Kathryn M. Rudy

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Kathryn Margaret Rudy

FRSE (born 25 February 1969) is a manuscript historian at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. She is best known for her forensic approach to medieval books, and has pioneered the use of the densitometer to measure the grime that original readers deposited in their books.[1] Her research focuses on the medieval reception of manuscripts, how they were manipulated and handled, and how book-making skills were lost with the advent of the printing
industry.

Rudy is a Professor in the School of Art History at the University of St Andrews and held a Leverhulme Major Research Grant (2019-2022). She is a Fellow of the British Academy, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh[2] and the recipient of its prestigious Sir Walter Scott medal.[3] She has published five books and regularly contributes to scholarly journals.[4][5] She performs lectures in the UK and internationally.[6][7] In 2013 she delivered a TED talk about the secret lives of manuscripts.[8] She is an advocate for digital-born humanities scholarship and open access publishing. Kathryn Rudy’s family hails from Erie, Pennsylvania.

Education

Kathryn Rudy completed her undergraduate degree at

St. Michael’s College, Toronto (at the University of Toronto, 2002). She has attended Rare Book School
, University of Virginia (1995 - 2001).

Career

As a graduate student, she was selected as Kress Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (1999 - 2001). Upon completing her PhD, she became a Fellow at the

Courtauld Institute of Art (September 2009 - August 2010), she developed densitometry as a method for investigating medieval manuscript use history. As a Visiting Research Fellow at the Trinity Long Room Hub at Trinity College
Dublin (August 2010 - December 2010), she studied the Fagel Missal. She joined the School of Art History at the University of St Andrews in January 2011 and was named Professor in August 2017 and Bishop Wardlaw Professor in 2019.

Rudy has held fellowships from the

Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie (IKKM) at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar,[12] the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (2017–18),[13] the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Amsterdam (2018–19).[14] In 2019-22 held a Leverhulme Major Research Grant, exploring what the pollen and stains found in medieval manuscripts can tell us about their readers and how they were used.[15]

Honours

In 2019 she was elected

Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE). In January 2020, she was awarded the Royal Society of Edinburgh's Sir Walter Scott medal for her outstanding contribution to art history.[3] In July 2022, she was elected Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[16]

Publications

References

  1. ^ "Dirty Books: Quantifying Patterns of Use in Medieval Manuscripts Using a Densitometer - Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art". Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
  2. ^ "RSE Announces Addition of 62 New Fellows". The Royal Society of Edinburgh. 2019-03-01. Retrieved 2019-07-08.
  3. ^ a b "Prestigious Medals for Pioneering Scientists and Researchers in Scotland". Royal Society of Edinburgh. 15 January 2020.
  4. ^ "Kathryn M. Rudy - Research publications - University of St Andrews". risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
  5. ^ "Sewing the Body of Christ: Eucharist Wafer Souvenirs Stitched into Fifteenth-Century Manuscripts, primarily in the Netherlands - Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art". Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
  6. ^ "The Medieval Academy of America". www.medievalacademy.org. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
  7. ^ "Cores Dilemmas: Between cherishing the damage and cleaning up the mess: 2nd International Symposium - University of St Andrews". risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
  8. ^ TEDx Talks (2013-12-04), The secret lives of medieval manuscripts: Kathryn Rudy at TEDxUniversityofStAndrews 2013, retrieved 2018-08-02
  9. ^ "Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts". manuscripts.kb.nl. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
  10. ^ "Centre for the Study of the Book | 2015-16 Visiting Fellows". www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
  11. ^ "Scholar Year 2015/2016 (Getty Research Institute)". www.getty.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
  12. ^ "Kathryn Rudy — IKKM Weimar". ikkm-weimar.de. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
  13. ^ Centre, Paul Mellon. "Spring 2017 Fellowships Awarded". www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
  14. ^ "Current fellows | NIAS". NIAS. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
  15. ^ "Measuring medieval users' responses to manuscripts: new technological approaches | The Leverhulme Trust". www.leverhulme.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
  16. ^ "Record number of women elected to the British Academy". The British Academy. 22 July 2022. Archived from the original on 12 August 2022. Retrieved 11 August 2022.