Participating Faculty

Participating Faculty

Alphabetical Listing by Last Name
Clorinda Donato (PhD, University of California, Los Angeles)
Professor, French and Italian
Areas of Interest: French Enlightenment reception, Fortunato Bartolomeo de Felice’s encyclopedism.
Alicia M. Doyle (PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara)
Assistant Professor, Music
Areas of Interest: medieval liturgical music
Kristine Forney (PhD, University of Kentucky)
Professor, Music
Areas of Interest: Renaissance music, history of music printing, performance practices, historical instruments, gender studies
Bonnie Gasior (PhD, Purdue University)
Associate Professor, Romance, German, and Russian Languages and Literatures
Areas of Interest: Travel literature, theories of monstrosity, subaltern studies, transatlantic studies
Heather Graham (PhD, University of California, Los Angeles)
Assistant Professor, Art History
Areas of Interest: late medieval and Renaissance art in Italy; the history of the body, the history of emotions, gender and sexual culture
Stanley Jones (D.Theol., Universität Göttingen)
Professor, Religious Studies
Areas of Interest: New Testament and Ancient Christianity
Timothy Keirn (PhD, University of London)
Lecturer, History
Areas of Interest: early modern Britain, the Atlantic world, economic history, world history
Marie Kelleher (PhD, University of Kansas)
Assistant Professor, History
Areas of Interest: women and law, medieval Crown of Aragon, concubines and marginal women
Lloyd Kermode (PhD, Rice University)
Associate Professor, English
Areas of Interest: early modern drama and culture, English-foreign relations, provincial drama, contemporary critical theory
Eileen Klink (PhD, University of Southern California)
Professor, English
Areas of Interest: early modern women and rhetoric
Barbara Mello (PhD, University of Southern California)
English Literature
Areas of Interest: gender studies, feminism, medieval and renaissance literature, literature and material culture
Katherine McLoone (PhD, University of California, Los Angeles)
Comparative Literature
Areas of Interest: fairy tales, folklore, mythology
Ilan Mitchell-Smith (PhD, Texas A&M)
Assistant Professor, English
Areas of Interest: British literature and culture of the Middle Ages; gender, violence, and monstrosity in later medieval English literature, esp. chivalric narratives
Lawrence Nolan (PhD, University of California, Irvine)
Associate Professor, Philosophy
Areas of Interest: 17th-century philosophy, especially the rationalists such as Descartes; medieval philosophy
Mariah Proctor-Tiffany (PhD, Brown University)
Assistant Professor, Art History
Areas of interest: women, art, and identity in the late Middle Ages and the twentieth century
Diana Steigerwald (PhD, McGill University)
Assistant Professor, Religious Studies
Areas of Interest: History of Islamic thought, more particularly Islamic theology, philosophy, and mysticism
Martine van Elk (PhD, Rice University)
Associate Professor, English
Areas of Interest: Shakespeare, early modern drama, early modern vagrants, early modern women writers from England and the Netherlands, gender