Selected Material Collective Bibliography:
Marian Bleeke, Cleveland State University
Jennifer Borland, Oklahoma State University
Rachel Dressler, SUNY Albany
Martha Easton, St Joseph’s University
Asa Simon Mittman, California State University, Chico
Karen Overbey, Tufts University
Nancy Thompson, St. Olaf College
Benjamin C. Tilghman, Washington College
Maggie M. Williams, the Material Collective
Collectively-Authored Publications
[Collective.] “In Praise of Collectivity: Why Radical Solidarity is our Only Hope.” Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies 100/1 (2025): 155-77.
[Collective.] “Medieval Art” in “Hail the Met at 150.” Antiques (March/April 2020).
[Collective.] “An Interview with the Material Collective.” Rutgers Art Journal 33/34 (2018-19): 1-19. Click here for online access.
[Collective.] “We Are the Material Collective.” In Burn After Reading: Vol. 1. Miniature Manifestos for a Post/medieval Studies, edited by Eileen A. Joy, Myra Seaman, and Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, 84-88. Brooklyn: punctum books/Washington, DC: Oliphaunt Books, 2014.
Bleeke, Marian, Jennifer Borland, Rachel Dressler, Martha Easton, and Elizabeth L’Estrange. “Artistic Representation: Women in/and Visual Culture.” In A Cultural History of Women in the Middle Ages, ed. Kim Phillips, 2nd volume in a 6-volume series, A Cultural History of Women, general ed. Linda Kalof, 179-213. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2013..
Borland, Jennifer and Martha Easton. “Integrated Pasts: Glencairn Museum and Hammond Castle.” Gesta 57.1 (2018): 95-118.
Borland, Jennifer and Karen Overbey. “Diagnostic Performance and Diagrammatic Manipulation in the Physician’s Folding Almanacs.” In The Agency of Things in Medieval and Early Modern Art: Materials, Power and Manipulation, edited by Grażyna Jurkowlaniec, Ika Matyjaszkiewicz, and Zuzanna Sarnecka, 144-156. New York: Routledge, 2018.
Easton, Martha and Maggie M. Williams. “Our Feminism/Our Activism.” In Burn After Reading: Vol. 1. Miniature Manifestos for a Post/medieval Studies, edited by Eileen A. Joy, Myra Seaman, and Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, 13-19. Brooklyn: punctum books/Washington, DC: Oliphaunt Books, 2014.
Harris, Anne and Karen Overbey. “Field Change/Discipline Change (Lush Ethics).” In Burn After Reading: Vol. 2 The Future We Want: A Collaboration, edited by Eileen A. Joy, Myra Seaman, and Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, 127-143. Brooklyn: punctum books/Washington, DC: Oliphaunt Books, 2014.
Thompson, Nancy M. and Anne F. Harris. Medieval Art 250-1450: Matter, Making, and Meaning. Oxford University Press, 2021.
Tilghman, Benjamin C. and Nancy M. Thompson. “The Hoard Speaks.” postmedieval 7 (2016): 349-51.
Edited Volumes and Imprints
Different Visions, Special Issue: “Unstable Ground,” edited by Rachel Dressler and Benjamin C. Tilghman, 9 (2023).
Different Visions, Special Issue: “Visualizing Gender and Sexuality in the Middle Ages,” edited by Virginia Blanton, Jennifer Borland, Karen Overbey, Benjamin C. Tilghman, and Nancy M. Thompson, 8 (2022).
postmedieval, Special Issue: “Hoarders and Hordes: Responses to the Staffordshire Hoard,” edited by Karen E. Overbey and Maggie M. Williams, 7:3 (October 2016).
Walk on the Beach: Things from the Sea, Volume 1. Edited by Maggie M. Williams and Karen E. Overbey. New York: Punctum Books, 2016.
Different Visions, Special Issue: “Active Objects,” edited by Karen Eileen Overbey and Benjamin C. Tilghman, 4 (2014).
Transparent Things: A Cabinet. Edited by Karen E. Overbey and Maggie M. Williams. New York: Punctum Books, 2013.
Publication Venues and Forums
The Material Collective Blog: https://differentvisions.org/material-collective-archive/
Tiny Collections, an imprint of punctum books, ed. Maggie M. Williams https://punctumbooks.com/imprints/tiny-collections/
Different Visions: New Perspectives on Medieval Art, an open-access peer-reviewed journal: https://differentvisions.org/