Roger Stalley
Roger Andrew Stalley (Born 12 June 1945) is a scholar and teacher in medieval architecture and sculpture. His speciality is Early Gothic and Romanesque architecture and sculpture in England and Western Europe with a particular focus on Irish architecture and art.[1] He has published numerous papers and books including Cistercian Monasteries of Ireland in 1987, for which he was awarded the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion in 1988 by the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain,[1] and Early Medieval Architecture in 1999 for the Oxford History of Art series. He is noted for his innovative teaching practices[2] for example, The Medieval Architecture Online Teaching Project,[3] and is to be recognised in a forthcoming publication Mapping New Territories in Art and Architectural Histories, Essays in honour of Roger Stalley.[4]
Education and career
Professor Stalley spent his formative years in Coventry and Lincolnshire[2] before graduating from the University of Oxford (Worcester College) with a degree in Modern History following which he read for a Masters degree in the History of European Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. He graduated in 1969 and moved to Ireland where he has remained, apart from a brief spell in North Carolina in 1985 undertaking a Fellowship at the National Humanities Center. Now a Fellow Emeritus of Trinity College Dublin (appointed 2011), he commenced his time in Ireland as a Lecturer in History of Art at Trinity College in 1969 where he spent the majority of his career except for his time in North Carolina and as a Fellow at the Institute of Irish Studies at Queen's University Belfast between 1975-6. Upon his retirement from university life in 2010 he had been the Head of the School of Histories and Humanities at Trinity College for two years, having been awarded full Professorship in 1990.[1]
Honours and appointments to public bodies
- Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (Elected 1978)[5]
- Fellow of the National Humanities Center, North Carolina 1985[1]
- Member of the Royal Irish Academy (Elected 1993)[6]
- Member of the Academia Europaea (Elected 2000)[1]
- Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland 2001 for services to Irish Architectural History[7]
Stalley has provided his services to a number of public bodies including acting as a Member of the Irish Architectural Archive,[8] on the Governing Board of the Dublin Institute of Technology (2002-4), as a Council Member at the Society of Antiquaries of London (2001-4) and as Foreign Advisor to the International Center of Medieval Art (New York) for three terms, the last being 2002-5.[1]
Other information
Photographs contributed by Roger Stalley to the Conway Library are currently being digitised by the Courtauld Institute of Art, as part of the Courtauld Connects project.[9]
Selected publications
- Architecture and Sculpture in Ireland, 1150-1350, Dublin : Gill & Macmillan ; London : Macmillan, 1971, ISBN 0717105547
- The Cistercian Monasteries of Ireland : an account of the history, art and architecture of the White Monks in Ireland from 1142 to 1540, New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 1987, ISBN 0300037376
- Irish High Crosses, Dublin : Eason & Son, 1991, ISBN 0900346957
- Ireland and Europe in the Middle Ages : selected essays on architecture and sculpture, London : Pindar, 1994, ISBN 0907132804
- Early Medieval Architecture, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1999, ISBN 0192842234
- Irish Round Towers, Dublin : Country House, 2000, ISBN 1860591140
- Early Irish Sculpture and the Art of the High Crosses, New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2020, ISBN 1913107094
References
- ^ a b c d e f "Academy of Europe: Stalley Roger". www.ae-info.org. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
- ^ a b "Roger Stalley, b.1945". Irish Life & Lore. 2017-02-02. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
- ^ "Home Page | Medieval Architecture". projects.mcah.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
- ^ "Mapping New Territories in Art and Architectural Histories". www.brepols.net. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
- ^ "Professor Roger Stalley". Society of Antiquaries of London. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
- ^ "Roger Andrew Stalley". Royal Irish Academy. 2015-10-19. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
- ^ Ireland), RIAI ie (The Royal Institute of the Architects of. "The Riai | RIAI.ie (The Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland)". www.riai.ie. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
- ^ "Members – Irish Architectural Archive". Retrieved 2020-08-02.
- ^ "Who made the Conway Library?". Digital Media. 2020-06-30. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
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