The Animal Style in Viking Art and Imagination

Nancy L. Wicker
Professor of Art History
The University of Mississippi in Oxford, MS

Wicker teaches several medieval courses, including Viking Art and Archaeology. She received her Ph.D. in interdisciplinary art history, archeology, and Old Norse language and literature at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Wicker has co-edited two books and has published on Scandinavian jewelry, animal-style art, female infanticide during the Viking Age, runic literacy, and gendered approaches to art and archaeology.