College of Fine Arts School of Interdisciplinary Arts hosts Dr. Richard K. Emmerson for this virtual lecture. 

Dr. Emmerson will offer a look into his research which focuses on medieval apocalypticism and its representation in art, drama, and visionary poetry.

Dr. Richard K. Emmerson is Dean Emeritus of the School of Liberal Arts at Manhattan College and former Professor and Chair of Art History at Florida State University. The seven books and more than 50 articles he's authored include the study of word-image relationships in medieval illustrative manuscripts. He has served as deputy director of Fellowships at the National Endowment for the Humanities and as executive director of the Medieval Academy of America and has edited Speculum , Studies in Iconography , and Traditio . A Fellow of the Medieval Academy, he received the Medieval Academy Award for Excellence in Teaching Medieval Studies in 2009.