Faculty
Allan Atlas, Music
15th century music; Puccini; free-reed instruments
Barbara Bowen, English
Feminism and materialist theory and criticism; early modern period, especially Shakespeare and women writers; postcolonial literature and theory
Monica Calabritto, Comparative Literature
The relationship between literature and medicine from Antiquity to the twentieth century; Renaissance and early modern comparative literature (Italian/English/French); emblem studies; Renaissance Italian epic; medicine and law in early modern Italy.
Marvin Carlson, Theatre; Comparative Literature
Dramatic theory and Western European theatre history and dramatic literature
Clare Carroll, Comparative Literature
Critical theory; comparative epic; early modern colonialization; Humanism; 16th century Italian literature
Raquel Chang-Rodríguez, Hispanic & Luso-Brazilian Literatures
Colonial literary studies with an emphasis on the Andean area
Joseph Dauben, History
History of science, history of mathematics; the Scientific Revolution; sociology of science; intellectual history, 17-18th centuries
Mario DiGangi, English
Early modern period, especially the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries; gender and sexuality in the Renaissance; historicism in Renaissance studies
Martin Elsky, English; Comparative Literature
Early modern literature and history; Elizabethan/Jacobean print culture and the emergence of authorship; Renaissance language theory; 17th-century religious lyric; early modern trans-Atlanticism
William G. Fisher, English
The literature and culture of early modern England; the history of sexuality, especially bisexuality; the history of pornography; debates about nature vs. nurture; early modern ideas about gender; the history of intersexuality; history of transexuality; history of fashion; early modern cultural studies.
Hermann Haller, Comparative Literature
Italian; Romance linguistics
Michael Mallory, Art History
Italian Renaissance art
Richard McCoy, English
Late medieval and early modern periods; 16th- and 17th-century English literature; Skelton, More, Sidney, Shakespeare, Spenser, Milton; Renaissance and Reformation politics, religion, and culture; ritual and iconography; new historicism and cultural poetics.
Tanya Pollard, English
Shakespeare; Renaissance drama; comparative drama; audience response; genre theory; history of medicine, the body, and emotions; classics and reception theory; feminism; cultural studies.
Eloise Quiñones-Keber, Art History
Pre-Colombian and Latin American art; Mesoamerican manuscripts; Aztec art before and after the Spanish conquest; issues surrounding encounter between indigenous and European traditions in the Americas
James M. Saslow, Art History & Theatre
Italian Renaissance and Baroque period, with special interests in generder and sexuality in art and the visual aspects of the theatre
Francesca Canadé Sautman, French
16th-century literature and ethnology; Francophone African literature; gender studies
Laurie Schneider-Adams, Art History
Art of the Italian Renaissance
Lía Schwartz, Hispanic & Luso-Brazilian Literatures;
Comparative Literature
Hispano-Classical relations in early modern Spanish literature, in particular, the work of Francisco de Quevedo (1580-1645)
Dennis Slavin, Music
15th century music; Binchois
Domna C. Stanton, French
17-century French literature and culture; Early-Modern
studies, women writers; critical theory, Feminist theory
Andrew Tomasello, Music
Historical musicology; French Ars Nova
John Van Sickle, Classics; Comparative Literature
Pastoral tradition; Latin poetry, epic-bucolic tradition
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