Faculty
Faculty
An interdisciplinary course of study, Medieval Studies affiliates professors from various home departments.
Art History
Bokyung Kim
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art and Art History
Art and artifacts in intercultural Medieval Asia
Nancy L. Wicker
Professor of Art History
Medieval art history and archaeology, Scandinavia, Early Medieval reception of Roman Art, gender in archaeology, Germanic-style animal art, runic literacy
English
Sarah Baechle
Assistant Professor of English
Middle English language and literature, Chaucer, manuscript studies
Mary Hayes
Associate Professor, Director of the Medieval Studies Minor
History of the English Language, Old and Middle English, vernacular literature and literacy, popular religious literature, magic in literature
History
Frances Kneupper
Associate Professor of History
Religious and cultural history of late Middle Ages, heresy, prophecy, dissent
Nicolas Trépanier
Associate Professor of History
Medieval history, Middle East, foodways, Anatolia
Jeffrey R. Watt
Kelly Gene Cook, Sr. Professor of History
Medieval and Early Modern History, historiography, social history, witchcraft, the Reformation
Languages
Valerio Cappozzo
Associate Professor of Italian, Director of the Italian Language Program
Medieval Italian dream vision poetry with special emphasis on the Islamic dream
Brad Cook
Professor of Classics
Medieval Latin, Classical tradition in the Middle Ages, Byzantine Empire and Renaissance
María García Otero
Croft Instructional Associate Professor of Spanish
Castilian Hagiography, Medieval Castilian geopolitical hegemony, and Medieval and Early Modern Iberian monasticism
Christopher Hutchinson
Assistant Professor of German
Medieval and Early Modern German literature, Old Norse literature, print history, medicine and disease in literature, second-language pedagogy
Veronica Menaldi
Associate Professor of Spanish
Al-Andalus, premodern Iberian literature and culture, manuscript studies, magic and the occult, literary criticism
Daniel E. O’Sullivan
Professor of French, Chair of Modern Languages
Manuscript and material culture, philology, historical linguistics, and textual criticism of music and text
Music
Michael Gardiner
Associate Professor of Music
Intersection of theological and musical space, Hildegard von Bingen
Philosophy and Religious Studies
Drew Billings
Instructional Assistant Professor of Religion
Early Christianity in the Ancient Mediterranean World
James Bos
Associate Professor of Religion
Judaism, Early Christianity, Abrahamic Traditions
Shem Miller
Instructional Assistant Professor of Religion
Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity
Mary F. Thurlkill
Professor of Religion
Early Church History, Medieval Christianity and Islam, Merovingian Gaul, Shi’ism, and gender studies
Professors Emeriti
Melvin S. Arrington
Professor Emeritus of Spanish
Lester L. Field, Jr.
Professor Emeritus of History
J. R. Hall
Professor Emeritus of English
Warren Steel
Professor Emeritus of Music