Lori Eshleman

Lori Eshleman received her bachelor's degree from Rockford College (1975); and her master's degree (1977) and doctorate (1983) in Art History from the University of Minnesota. In 1980, she was awarded a Thord-Gray Memorial Fund Fellowship from the American-Scandinavian Foundation for her doctoral dissertation research on the Viking picture stones of Gotland, Sweden. She has taught at ASU since 1994 in the areas of Art History, English, Liberal Studies, and Interdisciplinary Studies. She taught in the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Cambridge Summer Program in England twice and has lived and traveled widely in Ecuador. Her research and teaching interests include sacred place and pilgrimage, and encounter and hybridity in medieval and early modern Europe and the Americas. She also has long experience writing fiction, and is the author of a historical novel set in 18th century Ecuador, "Pachacuti: World Overturned" (Bagwyn Books, 2015).