A specialist in medieval art, Kirk Ambrose has published essays and various edited volumes and scholarly journals, including the Art Bulletin, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Gesta, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, Studies in Iconography, Traditio, and Word & Image.  He is author of The Nave Sculpture of Vézelay: The Art of Monastic Viewing (2006) and co-editor with Robert Maxwell of Current Directions of Romanesque Sculpture Studies (2011).  His current projects include a book on the Romanesque sculpture of Portugal and another volume tentatively entitled, Ideal Monsters: The Uses of Imaginary Creatures in Romanesque Sculpture.