Lecturing at Notre-Dame in January 2018

Lecturing at Notre-Dame in January 2018

Lindsay Cook is Assistant Teaching Professor of Architectural History in the Department of Art History at Penn State University and an architectural historian, translator, and digital preservation advocate. Her current research focuses on architectural and artistic responses to the Gothic cathedral Notre-Dame of Paris and medievalism in African American architecture. She earned her B.A. in Art History and French & Francophone Studies from Vassar College and her Ph.D. from the Department of Art History & Archaeology at Columbia University. Before joining the faculty at Penn State, she taught art and architectural history at Columbia University, Vassar College, and Ball State University. Notre Dame Cathedral: Nine Centuries of History, her English translation of the French-language book co-authored by Dany Sandron and her late mentor Andrew Tallon, was published in 2020 by Penn State University Press. Deeply committed to the digital humanities, Lindsay has contributed to the projects Mapping Gothic, Life of a Cathedral: Notre-Dame of Amiens, and Musiconis, and she is the Chair of the Digital Resources Committee of the International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA). She is a board member of the scholarly association Scientifiques de Notre-Dame, a member of the advisory board of the non-profit educational organization Handshouse Studio, and co-editor of The Notre-Dame Translation Project, which makes reliable information about the history, conservation, and restoration of the cathedral of Paris accessible to students and the general public.