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Erika Loic

Associate Professor (she, her)

Global Medieval Art

PhD Harvard University

2024 University Award Inclusive Teaching and Mentoring

2033 William Johnston Building

Erika Loic specializes in global medieval art history, manuscript illumination, medievalism, and the Iberian Peninsula. In addition to her training in art history, Dr. Loic’s formal education has included film, communication, and cultural studies. Her earlier training in experimental animation informs much of her current work on the materiality of the book. She was recently approved for promotion to Associate Professor and granted tenure effective August 2026.

Dr. Loic’s current book project, The Ripoll Bibles: Medieval Visions of the Ruled Page and the Ruled Life (forthcoming from Penn State University Press), focuses on two of the most densely illustrated bibles of the entire Middle Ages: the Ripoll Bible (Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 5729) and the Roda Bible (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms. lat. 6). Scribes and artists at the Benedictine monastery of Santa Maria de Ripoll, in the northeastern Iberian Peninsula, began working on these prodigious manuscripts during the abbacy of Catalonia’s renowned Bishop-Abbot Oliba (r. 1008–1046). These large-format manuscripts, which were used within the very monastery that produced them, capture the generative work of collecting and compiling, as well as the role of illustrated bibles in shaping monastic practice.

Dr. Loic is one of the co-editors of a volume on the Iberian Middle Ages (re)imagined in Luso- and Hispanophone film and television, La Edad Media proyectada (Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2025), and of a special issue of the Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies: “Connecting the Dots: New Research Paradigms for Iberian Manuscripts as Material Objects” (2022).

Before joining the art history faculty at Florida State University in 2020, she held a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Medieval Art and Digital Humanities at the University of Toronto Mississauga. In this role, she was the project manager and content curator for artofthemiddleages.com, a teaching and research tool in support of a textbook for undergraduates, Art and Architecture of the Middle Ages: Exploring a Connected World (Cornell University Press, 2022).

Contact and Files

eloic@fsu.edu

Advisees

Isabel Brady
Emmaleigh Huston
Hudson Kauffman
Lydia McCollum

Completed Dissertations

Nina Gonzalbez: “Looking Inward: Identifying the Local within the Global in Late Fifteenth-Century Sevillian Artworks.”

Emily Tuttle: “Documenting Domesticity: An Examination of the Home in Late Medieval Yorkshire, England.” (Co-chair with Benjamin Dodds, History)
List of FSU Art History dissertations

Graduate Seminars

Art History Methods
Medieval Art and Ecocriticsm
Gender Studies in Medieval Art
Medieval Illustrated Manuscripts
The Global Middle Ages
Iberian Art until 1492
Word and Image Studies

Undergraduate Seminars

The Art of the Medieval Body
Picturing the Bible in the Middle Ages
Medieval Illustrated Manuscripts
Medieval Monstrosity

Undergraduate Lecture Courses

Early Medieval Art
The History of Illustration
Introduction to Medieval Art

Awards

2023–24 University Award for Inclusive Teaching and Mentoring

Book in Preparation

The Ripoll Bibles: Medieval Visions of the Ruled Page and the Ruled Life (forthcoming from Penn State University Press)

Selected Publications

Loic, Erika. “The Sons of the Prophets: From Witnesses to Monastic Exemplars in Late Antique and Early Medieval Word and Image.” In From Prophet to Miracle-Working Saint: Dynamic Approaches to Elijah in Ancient and Medieval Cultures, edited by Vlad Bedros, Barbara Crostini, Andrei Dumitrescu, and Chana Sacham-Rosby, 353–74. Leiden: Brill | Schöningh, 2026.

Miguélez, Alicia, Erika Loic, and Felipe Brandi, eds. La Edad Media proyectada: El pasado medieval ibérico en la creación audiovisual en lenguas portuguesa y española. Madrid and Frankfurt: Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2025.

Loic, Erika. “The Art of the Biblical Prologue in Medieval Catalonia: Visual Connections and Interpretation in the Ripoll BiblesEarly Medieval Europe

Loic, Erika. “The Once and Future Histories of the Book: Decolonial Interventions into the Codex, Chronicle, and Khipu.” Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture 4, no. 1 (2022): 9–26.

Loic, Erika. “Teaching Collections and Codicology in the Age of Digital Surrogates.” Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture 8, no. 1 (2022): 41–51.

Miguélez Cavero, Alicia, Elsa De Luca, and Erika Loic, eds. Connecting the Dots: New Research Paradigms for Iberian Manuscripts as Material Objects, special issue of the Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies 14, no. 1 (2022).

Loic, Erika. “Ruling Patterns in Three Dimensions: Materiality and the Art of the Digitized Iberian Bible.” Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies 14, no. 1 (2022): 142–65.

Loic, Erika. “Bell-Lamp of Oran from the Perspective of Art History: Object Case Study.” In Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of the Global Middle Ages, edited by Alice Isabella Sullivan. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.

Loic, Erika. “The Letter as Presence, Process, and Partnership: Mergers of Message and Medium in the Medieval Initial.” Visual Resources 36, no. 1–2 (2020): 1–27.

Loic, Erika. “Dominus Tonans: The Voice and Light of Christianity’s Tempestuous God in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.” Word & Image 35, no. 4 (2019): 403–25.

Loic, Erika. “Creativity at the End(s) of an Empire: Biblical Compilation and Illustration at the Monastery of Ripoll.” In After the Carolingians: Re-defining Manuscript Illumination in the 10th and 11th Centuries, edited by Beatrice E. Kitzinger and Joshua O’Driscoll, 161–82. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019.

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