Faculty


Sheila Bonde (Harvard, 1982) is Professor of the History of Art and Architecture. Her recent teaching has included courses on such topics as cultural relations between Christians, Jews, and Muslims in medieval Spain, and the history of late medieval art and material culture. Her current research interests include the afterlife of antiquity, Roman architecture in medieval Provence, and the excavation and study of the Gothic cloister at Saint-Jean-des-Vignes. In addition to essays on early modern domestic architecture and real estate, she is the author of Fortress-Church: Architecture, Religion and Conflict in Twelfth-Century Languedoc (Cambridge, 1994). Click here for more information



Michel-Andre Bossy (Yale, 1969) is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Brown. His areas of expertise include medieval French and Provencal literature, lyric poetry from the 11th to the 15th century, and social interpretations of literature. His publications include studies of gender in the troubador lyrics, narrative form in Erec et Enide, and Christine de Pizan's Faits d'Armes et de Chevalerieis; as well, he is the translator and editor of Medieval Debate Poetry: Vernacular Works (Garland, 1987). Currently, he working on a book-length study of the troubadour Guiraut.



Elizabeth Bryan (Pennsylvania, 1995) is Associate Professor of English. Her teaching and research interests include fourteenth century Middle English literature, late antique and medieval paleography and codicology, theories of authorship and textual production in medieval scribal culture, and the Brut chronicle histories. She has published articles on the British antiqurian Frederic Madden, the manuscripts of Lazamon's Brut, and is the author of Collaborative Meaning in Medieval Scribal Culture: The Otho Lazamon (Michigan, 1999).



William Crossgrove (UT-Austin, 1962) is Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature. His research is focused on late medieval vernacular texts about science, crafts, and technology, applications of computing and information technology in language studies, and the use of German as a scientific language. Recently, his teaching has included courses on German language and literature, Germanic philology, medieval German literature, literary animals, the history of medieval medicine and technology. In addition to numerous journal publications, he is the author of Die deutsche Sachliteratur des Mittelalters (P. Lang, 1994).



Sanda Golopentia (Bucharest) is Professor of French Studies. Her areas of specialization include the history of the European theatre, critical theory, semiotics, and the philosophy of language. She is the author of, among other books, Les Voies de la pragmatique (1988, Anma), co-author (with M. Martinez Thomas) of Voir les didascalies (1994, Ophrys), and she is currently working on a book entitled Histoires de dires.



Susan Harvey (Birmingham, 1982) is Associate Professor of Religious Studies. Her areas of specialization include Late Antique Christianity, Syriac Studies, and Byzantine Christianity; within these she has focused especially on asceticism, women in ancient Christianity, hagiography and hymnography. She is the author of Asceticism and Society in Crisis: John of Ephesus and the "Lives of the Eastern Saints" (California, 1990) and (with S. P. Brock) Holy Women of the Syrian Orient (California, 1987). She is currently working on two books: The Scent of Salvation: Ancient Christianity and the Olfactory Imagination, and Biblical Women in Syriac Tradition. Click here for more information



Alexander Levitsky (Michigan, 1977) is Professor of Slavic Languages. He is interetsed principally in eighteenth century and modern Russian literature, but also studies Slavic Baroque literature (Russian, Ukrainian, Czech and Polish), poetry and poetics, and music and its relation to prosody. He is the author or editor of, among numerous other titles, Anthology of Czech Poetry (Michigan, l973), V. K. Trediakovskij. Psalter 1753 (Paderborn, 1989), A. P. Sumarokov. Psalter 1773 (F. Schöningh, forthcoming), Zamorozki Pamiati (Khudozhestvennaja Literatura, 1993), and Collected Works of G. R. Derzhavin (12 vols., Terra, 2000-2). For more information, click here.



Robert Mathiesen (Columbia, 1972) is Professor of Slavic Languages. He teaches courses on Old Church Slavonic, history of Russian, medieval paleography, and magic in the Middle Ages, and his current research focuses on traditions of magic and magical religions in western and eastern medieval Europe.



Anthony Oldcorn (Harvard, 1970) is Professor of Italian Studies. He specializes in Renaissance and Baroque literature, with particular attention to Petarch and Dante. As well, he is interested in both late medieval and twentieth century literature, as well as problems in textual criticism and translation. In addition to translating the poetry of Seamus Heaney into Italian, he is the author of Textual Problems of Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Conquistata (Longo, 1976), the editor of Letture Classensi (Longo, 1989), and an associate editor of the forthcoming California Lectura Dantis (3 vols.).



David Pingree (Harvard, 1960) is University Professor in the Department of the History of Mathemathics. He has in the recent past taught courses on the transmission of science across cultures, cultural influence on the content and expression of scientific thought, paleography and codicology Indian epigraphy, and ancient and medieval Indian history. In addition to numerous journal articles, Prof. Pingree has published, most recently, Preceptum Canonis Ptolomei (Academia Bruylant, 1997), The Liber Aristotilis of Hugo of Santalla (with C. Burnett, Warburg 1997), From Astral Omens to Astrology, From Babylon to Bikaner (Istituto Italiano per l'Africa et l'Oriente, 1997), Babylonian Planetary Omens, Vol. Three (with E. Reiner, Undena 1998), and Astral Sciences in Mesopotamia / (with Hermann Hunger, Brill, 1999).



Joseph Pucci (Chicago, 1996) is Associate Professor of Classics. He teaches courses on classical and medieval Latin, versions of literary selfhood in late antique and early medieval literature, and the transition from the late antique to the early medieval. He has published a number of articles on Latin literary culture, and is the author of The Full-Knowing Reader: Allusion and the Power of the Reader in the Western Literary Tradition (Yale, 1998). He is currently at work on a translation of Alcuin's correspondence.



Amy Remensnyder (Berkeley, 1992) is an Associate Professor in the Department of History. Her scholarly interests focus on the cultural and religious history of western medieval Europe, particularly France and Spain, and she has recently taught courses on medieval history, monasticism, and medieval Spain. She is the author of Remembering Kings Past: Monastic Foundation Legends in Medieval Southern France (Cornell, 1995), and is currently working on a book-length study about the Virgin Mary as a symbol of conquest and conversion in medieval Spain and colonial Mexico.



Geoffrey Russom (SUNY Stonybrook, 1974) is Professor of English Literature. He has published extensively on Old English and Old Norse literature, metrical theory, and historical linguistics, and is the author of Old English Meter and Linguistic Theory (Cambridge, 1984) and Beowulf and Old Germanic Meter (Cambridge, 1998). In addition to introductory and advanced study of Old English, Old Norse, and Old Irish, his teaching includes courses on Beowulf, linguistics and literature, and the history of the English language. For access to Professor Russom's Ancient Northwestern Europe Resources pages, click on one of the following links: Anglos-Saxons, Celts, or Norse.

 



Mercedes Vaquero (Princeton, ) is Associate Professor in the Department of Hispanic Studies. Her teaching and research interests include the Medieval Spanish epic, chronicles, ballads and oral tradition, and she also regularly offers a graduate course on Spanish Philology. She is the author of Tradiciones Orales en la Historiografía de Fines de la Edad Media (Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, 1990), and the editor of Vida rimada de Fernán González de Gonzalo de Arredondo (Exeter, 1987), and is co-editor, with Alan Deyermond, of Studies on Medieval Spanish Literature in Honor of Charles F. Fraker (Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, 1995) and Medieval Historiographical Discourse (



Don Wilmeth (Illinois, 1964) is Asa Messer Professor of Theatre and English. His scholarly interestes include American popular culture and theatre history, the history of medieval drama, and issues of theatrical staging and performance. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of more than two dozen books, including the Cambridge History of American Theatre (Cambridge, 1998-2000), The Cambridge Guide to American Theatre(Cambridge, 1993), Noble or Ruthless Savage?: The American Indian on Stage and in the Drama (CASTA, 1989), George Frederick Cooke: Machiavel of the Stage(Greenwood, 1980).