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Faculty for Medieval Studies at Rutgers

Art History  

Archer St. Clair Harvey (PhD, Princeton)
Early Christian & Byzantine Art.

astch@rci.rutgers.edu
Erik Thunø (PhD, Johns Hopkins)
The "image" in medieval art; late medieval painting and mosaics.
thuno@rci.rutgers.edu
Classics  

Lowell Edmunds (PhD, Harvard)

Greek and Latin poetry, Homer, intertextuality in Roman poetry.

edmunds@rci.rutgers.edu

Sarolta Tackács (PhD, California at Los Angeles)

Roman history, culture, and literature from Early Empire through Late Antiquity.
stakacs@rci.rutgers.edu
English  
Christine Chism (PhD, Duke) Middle English literature and drama, theories of history and culture, women's studies. chism@rci.rutgers.edu

Stacy Klein (PhD, Ohio State)

Anglo-Saxon literature and culture, gender and feminist theory, Old and Middle English hagiography, queenship, literary representations of women  and their relationship to social practice.

ssklein@rci.rutgers.edu

Jacqueline T. Miller (PhD, Johns Hopkins)

Gender and linguistic nationalism, Spenser, Mary Worth, sixteenth and seventeenth century poetry.

jamiller@rci.rutgers.edu

Larry Scanlon (PhD, Johns Hopkins)

Medieval literature, gender and sexuality, multiculturalism, cultural theory, pedagogy and composition theory.

lscanlon@rci.rutgers.edu
French  

Francois Cornilliat (Doctorat d'Etat, Paris III)

Sixteenth century literature, poetics and rhetoric.

fracorn@rci.rutgers.edu

Ana Pairet-Vinas (PhD, University of Pennsylvania)

Fourteenth and fifteenth century narrative and lyric; history of the French, Occitan, and Catalan languages; poetics of metamorphosis in medieval culture.

apairet@rci.rutgers.edu

Mary B. Speer (PhD, Princeton)

Old French literature and language, theory and practice of textual criticism, Seven Sages of Rome Cycle, Lancelot-Grail Prose Cycle.

mspeer@rci.rutgers.edu
German  

Marlene Ciklamini (PhD, Yale)

Germanic philology, Old Norse literature and folklore, medieval literature and history.

ciklamin@rci.rutgers.edu
History  

Rudolph M. Bell (PhD, CUNY)

Late medieval & renaissance developments, gender issues, anorexic saints.

rbell@rci.rutgers.edu

Samantha Kelly (PhD, Northwestern)

Medieval and Renaissance Italy, late medieval and early modern political and intellectual history.

samantha.kelly@rutgers.edu

James P. Masschaele (PhD, Toronto)

Social and economic history, medieval England, commerce, peasant culture.

massch@rci.rutgers.edu

Karl F. Morrison (PhD, Cornell)

Humanist tradition in Western Europe, chiefly medieval aesthetics and history of ideas; ecclesiastical history.

morrison@history.rutgers.edu

Stephen W. Reinert (PhD, California at Los Angeles)

Comparative medieval history, fourteenth & fifteenth centuries, focusing on Byzantium, Burgundy, & the early Ottoman empire.

reinert@history.rutgers.edu
Italian  

Joseph Consoli (PhD, Rutgers)

Boccaccio, Renaissance Italian literature, literature and culture of Venetian Crete. (Librarian)

jconsoli@rci.rutgers.edu

David R. Marsh (PhD, Harvard)

Classical tradition in Italian humanism from Petrarch to Vico, with special emphasis on dialogue and fable.

dmarsh@rci.rutgers.edu

Alessandro Vettori (Dott. in Lettere, Florence; PhD, Yale)

Thirteenth-century Italian literature, especially Dante & Franciscan authors.

vettori@rci.rutgers.edu

Laura S. White (PhD, U. California at Los Angeles)

Italian Renaissance theater, epic, early medieval literature.

lawhite@rci.rutgers.edu
Music  

Floyd Grave (PhD, New York University)

Form and style in instrumental works by Haydn and Mozart, theoretical and critical writings of Abbe Georg Joseph Vogler.

grave@rci.rutgers.edu

Andrew Kirkman (PhD, King's College London)

Fifteenth century music, mass music and liturgy.

kirkman@rci.rutgers.edu

Floyd G. Sumner (PhD, Rutgers)

Renaissance Italian instrumental music, chant, liturgical use of music.

 
Political Science  

Peter Dennis Bathory (PhD, Harvard)

Medieval political theory, leadership and statecraft, Augustine.

bathory@rci.rutgers.edu
Religion  

Tia Kolbaba (PhD, Toronto)

Early Christianity, medieval orthodoxy, Byzantine perceptions of western medieval religion and culture.

kolbaba @ rci.rutgers.edu

Mahlon Smith (MSL, Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies)

New Testament studies, the historical Jesus, relations between medieval orthodoxy and Catholicism.

mahsmith @ rci.rutgers.edu
Spanish & Portuguese  

Damaris Otero-Torres (PhD, California at San Diego) 

Spanish Golden Age literature, cultural and gender studies theory.

damilot@rci.rutgers.edu
   
     
     
   

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