Lombard Gradual, Italy, mid 15th century Medievalists at Cornell

This section provides information on the people in the Program of Medieval Studies at Cornell, including faculty, staff, graduate students, and alumni/ae. Dissertation abstracts from previous years are available under the graduate students heading.


Medieval Studies Faculty and Staff


Comparative Literature

Kennedy, William J. | Professor
Department of Comparative Literature
Campus Address: 163 Goldwin Smith Hall
Contact: (607) 255-3398 | wjk3@cornell.edu | web

Scholarly Interests: Rhetoric; Neo-Latin; medieval Latin and Italian literature. Italian, French, English, and German texts from Dante to Milton.

Sayers, William | Adjunct Professor
Department of Comparative Literature
Campus Address: 106 Olin Library
Contact (607) 255-9487 | ws36@cornell.edu | webpage

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).