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Please note: Faculty members must be approved to represent a specific concentration on a student's Special Committee.

  • Frederick Ahl -- Concentrations: medieval literature; Research interests: late Latin epics

  • Kimberly Bowes -- Concentrations: medieval archaeology; Research interests: late antique archaeology; late Roman economy; archaeology of religion

  • Ross Brann -- Concentrations: medieval literature; Research interests: Judeo-Arabic culture, especially medieval; Hebrew poetry and poetics; Islamic Spain

  • Charles Brittain -- Concentrations: medieval philosophy; Research interests: early medieval philosophy (Christian and pagan); Platonism; intellectual history

  • Wayles Browne -- Concentrations: medieval philology and linguistics; Research interests: Old Church Slavonic and Old Russian; historical and comparative Slavic philology

  • Oren Falk -- Concentrations: medieval history; Research interests: medieval, cultural, and Norse history

  • Andrew Galloway -- Concentrations: medieval literature; medieval philology and linguistics; Research interests: Old and Middle English literature and its contexts; medieval historiography

  • Arthur Groos -- Concentrations: medieval literature; Research interests: Middle High German literature; early modern city culture

  • Kim Haines-Eitzen -- Concentrations: medieval history; medieval literature; Research interests: early Christianity and early Judaism; religion in Late Antiquity; text transmission in Late Antiquity; asceticism and monasticism

  • Wayne Harbert -- Concentrations: medieval philology and linguistics; Research interests: Germanic philology and Middle Welsh

  • Thomas Hill -- Concentrations: medieval literature; medieval philology and linguistics; Research interests: Old and Middle English literature; Old Norse-Icelandic literature; English philology

  • T.J. Hinrichs -- Concentrations: medieval history; Research interests: medical history; Chinese government policies to educate southern peoples in medicine; suppression of southern "shamans"

  • Cary Howie -- Concentrations: medieval literature; Research interests: medieval French and Italian literature; critical theory; gender studies; queer studies; medieval literature

  • Paul Hyams -- Concentrations: medieval history; Research interests: medieval history, law, and society, especially of England

  • William Kennedy -- Concentrations: medieval literature; Research interests: rhetoric; Neo-Latin; late medieval literature and criticism

  • Scott MacDonald -- Concentrations: medieval philosophy; Research interests: medieval philosophy and theology

  • Sturt Manning -- Concentrations: medieval archaeology; Research interests: archaeology (especially Mediterranean, Near Eastern, and European); archaeological theory; complex societies; dendrochronology (and dendroarchaeology); climate and history; archaeological science

  • Marilyn Migiel -- Concentrations: medieval literature; Research interests: medieval and Renaissance Italian literature

  • John Najemy -- Concentrations: medieval history; Research interests: late medieval and Renaissance Italian history

  • Judith Peraino -- Concentrations: medieval music; Research interests: medieval music

  • Simone Pinet -- Concentrations: medieval literature; medieval philology and linguistics; Research interests: medieval and Renaissance Spanish; books of chivalry; Golden Age poetics; cartography; theories of space; mester de clericia; romance

  • David Powers -- Concentrations: medieval history; Research interests: medieval Islamic history

  • Masha Raskolnikov -- Concentrations: medieval literature; Research interests: Middle English literature, especially allegory, rhetoric and translation studies; contemporary critical theory; feminist and queer studies

  • Eric Rebillard -- Concentrations: medieval archaeology; medieval history; Research interests: medieval history; Saint Augustine; late Antiquity/early Christianity

  • Cynthia Robinson -- Concentrations: medieval art; Research interests: medieval Mediterranean visual culture, 1000-1500A.D. (Islamic and Christian); courtly culture; religion and art

  • Carin Ruff -- Concentrations: medieval literature; medieval philology and linguistics; Research interests: Anglo-Latin and Old English language and literature; narrative and historiography; history of grammar; language pedagogy; history of the book

  • William Sayers -- Concentrations: medieval literature; medieval philology and linguistics; Research interests: medieval western European languages and literatures, in particular Old Norse, Middle Irish and Anglo-Norman French

  • Savely Senderovich -- Concentrations: medieval history; medieval literature; Research interests: medieval Russian literature

  • Shawkat Toorawa -- Concentrations: medieval history; medieval literature; Research interests: classical and medieval Arabic literature; literary history; medieval Islamic culture

  • Ding Xiang Warner -- Concentrations: medieval literature; Research interests: Chinese literatures and literary thought from Han through early Song; medieval Chinese intellectual history; text production and text culture in pre-modern China

  • Michael Weiss -- Concentrations: medieval philology and linguistics; Research interests: Indo-European linguistics; old Irish

  • Samantha Zacher -- Concentrations: medieval literature; Research interests: Old English literature with a special interest in prose homilies and biblical poetry; Middle English literature; manuscript studies; rhetoric; studies in orality and literacy; history of the English language

Graduate School Professors (Emeritus faculty) :
  • Alice Colby-Hall -- Research interests: Old French and Old Occitan (Provençal) language and literature

  • Peter Kuniholm -- Research interests: classical and Near Eastern archaeology; Aegean dendrochronology; numismatics

  • Winthrop Wetherbee -- Concentrations: medieval literature; Research interests: medieval Latin, English, and Italian literature

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