Affiliated Faculty
Below are the affiliated faculty for the Department of Premodern Studies.
Affiliated Faculty
Patricia Ahearne-Kroll
Specialties
Second Temple Judaism; Religion in Ptolemaic Egypt; Jewish Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
Stephen Ahearne-Kroll
Specialties
Intersection of Greek and Roman culture with Early Christinaity; Development of Early Christianity; New Testament; Greek Religion and Ritual; Religion in Popular Culture; Study of Judaism and Christianity in antiquity; Ancient constructions of gender; Intertextuality and the New Testament
Elaine Auyoung
Specialties
Aesthetic Experience; Education and Learning in the Humanities; Methods of Reading; Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture; Psychological Approaches to the Arts; Literature and Philosophy; Epistemic Justice
Beatrice Bradley
Specialties
Early Modern Literature; Critical Theory; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Histories of Embodiment; Health Humanities
Timothy Brennan
Specialties
Philosophy; Intellectuals and the media; Studies of Imperialism and Imperial Culture; Music of the African diaspora; World Comparative Literature; Intellectual history; Cultural and political theory; The Marxist and phenomenological traditions; The avant-gardes; Theories of colonialism and imperialism; Problems of translation; Popular music
Tony C. Brown
Specialties
Continental and Political Philosophy; Early Modern and Enlightenment Philosophy, Anthropology and Literature; The Animal, the Human and the Non-Human; The State and Statelessness; Aesthetic Theory and the Sublime; Deconstruction; Marxism; Colonialism and Imperialism; Literature and Literary Theory; Political Theory; The New World; The South Pacific; Colonial and Postcolonial Literature and Theory
Cesare Casarino
Specialties
Literary and visual cultures of HIV/AIDS; Modern and contemporary continental philosophy; Nineteenth- and twentieth-century comparative literatures; Literary theory; European cinemas; Theories of gender and sexuality; Queer theory
Sarah C. Chambers
Specialties
Andean region; Colonial Latin American history; Cultural and legal history; Transition between the end of the colonial period and the formation of republican nations; Gender history; Chile
David Aiona Chang
Specialties
Indigenous History; Native Hawaiian History; Indigenous Studies; U.S. West; United States Colonialism; Race and Nationalism; United States, Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century History
Juliette Cherbuliez
Specialties
Ethics and experience of violence; 17th-century French literature and culture, esp. drama and the novel; Dramatic literature, theater history, performance studies; Libertinism and free-thinking; Feminist Theory and Philosophy
Gabriela Currie
Specialties
Global perspectives: historical ethnomusicology (pre- and early-modern); Eurasian music iconography and archaeology; Early ethnographic accounts of musical traditions in Eurasia and Africa; Intersections between musical and scientific thought in the early- and pre-modern eras; Music and culture of the Balkan Penninsula, Western and Central Asia
Andrew Elfenbein
Specialties
British literature, history, and culture, 1700-1900; influence study; queer theory; history of English; cognition and reading; the study of authorship; empirical psychology and literary study
Ana Paula Ferreira
Specialties
Decolonial Studies of Lusophone Literatures and Cultures; "Race" and Racial Mixings in the Portuguese and Spanish-speaking South; Women Writers, Feminisms, and Portuguese Colonialism in Africa (1890-1975)
Katharine Gerbner
Specialties
Atlantic World; Early American History; Religion; Comparative Early Modern History; History of Race; Global Christianity; Religion, Media, and Technology
Alia Goehr
Specialties
Ming- and Qing-period Chinese literature; Chinese Religions; The Novel & World Literature; Theories of Mind and Corporeality; Commentary Traditions
Daniel M. Greenberg
Specialties
East Asian Art; Qing History; Chinese Painting; Chinese Calligraphy; Curatorial Studies
Michelle Hamilton
Specialties
Cultural Contact in Medieval Iberia; Literary Theory and Cultural Studies; Hebrew and Arabic cultures of Europe; The Medieval Mediterranean and its Legacy; Sephardic Traditions; Mediterranean Studies; Religious Studies & Philosophies
Kelley Harness
Specialties
Music and theater in Italian convents; 17th-century Italian opera; Musical intermedi in 16th-century spoken plays; Handel operas; African and Latin American music; 16th- and 17th-century musical patronage; Women and political legitimacy in early 17th-century Florence; Political imagery in Renaissance arts
Kat Hayes
Specialties
Historical archaeology; Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Studies; XR (extended reality) in heritage interpretation; Archaeological ethics and repatriation; Memory, forgetting, history, heritage
Michal Kobialka
Specialties
Eastern European theater; Literature; Theatre Historiography; Theatre History; Medieval Theatre; Avant-Garde Theatre and Drama
Rebecca Krug
Specialties
religion; culture; women's studies; literacy; nature; Late Medieval literature
Bernard M. Levinson
Specialties
Jewish studies; history of interpretation; Hebrew Bible; Deuteronomy; cuneiform law; ancient Near Eastern studies; literary approaches to biblical studies; divine revelation
Dwight K. Lewis, Jr.
Specialties
History of Early Modern Philosophy; Philosophy of Human Difference (e.g., race, gender, sexuality, power, decoloniality, etc.); Philosophy of Race/Africana Philosophy; Social Political Philosophy; Underrepresented Philosophers; Critical Theory
Anatoly Liberman
Specialties
Folklore; General linguistics; Germanic philology; Historical phonology and the origin of words; Languages and literature of the Middle Ages; Scandinavian mythology; Poetic translation; Literary criticism; Etymology; Creative witing; Russian literature; English literature
Nabil Matar
Specialties
Arab-Islamic civilization; Seventeenth-Century English Religious literature; Arabic and European travel literature; Captivity Literature; Euro-Islamic contacts (early modern)
Raúl Marrero-Fente
Specialties
Colonial Latin America Literature and Culture; Early Modern Hispanic Epic Poetry; Latin American literature; Early Modern Spanish literature; Cuban literature; Legal History; Human Rights
Mary Jo Maynes
Specialties
European social history; France; Germany; History of female labor in European textile industries; History of the family; Ireland; Women; Personal narratives; Autobiography; The family in global history; History of childhood, youth, girlhood
Stuart McLean
Specialties
Philosophical anthropology; Experimental writing; Anthropology of Art; North Atlantic region; Landscape and environment
Michael Bennett McNulty
Specialties
Immanuel Kant; History and Philosophy of Science; History and Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic; Early Modern Philosophy; Philosophy of Sport
Susan Noakes
Specialties
French and Italian literature and poetry; Women's studies; Banking and economics in medieval literature; The Global Middle Ages
Jean O'Brien
Specialties
Native American and Indigenous Studies; State and Federal Recogntion; Settler Colonial Studies; US Colonialism
Zozan Pehlivan
Specialties
Environmental History; History of Violence; Comparative Empires; Pastoral Nomadism; Ottoman Empire; Kurdistan
Kathryn Reyerson
Specialties
Social and economic history; Medieval France; Mediterranean World; Medieval Europe; Legal history; World History
Matthias Rothe
Specialties
Modernism; Aesthetics and Political Economy; Marxism; Political Theater and Theater History; DDR Kulturgeschichte
Jennifer Row
Specialties
Queer theory; Disability Studies; Early Modern Dramatic Literature (French and English); Dance history and performance studies; Affect Theory; Histories and archives of sexuality and gender; Literary theory and history of rhetoric
Nida Sajid
Specialties
South Asian Literature and Culture; Intellectual History and Global Eighteenth Century; Empire and Postcolonial Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Modern Muslim World and Islam in South Asia; Material Culture and Dress Studies
Arun Saldanha
Specialties
Cultural geography; Popular music studies; Travel and tourism; Continental philosophy; Interdisciplinarity
Andrew Scheil
Specialties
Old English language and literature; literatures and cultures of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages; medieval Latin literature, Celtic and Germanic languages and literatures; Middle English literature and Early Modern/Renaissance literature; folklore and folktales; oral tradition; traditions of exegesis, historiography and geography in the Middle Ages; science-fiction, fantasy, and horror literature/media; reception of classical and biblical literature
Katherine Scheil
Specialties
18th-century literature; Shakespeare; early modern literature; theatre history and performance studies; archival study; history of reading; women's studies/feminist criticism/history of women
Daniel Schroeter
Specialties
Muslim-Jewish Relations; Jewish history of North Africa and the Western Mediterranean, early-modern to modern; Moroccan history; Colonialism and the Jews in the Middle East and North Africa; Holocaust Studies; History of Israel and Palestine
Anna Lise Seastrand
Specialties
South Asian art; Tamil Cultural Studies; Hinduism
JB Shank
Specialties
European Intellectual and Cultural History; The Cultural History of Modern Science; European Thought and Culture before 1850; The "Scientific Revolution," Enlightenment Science, and Newtonianism; Old Regime Society, especially in France and Italy; The History of Silicon Valley
Andrea Sterk
Specialties
Late antiquity; Ancient and medieval Christianity; Byzantium
Rachel Trocchio
Specialties
17th- through 19th-century American literature; Puritanism and Puritan literary studies; Early Modern studies; religion and cognition; intellectual history
Eva von Dassow
Specialties
History of the ancient Near East; Hurrian language and literature; Syro-Mesopotamian society and politics
Ann Waltner
Specialties
Ritual; Law; Religion; Traditional Chinese social history; Gender; Analysis of historical documentation; Rumor; Gossip; Chinese history; World history; Feminism
John Watkins
Specialties
historiography; sovereignty and queenship; medieval and early modern diplomacy; premodern political culture; classical and medieval origins of the Renaissance; Mediterranean Studies
Peter Wells
Specialties
material culture; visual representation; central Europe; culture contact; European prehistory; frontiers; Iron Age; late prehistory; Roman and early medieval periods; Roman Europe; identity; ancient Germans; ancient Celts
Thomas Wolfe
Specialties
history of media and communications; pragmatism; European Union; Soviet Union
Travis Workman
Specialties
Korean and Japanese literature; Intellectual history; Film and media; Melodrama; Humanism and its critiques; Translation
Amit Yahav
Specialties
Eighteenth-century British literature and culture; The novel; Romanticism; Aesthetics; Literary, cultural, and political theory; History of Popular Culture: Leisure