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Dissertations and Interests
The dissertations listed below are
from current members of the Medieval Academy who have either completed
their Ph.D.s (from 1995 onwards), or who have approved topics in
progress. In the spirit of exchange and as a resource for other
graduate students, medieval interests are also included as a means
of generating a community amongst present and future colleagues.
If you would like your dissertation listed here, please submit your
dissertation title or approved dissertation topic, school affiliation,
email address, and medieval interests (optional) to Karrie Fuller
(kfuller2@nd.edu).
If you have completed your Ph.D.,
be sure to let the Academy know when you get a job. Your name will
appear in the annual listing in the Medieval Academy News of Post-doctoral
Hires (MA@MedievalAcademy.org).
Deadline for inclusion in the Fall issue is 1 August; for the Winter
issue, 1 October.
Approved Dissertations in Progress
Anthony Adams, University of Toronto (
)
"Great War and Great Wisdom: the Bella Parisiacae urbis and Anglo-Carolingian Literary Relations"
Interests: Old and Middle English, Old Norse, Medievalism, Medieval Latin, Folklore, Carolingians, Scandinavia
Tuija Ainonen, University of Toronto (
)
"Studies in the History of 'Distinctiones'"
Interests: Editing, textual criticism, alphabets, education, intellectual history
Abdullah Alger, University of Manchester (
)
"The Rhetoric of the Exeter Book"
Interests: Old English language and literature, reception of Anglo-Saxon literature in the 19th and 20th century, palaeography, Anglo-Latin, editing and textual criticism, medieval rhetoric, J.R.R. Tolkien, book history, source studies, and humanities computing
Timothy D. Arner, Pennsylvania State University
(tda121@psu.edu)
"Trojan Wars: Genre and the Politics of Authorship in Late Medieval and
Early Modern England"
Interests: Chaucer, medieval historiography, Renaissance medievalism
Diane Peters Auslander, Graduate Center, CUNY
(dauslander@earthlink.net)
"Three Saints in Four Lives: A contextual study of the hagiography of a composite saint"
Interests: The multiple ethnicities and cultures of the British Isles; the role of conversion and the development of the church;
different forms of Christian practice (i.e., Irish and Northumbrian); creation of identity/affiliation; cults of saints and saints' lives,
gender
Claire Barbetti, Duquesne University
(clairebarbetti@gmail.com)
"Reconsidering Ekphrasis as an Apprehension of Visual Composition in the Medieval Vision-Text"
Interests: Ekphrasis, relationships between image and text, the Dream Vision, medieval women's mystical writing, Middle English Romance, aventure, Middle English lyric, History of the English Language
Jessica Barr, Brown University
(Jessica_Barr@brown.edu)
"Revealed in the Spirit: Visionary Knowing and the Medieval Dream Vision Narrative"
Interests: Visionary literature; dream visions and dream theory; women's writing; the influence of Augustine;
sign theory and nominalism; medieval English, French and German literature
Catherine Barrett, University of Washington
(kitzen@u.washington.edu)
"Cordes and the Intersections of Identity"
Interests: 13th and 14th century architecture and urbanism in Languedoc, notably in towns founded by Count Raymond VII or men associated with his entourage
Renana Bartal, Hebrew University
(bartalr@pob.huji.ac.il)
"Vernacular Visions. Three Fourteenth-Century English Apocalypse Manuscripts and their Illuminator"
Interests: Apocalypse imagery, literacy, vernacularism and workshop practices
Charlotte Bauer-Smith, Univ. of Illinois
(bauersmi@uiuc.edu)
"Visual Constructions of Corporate Identity and Exempla for the
University of Paris, 1200-1500"
Interests: Medieval education, artistic workshop practices, corporations,
identity, heraldry and seals.
Judith G. Benz, Yale Univ. (judith.benz@yale.edu)
"Funktion und Repräsentation der Artusfigur in Wolfram von Eschenbachs
Parzival und Adolf Muschg's Der Rote Ritter. EIne Geschichte von
Parzivâl"
Interests: 13th-century German literature; contemporary Swiss literature;
kingship in the Middle Ages
Johan Bergström-Allen, Université de
Fribourg (johan@britishlibrary.net)
"The Literary and Bibliographic Activities of the Carmelite Order
in medieval England"
Interests: medieval religious culture, guilds and confraternities,
Lollard writings, feminist and queer theory, medieval vernacular
(English) writing in the British Isles, palaeography
Maija Birenbaum, Fordham University
(Birenbaum@fordham.edu)
"Virtuous Vengeance: Divine Retribution and Christian Identity in Medieval England"
Interests: vernacular theology and lay peity, Jewish-Christian relations
Carlee A. Bradbury, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(carlee_bradbury@hotmail.com)
"Imaging and Imagining the Jew in Medieval England"
Melissa Bruninga-Matteau, University of California, Irvine (
)
"Outward Action, Inward Belief: Inquisitors' Manuals and the Construction of Heresy in the Thirteenth & Fourteenth Centuries"
Interests: Early inquisition, heresy, formulation of discourse, construction of religious worldviews, and formation of religious identity
Julianne Bruneau, University of Notre Dame
(jbruneau@nd.edu)
"Perceval in England"
Interests: Interests: Arthurian literature, Old and Middle English literature and language,
the cult of Mary Magdalene, Wales, and student-centered teaching methods
Suna Cagaptay-Arikan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(cagaptay@uiuc.edu)
"Visualizing the Cultural Transition in Bithynia: Byzantine-Ottoman 'Overlap' Architecture
Cynthia Marie Canejo, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara (cane@umail.ucsb.edu)
"Transforming Early Gothic Form: The Cistercian Abbey of Pontigny
and Northern Burgundian Architecture"
Meredith M. Cohen, Columbia Univ. (mmc66@columbia.edu)
"The Sainte-Chapelle of Paris: Image of Authority and Locus of Identity"
Interests: Paris, the Capetians, or even more broadly 12th- and
13th-century rulers, patronage, identity politics, architecture
Walker Reid Cosgrove, Saint Louis Univ. (cosgrowr@slu.edu)
"Clergy and Crusade: the Church of Languedoc during the Albigensian Crusade"
Joseph Creamer, University of Washington (
)
"Martyrs, Reformers and Pastors: the Holy Bishops of thirteenth century England"
Interests: Hagiography, medieval bishops, the friars
Jennifer Davis, Harvard Univ. (jdavis@fas.harvard.edu)
"Imagining and Acting the King: Charlemagne and the Invention of
Medieval Rulership"
Interests: Carolingian history, medieval law, medieval Italy, Charlemagne
and kingship
Thomas Devaney, Brown University (Thomas_Devaney@brown.edu )
"Public Ritual and the Frontier Experience in Castile and the Latin East, 1085-1492"
Interests: Mediterranean cultural and social history, popular religion, the Crusades, urban public ritual, sacred space, architecture
Daniel J. DiCenso, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge (dd301(NO@SPAM)cam.ac.uk)
"Charlemagne's Song: The 'Romanization' of Chant and Liturgy during the Carolingian Era"
Interests: Chant, chant (and other musical medievalisms) as used (quoted, borrowed, sampled, etc.) in later musical repertories; Palestrina and the musical changes associated with the Council of Trent; 17th-century mythological opera; "form" in music of the 18th and 19th centuries; historiography; gender studies; cultural and literary theory
Pamel Dolan, New York Univ. (peldolan@yahoo.com)
"'A Tearful Protest': Pity, Suffering, and Injustice in Middle English
Literature"
Interests: Theology, theodicy, the history of emotion, and 14th-
and 15th-century English literature
Lofty Durham, Univ. of Pittsburgh
(lld15@pitt.edu)
"Jacques Milet's /Destruction de Troie le Grant/: Reassessing the
History of French Theatre in the Late Medieval Period"
Interests: Theatre production practices, Old and Middle French, French
paleography, teaching theatre history
Jennifer Edwards, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (jcedward@uiuc.edu)
"Communal Bodies: Organizing Space and Identity through the Cult
of the Saints in Medieval Poitiers"
Melodie Harris Eichbauer, The Catholic University of America, Washington D.C.
(99harris@cardinalmail.cua.edu)
"The Evolution of Gratian's Decretum: From Teaching Tool to Comprehensive Code of Canon Law"
Interests: Legal history from the 11th-14th centuries, papal politics and ecclesiastical
history, religious culture, the impact of legal developments on society
Laura Erikson, Univ. of Washington
(laurar2@u.washington.edu)
"The Female Combatant and the Judicial Duel"
Interests: Militant women; chivalry; and dissent or perceived dissent, particularly as it involved gender roles and sexuality.
Joshua R. Eyler, University of Connecticut
(joshua.eyler@uconn.edu)
"Conditioning the Soul: Spiritual Athleticism in Medieval English
Theology and Literature"
Interests: Old and Middle English literature, social history, patristics,
biblical exegesis
Annika Farber, Pennsylvania State Univ.
(alf237@psu.edu)
"The Medieval artes amatoriae: The Rise of the Didactic in Andreas, Guillaume, Jean, and Gower"
Interests: Classical literature and reception, love literature, history of
rhetoric and education, Chaucer and Chaucer reception
Jennifer M. Feltman, Florida State Univ.
(jfeltman(NO@SPAM)fsu.edu)
"Preaching, Penance, and Purgatory: Pastoral Theology and the Iconography of the Last Judgment in the Architectural Sculpture of Thirteenth-Century France"
Interests: Medieval architecture and sculpture; manuscript studies; visual exegesis and medieval pedagogy; eschatology; computus; science and religion in the Middle Ages; scholasticism; the body in medieval art and cognitive theory; word and image studies; medieval legal studies
Elsa Filosa, Univ. of North Carolina
(efilosa@email.unc.edu)
"De mulieribus claris: The narrative female portrait as genre"
Justine Firnhaber-Baker, Harvard University (firnhab@fas.harvard.edu)
"More hostili et guerre: Local War and Royal Authority in Late Medieval Southern France"
Interests: Concepts of authority and power, the crisis of the fourteenth
century, gender and cultural history, youth
Megan H. Foster-Campbell, Univ. of Illinois (mhfoster@uiuc.edu)
"'Reading' Pilgrimage: Pilgrims' Badges in Late Medieval Devotional
Texts"
Interests: Illuminated manuscripts, pilgrimage, the cult of relics/reliquaries,
Christine de Pizan
Alla Gaydukova, Rutgers University
(allochka80@yahoo.com)
"Women and Property in Norfolk in the Reign of Edward III"
Interests: 14th-century England, law, family, gender
Bruce Gilchrist, McGill Univ. (bgilch@po-box.mcgill.ca)
"The Body and Metaphysics in Old English Literature"
Interests: Old English literature and philosophy; history of science
(esp. neurology); Chaucer
Adina S. Goldstein, The Graduate Center,
CUNY (adinasimone@att.net)
"The Tempting of Saints in Latin Narrative: England, France, and
the Low Countries, 1100-1230"
Jen Gonyer-Donohue, University of Washington (jengd@u.washington.edu)
"'Served for hire systers love': The Tale of Philomela through the Middle Ages"
Interests: Chaucer and 14th century literature, Classical appropriations
and mythography, historiography, gender studies, Old French literature,
pedagogy
Mica Gould, Purdue University,
(mgould@purdue.edu)
"Reading the Reader: Metafictional Romance in Ricardian London"
Emily E. Graham, University of St. Andrews,
(eeg@st-andrews.ac.uk)
"Patronage, reform and sanctity: Cardinal Napoleone Orsini and the Spiritual
Franciscans"
Interests: Medieval Italy and France, patronage and power relationships,
concepts of sanctity, heresy and gender, hagiography, historiography, saints'
cults and relics, monasticism, lay piety
Andrey Grunin, Univ. of Avignon
(andrey.grunin@yahoo.com)
"The Internal Transformations Through State Conception's Changes in Carolingian Empire from Charlemagne to Charles the Bald: Essay on Systems Approach in History"
Interests: Carolingian Empire, Church and Power in Early Medieval Age, Theory and Quantitative Methods in History, Complexity Theory in the Social Sciences, Systems Self-Representation and Identity
Daniel Gullo, University of Chicago (dkgullo@midway.uchicago.edu)
"Reading, Writing, and Community Formation at 15th century Montserrat"
Interests: Medieval Spanish kingdoms, medieval monasticism and education
Natalie Hall, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville (
)
"The Spatial Agency of the Catacombs: An Analysis of the Interventions of Damasus I (366-384)"
Interests: Late antiquity, architecture, the use and meaning of space(s), and fourth century Rome
Julian Hendrix, King's College, Cambridge
(jh421@cam.ac.uk)
"Liturgy for the dead and the confraternity books of Reichenau and St. Gallen, 800-900"
Interests: Early medieval history, monasticism, manuscript studies
Jason Herman, University of Arizona
(jherman1@u.arizona.edu)
"Intention, Utility, and Chaucer's Retraction"
Interests: Medieval literary theory, Chaucer, Arthurian romance
Suzanne Hevelone, Boston College
(shevelone@yahoo.com)
"Hagiography and Preaching in Jacobus de Voragine's Golden Legend and Sermons"
Interests: Sermons, hagiography, popular piety, heresy, theology and philosophy, art and iconography, and the cult of the saints
Ann Higgins, University of Massachusetts
Amherst (higgins@vgernet.net)
"The Mark of the Hero: Language, Identity and the Middle English
Romance"
Interests: Middle English romance; manuscripts; issues relating
to translation; classical influences on medieval literature.
Elizabeth Moore Hunt, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia (ebmada@mizzou-edu)
"The Profane Borders of Northern French and Flemish Manuscripts,
c. 1270--1305"
Emily J. Hutchinson, University of York (ejh120@york.ac.uk)
"Pour le bien du roy et de son royaulme: Burgundian Propaganda under
John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy, 1405-1419"
Interests: Fourteenth and fifteenth-century politics; late medieval political thought; medieval communication systems; public opinion and reputation building
Curtis R. Jirsa, Cornell University
(crj5@cornell.edu)
"Langland and Lyricism: Piers Plowman and its Literary Influences"
Interests: Lyric poetry, late 14th century didactic literature, lay piety, vernacular sermon cycles,
late English/French romance, chansons de geste, troubador/trouvère poetry, Germanic linguistics
Anne Johnson, Graduate Center, CUNY
(de_musica@yahoo.com)"On the Nature of Music: The Significance of the Latin Term natura in Medieval Writings on Music"
Interests: Lyric poetry, late 14th century didactic literature, lay piety, vernacular sermon cycles,
late English/French romance, chansons de geste, troubador/trouvère poetry, Germanic linguistics
Maire Johnson, University of Toronto
(maireniamh@yahoo.ca)"Holy body, wholly other: sanctity and society in the Lives of Irish saints"
Hope Johnston, University of Cambridge
(hwj22@cam.ac.uk)
"A Critical Edition of The Boke of the Cyte of Ladyes"
Interests: Christine de Pizan, early Tudors, history of the book, literature and politics, Middle Scots
Andrea Fitzgerald Jones, Univ. of California, Los Angeles (andrear@ucla.edu)
"Outlaw Masculinity and Eccentric Nationality in Popular English Literature, 1350-1550"
Interests: Gender and popular culture, particularly oral culture, medieval Ireland and England
Wolfram R. Keller, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany,
(kellerw@staff.uni-marburg.de)
"Allegories of Change: Person and Nation in the Reception of the Troy Story in Late Medieval and Early Modern England"
A. Keith Kelly, Saint Louis University
(kellyak@slu.edu)
"The Outlaw vs. the Lawyer: The Role of the Medieval Outlaw Hero as Champion of Justice
in the Face of Rising Legal Literacy"
Interests: Old English, Old Norse, mythology, outlaw tales, medieval legal theory, cultural identity, the heroic tradition, medievalism
Kim Klimek, University of New Mexico
(klimek@unm.edu)
Eve, Mary, and the Amazons: The Writing of Women within History and Its Relation to the European Intellectual Culture, 950-1150"
Karolyn Kinane, Univ. of Minnesota (kina0008@umn.edu)
"Education and Imitation in Early English Saints' Lives"
Interests: Old and Middle English saints' lives, iconography, medieval
education
Kimberley-Joy Knight, University of St Andrews, Scotland (
)
"Blessed are those who weep: The Gift of Tears in the High-Late Middle Ages"
Christian Knudsen, University of Toronto (
)
"Naughty Nuns and Promiscuous Monks: Sex, Poverty and Monastic Misconduct in Later Medieval England"
Andrew Kraebel, Yale University ( Andrew.Kraebel@Yale.EDU)
"The study of the Bible in fourteenth-century England"
Interests: Biblical exegesis from the Carolingian period to the later Middle Ages; grammar, rhetoric, and hermeneutics; paleography and codicology; textual editing
Christine Kralik, University of Toronto
(christine.kralik@utoronto.ca)
"Representing the Macabre: Images of the 'Three Living and the Three Dead' in Late Medieval Devotion and Culture"
Ilana Krug, Univ. of Toronto (ikrug@chass.utoronto.ca)
"Royal Prerogative Gone Astray: The Social and Economic Impact of
Purveyance on the English Peasantry at the Beginning of the Hundred
Years War."
Interests: Fourteenth century English social and economic history;
impact of war, taxation, natural disasters and corruption on the
peasantry; military technology; complaint and "evils of the times" literature; East Anglian school of manuscript illumination; plague
iconography and cult of plague saints.
Aden Kumler, Harvard Univ. (kumler@fas.harvard.edu)
"Visual Translation, Visible Theology: Illuminated Devotional Literature
in France And England (1200-1400)"
Interests: Theology, medieval translation theory, medieval exegetical
literature, the Master of the Coronation of Charles VI, salvation
history; Trinitarian visions, Translatio studii et imperii
Meagan Green Labunski, Duke University (
)
"Friars in the City: Mendicant Architecture and Pious Practice in Medieval Verona (c. 1220- c. 1350)"
Isabelle Lachat, University of Delaware (
)
"Offering the Sacred Word: Alcuin, Charlemagne and the Gospels of Sta Maria ad Martyres (Trier, Stadtbibiothek, Cod.23)"
Christopher Lakey, Univ. of California, Berkley
(clakey@berkeley.edu)
"Relief in Perspective: Medieval Italian Sculpture and the
Rise of Optical Aesthetics"
Interests: Aesthetics, Image Theory, Sculpture and Painting from the
late Roman period until the 15th century
Atria A. Larson, The Catholic University of America (
)
"Gratian's Tractatus de penitentia: A Textual Study and Intellectual History"
Interests: Intellectual history, education, theology, religion, penance, sermons
Christopher Leydon, CUNY (cleydon@gc.cuny.edu)
"The Insular Iscariot: Judas in Bristish and Irish Literary Traditions"
Interests: Hagiographic romance, late apochrypha, vernacular religious poetry, anti-saints
Joshua Levy, New York Univ. (JLL222@world.oberlin.edu)
"Sefer Milhamot Hashem, Chapter Eleven: The Earliest Jewish Critique
of the New Testament"
Interests: Jewish-Christian relations, Jewish-Christian polemics,
crusades, church legislation towards the Jews
Ya-shih Liu, Indiana University, Bloomington(yasliu@indiana.edu)
"A Regnal Genealogy in Trouble: The Trojan Myth as a Traumatic National Historiography in Late Medieval England"
Rebekah Long, Duke University (raw9@duke.edu)
"Apocalypse and Memory in Pearl"
Interests: Apocalypse iconography, scriptural paraphrase, Shakespearean
drama and gender; 19th and 20th century forms of medievalism, especially
the legacy of J.R.R. Tolkien; visual culture and film theory; ordinary
language philosophy
Nicole Lopez-Jantzen, Fordham University (
)
"Between the Roman Empire and the Middle Ages: The Struggle for Ravenna in the Eighth Century"
Interests: Lombard and Carolingian Italy, and material culture
Ryan McDermott, University of Virginia (mcdermott@virginia.edu)
"The Invention of Goodness: Literary Ethics and Tropological Sense, c. 1350-1523 "
Interests: William Langland, the Pearl-Poet, religious drama, John Wyclif, John Skelton, history of exegesis, medieval and late modern ethics, theories of invention, phenomenology, metaphysics of history
Thomas Meacham, Graduate Center, City University of New York
(tmeacham@nyc.rr.com)
"Thomas Chaundler and the Performance of Patronage, Death, and Epistolary Practices in Late Medieval England"
Cathryn Meyer, Univ. of Texas at Austin
(cmeyer@mail.utexas.edu)
"Producing the Middle English Corpus: Confession and Medieval Bodies"
Interests: 14th and 15th century Middle English literature, medieval
theology and law, Latin and vernacular confessional manuals, gender
and body theory, and subjectivity
Laura Saetveit Miles, Yale University (
)
"Scenes of Reading, Devotion, and Vision: The Annunciation in Middle English Literature"
Tara Bookataub Montague, Univ. of Oregon (tbookata@darkwing.uoregon.edu)
"Narrating Battle in the Early Medieval Germanic Tradition"
Elizabeth Moss, University of Toronto (
)
"Framing the Holy: Rims, Edges, and Covers on Byzantine Icons"
Interests: Byzantine icons, late Byzantine art, ornament, metalwork
Lesley Morden, Simon Fraser University
(lamorden@sfu.ca)
"How much damage did the Vikings do? An analysis of the material
impact of raids by Northmen on Northern France in the ninth century" (supervisor: Paul E. Dutton)
Kevin Mummey , University of Minnesota (mumme013@umn.edu)
"In the Middle of the Sea, on the Edge of the Crown: Women, Gender, and Social Hierarchy in the Notarial Protocals of Palma, ca. 1300-1500."
Interests: Iberia, Crown of Aragon, Western Mediterranean, Balearic, Gender, Widows, Slavery, Prostitution, Jewish studies, music.
Hari Nair, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
(gn_hari_1999@yahoo.com)
"Against empire: The discourse of Natural Law and the autonomy of the American Indians"
Jennifer E. Naumann, Florida State University (jennaumann@gmail.com)
"Playing the Game of Art: Constructing Identity in Late Medieval France"
Derek Neal, McGill University (derekneal@canada.com)
"Masculinity in Late Medieval England: Self, Body, and Society,
1350-1530"
Interests: Gender and psycholinguistic theory in historical analysis;
late medieval social and demographic history; English legal history;
medieval religious culture; history of sexuality; psychoanalytic
theory; Middle English romance
Kathleen Neal, Monash University, Australia ( kbneal1@gmail.com)
"Eleanor of Provence: Letter writing and English government"
Interests: Literacy, rhetoric, communication, English legal & administrative practice, the role of queens, computing in the humanities
Juliet O'Brien, Princeton University
(obrien@princeton.edu)
"Trobar Cor: Erotics and Poetics in the Romance of Flamenca"
Interests: 12th-13th century Old French and Occitan lyric poetry and romance
Dana M. Oswald, Ohio State Univ. (oswald.29@osu.edu)
"Indecent Bodies: Gender and the Monstrous in Medieval Literature"
Mark O'Tool, Univ. of California at
Santa Barbara (motool@umail.ucsb.edu)
"Caring for the Blind in Medieval Paris: Life at the Quinze-Vingts,
1250-1500."
Interests: disability, medieval hospitals, poverty and charity,
lay spirituality, urban development (esp. Paris), royal patronage,
medieval drama, communal identity
Heather Parker, University of Guelph (
)
"The Formation of Marriage in Scotland, 1350-1600"
Interests: Legal history, gender, history of the family, marriage contracts, divorce, Scottish reformation
Paul J. Patterson, University of Notre
Dame, (patterson.30@nd.edu)
"A Mirror to Devout People: An Edition with Commentary"
Interests: Old and Middle English, book history, paleography, textual
criticism, and lay religious literary practices
Rebekah Perry, University of Pittsburgh (
)
"Public Piety, Invented Tradition, and Civic Identity in the Art and Architecture of Late Medieval Tivoli"
Noelle Phillips, University of British Columbia, (noellep@interchange.ubc.ca)
"The Families and Fictions of Middle English: Genre, Historicity, and Why the Manuscript Matters"
Interests: Historiography, late Middle English literature (especially Piers PLowman), manuscript production, thing theory
Genevieve Pigeon, Universite du Quebec, Montreal,
Departement des Sciences religieuses, "Les enjeux sociaux et politiques de la recuperation des motifs arthuriens par Henri II Plantagenet"
Interests: politics, religion, literature, oral traditions, written novels, England, monarchy, reception threory (Jauss), XIIth century
Dana Polanichka, University of California, Los Angeles (danamp@ucla.edu)
"Sacred Space in Carolingian Europe"
Interests: sacred space, liturgical performance, religious aesthetics and devotion, saints' cults and relics, iconography, historiography
Kevin R Poole, Ohio State University
(poole.78@osu.edu)
"Visualizing the Apocalypse: Image and Narration in the Morgan Beatus
Comentario al Apocalipsis, ms. 644, from 926 AD." (supervisor: Vicente
Cantarino)
Interests: religious and monastic literature and culture, the medieval
short story, Christian-Muslim relations in Medieval Spain, visual
imagery of the Middle Ages, and historical linguistics of the Romance
languages
Camarin M. Porter, University of Wisconsin at Madison
(cmporter@wisc.edu)
"De subiecto theologiae:
Gerardus Odonis, Peter Auriol, and The Nature of Theological Knowledge
and Theological Authority in the Early Fourteenth-Century."
Interests: Fourteenth-century theology, philosophy, and ethics, specifically related to the love of God, love of self, and the object of the acts of knowing and loving; the Franciscan Order; voluntary poverty during the late middle ages.
Christopher Roman, University of Alabama (christopher.roman@ua.edu)
"The Spiritual Family: Domestic Metaphors of Julian of Norwich and
Margery Kempe"
Interests: mysticism, women writers, gender studies
Mary Rambaran-Olm, University of Glasgow
(maryrr@btinternet.com)
"A Critical Edition of the Exeter Book's Decent into Hell"
Interests: Old English prose and poetry, Middle English, palaeography, humanities computing,
scriptural exegesis, mediaeval military history, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S.Lewis
Tina-Marie Ranalli (tranalli@sas.upenn.edu)
"Gender and Power in Medieval French Myths of Empire: Historicizing Manuscript BN fr. 60"
Interests: Medieval French and German literature; codes for gender roles; representations of sex, violence, and the body
Anna Russakoff, New York Univ. (adr207@nyu.edu)
"Imaging the Miraculous: Les Miracles de Notre-Dame, Paris BnF n.acq.fr.
24541"
Interests: illuminated manuscripts (especially French, 13th and
14th centuries), iconography, image-text relationships, royal patronage,
female patronage
Mike Ryan, University of Minnesota (ryan0223@umn.edu)
"That the Truth May Be Known: Prophesy & Society in the Late Medieval
Crown of Aragon"
Interests: Medieval Iberian social & cultural History
Johanna G. Seasonwein, Columbia Univ.
"The Nursing Queen: Virgo Lactans Sculptures in Late Medieval
France"
John T. Sebastian, Cornell Univ. (jts29@cornell.edu)
"A Religion of Their Own: Pedagogy, Piety, and Performance in Late-
Medieval East Anglia"
Interests: Middle English literature (especially religious prose
and drama), Franciscan spirituality, mysticism, manuscript reception
and transmission, medieval music
Misty Schieberle, University of Notre Dame
(mschiebe@nd.edu)
"Feminized Counsel: Representations of Women and Advice to Princes in Late Medieval England"
Catherine Shepherd, Univ. of Bristol
(cs0024@bristol.ac.uk)
"The precincts of tenth century English monastic houses influenced by St. Oswald"
Eric Shuler, Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame(eshuler@nd.edu)
"Almsgiving and the Formation of Christian Societies, A.D. 700-1025."
Interests: intersections of religious, social and cultural history in the early Middle Ages, almsgiving, and Christianization.
Holly R. Silvers, Indiana University
(hsilvers@indiana.edu)
"The Poitevin Low Road: Profanity in the Ecclesiastical Sculpture of
Romanesque Saintonge."
Interests: Medieval sexuality and its iconography, Romanesque
sculpture and architecture of the Saintonge, pilgrimage culture,
visual syntax, historiography.
Jennifer A. T. Smith, University of California, Los Angeles (jatsmith@ucla.edu)
"Reginald Pecock and Vernacular Pedagogy in Pre-Reformation England"
Interests: Middle English Literature, Old English Literature, Rhetoric, Metrics, Paleography, Orthodoxy and Heresy.
Jennifer Speed, Fordham Univ. (jenspeed1972@yahoo.com)
"Politics of Emotion in 13th Century Iberia
Interests: Middle English Literature, Old English Literature, Rhetoric, Metrics, Paleography, Orthodoxy and Heresy.
Kathryn Kelsey Staples, University
of Minnesota, Twin Cities (kelseykj@umn.edu)
"Daughters of London: Inheritance Practice in the Late Middle Ages"
Karl Steel, Columbia University (kts15@columbia.edu)
"Eating and Not Eating Meat in the Middle Ages."
Interests: Middle English and Old and Middle French Literature,
Scriptural Exegesis, Medieval Natural History, History of Anti-Semitism
Jill Stevenson, Graduate Center, CUNY
(jc_stevenson@hotmail.com)
"Performance and Visual Piety in Medieval York"
Interests: Performance; lay devotion; material and visual culture
Charles A. Stewart, Indiana University
(stewartc@indiana.edu)
"Domes of Heaven: The Domed Basilicas of Cyprus"
Interests:Byzantine architecture and decoration, Islamic-byzantine
relations, Liturgical symbolism, Iconoclasm, Byzantine historiography
Myra Struckmeyer, Univ. of North Carolina (struckme@email.unc.edu)
"The Female Hospitallers in the High Middle Ages"
Interests: Military orders, crusades, monasticism, history of women,
and gender studies
Margaret Swezey, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (mfswezey@email.unc.edu)
"The Making of Marriage in Middle English Romances"
Christopher Swift, Graduate Center, City University of New York (CSwift@gc.cuny.edu)
"Theatres of Absence: Sevilla, 1248-1550"
Interests: Iberian religion and performance, (post)colonial studies, sacred space, kinesthetic memory.
Anke Timmermann, Cambridge University
(anke@gatesscholar.org)
"The Verses upon the Elixir: a Middle English Alchemical Poem"
Interests: history of alchemy, related history of medicine; medieval methods of annotation; production, circulation and reception of scientific writings
Susan Valentine, New York University
(valentine@nyu.edu)
"'Because she hath loved much': Mary Magdalene and Religious Reform, 1000-1215"
Interests: Gender and sexuality, sanctity and gender, hagiography, monasticism, the culture of devotion
James Wade, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge (jpw49@cam.ac.uk)
"Fairies in Medieval Romance"
Interests: Medieval France and England; romance; cultural and literary theory;
historiography; early printed romances; English and Scottish ballads; Shakespeare; Spenser; 19th and 20th century medievalism
Alison Tara Walker, UCLA
"Politics and Orthodoxy in the Reign of Henry V"
Interests: The Lancastrians, 15th Century, Middle English, Paleography
Joshua A. Westgard, Univ. of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill (westgard@email.unc.edu)
"The Dissemination and Reception of the Historia ecclesiastica gentis
Anglorum of the Venerable Bede in Germany, c. 731-1500"
Interests: Anglo-Saxon & Anglo-Norman England, manuscript studies,
medieval historical writing
Corinne Wieben, University of California, Santa Barbara (
)
"A Kind of Marriage: Marriage in Dispute in Medieval Lucca (1341-1361)"
Interests: Marriage disputes in 14th-century Tuscany; episcopal court procedure; civil case procedure; social history of legal proceedings; legal, religious, and social understandings of marriage; gender, law, and the courts
Rebecca A. Wilcox, University of Texas at Austin
(rwilcox@mail.utexas.edu)
"Cultures of Conquest: Romancing the East in Medieval England and France"
Valerie M. Wilhite, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
(vwilhite@uiuc.edu)
"The Transformative Power of Words: The Role of Writing in the Negation
of the Self in Mysticism and Finâ Amor"
Interests: Old French, Occitan, Spanish, Italian courtly and mystical
literatures; medieval and modern literary and linguistic theories
Elena Woodacre , Bath Spa University, UK
(e.woodacre@bathspa.ac.uk)
"Gender, Politics and Powe: the Queens Regnant of Navarrein the Late Medieval Era (1270-1512)"
Interests: Queenship, king consorts, queens regnant (particularly in Navarre and the Kingdom of Jerusalem), medieval women, Crusades, monarchy, royal (and elite) succession and inheritance.
Edna Ruth Yahil, Univ. of California, Los Angeles
(eyahil@stanfordalumni.org)
"Outside the Walls of Paris: Law, Society, and Culture in France,
1400-1550"
Interests: Medieval and Early Modern French history; legal history;
guilds and labor; cultural and social history
Completed Dissertations: 1995-present
Frances A. Altvater, Boston University (altvater@bu.edu)
"In Fonte Renatus. The Iconography and Context of Twelfth-Century
baptismal Fonts in England"
Ph.D. received April, 2003.
Michael Alan Anderson, University of Chicago
"Music for St. John the Baptist and St. Anne in the Late Middle Ages"
Ph.D. received Spring 2008.
Jane Beal, Univ. of California (jbeal@ucdavis.edu).
"John Trevisa and the English Polychronicon: Authority and Vernacular Translation in Late-Medieval England"
Interests: Middle English prose and poetry, the Pearl-Poet, the Bible in the Middle Ages
Ph.D. received June 2002.
Thomas R. Besch, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
(besch.thomas@gmail.com)
"La masculinité dans la Chanson de Roland: une étude de l'amitie en tant que genre sexue"
Ph.D. received November 2005.
Carrie E. Benes, Univ. of California, Los Angeles (benes@ncf.edu)
"Roman Foundations: Constructing Identity in Late Medieval Italy."
Ph.D. received 2004.
Sandra Bialystok, University of Toronto
(sandra@bialy.ca)
"The cuckold, his wife and her lover: A study of infidelity in the
Decameron, the Libro de buen amor and the Cent Nouvelles
Nouvelles"
Ph.D. received 2008.
Barbara Bordalejo, New York University (bb268@nyu.edu)
"The Phylogeny of the Order in the Canterbury Tales"
Ph.D. received May 2003.
Barbara Bordalejo, De Montfort University (bbordalejo@dmu.ac.uk)
"The Manuscript Source of Caxton's Second Edition of the Canterbury Tales and Its Place in the Textual Tradition of the Tales"
Ph.D. received July 2003.
Jennifer Borland, Stanford University (jborland@stanford.edu)
"Unstable Women: Transgression and Corporeal Experience in Twelfth-Century Visual Culture" PhD. received 2006
Nancy Bowen, Claremont Graduate Univ. (nebowen@pacbell.net)
""Chaucer and the Harp: Stringed Musical Instruments in The Canterbury Tales"
Ph.D. received 2007.
Interests: Medieval and Renaissance music, music in literature, Old
English poetry, Middle English romance, medieval art, manuscript illumination, and women's studies
Brian R. Carniello, University of California, Santa Barbara (bcarniel@utk.edu)
"The Notaries of Bologna: Family, Profession and Popular Politics in a Thirteenth-Century Italian City-State."
Ph.D. received March 2005.
Interests: Medieval Italy, urban society, notaries, family, popular politics, mendicant rivalry and heresy
Marie Therese Champagne, Louisiana State University (mchampagne@STU.EDU)
"The Relationship between the Papacy and the Jews in Twelfth-Century Rome: Papal Attitudes toward Biblical Judaism and Contemporary European Jewry."
Ph.D. received 2005.
Kimm Curran, Univ. of Glasgow (k.curran@arts.gla.ac.uk)
"Religious Women and Their Communities in Medieval Scotland, 1100-1600" Ph.D received 2006.
David Defries, Ohio State Univ. (djdefries@yahoo.com)
"Constructing the Past in Eleventh-Century Flanders: Hagiography at Saint-Winnoc."
Ph.D. received 2004.
Susan J. Dudash, Univ. of Pittsburgh (sdudash@cc.usu.edu)
"Giving Voice to the People: Rhetoric, History, and Literary Representations of Social Conflict in the Late Middle Ages,"
Ph.D. received April 2003.
Liam Felsen, Univ. of Oregon (lfelsen@darkwing.uorgeon.edu)
"'Disputatio puerorum': Critical Edition and Analysis"
Interests: Medieval Latin language and literature, Anglo-Saxon language and literature, textual editing, medieval education, dialogue literature,
medieval theories of time, redemption theory, theology and literature
Christina M. Fitzgerald, University of California, Los Angeles
(christina.fitzgerald@utoledo.edu)
"The Mystery of Men: Performing Masculinity in the Medieval Drama Cycles of York and Chester"
Ph.D. received 2002.
Interests: Middle English literature, drama, hagiography, romance, gender, manuscripts, transmission and reception, lay literacy, mercantile culture
Constantina Scourtis Gaddis, University of California, Los Angeles
"The Failure of Reconciliation: The Byzantine Experience at the Council of Ferrara-Florence, 1438-39)."
PhD received December 2004.
Interests: Byzantine religious, political, intellectual and cultural history; Byzantium and Latin Europe; the Crusades.
Ronald J. Ganze, University of Oregon (Ronald.Ganze@Valpo.edu)
"Conceptions of the Self in Augustine, Alfred, and Anglo-Saxon England"
Ph.D. received December 2004.
Shannon Gayk, Univ. of Notre Dame (sgayk@indiana.edu)
"'Sensible Signes': Mediating Images in Late Medieval Literature."
Ph.D. received 2005.
Elina Gertsman, Boston University (glazastik@yahoo.com)
"Debeo Saltare: Theology, Performance and Reception of the Late Medieval Dance of Death."
Interests: fifteenth-century northern painting, theology, mysticism, concept of medieval death
Sharon K. Goetz, Univ. of California-Berkeley
"Uses of Portable Histories in the 13th and 14th Centuries"
Ph.D. received 2006.
Interests: Old and Middle English literature, historiography, textual criticism in electronic and codicological contexts.
Melanie Hanan, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU (
)
"Romanesque Casket Reliquaries: Forms, Meanings, and Development"
Interests: hagiography, pilgrimage, metalwork
Elizabeth Harper, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (
)
"Gifts and Economic Exchange in Middle English Religious Writing"
Ph.D. received May 2009.
Patrick Hornbeck, Oxford University
(patrick.hornbeck@chch.ox.ac.uk)
"The Development of Heresy: Doctrinal Change in English 'Lollard' Dissent"
Interests: the genesis and evolution of medieval heretical movements,
especially the Lollards of fourteenth-, fifteenth-, and sixteenth-century
England
John D. Hosler, Univ. of Delaware (dysco7@hotmail.com)
"The Warfare of Henry II, 1149-1189."
Ph.D. received 2005.
Lizabeth Johnson, University of Washington (
)
"Kinship and Violence in Wales, 800-1415"
Ph.D. received March 2008.
Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski, Boston College (djoslynsiem@cdsp.edu)
"The Maccabean Martyrs in Medieval Christianity and Judaism."
Ph.D. received 2005.
Interests: Medieval Jewish-Christian relations, hagiography, supersessionism
Jessica Knauss, Brown University, Dept. of Hispanic Studies
"Alfonsine Legislation and the Cantigas de Santa Maria"
Ph.D. received May 2007.
Interests: Alfonso X, el Sabio (1221-1284), Galician-Portuguese lyric, the roots of Castilian epic, and intercultural relations based on religious or geographical difference
Johanna Kramer, Cornell University (jik4@cornell.edu)
"The Poetics of Materiality in Anglo-Saxon England: Religion and Material Reality in the Aecerbot Charm, Ascension Homilies, and Christ I."
Ph.D. received 2006.
Yvette Kisor, Faculty Fellow, University of California-Davis
(ylkisor@ucdavis.edu)
"The Inner Beowulf: Theories of Structure and Composition of the Poem and their Implications for Modern Readers"
Ph.D. received 2001.
Peter L. Larson, Kenyon College (visiting); (larsonp@kenyon.edu)
"Conflict and Compromise in the Late Medieval Countryside: Lords and Peasants in Durham, 1349-1430"
Ph.D. received, Rutgers University, 2004.
Interests: 13th-17th century England, rural society, social and legal history, the Black Death, revolts and protest, medieval frontiers,
and socio-cultural interactions
Merav Mack, Cambridge University (msmack@mscc.huji.ac.il)
"The Merchant of Genoa. The Crusades, the Genoese, and the Latin East, 1187-1220s"
Ph.D. received June 2003.
Jennifer Marshall, Royal Holloway, Univ. of London (jmarshall1@dmu.ac.uk)
"The Manuscript Tradition of Brunetto Latini's Li Livres dou Tresor and its Italian versions"
Ph.D. received 2002.
Carl Grey Martin, Tufts University (carlgmartin@gmail.com)
"'I Wolde No Were': Violence and Ideology in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"
Ph.D. received 2005.
Wendy Matlock, Ohio State (matlock.5@osu.edu)
"Irreconcilable Differences: Law, Gender, and Judgment in Middle English Debate Poetry"
Ph.D. received 2003.
Interests: Middle English language, literature, and culture
Jonathan M. Newman, University of Toronto,
(jon.newman@utoronto.ca)
"Satire of Counsel, Counsel of Satire: Representing Advisory Relations in Later Medieval Literature"
Ph.D. received 2008.
Janice Racine Norris, Binghamton University (hereswith@earthlink.net)
"Anglo-Saxon Religious Women Who Went to the Continent: A Group Study"
Ph.D. received 2003.
Interests: medieval religious women in England and on the Continent, Kinship Groups and Behaviors, and Convent Life including various
Rules for Nuns and Episcopal Directives for Nuns' Houses
Nicholas Paul, Cambridge University (nlp23@cam.ac.uk)
"Crusade and family memory before 1225."
Ph.D. received 2005.
Janine Larmon Peterson, Indiana University, Bloomington (jpeterson@slc.edu))
"Contested Sanctity: Disputed Saints, Inquisitors, and Communal Identity in Northern Italy, 1250-1400"
Ph.D. received 2006.
Jennifer A. Price, Univ. of Washington
(japrice@u.washington.edu)
"Crusaders and their Vows, 1095-1350"
Donna M. Reimer-Becker, Cardinal Stritch University
(donna.reimer-becker@cuw.edu))
"Queen Elizabeth I: A Woman Transcending Her Gender."
Ph.D. received 2005.
Steven A. Schoenig, S.J., Columbia University (
)
"The Papacy and the Use and Understanding of the Pallium from the Carolingians to the Early Twelfth Century"
Ph.D. received 2009.
Nhora Lucia Serrano, University of Wisconsin-Madison
(nserrano@csulb.edu)
"The Role of the Female Guide in Medieval Portraits of Monarchy: A
Study of Medieval Historiography, translatio studii et imperii and
illuminations in Alfonso X, el Sabio's Cantigas de Santa Maria and
Christine dePizan's Epistre d' Othea."
Ph.D. received 2006.
Interests: Medieval and early modern Spanish, French, and Italian
literatures, illuminated manuscripts, medieval visual culture, Medieval
and Renaissance female figures, notions of Kingship and Queenship,
historiography,mythography and the influence of political treatises in literature.
Keith Sisson, University of Memphis(keithsisson@hotmail.com)
"Giles of Rome's Hierocratic Theory of Universal Papal Monarchy"
Ph.D. received 2008.
Interests: Church and state relationships, political theory and practice, English history, ecclesiology, cultural and intellectual history, and Scholasticism
Larry Swain, University of Illinois-Chicago (theswain@operamail.com)
"Aelfric of Eynsham's Letter to Sigeweard: An Edition, Translation, and Commentary"
Ph.D. received 2008.
Interests: Old English, Anglo-Latin, Old Norse, and Old Irish languages and literatures,
biblical commentary and interpretation in early medieval period, codicology and palaeography
Paola Tartakoff, Columbia University
(pyt2001@columbia.edu)
"Jewish Conversion in the Crown of Aragon, 1291-1391"
Interests: medieval Spain, Jewish-Christian relations, Jewish and Christian mysticism and piety, cultural history, medieval paleography, Mediterranean history
Julie Towell, Wayne State University (julie.towell@wayne.edu)
"The 'Rise and Progress' of Anglo-Saxonism and English National Identity: Old English Literature in the Nineteenth Century"
Ph.D. received 2003.
Renee R. Trilling, Univ. of Notre Dame (trilling.1@nd.edu)
"Poetic Memory: History and Aesthetics in Early Medieval England"
Interests: Old and Middle English Literature, theories of historiography, linguistics and philology, feminist and psychoanalytic theory, Frankfurt
School Marxism
Amy N. Vines, Brown University,(amy.vines@gmail.com)
"A Worldly Occupacioun: English Women's Readership and Patronage of Medieval Secular Literature, 1350-1500"
Siovahn Walker, Stanford University
"From Description to Prescription: Twelfth-Century Medicine for Psychological and Social Health"
Ph.D received 2008.
Renee Ward, Univ. of Alberta (rmward@ualberta.ca)
"Cultural Contexts and Cultural Change: The Werewolf in Classical, Medieval, and Modern Texts"
Ph.D. received 2009.
Interests: shape-shifting/ers, medieval and modern fantasy literature,
medievalisms, medieval women, manuscript studies
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