Bio

Dr. Znorovszky’s research interests are bidirectional as she focuses (1) on the construction of gender reflected in the visual representations of cross-dressed saints, in particular the process of iconographic syncretism and the influence of Marian iconography over these representations, and (2) on the apocryphal nature of Marian iconographies in the Middle Ages.

Currently, Dr. ANDREA-BIANKA ZNOROVSZKY is a MSCA COFUND Research Fellow (2022-2025) at the University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain, with a research project titled ‘From the Near East to the Iberian Peninsula: Visual Representations of Saint Marina la Monaca in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period‘ (MARINA). The overall objective of this project is to carry out the first comprehensive study on the visual construction of a cross-dressed saint, Saint Marina la Monaca, on the development and dissemination of her iconography, and on its transition from one geographic area to the other through the Mediterranean basin: from the Near East to the Iberian Peninsula. The project has a strong interdisciplinary level by integrating medieval iconography, liturgy, hagiography, and cultural and religious studies.

She has previously received a MSCA+1 Research Fellowship (2020-2021) with Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy, with a research project on “Mary on the Move. Global Devotion(s) in Late Medieval-Early Modern Franco-Italian Contexts.” Dr. Znorovszky has also received a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellowship with Ca’ Foscari University, Venice (2018-2020) and a Joint Excellence in Science and Humanities Research Fellowship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, in collaboration with Salzburg University/Institut für Realienkunde des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit (2018). Her MSCA funded research project MARIA (2018-2020) is the first comprehensive small-scale study to focus on the iconography of Marian apocrypha in fourteenth- to fifteenth-century France.

She earned her PhD in 2016, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, with a dissertation on “Between Mary and Christ: Depicting Cross-Dressed Saints in the Middle Ages (c.1200-1600)”.