Faculty
UCLA faculty who are currently members of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies are listed below by department with a summary of their academic interests and specialties. Faculty belonging to interdepartmental programs are cross-listed.
UCLA faculty specializing in any aspect of Medieval and/or Renaissance Studies may request to be added to the Center’s faculty roster. Such requests are directed to the Center Director and approved by the Center’s Faculty Advisory Committee.
ART HISTORY | |
Lamia Balafrej: Islamic art and aesthetic theory; Persian manuscript painting; the Mediterranean; art, labor, and ecology; iconoclasm. | |
Charlene Villaseñor Black: Early modern Iberian world, 16th-18th centuries; early modern art, trade, and materiality; early modern art and science; Catholic art and gender politics. | |
Meredith Cohen: Art, architecture, and urban development of high medieval Europe; digital reconstruction. | |
Kristopher Kersey: The histories of art, material culture, and design in Japan, with particular attention to narrative, gender, materiality, and historiography. | |
Sharon E. J. Gerstel: Byzantine art and archaeology; late medieval peasantry; art and archaeology of the Crusades; ethnography of the early modern Balkans; cultural exchange in the Americas, construction technology, material culture studies, spatial theory. | |
Stella Nair: Andean art, architecture, and urbanism; cross cultural exchange in the Americas, construction technology, material culture studies, spatial theory. | |
Bronwen Wilson: the history of art, visual culture, and urbanism of Venice and the Mediterranean world (1400-1700), print culture, portraiture and physiognomy, cartography, travel imagery, and early modern globalization. | |
ASIAN LANGUAGES & CULTURES | |
William M. Bodiford: Japanese religious life and culture; East Asian Buddhism. | |
Robert E. Buswell: Buddhism in medieval East Asia; Buddhist mysticism; monastic culture. | |
John B. Duncan: Medieval Korean institutional and intellectual history through the eighteenth century. | |
Torquil Duthie: Early Japanese poetry, mythology, and historical writing. | |
Stephanie W. Jamison: Vedic Sanskrit; Indo-European linguistics. | |
Huijun Mai: pre-modern Chinese literature and culture. | |
Gregory Schopen: Buddhist studies and Indology; social and religious history of south Asia. | |
CLASSICS | |
Sarah Beckmann: Late antiquity, domestic archaeology, Roman sculpture and statuary collection, the Roman provinces | |
David Blank: Ancient philosophy; ancient medicine and rhetoric; transmission of classical texts. | |
Francesca Martelli: Latin literature, especially Ovid and Cicero; the reception of classics in the Medieval and Renaissance worlds. | |
Kathryn A. Morgan: Greek intellectual history and philosophy and its reception in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. | |
Giulia Sissa: Culture and thought in ancient societies; the classical tradition in medieval and Renaissance political theory; also Political Science. | |
Lydia Spielberg: Historiography; classical rhetorical tradition; Roman political thought and reception, especially of Tacitus. |
|
Adriana Vazquez: Latin literature of the Augustan period; the reception of Classics in Lusophone and Hispanophone literature of the early modern period, with a special focus on the Americas. |
|
Brent Vine: Classical and Indo-European linguistics; Vulgar Latin; history of English. | |
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE | |
Massimo Ciavolella: Boccaccio; Renaissance literature; Renaissance theories of love; see also Italian. | |
Efraín Kristal: Spanish-American colonial literature; the Spanish historical epic; see also Spanish and Portuguese. | |
Kirstie McClure: History and historiography of political thought; politics and literature; feminist theory; see also Political Science. | |
Zrinka Stahuljak (CMRS Director): Continental French, Anglo-French, and Outremer literature, historiography, and culture; Mediterranean studies; manuscript studies; medievalism; history of sexuality; translation studies; see also French and Francophone Studies. | |
ENGLISH | |
King-Kok Cheung: Milton; Shakespeare; Marlowe. | |
Christine Chism: Old and Middle English literature, drama, and culture; theories of history, society, and cultural encounter; medieval Islam and Arabic; gender and sexuality. | |
Matthew Fisher: Historiography, hagiography, paleography, codicology; Old and Middle English literature; Anglo-Norman literature; digital humanities. | |
Barbara Fuchs: Early modern English and Spanish literature, Mediterranean and transatlantic studies, literature and empire, transnationalism and literary history, race and religion in the early modern world; see also Spanish & Portuguese. | |
Lowell Gallagher: Spenser; English Catholic studies; early modern prose fiction; hermeneutic theory; queer theory. | |
Eric Jager: Old English, Middle English, Latin, French, Italian; Augustine and patristics; the history of the book; law and ritual; literary theory. | |
Arthur Little: Nationalism and imperialism in early modern English culture; Shakespeare; race, gender, and sexuality in early modern culture. | |
Claire McEachern: Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature; historiography; national identity; history of gender; political theory; religion; editing of Shakespeare. | |
Debora Shuger (Distinguished Professor): Tudor-Stuart religion and literature, neo-Latin, early modern intellectual history (especially religion, law, political theory). | |
Arvind Thomas: Middle English and Early Modern Literature, particularly texts that engage discourses in Latin such as canon law. | |
Robert N. Watson (Distinguished Professor): Shakespeare; Renaissance drama; Metaphysical poetry. | |
Erica Weaver: Old English, Anglo Latin; Old English literature and poetry; poetic theory | |
FRENCH & FRANCOPHONE STUDIES | |
Raphaëlle Burns: Medieval and Early Modern Literature; cultural and intellectual history; law; medicine; journalism. | |
Zrinka Stahuljak (CMRS Director): Continental French, Anglo-French, and Outremer literature, historiography, and culture; Mediterranean studies; manuscript studies; medievalism; history of sexuality; translation studies; see also Comparative Literature. | |
GERMANIC LANGUAGES | |
Christopher M. Stevens: Germanic linguistics and philology; historical linguistics; dialectology. | |
HISTORY | |
Jessica Goldberg: Medieval Mediterranean history, especially Italy and Egypt; economic and legal history; geography; Cairo Geniza studies. | |
Anthony Pagden: The history of political and social theory especially European overseas expansion and its aftermath; see also Political Science. | |
Carla Gardina Pestana: English America, especially 17th century; religion and empire in the British Atlantic world; conquest of Jamaica. | |
Peter Stacey: Renaissance political theory and intellectual history. | |
Kevin Terraciano: Colonial Latin American history, especially New Spain; Mesoamerican writing systems and languages; ethnohistory, philology, art history. | |
Stefania Tutino: Post-Reformation Catholicism; European early modern intellectual and cultural history; see also Italian. | |
INDO-EUROPEAN STUDIES PROGRAM | |
Stephanie W. Jamison: Vedic Sanskrit; Indo-European linguistics; see also Asian Languages and Cultures. | |
Christopher M. Stevens: Germanic linguistics and philology; historical linguistics; dialectology; see also Germanic Languages. | |
Brent Vine: Classical and Indo-European linguistics; Vulgar Latin; history of English; see also Classics. | |
ITALIAN | |
Massimo Ciavolella: Boccaccio; Renaissance literature; Renaissance theories of love; see also Comparative Literature. | |
Andrea Moudarres: Dante, Renaissance Epic, Humanism, Islam and the West, and Political Theology. | |
Stefania Tutino: Post-Reformation Catholicism; European early modern intellectual and cultural history; see also History. | |
MEDICINE | |
Leon G. Fine, MD: Professor of Biomedical Sciences and Medicine; Director, Program in History of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. | |
MUSICOLOGY | |
Cesar Favila: Music, religion, gender, and race in New Spain; women’s sacred music | |
Mitchell Morris: Fourteenth- to sixteenth-century music; relationship between music and liturgical development in the late medieval mass. | |
Elizabeth Randell Upton: Medieval and Renaissance music and musical culture; musical paleography and codicology; performance and listening; Early Music revivals; medievalism and music. | |
NEAR EASTERN LANGUAGES & CULTURES | |
Carol Bakhos: Ancient and medieval rabbinic texts; comparative scriptural interpretation. | |
Catherine E. Bonesho Early Judaism and its literature; religious competition in Late Antiquity; Aramaic and Syriac language and literature. |
|
Michael Cooperson: Classical Arabic literature, especially biography; the cultural history of Abbasid Baghdad. | |
S. Peter Cowe: Medieval East Christian theology and spirituality; Armenian language and literature. | |
Domenico Ingenito: Pre-Modern Persian poetry (in particular the history of lyric genres at the intersection of eroticisms and politics); rhetoric and prosody. | |
Luke Benson Yarbrough: Interreligious contacts in the Islamic world; Islamic historiography; manuscript studies and paleography. | |
PHILOSOPHY | |
John Carriero: Medieval Aristotelian philosophy; seventeenth-century philosophy. | |
Calvin Normore: Medieval philosophy; medieval and early modern political theory; 16th- and 17th-century philosophy. | |
POLITICAL SCIENCE | |
Kirstie McClure: History and historiography of political thought; politics and literature; feminist theory; see also Comparative Literature. | |
Anthony Pagden: The history of political and social theory especially European overseas expansion and its aftermath; see also History. | |
Giulia Sissa: Culture and thought in ancient societies; the classical tradition in medieval and Renaissance political theory; see also Classics. | |
SLAVIC LANGUAGES & LITERATURES | |
Gail Lenhoff: Old Russian hagiography, history writing, textual production. | |
SOCIOLOGY | |
Rebecca Jean Emigh: Fifteenth-century Tuscan agriculture; historical demography; sociological theory. | |
SPANISH & PORTUGUESE | |
Verónica Cortínez: Colonial and contemporary Latin American literature; literary theory; Chilean film. | |
John Dagenais: Medieval Castilian and Catalan literature; Hispano-Latin; manuscript culture; digital humanities; Romanesque architecture and pilgrimage. | |
Barbara Fuchs: Early modern English and Spanish literature, Mediterranean and transatlantic studies, literature and empire, transnationalism and literary history, race and religion in the early modern world; see also English. | |
Efraín Kristal: Spanish-American colonial literature; the Spanish historical epic; also Comparative Literature. | |
Javier Patiño Loira: Early modern Iberian literature; early modern Spanish and Italian poetics and rhetoric; early modern libraries. | |
THEATER | |
Michael Hackett: Early Baroque theater; Shakespeare; the English masque. |