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Henrike C. Lange

Assistant Professor, Italian Studies and History of Art

Henrike Christiane Lange holds a joint appointment in UC Berkeley’s Departments of History of Art and Italian Studies. She specializes in Italian and European medieval and early modern / Renaissance art, architecture, history, visual culture, and literature in relation to the Mediterranean. Lange has a second area of expertise in 19th and 20th century historiography, literature, and art in Europe and the United States. Her scholarship focuses on questions of perspective, narrative, medium, materiality, and spirituality in specific historical contexts. Her monograph, Giotto’s Arena Chapel and the Triumph of Humility, is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. 

After studying art history and Romance studies (Italian language and literature, linguistics) in Hamburg and Vienna, Lange moved to the United States to conduct her graduate work in art history at Yale University and joined Berkeley’s faculty in 2015. Lange is the recipient of the 2020 Prytanean Faculty Award for her record as a distinguished teacher, her demonstrated scholarly achievement, and her success as a role model for students at the University of California, Berkeley.