Faculty
Classics
Mark Possanza
Fields: Latin literature of the late Republic, didactic poetry, and textual criticism and transmission of texts
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East Asian Languages and Literatures
Elizabeth Oyler
Fields: Historical Memory, Performance, Medical & Digital Humanities
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English
Jeff Aziz
Fields: Shakespeare, early modern literature, drama, museum studies, religious studies; cultural history of science, medicine, and anatomy
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Curtis Breight
Fields: Renaissance culture and Shakespeare on film
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Hannah Johnson
Fields: medieval historical writing and modern historiography, contemporary philosophies of history, and the literary aspects of medieval cultural forms committed to truth-telling projects, such as saints’ lives and travel narratives
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Ryan McDermott
Field: medieval literature
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Caro Pirri
Fields: Renaissance literature and culture, art and aesthetics, settler colonial studies, performance theory
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John Twyning
Fields: formation of an English historical and national consciousness in various forms of architecture, literature, art and landscape
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Jennifer Waldron
Fields: Renaissance Drama and post-Reformation religious controversy in England. Her interests include ritual and performance theory, religious polemic, word/image problems, and histories of gender and the body
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Michael West
Fields: The Classical tradition; Renaissance culture; Christian heroism; mock-heroic, satire, and comic forms; puns; stylistics, rhetoric, and linguistically oriented criticism; pedagogy; the short story; the American Renaissance; Irish literature—with expertise on Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, Thoreau and Joyce
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French and Italian
Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski (Emerita)
Fields: French medieval literature and culture, in particular Christine de Pizan; allegorical poetry; female spirituality; church history.
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James Coleman
Fields: Early modern reception of the classics, Intersections of literature, philosophy, and politics, Orphic literature, Italian Humanism and Islam, Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio and their reception.
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Chloe Hogg
Fields: French Early Modern Studies; Emotion and Affect Studies; Materialities and Print Culture; Early Modern Political Thought; Early Modern Women Writers
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Todd Reeser
Fields: Renaissance Studies; French Renaissance Prose; Montaigne and Rabelais; Gender and Sexuality; Critical and Gender Theory; Masculinities; French Cultural Studies.
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Francesca Savoia (Emerita)
Fields: Italian Theater from the Renaissance to the early nineteenth century Opera theory and criticism, seventeenth and eighteenth century Italian literature, interrelations of Literature and Music
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History
Elizabeth Archibald (Director)
Fields: History of Education in Medieval Europe, History of Literacy, Modern Reputation of the Middle Ages
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Ruth Mostern
Fields: History of China, World History, The Silk Road, the medieval world, world history of rivers
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Diego Holstein
Fields: World History, historiography
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Carla Nappi
Fields: History of China, History of Central Eurasia (especially Manchu studies), Translation History, World History, Historical Writing and Theory
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Pernille Røge
Fields: Eighteenth-century France and Europe, Early Modern European Empires, Atlantic History, Intellectual History
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Molly Warsh
Fields: World History, Early Modern Iberian and British Worlds, Early Caribbean, commodities and consumption
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History of Art and Architecture
Christopher J. Nygren
Fields: early modern visual culture, Christian icon painting, Titian, painting on stone
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History and Philosophy of Science
Paolo Palmieri
Fields: History of Early Modern Science, Galileo
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Religious Studies
Adam Shear
Fields: Early Modern Jewish history and history of the book in early modern Europe
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Slavic Languages & Literatures
David J. Birnbaum (Emeritus)
Fields: Humanities computing, particularly the computer processing of medieval Slavic manuscripts; Slavic linguistics, particularly diachronic and synchronic phonology and morphology; medieval Slavic texts
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Theater Arts
Kathleen George
Fields: Playwriting and dramatic literature
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Staff
Administrative Officer
Academic Operations Manager