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Crawford, Paul (Department of History and Political Science) [top]

Teaching Areas: Medieval history, the crusades

Research Areas: The history of the crusades and the crusader states; the military-religious orders [publications]

Contact: crawford_p@calu.edu

Courses Taught: Crusades, Renaissance and Reformation, Early Middle Ages, Readings in European History, History of Christianity to 1500, Ancient Greece, High and Late Middle Ages

 

Carnegie Mellon University

 

Chemers, Michael M. (CMU School of Drama) [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

 

Creasman, Allyson (Department of History) [top]

Teaching Areas: Early Modern European History

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

Contact: acreasman@cmu.edu

Courses Taught: Protest, Propaganda & The Public Sphere, 1500-1800; Christendom Divided: The European Reformations, 1450-1650; Law & Disorder in Early Modern Europe; Flesh & Spirit: Early Modern Europe, 1400-1800

 

Johnsen, Mary Catherine (Carnegie Mellon Univ., Special
Collections Librarian and Design Librarian)
[top]

Teaching Areas: specialized lectures for the classes on books in the
rare book collection; history of books and printing, history of childrens' literature, preservation, special collections management

Research Areas: subject analysis for design, complex information
display

Contact: mj0g@andrew.cmu.edu

 

Knapp, Peggy A. (Department of English) [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)

 

Warren, Christopher (Department of English) [top]

Teaching Areas: Milton; Shakespeare; Renaissance Poetry; Global Renaissance; History of the Book 

Research Areas: Literature and Politics, Law and Literature, History of International Law, Literature and Diplomacy [publications]

Contact: cnwarren@andrew.cmu.edu

Courses Taught: Shakespeare: Comedies and Romances; Angels and Diplomats: Renaissance Poetry from Wyatt to Milton; Renaissance Internationalism

 

Chatham College
 

Bruckner, Lynne Dickson (Department of English) [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

 
Duquesne University
 

Bates, Jennifer (Department of Philosophy) [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

 

Beranek, Bernard (Department of English) [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

 

Bonin, Thérèse (Department of Philosophy) [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

 

Brannen, Anne (Department of English) [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

 

Harrington, Michael (Department of Philosophy) [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

 

Kurland, Stuart (Department of English) [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

 

Parsons, Jotham (Department of History) [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/

 

Selcer, Daniel (Department of Philosophy) [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

 

Fairmont State University, West Virginia

 

Sanford, Rhonda Lemke (Department of Language and Literature) [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

 

Penn State University

 

Bower, Robin (Hispanic Literature and Culture) [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

 

University of Pittsburgh
 

Allen, James (Department of Philosophy)

Teaching Areas: Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy

Research Areas: Ancient Greek and Roman Philodophy, Stoics [publications]

Contact: jvallen@pitt.edu

Courses Taught:Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy

 

Birnbaum, David (Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures) [top]

Teaching Areas: Russian Literature; Medieval Russia; Russian Fairy Tales

Research Areas: Medieval Slavic Manuscripts; computer-based textual analyses of Medieval Manuscripts [publications]

Contact: djbpitt@pitt.edu

Courses Taught: Russian Fairy Tales; Literature of Medieval Russia

 

Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Renate (Department of French and Italian) [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

 

Breight, Curt (Department of English) [top]

Teaching Areas: Renaissance; Shakespeare; film

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

Contact: ccb@pitt.edu

Courses Taught: Renaissance Culture; Shakespeare on Film

 

Briscoe, Mary (Department of English, Emerita) [top]

Teaching Areas: Medieval history and culture

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

Contact: mbriscoe@pitt.edu

 

Brumble, David (Department of English) [top]

Teaching Areas: The Bible as literature

Research Areas: American Indians [publications]

Contact: brumble@pitt.edu

Courses Taught: The Bible as Literature

 

Butler, Michelle (Department of English) [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)

 

Churchill, Derek (Department of History of Art and Architecture) [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 (Department of History of Art and Architecture) [top]

Teaching Areas: N/A

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

Contact: mdolan79@hotmail.com

Courses Taught: N/A

 

Edwards, Tony (Department of Religious Studies) [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 adn Argument in the Human Sciences (graduate).

 

Erlen, Jonathon (History and Sociology) [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

 

Favorini, Buck (Theater Arts) [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

 

Franklin, Don (Department of Music) [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

 

Galpern, Neal (Department of History) [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

 

George, Kathleen (Theater Arts) [top]

Teaching Areas: Playwriting, Theater Arts, Shakespeare

Research Areas: Drama, Playwriting [publications]

Contact: georgeke@pitt.edu

Courses Taught: Playwriting; Contemporary Drama; Shakespeare

 

Goldstein, Bernard R. (Religious Studies/History and Philosophy of Science, Emeritus) [top]

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

Contact: brg@pitt.edu

 

Greenberg, Janelle (Department of History) [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

 

Harris, Ann (Department of History of Art and Architecture)

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 (Department of History of Art and Architecture) [top]

Teaching Areas: History of Architecture

Research: Medieval Architecture [publications]

Contact: fih@pitt.edu

Courses Taught: Introduction to Architecture; Architectural Studies Portfolio

 

Knapp, James (Department of English) [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)

 

Lennox, James (History and the Philosophy of Science) [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

 

Lewis, Mary (Department of Music, Emerita) [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

 

Looney, Dennis (French and Italian, 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

 

Machamer, Peter (History and Philosophy of Science) [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. (Department of Philosophy) [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

 

Miller, Andrew (Department of Classics) [top]

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

Research Areas: Homeric hymn, Greek lyric [publications]

Contact: amm2@pitt.edu

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

 

Novy, Marianne (Department of English) [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

 

Palmieri, Paolo (History and Philosophy of Science) [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)

 

Reeser, Todd (Department of French and Italian) [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

 

Possanza, D. Mark (Department of Classics) [top]

Teaching Areas: Roman History and Literature

Research Areas: Latin translation [publications]

Contact: possanza@pitt.edu

Courses Taught: Roman History, Latin Reading: Orators

 

Russell, Daniel (Department of French and Italian, Emeritus) [top]

Teaching Areas: Renaissance France

Research Areas: Emblems, Renaissance France [publications]

Contact: russell@pitt.edu

Courses Taught: Topics in French Literature

 

Shear, Adam (Department of Religious Studies) [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

 

Stones, Alison (History of Art and Architecture) [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 (History of Art and Architecture) [top]

Teaching Areas: Medieval Architecture

Research Areas: Urban Architecture [publications]

Contact: ftoker@pitt.edu

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

 

Twyning, John (Department of English) [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

 

Venarde, Bruce (Department of History) [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

 

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 (Department of English) [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

 

Wilkins, David (History of Art and Architecture) [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 (History of Art and Architecture) [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

 

Slippery Rock University
 

Nichols, John (Department of History) [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)

 

Pitard, Derrick (Department of English) [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: lollard@att.net

http://lollardsociety.org/

 

Washington & Jefferson College
 

 

West Virginia University
 

Burton, Jonathan (Department of English) [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

 

Conner, Pat (Department of English) [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

 

Farina, Lara (Department of English) [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)

 

Staples, Kate Kelsey (Department of History) [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.

 

Independent
 

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

 

 

 

 

Selected Member Publications

Ann Sutherland Harris, Seventeenth-Century Art and Architecture

Bruce Venarde, Robert of Arbrissel: A Medieval Religious Life

Allison Stones, The Pilgrim's Guide to Santiago de Compostela

Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, ed. and trans., Selected Writings of Christine de Pizan

Peggy Knapp, Time-Bound Words: Semantic and Social Economies from Chaucer's England to Shakespeare's

 
 
 
 
 
 
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