Dr O’Donnell completed her BA at New York University, her MA at Hunter College (CUNY) and worked for four years in The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s legal department. During her degrees, she also held curatorial internships at the Guggenheim Museum and the Hispanic Society of America. She completed her PhD at The Courtauld Institute of Art in London in 2018 where she wrote a thesis on medieval altar furnishings and liturgical objects from the Iberian kingdom of Castile. Immediately following her PhD, Maeve curated an exhibition on the role of artists in the development of Marian theology at the Getty Museum. Returning to England, she has worked for five years as a researcher of art history at the University of Bristol. Her research interests include: medieval Spain, images of and poetry about the Virgin Mary, liturgical objects and altarpieces, female patronage and material histories.
