PhD, Professor of Art History, The University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi, USA

Research interests: Interdisciplinary Scandinavian art and archaeology, especially the relationship of ornamental animal styles to pictorial art of the Migration Period through the Viking Age; runic inscriptions, with particular interest in runic literacy and the audiences for runic inscriptions; and the roles of women as artists, patrons, and subjects of art.

• nwicker (a) olemiss.edu