BRENDA EDGAR

Brenda Edgar is an Art Historian in Louisville, KY.  Her research interests include relics and reliquaries, medieval medical manuscripts and depictions of disease in medieval art, as well as the historical role of altered states of consciousness in the creation of art. 

In addition to her work for Morbid Anatomy, she teaches Art History courses at Indiana University Southeast. Her free monthly public talk series, “Art History Illustrated,” is presented at the Carnegie Center for Art and History in New Albany, Indiana.

Brenda is also a poet whose work has appeared in numerous literary journals.  Her first full-length book of poems, Dead Flowers, is being published in late 2023 through the Main Street Rag publishing company.

When she isn’t reading or writing, Brenda is a New York Times Crossword Puzzle addict as well as a yoga instructor.

COURSES TAUGHT

Alt/Art: A History of Art from Altered States of Consciousness
Divine Movements: The Iconography and Practice of Yoga
Medieval Medicine and the Magical Body
Of Art and Angels
Our Lady: The Iconography and Cult of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Pray for Us Sinners: The Iconography and Veneration of the Saints w
Rest in Peace: The History of Funerary Monument
What if God Was One of Us? An Art History of Jesus in the Western Church