Chara Armon is a fifth-year graduate student in the History Department. She focuses on medieval and Renaissance religious history, and pursues a minor field in medieval philosophy. She is working on a dissertation whose working title is: "Servus, Pater, Dominus: The Late-medieval and Renaissance Rise of Devotion to St. Joseph." Her interests include monasticism, lay piety, and other elements of spirituality in the twelfth to fifteenth centuries; and the history of women, children, fatherhood, and the family. In the spring of 1999, she taught a freshman writing course titled "Medieval and Renaissance Families Unveiled." She completed her MA at Cornell in 1998, and her BA at Colorado College in 1995. Email address: ca29@cornell.edu

Sarah Benson (B.A. in Philosophy with a minor in History, Pennsylvania State University, 1991; M.A. Comparative Literature with concentrations in Medieval Italian and Latin, Univeristy of Texas, 1994) is a Ph.D. candidate specializing in Italian Renaissance art. She has done TAships for courses on Renaissance, Baroque, and Modern art and has taught freshman writing seminars on: "The Functions of Art in Renaissance Italy"; "Italian Art and the World Picture, 1300-1600"; "Art in the Age of the World Picture"; and "Rome & its Representations, 1000-2000." Her dissertation, which deals with printing and the changing relationship of vision and knowledge in the early modern period, is titled "Roman History and Collective Memory in Views of the Capitoline Hill."

Stacey Kaplan is a third year graduate student specializing in Italian Renaissance art. She is currently working on her dissertation, in which she examines images of St. Catherine of Alexandria produced in the Veneto during the sixteenth century. In addition to teaching a freshman writing seminar on Venetian art, Stacey has done TAships for courses on Renaissance and Baroque art.

Kara Doyle, ABD, Medieval Studies Program. Fields: Middle English Literature, Renaissance English Literature, Old French Literature. Other interests: Medieval Italian literature, women's studies/feminism, electronic technology and medieval studies. Working dissertation title: "Female Readers and Troilus and Criseyde".

Mary DeCoste (B.A. in Comparative Literature, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1993) is a sixth-year graduate student in the Italian section of the Department of Romance Studies. She is presently working on a dissertation titled: "Vano amore: Representations of Women Desiring Women in Italian Renaissance Literature." She has presented papers on Ariosto, Boiardo, Boccaccio, and Primo Levi. At Cornell, Mary has taught Italian language, freshman writing seminars on Boccaccio and Dante, and Italian literature survey courses.