12 Facts About Leslie Brubaker

Leslie Brubaker was born on 1951 and is an expert in Byzantine illustrated manuscripts.

Leslie Brubaker was appointed Professor of Byzantine Art at the University of Birmingham in 2005, and is Professor Emerita.

Leslie Brubaker was formerly the head of Postgraduate Studies in the College of Arts and Law, University of Birmingham.

Professor Brubaker is the Chair of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies.

Leslie Brubaker's work is widely stocked in libraries around the world.

Leslie Brubaker continued on to complete her PhD at Johns Hopkins University.

Leslie Brubaker was simultaneously employed as an instructor in the Department of Art, Wheaton College, Massachusetts, between 1981 and 1983.

In 1994, Leslie Brubaker moved to the University of Birmingham in England, where she has continued her research and teaching career up until the present day; in 2005, she was appointed as Professor of Byzantine Art History.

Leslie Brubaker arranged to share the position with Dr Ruth Macrides, so enabling both women to do research and "have a life".

Leslie Brubaker began as an expert in Byzantine illuminated manuscripts, writing a pathbreaking book on one manuscript, Paris Grec.

Leslie Brubaker's interests have extended since to the cultural history of Iconoclasm and the development of the cult of icons, on which she wrote two now-basic books on the subject with John Haldon.

Leslie Brubaker has written substantially on the relationship between material culture and its visual expressions, and other aspects of cultural history, including visual and textual representations of gender, and female patronage.