Jerrell Allen
Department of English
Research Interests
Middle English; Hagiography; Devotion; Postcolonial Theory; Critical Race Studies; History of Judaism in Western Europe
Giulia Benghi
Department of French and Italian
Research Interests
manuscript studies; codicology and paleography; medieval Italian literature; poetry collections between the end of the fourteenth century and the beginning of the fifteenth century
Julie Chamberlin
Department of English
Research Interests
medieval literature and law; animal studies; history of legal personhood; Marie de France; Reynard the Fox; Chaucer
Emilie Cox
Department of English
Research Interests
Middle English literature; Chaucer; fabliaux, feminist/gender theory; space and place
Stephen C.E. Hopkins
Department of English
Research Interests
apocrypha; religious literature; Old English, Old Norse, and Celtic languages and literatures; reception theory; hermeneutics; history of the Bible; history of emotions; history of the afterlife; theology; etymology
Jennifer Lopatin
Department of English
Research Interests
medieval literature; secular prophecy; wise fools; collective identities; Merlin
Elizabeth Maffetone
Department of English
Research Interests
medieval literature; Chaucer; representations of gender; representations of violence; medieval theories of knowledge
Joseph Morgan
Department of English
Research Interests
Middle English language and literature; Marian devotion in medieval England; medieval British drama
Sally Morrell
Department of Comparative Literature
Research Interests
early modern lyric poetry in Europe and the Middle East; Persian literature; concepts of imitation; translation theory; mystical literatures
Matthew D. O'Donnell
Department of English
Research Interests
Malory; Gender studies (especially masculinity studies); French and English romances; Neomedievalism; Dungeons and Dragons; Cooperative oral storytelling; Socially conscious conflict resolution
Miriam L. Poole
Department of Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance
Research Interests
medieval British religious drama; medieval German religious drama; aesthetics; theology; history of comedy; history of tragedy; the connection of 19th century Romanticism to medieval culture
Nicolò Sassi
Department of Religious Studies
Research Interests
Pre-modern Eastern Christianities; Oriental Patristics; Textual transmission; Silk Road
Kortney Stern
Department of English
Research Interests
English medieval literature; French medieval literature; global Middle Ages; sound studies; communication; language; voice; gender studies; theories of sexuality; queer theory; performativity; power structures; private and public spaces; internal and external representations of the self; monsters
Heidi Støa
Department of English
Research Interests
Middle English literature; Old Norse literature; the transmission of texts in the medieval North Atlantic (the British Isles, Scandinavia, Iceland); medieval and modern aesthetics (especially the aesthetics of animation and the moving image); image theory; medieval theories of memory; and translation
Emerson Storm Fillman Richards
Department of Comparative Literature
Research Interests
production and reception of manuscripts; history of the book, codicology, and paleography; post-medieval uses of manuscripts; illustrated Anglo-Norman and Carolingian Apocalypses; Celtic literature and languages; Arthurian and courtly literature (primarily Anglo- and Francophone)
Sean Tandy
Department of Classical Studies
Research Interests
late Roman and early Byzantine history; Boethius and Boethian reception; post-Nicene Christianity; Roman satire; Roman philosophy and natural history
Andrea Whitacre
Department of English
Research Interests
Middle English; Old Norse; Old English; Latin; and Old French literature; posthumanism; critical animal theory; twelfth century; werewolves and shape-shifting; identity and the body
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