Churchill, Derek (University of Pittsburgh) [top]

Teaching Areas: Art History; Renaissance Art

Research Areas: Medieval and Renaissance Art; Netherlandish Traditions [publications]

Contact: ddchurch@pitt.edu

Courses Taught: Introduction to Art; Renaissance Art; Northern Renaissance Art

 

Dolan, Marion (University of Pittsburgh) [top]

Teaching Areas: N/A

Research Areas: The Illustrative Tradition of the Astronomical Poem [publications]

Contact: mdolan79@hotmail.com

Courses Taught: N/A

 

Harris, Ann (University of Pittsburgh)

Teaching Areas: Renaissance

Research: Italian, French and English Art--17th century [publications]

Contact: ash@pitt.edu

Courses Taught: Italian Renaissance Painting and Sculpture; Rococo to Revolution; Painting in Flanders and Holland in the 17th c.; Approaches to Art History: Carvaggio; The Literary Sources of Italian 17th c. Art; Iconographical Themes in Italian 17th c. art

 

Hearn, Fil (University of Pittsburgh) [top]

Teaching Areas: History of Architecture

Research: Medieval Architecture [publications]

Contact: fih@pitt.edu

Courses Taught: Introduction to Architecture; Architectural Studies Portfolio

Stones, Alison (University of Pittsburgh) [top]

Teaching Areas: Medieval Art and Architecture

Research Areas: Iconography, Hagiography, Text and Picture Relationships [publications]

Contact: mastones@hotmail.com

Courses Taught: Images of Medieval Art and Architecture, Intro to Medieval Art and Architecture, Medieval Patrons, Medieval Cities, Medieval Iconography: What is the Grail?, Gothic Art in Pittsburgh

Toker, Franklin (University of Pittsburgh) [top]

Teaching Areas: Medieval Architecture

Research Areas: Urban Architecture [publications]

Contact: ftoker@pitt.edu

Courses Taught:Urban History, History of Medieval and American Architecture

Wilkins, David (University of Pittsburgh) [top]

Teaching Areas: Late Medieval, Early Renaissance

Research Areas: Nanni di Banco, Andrea Pisano, Portrait Bust in Renaissance Venice [publications]

Contact: dgw2@pitt.edu

Courses Taught: Art of Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Italy

Williams, John (University of Pittsburgh) [top]

Teaching Areas: manuscript illumination, Spanish Romanesque art and architecture, Islamic Art

Research Areas: Medieval Bible, Leon [publications]

Contact: jww23@pitt.edu

Courses Taught: Spanish Romanesque Art and Archicecture

Arner, Lynn (University of Pittsburgh)

Teaching Areas: Medieval Literature; Arthurian Romance; Women in Literature

Research Areas: Urban Literacy; English Conquest of British Isles; Feminist Theory; Production of Consent [publications]

Contact: arnerlp+@pitt.edu

Courses Taught: Middle English Literature; The Medieval Courts of Arthur and Guenevere; Women and Medieval Literature

 

Beranek, Bernard (Duquesne University) [top]

Teaching Areas: Medieval and Renaissance English Language and Literature

Research Areas:

Contact: beranek@duq.edu

Courses Taught: Introduction to Old English Language and Literature, Arthurian Literature, Chaucer, Piers Plowman, Renaissance Humanism, Spenser, MIlton, Faust Legend: Ancient and Modern

Brannen, Anne (Duquesne University) [top]

Teaching Areas: Medieval Studies, Irish Renaissance

Research Areas: Archival Teaching Methods, Irish Literature [publications]

Contact: brannen@duq.edu

Courses Taught: Paleography&Codicology, Chaucer, Medieval Drama, Irish Renaissance, Medievel Literature, Medieval Women Writers

Breight, Curt (University of Pittsburgh) [top]

Teaching Areas: Renaissance; Shakespeare; film

Research Areas: Renaissance culture; Shakespeare and film [publications]

Contact: rbk7580@aol.com

Courses Taught: Renaissance Culture; Shakespeare on Film

Briscoe, Mary (University of Pittsburgh) [top]

Teaching Areas: Medieval history and culture

Research Areas: Medievalism; Women's Studies[publications]

Contact: mbriscoe@pitt.edu

Courses Taught: The Medieval Imagination

 

Bruckner, Lynne Dickson (Chatham College) [top]

Teaching Areas: Renaissance literature, Women's studies

Research Areas: Gender Studies [publications]

Contact: lbruckner@chatham.edu

Courses Taught: Major British Writers, Eco-Feminist Literature, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Lanyer

 

Burton, Jonathan (West Virginia University) [top]

Teaching Areas: Shakespeare, early modern British literature, post-colonial studies

Research Areas: Shakespeare, representations of Islam in early modern English drama, images of religious conversion [publications]

Contact: jbanita@aol.com

Courses Taught: early modern British literature

 

Butler, Michelle (University of Pittsburgh) [top]

Teaching Areas: Medieval literature, Shakespeare, Arthurian literature.

Research Areas: Medieval drama, direct address, origin of soliloquy [publications]

Contact: mmb5@pitt.edu

Courses Taught: The Arthurian Legend and Cultural Change (undergraduate)

 

Carlos, Claudia (Carnegie Mellon University) [top]

Teaching Areas: Renaissance Rhetoric; Arts of Indirection

Research Areas: Rhetoric in Seventeenth Century France; Bossuet and the Preaching Arts [publications]

Contact: ccarlos@andrew.cmu.edu

Courses Taught: The Rhetoric of Indirection

Chemers, Michael M. (Carnegie Mellon University) [top]

Teaching Areas: World theatre history and theory, dramaturgy

Research Areas: Monstrosity (Classical and Medieval); Jews in medieval drama [publications]

Contact: chemers@andrew.cmu.edu

 

Conner, Pat (West Virginia University) [top]

Teaching Areas: Medieval literature, linguistics

Research Areas: Medieval texts and culture [publications]

Contact: pconner@wvu.edu

Courses Taught: Medieval English Literature, British Literature, Linguistics, Research Methods, Humanities Computing

Creasman, Allyson (Department of History) [top]

Teaching Areas: Early Modern European History

Research Areas: Early Modern Popular Culture; German Reformation

Contact: acreasman@cmu.edu

Courses Taught: Early Modern European History

Curran, Kevin (Department of English) [top]

Teaching Areas: Early Modern Literature; Shakespeare

Research Areas: Performance Culture, 1500-1660; Ceremony and Social Ritual; Textual Studies [publications]

Contact: kcurran@staff.washjeff.edu

Farina, Lara (West Virginia University) [top]

Teaching Areas: Middle English literature, history of sexuality, gender studies

Research Areas: 10-13th century devotional practice, history of reading, materialist approaches to literature [publications]

Contact: Lara.Farina@mail.wvu.edu

Courses Taught: Textual Communities: Reading and Reception before Modernity (graduate seminar)

Favorini, Buck (University of Pittsburgh) [top]

Teaching Areas: Shakespeare, Theater Arts

Research Areas: Theater Arts [publications]

Contact: bucfav@pitt.edu

Courses Taught: Shakespeare; Tragic and Comic Theory; Documentary Theater; Theater and Memory

George, Kathleen (University of Pittsburgh) [top]

Teaching Areas: Playwriting, Theater Arts, Shakespeare

Research Areas: Drama, Playwriting [publications]

Contact: georgeke@pitt.edu

Courses Taught: Playwriting; Contemporary Drama; Shakespeare

Keiser, George (Kansas State University, Emeritus) [top]

Reseach Areas: Middle English literature, medieval manuscripts, medieval science and information [publications]

Contact: keiser.george@gmail.com

Courses Taught: Chaucer, Malory and the Middle English Romance, Arthurian Literature, Images of Women in the Middle Ages, Medieval Devotional Literature, Medieval English Literature,  Medieval Literature:  The Exotic and the Marvelous, The Medieval Book

King, Sigrid (Carlow College) [top]

Teaching Areas: Medievel and Early Modern Literature, Classical foundations

Reseach Areas: Early Modern literature and culture [publications]

Contact: sking@carlow.edu

Courses Taught: Introduction to Literature, Visions of Social Change, Classical Background of English Literature, British Literature to the 19th century

Knapp, James (University of Pittsburgh) [top]

Teaching Areas: Modernism, Irish Literature, Medievalism

Reseach Areas: Literary Modernism [publications]

Contact: jkna@pitt.edu

Courses Taught: Irish Literature, The Modernist Tradition, The Medieval Imagination (undergraduate); Irish Literary Renaissance, History and Representation, The Avant-garde, Modern/Post-Modern (graduate)

Knapp, Peggy A. (Carnegie Mellon University) [top]

Teaching Areas: Medieval literature, renaissance literature, literary theory

Reseach Areas: Chaucer, hermeneutics, aesthetics [publications]

Contact: pk07@andrew.cmu.edu

Courses Taught: Chaucer (graduate, undergraduate); Text, Criticism, Theory: The Case of Shakespeare (graduate)

Kurland, Stuart (Duquesne University ) [top]

Teaching Areas: English Renaissance Drama and Literature

Reseach Areas: Shakespeare [publications]

Contact: kurland@duq.edu

Courses Taught: Shakespeare, Sixteenth Century Literature, English Renaissance Drama, Shakespeare and Gender, Disaster in Literature

Labriola, Albert C. (Duquesne University) [top]

Teaching Areas: 17th century literature, Milton, Shakespeare

Research Areas: John Milton, theology and literature, film and literature [publications]

Contact: labriola@duq.edu

Courses Taught: Shakespeare: Text and Film (undergraduate)

 

Latta, Kimberly (University of Pittsburgh) [top]

Teaching Areas: 17th and 18th century British literature, development of the novel, gender studies

Research Areas: Milton, Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth-Century Literature, Protestantism, Economics, and Gender [publications]

Contact: ksl1@pitt.edu

Courses Taught: Enlightenment to Revolution, Women and the Novel, The Development of the Novel

Novy, Marianne (University of Pittsburgh) [top]

Teaching Areas: Renaissance, Shakespeare, Gender

Research Areas: Women and Literature, Women and Shakespeare [publications]

Contact: mnovy@pitt.edu

Courses Taught: Introduction to Shakespeare, Women and Shakespeare, Renaissance England, Renaissance Discourses of Gender, Literature of Adoption, Shakespeare

Pitard, Derrick (Slippery Rock University) [top]

Teaching Areas: Chaucer and Medieval literature, Shakespeare and Renaissance literature, history of the language

Research Areas: Chaucer; lay religious culture; manuscript studies, Lollard studies [publications]

Contact: admin@lollardsociety.org

http://lollardsociety.org/

 

Robertson, Kellie (University of Pittsburgh) [top]

Teaching Areas: Medieval English literature and culture, Chaucer, women's studies

Research Areas: Labor and literary production in the Middle Ages, social and cultural histories of rebellion, Chaucer's poetics [publications]

Contact: krobert@pitt.edu

Courses Taught: The Medieval Imagination, Chaucer

 

Sanford, Rhonda Lemke (Fairmont State, WV) [top]

Teaching Areas: Early Modern English Literature and Visual Culture

Research Areas: Maps and Literature in Early Modern England; Illegitimacy [publications]

Contact: rsanford@labyrinth.net

Courses Taught: Shakespeare, Early British literature, World Literature

Twyning, John (University of Pittsburgh) [top]

Teaching Areas: Early Modern Drama

Research Areas: Early Modern Drama, Social and Literary History of London [publications]

Contact: twyning@pitt.edu

Courses Taught:Early Modern Drama, Shakespeare, Popular Culture, Social and Literary History of London

Waldron, Jennifer (University of Pittsburgh) [top]

Teaching Areas: Early Modern Literature; Protestant Reformation

Research Areas: Reformation Studies; Protestant Theories of the Body [publications]

Contact: jwaldron@pitt.edu

Courses Taught: Literature of the English Renaissance

 

West, Michael (University of Pittsburgh) [top]

Teaching Areas: Shakespeare, Renaissance in England, European medieval and Renaissance literature

Research Areas: Christian heroism and the classical tradition; mock-heroic, satire and comedy; lyric poetry [publications]

Contact: mikewest@pitt.edu

Courses Taught: Advanced Honors Shakespeare

 

Witmore, Michael (Carnegie Mellon University) [top]

Teaching Areas: Shakespeare, history of rhetoric and rhetorical theory, early modern European intellectual history

Research Areas: Renaissance children, dramatic performances by children, cultural receptions and interpretations of accidental events, Shakespeare and theories of genre [publications]

Contact: mwitmore@andrew.cmu.edu

Courses Taught: X-Files of the 17th century, The Reformation and its Discontents (graduate)

 

Creasman, Alysson (Carnegie Mellon University) [top]

Teaching Areas: Early Modern European History

Research Areas: Early Modern Popular Culture; German Reformation [publications]

Contact: acreasman@cmu.edu

Courses Taught: Early Modern European History

Erlen, Jonathon (University of Pittsburgh) [top]

Teaching Areas: History of Medicine, History, Public Health

Research Areas: 17th century English remedies for the general English public, Nicholas Culpepper; also maintains and updates a database listing pre-1800 dissertations on the history of medicine.

Contact: erlen+@pitt.edu

Galpern, Neal (University of Pittsburgh) [top]

Teaching Areas: Renaissance History

Research Areas: Medieval/Renaissance Religious Practices [publications]

Contact: riocoa@pitt.edu

Courses Taught: Western Civilization; Introduction to the Renaissance; Renaissance and Reformation Europe; The West and the World

Greenberg, Janelle (University of Pittsburgh) [top]

Teaching Areas: History of Law, History of Family

Research Areas: Early Modern Law and Government [publications]

Contact: janelleg@pitt.edu

Courses Taught: Medieval Law and Government; English Origins of American Law; History of the European Family; Women and the Law; From Communities to Kingdoms: The Growth of the European State c. 800 to c. 1800

Hughes, J. Patrick, Ph.D (Command Historian, 99th
Regional Readiness Command) [top]

Research Areas: A historian for the Federal Government working in the Pittsburgh Area with a current project involving Medieval and Renaissance Military History

Contact: Patrick.Hughes@usarc-emh2.army.mil

 

Nichols, John (Slippery Rock University) [top]

Teaching Areas: History of Medieval Europe, Medieval Religious, Medieval Women

Research Areas: Cistercian nuns, women in medieval sport, early european views of southeast asia [publications]

Contact: john.nichols@sru.edu

Courses Taught: Seminar in Medieval Europe (Graduate elective)

 

Palmieri, Paolo (University of Pittsburgh) [top]

Teaching Areas: Renaissance Science and Philosophy

Research Areas: Galileo, Euclid [publications]

Contact: pap7@pitt.edu

Courses Taught: Man and the Cosmos in the European Renaissance (undergraduate), Reading the Principia (graduate)

Parsons, Jotham (Duquesne University) [top]

Teaching Areas: Crime and Criminality, Medieval European History, Early Modern European History, Early Modern French History

Reseach Areas: Political and Insitutional History, History of Money and Commerce [publications]

Contact: parsonsj@duq.edu

http://www-home.cr.duq.edu/~parsonsj/

 

Scott, Jonathan (University of Pittsburgh) [top]

Teaching Areas: Britian, Early Modern-Enlightenment

Research Areas: Seventeenth-Century political turmoil [publications]

Contact: jos15@pitt.edu

Courses Taught: Stuart England, Political Thought from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, Republican Writing of the English Revolution, Anglo-Dutch Miracle 1500-1800

Staples, Kate Kelsey (West Virginia University) [top]

Teaching Areas: Medieval Europe, women’s, gender, and family history, British history, western civilization, world history

Research Areas: social and cultural history of medieval and early modern Europe; women’s, gender, and family history; medieval Europe and the wider world; medieval recreational activities and their role in the formations of identity and community; crafts and professions in the Middle Ages [publications]

Contact: Kate.Staples@mail.wvu.edu

Courses Taught: Introduction to Medieval Europe, Western Civilization, 15th- and 16th-Century England, Medieval Seminar (graduate), Women in Medieval Europe, The World and the West, 1400-1900, British History.

Strobel, Jennifer (Independent Scholar) [top]

Research Areas: Medieval and Renaissance cooking and culture; currently translating "Eenen seer sehoonen ende excellenten Cookoeck" by Carolus Battus into English

Contact: jstrobel@psc.edu

Venarde, Bruce (University of Pittsburgh) [top]

Teaching Areas: Medieval history, Medieval culture, gender history

Research Areas: gender, Latin culture, monasticism [publications]

Contact: bvenarde@pitt.edu

Courses Taught: Abelard and Heloise in Medieval History and Modern Memory

Franklin, Don (University of Pittsburgh) [top]

Teaching Areas: Bach Studies: source criticism, performance practice and musico-theological issues; notational and temporal procedures in 17th-and18th-century music

Research Areas: Bach studies, 17th-and18th-century music [publications]

Contact: dof@pitt.edu

Courses Taught: Baroque Passion and Oratorio; Mozart-DaPonte Operas; 'Notation in Time' Josquin to Reich; Concerto, Fugue and Dance in the Music of J.S. Bach; Collegium Musicum

 

Lewis, Mary (University of Pittsburgh) [top]

Teaching Areas: Italian Renaissance Music, Music Printing and Publishing, Music in Context, Women and Music, Medieval Music

Research Areas: Antonio Gardano, Music Printing and Publishing, Early Western Plainchant, Source Studies [publications]

Contact: lsm@pitt.edu

Courses Taught: Introduction to Historical Musicology, Music in Medieval Institutions, Secular Music of the Renaissance, Women and Music in Cross-Cultural Perspective, Music and Institutions in Sixteenth-Century Venice, Mode in Theory and Practice in the Middle Ages, The Multi-Movement Madrigal in the Mid-Sixteenth-Century

Allen, James (University of Pittsburgh)

Teaching Areas: Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy

Research Areas: Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy; Stoicism [publications]

Contact: jvallen@pitt.edu

Courses Taught: Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy

 

Bates, Jennifer (Duquesne University) [top]

Teaching Areas: German Idealism, Continental Philosophy, Philosophy and Literature, French Feminism

Research Areas: Hegel, Shakespeare, German Idealism, Theories of Imagination [publications]

Contact: batesj@duq.edu

Courses Taught: Hegel and Shakespeare

 

Bonin, Thérèse (Duquesne University) [top]

Teaching Areas: Medieval philosophy, Islamic philosophy

Research Areas: Aristotelian commentaries; the influence of Islamic Neoplatonism on Latin Aristotelianism; physics; problems about individuation and the soul; Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas, and their relation to each other. [publications]

Contact: bonin@duq.edu

Courses Taught: Medieval Philosophy, Elements of Thomistic Thought, Islamic Philosophy, St. Thomas Aquinas -- God & Being, St. Thomas Aquinas -- The Soul

 

Harrington, Michael (Duquesne University) [top]

Teaching Areas: Medieval Philosophy; Neoplatonism; Environmental Philosophy

Research Areas: Medieval Philosophy and Neoplatonism, especially Dionysius the Areopagite; Medieval theories of Place and Space [publications]

Contact: harringtonm@duq.edu

Courses Taught: The Greek Middle Ages; Rethinking Place; Late Medieval Neoplatonism; Dionysius and Augustine

 

Lennox, James (University of Pittsburgh) [top]

Teaching Areas: History of Science, Darwin, Aristotle, Newton

Research Areas: History of Biological Sciences [publications]

Contact: jglennox@pitt.edu

Courses Taught: Philosophy of Biology, Darwin, Ancient Philosophy, Aristotle

Machamer, Peter (University of Pittsburgh) [top]

Teaching Areas: History and Philosophy of Science

Research Areas: Galileo, Controversy and Philosophy of Sciences [publications]

Contact: pkmach@pitt.edu

Courses Taught: Early Modern Philosophy, Galileo, Cognitive Science

Massey, Gerald J. (University of Pittsburgh) [top]

Teaching Areas: medieval, contemprorary and zoological philosophy

Research Areas: thought experiments, limits and progress of science [publications]

Contact: gmas@pitt.edu

Courses Taught: Philosophy and Animals, Zoological Philosophy, History of Modern Philosophy, Topics in Contemporary Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy

Moss, Jessica (University of Pittsburgh) [top]

Teaching Areas: N/A

Research Areas: Ancient Philosophy, Moral psychology in Plato and Aristotle

Contact: jdm39@pitt.edu

Courses Taught: N/A

Selcer, Daniel (Duquesne University) [top]

Teaching Areas: Early Modern Philosophy; Poststructuralism

Research Areas: Libraries and encyclopedias as philosophical figures; allegory in early modern philosophical texts; reception of continental rationalism in German Idealism; Deleuze and early modern philosophy [publications]

Contact: selcerd@duq.edu

Courses Taught: Early Modern Philosophy; Spinoza's Ethics; Postmodern Readings/ Early Modern Texts

 

Edwards, Tony (University of Pittsburgh) [top]

Teaching Areas: Philosophy and religion

Research Areas: Religion; ethics; philosophy [publications]

Contact: tedwards@pitt.edu

Courses Taught: Wisdom; Philosophy of Religion; Religion and Rationality; Paul; Ethics in Christian Tradition and Classics of Christian Thought (undergraduate). Teaching Religious Studies; Metaphor; Hermeneutics and Historicism; Evidence and Argument in the Human Sciences (graduate).

Goldstein, Bernard R. (Univ. of Pittsburgh, Emeritus) [top]

Research Areas: Medieval and renaissance astronomy in Hebrew, Arabic, and Latin [publications]

Contact: brg@pitt.edu

Shear, Adam (University of Pittsburgh) [top]

Teaching Areas: Jewish history, history of the book, methodology of the history of religion

Research Areas: Reception of Medieval Jewish thought in Early Modern Europe, impact of print on Early Modern Jewish culture, Jewish identity in Medieval and Early Modern Europe [publications]

Contact: ashear@pitt.edu

Courses Taught: Jewish-Christian Relations

http://www.pitt.edu/~relgst/faculty_as.html

 

Birnbaum, David (University of Pittsburgh)

Teaching Areas: Russian Fairy Tales; Literature of Medieval Russia

Research Areas: Computer-based texutal analysis of Medieval Slavic Manuscripts [publications]

Contact: djbpitt@pitt.edu

Courses Taught: Russian Fairy Tales; Literature of Medieval Russia

Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Renate (University of Pittsburgh) [top]

Teaching Areas: French literature, especially medieval; medieval religious history

Research Areas: Late medieval allegorical and visionary literature; Christine de Pizan; the classical heritage in medieval literature [publications]

Contact: rbk7580@aol.com

Courses Taught: (Spring 2005) Graduate seminar, Christine de Pizan's poetic, allegorical and political texts and iconography

 

Bower, Robin (Penn State, Beaver) [top]

Teaching Areas: All areas of Medieval and Early Modern Spanish Literature

Research Areas: Medieval Hispanic historiography, hagiography, translation and hermeneutics, vernacular poetics [publications]

Contact: rmb29@psu.edu

Courses Taught: Various areas of Medieval and Early Modern Spanish literature

Looney, Dennis (University of Pittsburgh, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Classics) [top]

Teaching Areas: European literary culture from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance with a focus on Italy.

Research Areas: Renaissance use of Classical Texts [publications]

Contact: looney@pitt.edu

Courses Taught: Renaissance Humanism, Italian Cultural Heritage

 

Miller, Andrew (University of Pittsburgh) [top]

Teaching Areas: Greek and Roman literature, Ancient Greek and Latin

Research Areas: Homeric hymn, Greek lyric [publications]

Contact: amm@pitt.edu

Courses Taught: Masterpieces in Greek and Roman Literature, Intermediate Latin Prose, Beginning Ancient Greek

Possanza, D. Mark (University of Pittsburgh) [top]

Teaching Areas: Roman History and Literature

Research Areas: Latin translation [publications]

Contact: possanza@pitt.edu

Courses Taught: Roman History, Latin Reading: Orators

Reeser, Todd (University of Pittsburgh) [top]

Teaching Areas: Early Modern French Literature and Culture

Research Areas: Early Modern French Literature and Culture [publications]

Contact: reeser@pitt.edu

Courses Taught: Early Modern French Literature and Culture

 

Russell, Daniel (University of Pittsburgh) [top]

Teaching Areas: Renaissance France

Research Areas: Emblems, Renaissance France [publications]

Contact: russell@pitt.edu

Courses Taught: Topics in French Literature