Erik Yingling

Erik Odin Yingling writes about art and religion in the ancient and medieval Mediterranean, including Egypt. He holds a PhD in Art History from Stanford, an MAR from Yale Divinity School, and a BA in Ancient Near Eastern Studies from BYU. His research addresses the reception of images: their cross-cultural transmission, ritual use, and relationship to the natural environment (e.g., materiality, animism, animal studies, ecology). An ongoing interest, the subject of his dissertation, is the “metamorphic imagination": the perception of bodily change and soulful identity in images of mythical transformation. He has also coauthored editions of artifacts from Christian Egypt and curated an exhibition on art forgery and authenticity.