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Administrative Faculty and Staff
Program in Medieval Studies Faculty All faculty members appointed to the Program in Medieval Studies also hold positions in other departments. Click on any of the links below for that faculty's other departmental page. Jump to Faculty Name: A-B | C-G | H-K | M-P | R-Z View Faculty by Department:
ALL | Archaeology | Art History | Asian Studies | Classics | Comparative Literature English | German Studies | History | Linguistics | Music | Near Eastern Studies Philosophy | Romance Studies | Russian Literature Ahl,
Frederick M. | Professor Kimberly D. Bowes | Assistant Professor Scholarly interests: late antique archaeology, late Roman economy, archaeology of religion. Brann,
Ross | Milton R. Konvitz Professor of Judeo-Islamic Studies Scholarly interests: Judeo-Islamic studies; Islamic Spain. Brittain,
Charles F. | Associate Professor Scholarly interests: Early medieval philosophy (Christian and pagan); Platonism; intellectual history. Browne, E.
Wayles | Associate Professor Scholarly interests: Old Church Slavonic; historical and comparative Slavic philology; South Slavic languages, Polish, Russian and Belarusian, the Balkan language area, Old Church Slavonic, Slavic historical grammar, comparative and contrastive grammar, and pedagogical grammar. In general linguistics: syntax, morphology, and phonology (in particular relative and other subordinate clauses) interrogatives, clitic rules, word order, reflexive verbs, accent rules, etc., usually using Slavic material. Colby-Hall, Alice
M. | Professor of French Literature
(Emerita) Scholarly interests: Old French epic, courtly romance, the history of the French language, Old French and Old Occitan (Provençal) language and literature. Falk,
Oren | Assistant Professor Scholarly interests: Medieval Scandinavia and Old Norse (history and literature); cultural history, especially of medieval Europe; violence, honour and gender; paganism and conversion history. Galloway,
Andrew | Professor Scholarly interests: Old and Middle English (at present especially Chaucer, Langland, Gower); medieval history writing; intellectual communities and the sociology of knowledge; visions of women and women's writings; paleography and codicology. Groos, Arthur |
Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities (On leave 2007/08) Scholarly interests: Old and Middle High German literature; early modern city culture; German and Italian opera; history of science. Haines-Eitzen, Kim | Associate Professor (On leave fall 2007) Scholarly interests: Early Christianity and early Judaism; religion in Late Antiquity; text transmission in Late Antiquity; asceticism and monasticism. Harbert, Wayne |
Professor Scholarly interests: Syntactic structures of the Germanic languages (especially the older ones) and the Celtic languages (primarily Welsh and Scottish Gaelic), and what they can tell us about the principles of syntactic organization operating in natural language. Germanic philology (Old Norse and Icelandic, Old and Middle High German, Old English, Old Saxon, Gothic, modern German and Scandinavian languages), Celtic language and philology (especially medieval and modern Welsh). Hill, Thomas
D. | Professor Scholarly interests: Old and Middle English literature; Old Norse-Icelandic literature; English philology. Though primarily interested in literature, he has occasionally served on committees of students interested in linguistics. Hinrichs, TJ | Assistant Professor (On leave fall 2007) Scholarly interests: Medical history, Chinese government policies to educate southern peoples in medicine, suppression of southern "shamans." Howie, Cary | Assistant Professor Scholarly interests: Medieval French and Italian literature; phenomenology; theology; pornography; critical poetics; sexuality and gender studies. Hyams, Paul |
Professor Scholarly interests: Medieval, European social, legal, political history. England to 1400. Kaske,
Carol V. | Professor (Emerita) Scholarly interests: Edmund Spenser; Dante; Malory; Renaissance Latin writers such as Erasmus, Ficino; other non-dramatic literature of the High Middle Ages and Renaissance; cultural history of these periods, especially gender, patronage, printing, religion, magic, and Neoplatonism; in literature as a whole—rhetoric, epic, romance, and the theory and practice of the allegorical and symbolic modes. Kennedy, William
J. | Professor Scholarly interests: Rhetoric; Neo-Latin; medieval Latin and Italian literature. Italian, French, English, and German texts from Dante to Milton. Kuniholm,
Peter I. | Professor (Emeritus) Scholarly interests: Classical and Near Eastern archaeology, Aegean dendrochronology, numismatics. MacDonald, Scott |
N. K. Regan Professor in Christian Studies/Philosophy Scholarly interests: Specializes in medieval philosophy and philosophy of religion. His interests also include ethics, moral psychology, philosophy of action, and Aristotle. He has taught advanced courses in recent years on Augustine, Aquinas's moral psychology, the concept of free will in the Middle Ages, the place of Aristotle's Posterior Analytics in medieval philosophy, and divine goodness. Manning, Sturt | Goldwin Smith Professor of Classical Archaeology Scholarly interests: Archaeology (especially Mediterranean, Near East and Europe), archaeological theory, complex societies; dendrochronology (and dendroarchaeology and dendro-environment studies) - for example re Medieval period: structures, landscapes, etc., in Europe and Mediterranean region; climate and history; archaeological science. Migiel,
Marilyn | Professor Scholarly interests: Italian literature and culture (especially 1200-1600). Feminist criticism. Critical pedagogy. Najemy, John
M. | Professor Scholarly interests: Late Medieval and Renaissance history; Italy, 1250-1559; Florence: political, socioeconomic, constitutional, and cultural history; intellectual history of Western Europe, 1300-1600. Peraino, Judith |
Associate Professor (On leave 2007/08) Scholarly interests: Medieval musicology, thirteenth-century French secular music, music and queer identity, rock music and gender. Pinet,
Simone | Assistant Professor (On leave spring 2008) Scholarly interests: Medieval Spanish literature, especially books of chivalry, Golden Age poetics, cartography, theories of space, "mester de clerecía," romance. Powers, David
S. | Professor (On leave 2007/08) Scholarly interests: Medieval Islamic history and law. Raskolnikov, Masha |
Assistant Professor Scholarly interests: Middle English literature, allegory theory, medieval philosophy and rhetoric, contemporary critical theory, feminist and queer studies. Rebillard, Eric | Associate Professor Scholarly interests: History and Archaeology of Late Antiquity, Transformation of the Classical World, Tertullian, Augustine, Latin Sermons. Robinson, Cynthia |
Assistant Professor Scholarly interests: Medieval Mediterranean visual culture, 1000-1500 A.D. (Islamic and Christian); religion and art. Ruff, Carin | Assistant Professor (On leave spring 2008) Scholarly interests: Anglo-Latin and Old English language and literature; narrative and historiography; history of grammar, especially glossography and pedagogy of Latin syntax and versification; history of the book; Latin paleography. Sayers, William | Adjunct Professor Scholarly interests: Medieval western European languages and literatures (in particular Old Norse, Middle Irish, and Anglo-Norman French); cultures in contact; technical vocabularies and the transfer of technology (in particular nautical and maritime). Senderovich, Savely |
Professor (On leave fall 2007) Scholarly interests: Medieval Russian literature. Toorawa, Shawkat |
Associate Professor Scholarly interests: Classical and medieval Arabic literature, modern Arabic poetry, plural Islam, and the Indian Ocean. Warner, Ding Xiang | Associate Professor (On leave spring 2008) Scholarly interests: Chinese literature and literary thought from Han through early Song; medieval Chinese intellectual history; text production and text culture in pre-modern China. Weiss, Michael L. | Associate Professor Scholarly interests: Indo-European linguistics, Old Irish. Wetherbee, Winthrop |
Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities (Emeritus) Scholarly interests: Chaucer; Middle English; Classical and medieval Latin; Dante; Old French poetry; Medieval literary criticitism. Zacher, Samantha | Assistant Professor Scholarly interests: Old English literature (with a special interest in prose homilies and biblical poetry); Middle English |
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