Anne Derbes formerly taught at Hood College in Frederick, MD and now divides her time between Maryland and San Francisco.  She is the author of Picturing the Passion in Late Medieval Italy: Narrative Painting, Franciscan Ideologies, and the Levant; co-author, with Mark Sandona, of The Usurer’s Heart: Giotto, Enrico Scrovegni, and the Arena Chapel in Padua; and co-editor, with the same collaborator, of The Cambridge Companion to Giotto.

Her articles have appeared in The Art Bulletin, Gesta, Speculum, and edited volumes; she has two articles forthcoming, one on the moral topography of hell, with Mark Sandona, in The Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes (2015), and the other on apocalyptic imagery in the baptistery of Padua, in Speculum (2016). 

In 2012, she was named the Forsyth Lecturer by the International Center of Medieval Art; she has served on the editorial board of Gesta and Studies in Iconography, and is currently on the board of directors of the ICMA.