Elizabeth Pugliano

Elizabeth Pugliano (PhD, Boston University teaches courses on ancient Greek and Roman, medieval, and Islamic art as well as in the Arts Core and Humanities Core curricula. Her research encompasses both art historical topics ranging from violence, combat, conflict and audience in medieval art to considerations of empathy in the visual arts, and pedagogical inquiries into issues and practices in the contemporary art history classroom. Recent publications include “Peripheral Primacy: Metallic Illumination and Material Illusion in the Aussem Hours,” in Illuminating Metalwork: Metal, Object, and Image in Medieval Manuscripts, ed. Joseph Ackley and Shannon Wearing (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020), 421-42, co-authored with Susan Barahal; “‘Success was Actually Having Learned’: University Student Perceptions of Ungrading,” Teaching & Learning Inquiry 12 (2024): 1-22, co-authored with faculty in SEHD, SPA and CLAS; and History, Practice and Pedagogy: Empathic Engagements in the Visual Arts, (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming [2024]), co-edited with Susan Barahal. Current projects include studies of gender and representation in medieval combat imagery, and approaches to tackling popular misconceptions when teaching medieval art and culture. 


Dr. Pugliano is also President of UCDALI (University of Colorado Denver Association of Lecturers and Instructors) and a past Faculty Fellow (2020-2022) of ThinqStudio.