History
Dominican University of California
50 Acacia Avenue
San Rafael, CA 94901
Telephone: 415-485-3261
Fax: 415-458-3755

E-mail: ross@dominican.edu

Research Interests

• Medieval Art
• Hagiography
• Language in the Visual Arts
• Stained Glass
  
  

Teaching Areas

• Survey of Art History
• Early Christian, Byzantine, Islamic
• Romanesque and Gothic
• Renaissance
• History of Gardens and Landscape Design
• Structures of Faith
  
  

Courses

• Romanesque and Gothic Art
• Senior Projects 
• Byzantium--Constantinople--Istanbul: A City Across Time (MAH Seminar)
• MAH Culminating Project Workshop

• History of Gardens and Landscape Design
• Senior Projects 
• Structures of Faith
  
  

Recent Publications

• Text, Image, Message: Saints in Medieval Manuscript Illustrations (Greenwood Press, 1994)
• Medieval Art: A Topical Dictionary (Greenwood Press, 1996)
  
  

Work in Progress

• Artists of the Medieval Era (Greenwood Press, forthcoming)
• Entries for Encyclopedia of Holy People (ABC-Clio)
• Language in the Visual Arts.