Faculty

African, Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Literatures

Charles Häberl

Charles Häberl

Information: Phd, Harvard University; Middle Eastern languages and literatures (including Arabic and Aramaic), folklore, and minorities in the Middle East; palaeography, epigraphy, the history of religions; and documentary linguistics; haberl@amesall.rutgers.edu

Art History

Tamara Sears

Tamara Sears

Information: PhD, University of Pennsylvania; South Asian art and architecture; Colonial historiography; Landscape studies; Environmental approaches to art history; Transregional studies; tamara.sears@rutgers.edu

Erik Thunø

Erik Thunø

Information: PhD, Johns Hopkins; The "image" in medieval art; late medieval painting and mosaics.; thuno@rutgers.edu

Laura Weigert

Laura Weigert

Information: PhD, Northwestern; Northern Renaissance Art; weigert@rutgers.edu

Asian Languages and Cultures

Jessey Choo

Jessey Choo

Information: PhD, Princeton; Medieval Chinese culture and religion, history of medicine and the body, women and gender.; jessey.choo@rutgers.edu

Hieu Phung

Hieu Phung

Information: PhD. University of Hawaii; The history of Vietnam and Southeast Asia during the transition from the Medieval Climate Anomaly (c. 800/950–1250/1300) to the Little Ice Age (c. 1300–1850).; hieu.phung@rutgers.edu

Wendy Swartz

Wendy Swartz

Information: PhD, California at Los Angeles; Medieval Chinese poetry and literary criticism and theory between the 3rd to 10th centuries.; wendy.swartz@rutgers.edu

Haruko Wakabayashi

Haruko Wakabayashi

Information: PhD, Princeton; Medieval Japanese culture and religion, use of visual materials in historical studies, medieval perceptions of disasters.; h.wakabayashi@rutgers.edu

Classics

T. Corey Brennan

T. Corey Brennan

Information: PhD, Harvard; Roman political history, social history of classical antiquity.; tcbr@classics.rutgers.edu

Serena Connolly

Serena Connolly

Information: PhD, Yale; Roman history, especially late Roman social, political, and legal history; non-elite Latin literature.; serena@classics.rutgers.edu

English Literature

Stacy Klein

Stacy Klein

Information: 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@english.rutgers.edu

Sarah Novacich

Sarah Novacich

Information: PhD, Yale; Medieval literature, especially drama and poetry; religion; gender; archival theory.; sen38@english.rutgers.edu

Larry Scanlon

Larry Scanlon

Information: PhD, Johns Hopkins; Medieval literature, gender and sexuality, multiculturalism, cultural theory, pedagogy and composition theory.; lscanlon@english.rutgers.edu

French

Ana Pairet-Vinas

Ana Pairet-Vinas

Information: 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@french.rutgers.edu

History

Leah DeVun

Leah DeVun

Information: PhD, Columbia; History of science and history of gender, sex, and sexuality in medieval and early modern Europe, and the legacy of this history in the modern world.; leah.devun@rutgers.edu

Anthony DiBattista

Anthony DiBattista

Information: PhD, Rutgers; Development of urban cultures in Italian cities during the Middle Ages.; adibattista@history.rutgers.edu

Samantha Kelly

Samantha Kelly

Information: PhD, Northwestern; Medieval and Renaissance Italy, late medieval and early modern political and intellectual history.; samantha.kelly@rutgers.edu

James P. Masschaele

James P. Masschaele

Information: PhD, Toronto; Social and economic history, medieval England, commerce, peasant culture.; massch@history.rutgers.edu

Stephen W. Reinert

Stephen W. Reinert

Information: PhD, California at Los Angeles; Comparative medieval history, fourteenth & fifteenth centuries, focusing on Byzantium, Burgundy, & the early Ottoman empire.; sreinert@history.rutgers.edu

Italian

Alessandro Vettori

Alessandro Vettori

Information: Dott. in Lettere, Florence; PhD, Yale; Thirteenth-century Italian literature, especially Dante & Franciscan authors.; vettori@rutgers.edu

Laura S. White

Laura S. White

Information: PhD, U. California at Los Angeles; Italian Renaissance theater, epic, early medieval literature.; lawhite@italian.rutgers.edu

Jewish Studies

Gary A. Rendsburg

Gary A. Rendsburg

Information: PhD, M.A. New York University; The literature of the Bible; The history of ancient Israel; The historical development of the Hebrew language; The relationship between ancient Egypt and ancient Israel; Dead Sea Scrolls; Post-Biblical Judaism; Medieval Hebrew manuscripts; grends@rutgers.edu

Paola Tartakoff

Paola Tartakoff

Information: PhD, Columbia; Jews, Christians and Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula, medieval heresy and inquisitions.; tartakof@rutgers.edu

Azzan Yadin-Israel

Azzan Yadin-Israel

Information: PhD, University of California Berkeley; Rabbinic legal hermeneutics; origins of midrash; biblical interpretation.; azzan@rutgers.edu

Librarians

James Niessen

James Niessen

Information: niessen@rutgers.edu

Philosophy

Brian Leftow

Brian Leftow

Information: PhD, Yale; Medieval Philosophy, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion; brian.leftow@rutgers.edu

Religion

Diane Shane Fruchtman

Diane Shane Fruchtman

Information: PhD, Indiana University; History of Christianity, Medieval Christianity; diane.fruchtman@rutgers.edu

Tia Kolbaba

Tia Kolbaba

Information: PhD, Toronto; Early Christianity, medieval orthodoxy, Byzantine perceptions of western medieval religion and culture.; kolbaba@religion.rutgers.edu

Emma J. Wasserman

Emma J. Wasserman

Information: PhD, Yale; New Testament, religions of the Greco-Roman world, Second Temple Judaism; wasserme@religion.rutgers.edu

Spanish & Portuguese

Dámaris Otero-Torres

Dámaris Otero-Torres

Information: PhD, University of California, San Diego; Golden Age women writers; dotero@spanport.rutgers.edu

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