Alexa Sand is full professor of art history and has taught at Utah State University since 2004. She earned her PhD in art history UC Berkeley, with an emphasis on medieval French art and literature. Her research focuses on book illumination and other small-scale art forms in the later Middle Ages, as well as connections between word and image in the art and writing of the period. Her book, Vision, Devotion, and Self-Representation in Late Medieval Art appeared with Cambridge University Press in March 2014. She has also published numerous essays in peer-reviewed journals and volumes. Since coming to Utah State she has been the recipient of national fellowships including the AAUW American Fellowship for Publication, the ACLS Charles Ryskamp Fellowship, the Gilbert and Ursula Farfel Fellowship at the Huntington Library, and a Paul Mellon Senior Visiting Fellowship at the Center for the Advanced Study of the Visual Arts (CASVA). Currently, she is at work on a second book.