Delia Franklin

Biography
Delia Franklin is a senior History of Art and Architecture major with minors in Museum Studies and Religious Studies and will be graduating in May 2021. Their current academic interests are in the artistic expressions of cultural and religious identity during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Since transferring to the University from Loyola Maryland in 2018, they have been an undergraduate researcher in two exhibitions in the University Art Gallery and is currently an intern at the Mattress Factory working for the Greer Lankton Digitization Project where she will continue her research into religious iconography in the collection as a summer fellow. Under the advisement of Dr. Shirin Fozi, her thesis is about the cultural significance of the Book of Kells in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, examining the relationship between the manuscript and modern ideas of Irishness.  

"The Book of Kells: How A Medieval Manuscript Became a Modern Representation of Irishness"
Advisor: Shirin Fozi

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