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Interdepartmental Committee on Medieval and Renaissance Studies




Certificate Programs: Certificate: Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Chair: Julie Crawford, Ph.D.
602 Philosophy
Tel: 212.854.5779


Faculty

Gil Anidjar:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., California (Berkeley), 1998
Interests: Comparative literature, medieval philosophy and theology, Islamic and Christian Spain (12th-15th centuries), Kabbalah, Jewish literature, Arabs and Jews in medieval and modern Europe
Peter J. Awn:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1978
Interests: Islamic religion; history of religions; human rights in Islam
Hilary Ballon:
Professor, Ph.D., MIT, 1985
Interests: Renaissance and Baroque art, architecture; American architecture, urban design
Teodolinda Barolini:
Lorenzo Da Ponte Professor of Italian, Ph.D., Columbia, 1978
Interests: Medieval and Renaissance Italian literature; Dante; Petrarch; Boccaccio; medieval lyric; reception of classical antiquity; gender
Francesco Benelli:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Istituto Universitario di Architettura (Venice), 2001
Interests: Renaissance and Baroque architecture, history and theory
Susan Boynton:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Brandeis, 1997
Interests: Gregorian chant, liturgy, medieval drama, manuscript studies.
Alan D.E. Cameron:
Classics
Interests: Hellenistic and Roman Poetry later Roman Literature; History and Society; Byzantium; Transmission of Texts
Euan Cameron:
Union Theological Seminary
Interests: The intellectual response to popular superstitions from the Middle Ages to early modern Europe; Christianity and historicism; the Roman Catholic tradition.
Elizabeth Castelli:
(Barnard), Claremont, 1987
Interests: Biblical studies, New Testament; early Christianity
Jo Ann Cavallo:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Yale, 1987
Interests: Romance epic (especially Boiardo, Ariosto, Tasso); Castiglione and court culture; Machiavelli; humanism; allegory; medieval and Renaissance chivalric narratives in later oral tradition and theater
David E. Cohen:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Brandeis, 1993
Interests: History of music theory, tonal and pre-tonal music.
Antoine Compagnon:
Professor, Docteur ès Lettres, 1985
Interests: 16th century; 20th century; literary theory; Montaigne; Proust
Susan Crane:
Professor, Ph.D., California (Berkeley), 1975
Interests: Medieval literature of courts; literature and culture of the Hundred Years War; Anglo-Norman and insular bilingualism; theories of gender, performance, translation, and animality.
Julie Crawford:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 1998
Interests: 16th- and 17th-century literature; women's literature; cultural studies; feminist theory; gay and lesbian studies
Paul Creamer:
Assistant Professor (French and Romance Philology), Ph.D., Wisconsin, 1999
Interests: French manuscript illumination and production; literary exchange between medieval France and Germany; oral performance of literature
Hamid Dabashi:
Professor, Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 1984
Interests: Comparative study of cultures, Islamic intellectual history, social and intellectual history of medieval and modern Iran
Patricia Dailey:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., California (Irvine), 2002
Interests: Anglo-Saxon and other medieval poetry; medieval women's visionary literature; critical theory
Consuelo Dutschke:
(Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Interests: Latin paleography and codicology, especially of the late Middle Ages, with emphasis on books hands from Italy.
Kathy H. Eden:
Professor, Ph.D., Stanford, 1980
Interests: Renaissance humanism, history of hermeneutics and the rhetorical tradition, ancient and Renaissance literary theory
Joan M. Ferrante:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1963
Interests: Comparative medieval literature, including Dante, provencal poetry, allegory, romance, woman; also human rights, specifically women's and religious human rights
Pierre Force:
Professor, Ph.D., Habilitation, Sorbonne, 1987, 1994
Interests: 17th- and 18th-century literature and philosophy; Pascal; Moliere; the moralist tradition
Alban K. Forcione:
Professor (Spanish and Portuguese), Ph.D., Princeton, 1968
Interests: Cervantes, Golden Age literature, Renaissance literary theory
Carmela V. Franklin:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1977
Interests: Medieval Latin literature; transmission of Greek and Latin texts in the Middle Ages; Latin hagiography; manuscript studies; the study of the Bible in the early Middle Ages; Bede; early medieval Rome.
David Freedberg:
Professor, D.Phil., Oxford, 1973
Interests: Art and the neurosciences; Dutch, Flemish, French and Italian painting of the 16th and 17th centuries; 16th- and 17th-century history of science; theory and criticism
Boris Gasparov:
Bakhmeteff Professor, Ph.D., Moscow, 1965
Interests: Russian and general linguistics; literary theory; medieval Russian literature; Russian and European Romanticism; Russian culture of the 20th century; grammar and rhetoric of Old Church Slavonic; Russian music
Giuseppe Gerbino:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Duke, 2001
Interests: Italian madrigal; early opera; 17 century theory of counterpoint; sociology of music
Patricia Grieve:
Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Professor in the Humanities, Ph.D., Princeton, 1983
Interests: Medieval Spanish literature; Golden Age prose and poetry; Cervantes; comparative literature (medieval and early modern Europe)
Achsah Guibbory:
(English, Barnard)
Interests: Milton and Donne and Renaissance love poetry.
Jahyun Kim Haboush:
King Sejong Professor of Korean Studies, Ph.D., Columbia, 1978
Interests: Korean studies; pre-modern and early modern Korean history
Robert W. Hanning:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1964
Interests: English and French medieval literature and culture; Chaucer; Cinquecento Italian courtly literature; issues of race, ethnicity, and identity construction in the U.S.
James Helgeson:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Princeton, 1997
Interests: Renaissance music and poetry;philosophical history; hermeneutics;
Jean E. Howard:
Professor, Ph.D., Yale, 1975
Interests: Renaissance literature; history of drama; feminism; new historicism; Marxism
Martha Howell:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1979
Interests: Early modern European history; social, economic, legal, and cultural history of northern Europe, especially the greater Low Countries, 1300-1600; particular interests in gender.
Robert Hymes:
Professor, Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 1979
Interests: Medieval and early modern Chinese social and cultural history (Tang, Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties); anthropological approaches to history; elites; religion; print culture; social and cultural networks.
Valentina Izmirlieva:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Chicago, 1999
Interests: Slavic medieval literature; Christian Eastern Orthodox culture; theory of tropes; Vladimir Nabokov; Russian literature of the Silver Age; Balkan literature and film; history of Cyrillic manuscript and early printed books
Matthew Jones:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 2000
Interests: Early modern Europe, history of science
David Scott Kastan:
Professor, Ph.D., Chicago, 1974
Interests: 16th- and 17th-century literature and culture; Shakespeare; history of the book
Joel Kaye:
Professor, Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 1991
Interests: Medieval intellectual history; economic history; history of science
Holger A. Klein:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat, 2000
Interests: Byzantine, Early Christian and medieval western art and archaeology
Adam Kosto:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1996
Interests: Medieval Europe
John McGuckin:
(History,Union Theological Seminary), Rev., Ph.D.
Interests: History of aesthetics in early Christian Europe; history of the Byzantine church.
Keith Moxey:
Professor (Barnard), Ph.D., Chicago, 1975
Interests: Northern Renaissance art; social history, critical theory
Molly Murray:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Yale, 2003
Interests: 16th- and 17th-century poetry and prose; early modern intellectual history, esp. theology and political thought
Stephen Murray:
(Art History)
Interests: Medieval Art, Gothic architecture, society and history; application of digital media to Art History.
Stephen Murray:
Professor, Ph.D., London, 1973
Interests: Medieval art; Gothic architecture; social and cultural history and the application of the digital media to art history
Peter Platt:
(English, Barnard)
Interests: Shakespeare, Renaissance poetics, and rhetoric and is completing a study of Shakespeare and the paradoxes of Renaissance culture.
Anne Lake Prescott:
(English, Barnard)
Interests: Anglo-French relations in the Renaissance; Spenser; Rabelais; Marguerite de Navarre; Renaissance satire; Thomas More and his circle; Renaissance treatments of David; women writers.
David Rosand:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1965
Interests: The Renaissance tradition; Venice; drawings and prints; theory and criticism
Richard Sacks:
Adjunct Associate Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1978
Interests: Homeric, Old English, Norse poetry; ancient and medieval myth and epic (Greek, Germanic, Celtic); historical linguistics; narrative
George Saliba:
Professor, Ph.D., California (Berkeley), 1974
Interests: History of Arabic and Islamic science especially the development of planetary theories and their transmission to Renaissance Europe.
Simon Schama:
University Professor, M.A., Cambridge, 1969
Interests: 17th-century Dutch art, 18th-century French painting and politics; 16th–21st century British visual culture; landscape and environmental history; 20th- and 21st-century land and earth art; modern Western Europe, early modern Europe
James Shapiro:
Professor, Ph.D., Chicago, 1982
Interests: Shakespeare; medieval and early modern drama; Jewish studies; British poetry
J. W. Smit:
Professor, Ph.D., Utrecht, 1958
Interests: 16th- and 17th-century social and economic history; Low Countries
Pamela Smith:
Professor, Ph.D., John Hopkins, 1990
Interests: Early Modern Europe, history of science
Gonzalo Sobejano:
Fred and Fanny Mack Professor in the Humanities, Ph.D., Madrid, 1955
Interests: Spanish literature, from 17th-century Spanish narrative and poetry to contemporary literature
Robert Somerville:
Professor, Ph.D., Yale, 1968
Interests: History of Christianity; medieval Christianity; history of canon law; papal and conciliar history; medieval manuscripts
Robert Stein:
(English and Comparative Literature)
Interests: 12th-century European intellectual and literary culture; Norman and Angevin England; Chaucer; Narrative Literature (epic, romance, history); literary theory.
Alan Stewart:
Professor, Ph.D., London, 1993
Interests: sixteenth-century English literature, history and culture especially Reformation politics; manuscript culture; letters and letter-writing; history of sexuality; early modern London; Francis Bacon; lesbian and gay studies
Paul Strohm:
Professor, Ph.D., California (Berkeley), 1966
Interests: Medieval literature; textuality and history; genre and social change
Alan Timberlake:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1973
Interests: Slavic and general linguistics; medieval Russian chronicles; Slavic cultures
Elizabeth Weinstock:
(English, Barnard)
Interests: Medieval literature and culture, late medieval spirituality, and devotional literature.
Annelies Wouters:
Classics
David Yerkes:
Professor, Ph.D., Oxford, 1976
Interests: English language, including Anglo-Saxon and Middle English; bibliography; textual criticism
Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1966
Interests: Medieval and Modern Jewish History




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