Dr Anna Gannon

  • Affiliated Lecturer, History of Art Department, University of Cambridge (since 2006)
  • Fellow of St Edmund's College
  • Director of Studies in History of Art for St Edmund's College
Dr Anna Gannon

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MA, PhD Cantab, FSA, FHEA

Dottore in Lingue e Letterature Straniere, UniversitĂ  Cattolica, Milan (Italy)

Fellow Emerita of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge

I am a Fellow and the Director of Studies for History of Art at St Edmund's College and an Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of History of Art.

My principal research interests and publications are in Anglo-Saxon numismatics, Germanic and Insular art and culture and their response to Christianity. I am a contributor to the Visual Commentary on Scripture (King's College, London).  Currently I am part of an Italo-Irish research group working on early Irish reliquaries found in Italy, and am working on the exegesis of imagined sacred landscapes through the sense of smell, as well as editing a collection of early medieval papers.

My first degree was in Italy: I studied Modern Languages and specialised in German Philology; subsequently I read History of Art at the University of Cambridge, with a PhD on the iconography of Early Anglo-Saxon coinage. My monograph was published by Oxford University Press in 2003.