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Beyond the practical aspect of a central locator for Emory's medieval scholars, this Faculty Directory celebrates the richness and diversity of medieval scholarship at Emory.

We hope that the Directory will contribute toward bringing scholars in medieval and allied fields together as colleagues, for collegial scholarship is the life-blood of a university.

 

BEIK, William
Department of History
wbeik@emory.edu

FIELDS: French Social and Institutional History (16th & 17th Centuries)

SOURCE LANGUAGES: French

COURSES:
  • HIST 315 (France in the Age of Kings [i.e. 1300-1789])
  • HIST 515 (Graduate Seminar in Early Modern France)
BERNER, Leila Gal
Department of Religion

FIELDS: Medieval Judaism (social history); Church, State and the Jews in the Middle Ages; Mediterranean Spain (10th-15th Centuries)

SOURCE LANGUAGES: Latin, Hebrew

SPECIAL EXPERTISE: Latin paleography of the Kingdom of Aragon (11th–13th Centuries); Hebrew rabbinic texts

COURSES:
  • Jewish Life in the Middle Ages
  • Jewish Studies 541 (Spring '96 semester)
BERTRAND, Lynn Wood
Department of Music

FIELDS: sacred polyphony in medieval Georgia; Choral music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Machaut to Victoria); the madrigal; early notation (up to 16th cent.); early music performance practice

SOURCE LANGUAGES: French, Italian, Spanish, Georgian; some German, Latin and Portuguese

SPECIAL EXPERTISE: 8th-11th century Georgian hymns; early notation; some familiarity with Georgian liturgical sources (some of the earliest translations of Biblical texts)

COURSES:
  • MUS 511 (Choral Literature)
  • MUS 422/522 (Music of the Renaissance)
  • MUS 403 (From Source to Performance I: 14th Century)
  • MUSc 404 (From Source to Performance II: 15th & 16th Centuries)
  • MUS 582 (Notation)
PUBLICATIONS:
  • "Scipione Dentice: Manneristic MadRIgalist", in Studi Musical. "Sambuca Lincea, enharmonic keyboard instrument," Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society.
  • Forthcoming books:
  • The Western Choral Tradition
  • Georgian Polyphonic Music.
BRIGHT, David F.
Classics Department and Comparative Literature
dbright@emory.edu

FIELDS: Latin and Greek literature of late antiquity; early mediaeval literature

SOURCE LANGUAGES: Latin, Greek, French, German, Italian

COURSES:
  • LAT 320, Mediaeval Latin. (Fall 2002)
  • CLAS 585, Mediaeval Latin Texts. (proposed)

PUBLICATIONS:

"The Chronology of the Poems of Dracontius" (1999)

  • "Intellectual Continuity in Vandal North Africa" in From Hannibal to S. Augustine (1994)
  • The Miniature Epic in Vandal Africa (1987)
  • (ed.) Classical Texts and their Traditions (1984)

BUGGE, John
Department of English
engjmb@emory.edu

FIELDS: Old English language and literature; Middle English language and literature; medieval spirituality (esp. female); virginity and marriage; sexuality from a theological perspective; early English and medieval drama

SOURCE LANGUAGES: Middle English, Old English, Latin, French

COURSES:

  • ENG 303 (Middle English Language and Literature)
  • ENG 304 (Chaucer)
  • ENG 308 (Arthurian Literature)
  • corresponding graduate level courses (703, 704, 789)
  • ENG 255 (survey of medieval & Renaissance English literature)
PUBLICATIONS:
  • Virginitas. An Essay in the History of a Medieval Ideal
  • The Arthurian Tradition: Essays in Convergence (co-edited, with own essay on Walker Percy's Lancelot)
  • various articles on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
BURNS, Thomas S.
Department of History
histsb@emory.edu

FIELDS: ancient and early medieval history; barbarian invasions of the Roman Empire and the resultant barbarian kingdoms.

COURSES: Roman, Byzantine, and Early Medieval European History.

PUBLICATIONS: The Ostrogoths: Kingship and Society (Wiesbaden, 1980); A History of the Ostrogoths (Bloomington, 1984); Barbarians within the Gates of Rome (Bloomington, 1994). Co-Director of archaeological excavations in Passau-Haibach (1978-79) and at Manching (1985), Germany and Babarc, Hungary (1998).

Curriculum Vitae at http://wcw.emory.edu/worldclasses/rome/burns.html

CAMPBELL, C. Jean
Art History Department
cjcampb@emory.edu

FIELDS: late medieval/early Renaissance Italian art and literature

SOURCE LANGUAGES: Italian, French, Latin

COURSES:

  • ARTHIST 243 (Early Renaissance Art & Architecture: 13th-15th centuries)
  • ARTHIST 349 (Art and the City in the Age of Dante)
  • ARTHIST 749 (History, Poetry Ritual and the Art of the Early Renaissance)
  • ARTHIST 749 (Portraiture and Biography in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy)
PUBLICATIONS:
  • "The City's New Clothes: Ambrogio Lorenzetti and the Poetics of Peace," Art Bulletin 83 (2001)
  • The Game of Courting and the Art of the Commune of San Gimignano, 1290-1320 (Princeton, 1998)
  • "The Lady in the Council Chamber: Diplomacy in Poetry in Simone Martini's Maesta," Word & Image 14 (1998)
HOME PAGE: http://www.emory.edu/HART/campbell

CARRIÓN, María M.
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
mcarrio@emory.edu

FIELDS: 17th-century Spanish drama; 16th-century Spanish narratives; Renaissance theories of architecture and the arts; histories of marriage, sexuality & the law; representation and performance in narrative and drama

SOURCE LANGUAGES: Spanish and Italian

SPECIAL EXPERTISE: Familiarity with collections (mostly Renaissance, some medieval) in Spanish Libraries

COURSES:

  • SPAN 507B (Marriage, Sexuality and the Law; Problems of Authorship in Spanish Drama of the Seventeenth Century)
  • courses planned for the future: "Saints & Sinners: Women & Literature in Spain Through the 17th century"
  • "Spanish Mysticism and Literature"; "Spanish Drama of the 16th & 17th Centuries"
PUBLICATIONS:
  • Arquitectura y cuerpo en la figura autorial de Teresa De Jesús (1994)
  • "The Queen's Too Bawdies: El burlador de Sevilla and the Teasing of Historicity," in The Pleasures of History. Reading Sexualities in Premodern Europe (forthcoming)
  • "La función poética del 'Almario:' Alquimia y los procesos de figuración de lectura y escritura en La dama boba de Lope de Vega," Bulletin of the Comediantes 43 (1991)
CARUGATI, Giuliana
Department of French and Italian; Department of Comparative Literature
gcaruga@learnlink.emory.edu

FIELDS: Dante: Italian Middle Ages and Renaissance; Allegory; Mysticism

SOURCE LANGUAGES: Italian and Latin

COURSES:

  • Eros and Theologia (Dante)
  • Allegory
PUBLICATIONS: Dalla menzogna al silenzio (1991)

HALL, Pamela M.
Department of Philosophy and Institute for Women's Studies
philph@emory.edu

FIELDS: Aquinas's ethics; ethics; moral psychology; feminist thought

SOURCE LANGUAGES: Latin, Greek, French

COURSES:
  • has taught graduate seminar on Aquinas and classes in ethics and moral psychology

    PUBLICATIONS:
    • Narrative and the Natural Law: An Interpretation of Thomistic Ethics (1994)
    HARTLE, Ann
    Department of Philosophy

    FIELDS: nature of philosophy; relation between philosophy and theology; political thought

    SOURCE LANGUAGES: French

    COURSES:
    • PHIL 789 (The Human Condition: Montaigne, Pascal, Rousseau)
    • Undergraduate Senior Seminar (Montaigne)
    PUBLICATIONS:
    • The Modern Self in Rousseau's Confessions: A reply to St. Augustine
    • Chapter on Augustine in Death and the Disinterested Spectator
    JORDAN, Mark D.
    Department of Religion
    mjorda@emory.edu

    FIELDS: 12th-13th century theology and philosophy; medieval sexuality; philosophical and theological retrievals of the Middle Ages

    SOURCE LANGUAGES: Latin, Greek--and the modern scholarly languages

    COURSES:
    • "The Will from Augustiner to Scotus"
    • "Negative Theology"
    • "Christianity and Sexuality"
    PUBLICATIONS:
    • Ordering Wisdom: Hierarchy of Philosophical Discourses in Aquinas (Notre Dame, 1986)
    • Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology (Chicago, 1997)
    • Ethics of Sex (Blackwell, 2002)
    HOME PAGE: http://www.emory.edu/COLLEGE/RELIGION/faculty/jordan.html

    MOREY, James
    Department of English
    jmorey@emory.edu

    FIELDS: the medieval vernacular Bible; popular medieval religious literature; Latin Biblical commentaries; Dante

    SOURCE LANGUAGES: Latin, Old English, Middle English, Old Norse, Old French

    COURSES:
    • ENG 300/700 (Old English and Literature)
    • ENG 301/701 (Beowulf)
    • ENG 303/703 (Middle English Language and Literature)
    • ENG 304/704 (Chaucer)
    • English/Religion 387 (Special Topics)
    PUBLICATIONS:
      Book and Verse: A Guide to Middle English Biblical Literature (Illinois, 2000)
    • "Peter Comestor, Biblical Paraphrase, and the Medieval Popular Bible," Speculum 68 (1993)
    • "Legal and Spiritual Sanctuary in the Northern Homily Cycle and Piers Plowman B, XVII, 1-126," JEGP 93 (1994)
    • "Adam and Judas in the Old English Christ and Satan," SP 87 (1990)
    NAVARRO, Emilia
    Department of Spanish and Portuguese
    Associated Faculty of Women's Studies and Comparative Literature

    FIELDS: 16th-17th Century narrative in Spain; genre and gender; feminist theory

    SOURCE LANGUAGES: Latin, Greek, Spanish, French, Italian (early)

    SOCIETIES: MLA; Renaissance Society of America; Cervantes Society of America; American Comparative Literature

    PUBLICATIONS:
    • To Read the Bride: Elision and Silence in Cervantes' The Jealous Extremaduran: Novel: A Forum on Fiction 1989
    • Manual Control: Regulatory Fictions and Their Discontents. Cervantes 1993
    NEWBY, Gordon D.
    Department of NEJLL

    FIELDS: Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations (history, culture, literature); Late Antiquity to early Islam; sacred texts in early Middle Ages

    SOURCE LANGUAGES: Arabic, Hebrew, Latin, Greek

    SPECIAL EXPERTISE: comparative semitic philology

    COURSES:
    • NES 200 (Islamic civilization)
    • various directed study courses on Quran, sacred biography in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
    PUBLICATIONS:
    • A History of the Jews of Arabia (1988)
    • The Making of the Last Prophet (1989)
    • founding editor of Medieval Encounters (Brill, serial)
    PASTAN, Elizabeth
    Art History Department

    FIELDS: 12th- and 13th-Century Gothic Art; medieval stained glass; Cathar heresy in Northern France; medieval Jews in Northern France; Iconographic studies (Hagiography, kingship, representation of Jews)

    SOURCE LANGUAGES: French, some Latin

    SPECIAL EXPERTISE: Familiarity with iconographic references in Index of Christian Art, Princeton; knowledge of Monuments Historiques administrative structure; Ability to authenticate stained glass; capacity to teach undergraduate courses in Islamic Art; understanding of "medievalism" in Gothic Revival of 19th century

    COURSES:
    • HART 393/593 (Islamic Art)
    • HART 739 (Medieval Art as a Bible for the Poor)
    • HART 339/539 (History of Medieval Stained Glass)
    • HART 400 (Medieval Symbolism)
    • HART 231 (Early Medieval Art & Architecture)
    PUBLICATIONS:
    • "Tam haereticos quam Judaeos; shifting symbols in the glazing of Troyes Cathedral," Word and Image 10 (1994)
    • "Process and patronage in the decorative arts of the early Campaigns of Troyes Cathedral," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 53 (1994)
    • "Fit for a count: the twelfth-century stained glass panels from Troyes," Speculum 64 (1989), 338-72
    REYNOLDS, Philip Lyndon
    Candler School of Theology

    FIELDS: Medieval Christian thought; scholasticism; Bonaventure and Aquinas; mystical theology; appropriation of philosophy in medieval theology; marriage in the medieval church

    SOURCE LANGUAGES: medieval Latin

    SPECIAL EXPERTISE: theology and philosophy in the 12th and 13th centuries, especially Bonaventure and Aquinas

    COURSES:
    • HT 629 (Mystical Theology)
    • CT 501 (Christian History and Thought I)
    • HT 625 (Theology of Thomas Aquinas)
    • HT 618/ES 618 (Ethics of Aquinas)
    • RLHT 722 (Franciscan Theology and Spirituality)
    • RLHT 721R (Seminar in Aquinas)
    • RLHT 721S, RLE 720 (Ethics of Thomas Aquinas)
    PUBLICATIONS:
    • Marriage in the Western Church (Leiden 1994)
    • Food and the Body (Leiden 1999)
    RUSCHE, Harry
    Department of English

    FIELDS: 16th Century styles in poetry; 17th Century English poetry; Shakespeare; Spenser
    STROCCHIA, Sharon T.
    Department of History
    sstrocc@emory.edu

    FIELDS: Italian Renaissance; social history of fifteenth-century Florence; female religious communities in Renaissance Italy; gender and sexuality in early modern Europe; social history of medicine in premodern Europe

    SOURCE LANGUAGES: Italian, late medieval Latin

    SPECIAL EXPERTISE: Italian paleography, 14th-16th centuries; notarial Latin paleography, 1350-1550

    COURSES:
    • HIST 190 (Medicine in the Age of Plague)
    • HIST 306 (Italian Renaissance)
    • HIST 487 (Love and Sex in Renaissance Europe)
    • HIST 509 (Family, Sex and Gender in Early Modern Europe)
    • HIST 585 (Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy)
    PUBLICATIONS:
    • Death and Ritual in Renaissance Florence (1992)
    • "Remembering the Family: Women, Kin and Commemorative Masses in Renaissance Florence," Renaissance Quarterly 42 (1989)
    • "'Learning the Virtues': Convent Schools and Female Culture in Renaissance Florence," in Women's Education in Early Modern Europe: A History (1999)
    • "Naming the Nun: Spiritual Exemplars and Corporate Identity in Florentine Convents, 1450-1530," in Society and the Individual in Renaissance Florence (2002)
    • "Sisters in Spirit: The Nuns of Sant'Ambrogio and Their Consorority in Early Sixteenth-Century Florence," Sixteenth Century Journal 33 (2002)
    • "Taken into Custody: Girls and Convent Guardianship in Renaissance Florence," Renaissance Studies (2003)
    TISSOL, Garth
    Classics Department

    FIELDS: Latin literature, English literature and the Classics, Ancient comedy, Hellenistic Greek poetry

    SOURCE LANGUAGES: Latin, Greek

    COURSES:
    • Latin 320: Medieval Latin
    PUBLICATIONS:
    • "The Face of Nature: Wit, Narrative, and Cosmic Origins in Ovid's Metamorphoses" (Princeton 1997).
    VARNER, Eric R.
    Classics Department/Art History Department

    FIELDS: late antique sculpture (esp. portrait sculpture, imperial relief monuments, sarcophagi); late antique painting and mosaic; late antique numismatic art; monument and topography of late antique Rome

    SOURCE LANGUAGES: Latin, Greek

    COURSES:
    • HART 729 L: (Tradition & Innovation in Late Antique Art)
    WHITE, Stephen D.
    Department of History
    histsdw@emory.edu

    FIELDS: politics, law and society in medieval France and England; Old French literature; monasticism

    SOURCE LANGUAGES: Latin, Old French; Old English (badly)

    SPECIAL EXPERTISE: Latin paleography for English and French documents; diplomatics; French archives; English archives

    COURSES:
    • HIST 305 (Central Middle Ages [undergrad. survey])
    • HIST 505 (Central Middle ages [grad. colloquium])
    • HIST 585 (Central Middle Ages: Introduction to Sources)
    • HIST 385x (Medieval France)
    • HIST 385x (Law and Literature in Medieval France)
    • HIST 385x (Medieval Law); HIST 487 (Chivalry)
    PUBLICATIONS:
    • Custom, Kinship and Gifts to Saints . . . 1050 - 1150 (1988)
    • "Proposing the Ordeal," in Cultures of Power, ed. Thomas N. Bisson (1995)
    • "Stratégie rhétorique dans la Conventio de Hugues de Lusignan," in Mélanges Georges Duby (1992)
    ZUPKO, Jack
    Department of Philosophy
    jzupko@emory.edu

    FIELDS: 14th-century logic, metaphysics, and natural philosophy; medieval Aristotelianism

    SOURCE LANGUAGES: Latin

    COURSES:
    • PHIL 250 (survey of ancient and medieval philosophy)
    • PHIL 300 (medieval philosophy)
    • PHIL 480T (Roman philosophy)
    • Graduate Seminars on Augustine, Anselm of Canterbury, Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus
    SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
    • The Metaphysics and Natural Philosophy of John Buridan, ed. J. M. M. H. Thijssen and Jack Zupko (2001)
    • "Sacred Doctrine; Secular Practice: Theology and Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts at Paris, 1325-1400," in Miscellanea Mediaevalia 26: What Is Philosophy in the Middle Ages? (1998)
    • "What Is the Science of the Soul?: A Case Study in the Evolution of Late Medieval Natural Philosophy," Synthese 110.2 (1997)
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