Elizabeth Marlowe
Assistant Professor
Roman Art

Art History & Archaeology
4206 Art/Sociology Building
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-1335
Email: emarlowe@umd.edu
Telephone: (301) 405-1486

Elizabeth Marlowe completed two undergraduate degrees, one in Art History and Italian from Smith College and another in Classics from Cambridge University , before earning her Ph.D. in Roman Art at Columbia University (2004). Her teaching and scholarship focus on the art of the Roman Empire, with particular emphases on the relationship between public monuments and imperial power, the art of late antiquity, spoliation, and the reuse of the Classical monuments, both in antiquity and the present day. Her dissertation, on imperial monuments in Rome from the reign of Constantine, was completed during a two-year “Rome Prize” fellowship at the American Academy in Rome . Most recently, an article of hers entitled “Framing the Sun: The Arch of Constantine and the Appropriation of the Roman Cityscape” appeared in the June, 2006 issue of Art Bulletin. Other projects, including a study of Constantine's appropriation of the monuments of his predecessor Maxentius and another on the political fortunes and misfortunes of an ancient fountain in Rome, have appeared as chapters in edited volumes with Routledge and Cambridge University Press, respectively. An earlier study, “Cold War Illuminations of the Classical Past: the Sound and Light Show on the Athenian Acropolis,” based on her undergraduate thesis at Cambridge, was published in Art History in 2001 and reprinted in Historia, Antropología y Fuentes Orales in 2002. She served as co-curator of a 2002 exhibition on images of masculinity in late antiquity, held at the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery at Reed College. She has published book reviews in the Times Literary Supplement, the Journal of Hellenic Studies, and Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes, and currently serves as field editor for Ancient Art at caareviews.org, the online book review journal of the College Art Association. She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Customary Magnificence: Emperor and City on the Arch of Constantine.