Class of 1950 Herman B. Wells Endowed Professor
Professor, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Adjunct Professor, Religious Studies
Affiliated Professor, Gender Studies
Research Interests
pre-modern and modern Islamic religious and political thought; Quranic hermeneutics; Hadith studies; exegetical, legal, and ethical perspectives on jihad and martyrdom; gender roles
Professor, Classical Studies
Director of Elementary Latin, Classical Studies
Adjunct Professor, History
Research Interests
Roman law; Roman history; Latin prose
Distinguished Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
Research Interests
ancient and medieval Central Eurasia; early medieval Chinese phonology; Tokharian A; the recursive argument method (quaestiones disputatae); the college and science in medieval Central Asia and Western Europe; the language of the Huns; ancient and medieval Asian poetry; government, wealth, and poverty; Aramaic
MEST Executive Committee (Fall 2022 - Spring 2025)
Associate Professor, Religious Studies
Research Interests
scriptures; diaries; material objects; picturebooks; prayers; lay religiosity and intersections between visual culture and religion; religious history of Japans Heian period; religious imagery and ethics in modern and contemporary Japanese picture books
Professor, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Adjunct in History, Classics, Religious Studies
Research Interests
Late Antique social and cultural history; Byzantium; monasticism; hagiography; and pilgrimage
Distinguished Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
Director, Inner Asian & Uralic National Resource Center
Distinguished Professor, History
Adjunct Distinguished Professor, Religious Studies
Adjunct Distinguished Professor, Ancient Studies
Adjunct Distinguished Professor, India Studies
Adjunct Distinguished Professor, Medieval Studies
Former Director, Middle East Program
Research Interests
Medieval Iranian society; Zoroastrianism; Islam; the Middle Persian and Classical Persian languages
MEST Executive Committee (Fall 2023 - Spring 2026)
Co-Director, Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities
Associate Professor, Department of History
Affiliated Faculty, Cognitive Science
Affiliated Faculty, Learning Sciences
MEST Executive Committee (Fall 2023 - Spring 2026)
Professor, Department of History
Research Interests
late antiquity and the early Middle Ages; bishops and popes; historiography; architecture and material culture
Professor, Religious Studies
Research Interests
Christianity in early modern Europe; friendship and community formation; devotional poetry; gender and religious subjectivity; how religious ideas and practices influence how people live in the world and understand themselves in relation to others
MEST Executive Committee (Fall 2022 - Spring 2025)
Associate Professor, English
Research Interests
late medieval religious literature, and art
MEST Director
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Research Interests
Medieval/Renaissance literature; parody and satire; sanctity and popular devotion; myth and ritual; material culture; art in literature; theology and literature
Assistant Professor, French
Research Interests
Medieval French and Occitan literature, particularly lyric and romance; relationship between text and music; medieval manuscripts, book history, paleography and codicology, manuscript fragments; medievalism, reception of the Middle Ages, history of Medieval Studies
Professor, English
Affiliate Professor, Gender Studies
Research Interests
focus on Chaucer and on texts of Medieval Romance from the high to the late Middle Ages, particularly in light of psychoanalytic, postcolonial, gender, and cultural theory
Associate Professor, Religious Studies
Director, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Program
Adjunct Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Literatures
Research Interests
medieval Muslim biography, especially Tabaqat literature and the rhetorical methods used by authors to shape their histories of the development of religious-intellectual disciplines, especially Islamic law and theology
Associate Professor, Herron School of Art and Design, IU Indianapolis
Research Interests
art and visual culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance; medieval pilgrimage art; uses of secular and religious badges
Paul McNutt Associate Professor, EALC
Research Interests
Pre-modern Chinese narratives; Chinese literati culture; traditional Chinese literature; gender and cultural studies
Associate Professor, Music
Director and Chair, Historical Performance Institute
Editor, Historical Performance Series, Indiana University Press
Professor, Comparative Literature
Adjunct Professor, English
Research Interests
medieval European literature in its cultural context, including social history, religious studies, the visual arts, and music; applying current narrative and gender theory to medieval texts and studying the ways that the physical forms in which medieval texts circulated may have shaped readings of these works
MEST Executive Committee (Fall 2023 - Spring 2026)
Assistant Professor, English
Research Interests
Old English, Old Irish, Middle Welsh; cultural interplay in the early British Isles; environmental humanities; deep mapping
Professor, History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine
Research Interests
early modern chemistry and late medieval alchemy; Isaac Newton; Robert Boyle; Daniel Sennert; George Starkey; relationship of science, art, and nature in the premodern world
Professor, Philosophy
Affiliate, Cognitive Science Program
Research Interests
metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion, epistemology, medieval and 17th Century philosophy
Associate Professor in Japanese Studies
Director, East Asian Studies Center
Research Interests
conflict studies; premodern political and social history; culture of violence; martial suicide; early modern Japanese visions of the Medieval past
Assistant Professor, French and Italian
Research Interests
Relationship between literature and economics; Medieval Italian literature, especially in connection to Romance literatures; Dante studies, medieval lyric, and medieval and early modern chivalric literature; Periodization, especially the definition of Middle Ages and Modernity.
Provost Professor, Art History
Research Interests
Romanesque illuminated manuscript, especially Giant Bibles and early Cistercian Office manuscripts; the process and functions of text illustration in monastic culture and the image of the medieval king and queen
Professor, Art History
Research Interests
visual jokes and games; early modern conceptions of interpretive skill; northern European art of the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries; history and theory of mechanical puzzle design
Professor, Germanic Linguistics and Philology
Adjunct Professor, Department of Linguistics
Research Interests
Morphology and syntax of German, Parsed historical corpora of Germanic, Medieval Germanic languages and philology, Language variation and change
Professor, French and Italian
Research Interests
Renaissance and early modern literature and culture
Director, Medieval Studies Institute
Affiliate Faculty, Medieval Studies
Professor, Religious Studies
Adjunct Associate Professor, History
Adjunct Faculty, Borns Jewish Studies Program
Adjunct Faculty, Classical Studies
Affiliate Faculty, Ancient Studies
Professor, History
Research Interests
Medieval intellectual and cultural history; historiography
Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
Chair, Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies
Director, Turkish Studies Program
Research Interests
Ottoman court; literature and cultural history of the Ottoman Empire; Turkish oral literature; secularism, Islam, and modernity in Turkey; Contemporary Turkish politics and Islamist movements; textual studies; cultural studies; HCI postmodernism; gender studies; Islamic civilizations; lawful Islamism
Assistant Professor, Religious Studies
Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance
Research Interests
questions of how violence has been (and still is) aestheticized and how violence can function as a communicative vehicle in different contexts
Assistant Professor, East Asian Lanugauges and Cultures
Research Interests
Chinese literature and poetics in the High Middle Ages (1000-1300); the classical tradition; the intersection of literature and philosophy; manuscript studies
Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
Professor, Philosphy
Research Interests
paleography; manuscript studies;Richard Rufus, John Duns Scotus, William Ockham, and Adam Wodeham
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