Marie Hartmann (°1991) is a PhD candidate at the EXC 2020 "Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective" and the Friedrich Schlegel Graduiertenschule für literaturwissenschaftliche Studien. She has completed a Master’s degree in Art History at the Freie Universität Berlin with a thesis on the Catalan prayer amulet Ms Princeton 235 in 2019. During her studies she was an awardee of the Deutschlandstipendium and has held internships at Illuminare (KU Leuven), the Museum for Islamic Art in Berlin, the Goethe Institut Toronto and the Centre allemand d’histoire de l’art in Paris. Starting in 2020, she prepared her dissertation project “Visual Translations – The Materiality and Mediality of Black Books of Hours”, which investigates seven luxurious black prayer books that were created in the late fifteenth century for the Burgundian court.

Current research includes an EXC 2020 doctoral research project, Visual Translations – The Materiality and Mediality of Black Books of Hours.