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Faculty
 Jane Chance (University of Illinois, 1971)
- Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Chair in English and Professor of English
- Research Interests: The post-antique mythological tradition in the Middle Ages; medieval women and the study of gender; modern medievalism; Chaucer; Christine de Pizan.
- Selected Publications:
The Genius Figure in Antiquity and the Middle Ages (1975)
Tolkien’s Art: A Mythology for England (1979, rev. ed., 2001)
Woman as Hero in Old English Literature (1985)
The Lord of the Rings: The Mythology of Power (1992; rev. ed., 2001, trans. Japanese)
Medieval Mythography, vols. 1 and 2 (1994, 2000) (SCMLA Best Book Prize, vol. 1)
The Mythographic Chaucer (1995)
The Literary Subversions of Medieval Women (2007)
Ed. with Miriam Youngerman Miller, Approaches to Teaching Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1986)
Christine de Pizen, The Letter of Othea to Hector, Translated, with Introduction and Interpretive Essay (1990; rpt. 1997)
Ed. with R. O. Wells, Jr., Mapping the Cosmos (1995)
Ed., Gender and Text in the Later Middle Ages (1996; rpt. pb. 2003)
Ed., The Assembly of Gods (1999)
Ed., Tolkien the Medievalist (2002, 2003), finalist, Mythopoeic Prize, 2004, 2005
Ed., J. R. R Tolkien and the Invention of Myth (2004)
Ed. with Alfred Siewers, Tolkien's Modern Middle Ages (2005)
Ed., Women Medievalists and the Academy (2005)
“The Letters of Abelard and Heloise: Gloss, Glossed, Glossator,” in Listening to Heloise: The Voice of a Twelfth-Century Woman, ed. Bonnie Wheeler (2000), First SMFS Best Essay Prize, 2005
Reprinted essay (6th time): “The Structural Unity of Beowulf: The Problem of Grendel’s Mother,” in Beowulf: A Verse Translation, trans. Seamus Heaney, ed. Daniel Donoghue (2002)
Series Editor: Library of Medieval Women, Boydell and Brewer (1990- ), Greenwood Guides to Historic Events in the Medieval World (2004-5), and Praeger Series on the Middle Ages (2000-)
David Cook (University of Chicago, 2001)
- Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
- Research Interests: Early Islam
- Selected Publications:
Studies in Muslim Apocalyptic (2002)
Understanding Jihad (2005)
Eva Haverkamp (University of Konstanz, Germany, 1999)
- Associate Professor of History; Director, Medieval Studies Program and Workshop
- Research Interests: Medieval Jewish history, Germany and Italy in the High Middle Ages
- Selected Publications:
Hebräische Berichte über die Judenverfolgungen während des Ersten Kreuzzugs [Hebrew Accounts of the Persecutions
of the Jews during the First Crusade] (2005)
Shih-shan Susan Huang (Yale University, 2002)
- Assistant Professor of Art History
- Research Interests: Asian art; Daoist and Buddhist visual culture of the 12th and 13th centuries; Chinese painting (especially Song and Yuan periods); medieval Chinese visual culture; cross-cultural study
- Selected Publications:
"Imagining Efficacy: The Common Ground between Buddhist and Daoist Pictorial Art in Song China." Orientations, 36, no. 3 (2005): 63-69.
Peter Loewen (University of Southern California, 2000)
- Assistant Professor of Musicology
- Research Interests: Medieval religious drama; music and theology of the Franciscans; music in the medieval sermon; portrayals of Mary Magdalene and the Virgin Mary as singers and preachers; music as rhetoric and exegesis; intersections between chant and song in Latin and vernacular European languages; music in the rites of medieval confraternities; Minnesang and Middle Dutch Liederen.
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Selected Publications:
“Francis the Musician and the Mission of the Joculatores Domini in the Medieval German Lands.” (Franciscan Studies, 2002): 251–90.
“The Conversion of Mary Magdalene and the Musical Legacy of Franciscan Piety in the Early German Passion Plays.” Speculum Sermonis: Interdisciplinary Reflections on the Medieval Sermon (Brepols, 2005): 235-59.
Co-author, “Mary Magdalene Preaches Through Song: Female Language in the Shrewsbury Officium Resurrectionis and in German and Bohemian Easter Dramas.” (Forthcoming, Speculum, July 2007)
The Music of the Medieval Franciscans. (Forthcoming, Brill, 2007)
Essays on Franciscan Hymns and Hymnals; Dies irae; Stabat Mater; St. Bonaventura; Thomas of Celano; Jacopone da Todi; and Jan Brugman in The Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology. (Forthcoming, Canterbury Press, 2007)
Michael Maas (University of California, Berkeley, 1982)
- Professor of History; Director, Ancient Mediterranean Studies
- Research Interests: Mediterranean studies, classical Greece and Rome, late antiquity
- Selected Publications:
John Lydus and the Roman Past . Antiquarianism and Politics in the Age of Justinian (1992)
Readings in Late Antiquity: A Source Book(2000)
Exegesis and Empire in the Early Byzantine Mediterranean . Junilllus Aficanus and the Instituta Regularia Diviae Legis (2003)
The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Justinian (2004)
Scott McGill (Yale University, 2001)
- Associate Professor of Classics
- Research Interests: Reception of Latin literature, Virgil, Classical and Christian Bucolic poetry
Donald Morrison (Princeton University, 1983)
- Professor of Philosophy
- Research Interests: Ancient and medieval philosophy
- Selected Publications:
"Is Plato's Republic a utopian work?" Cambridge Companion to Plato's Republic, ed. G. Ferrari, Cambridge UP. 2007, pp.232-255.
"Some Central Elements of Socratic Political Theory," Polis vol. 18, 2001, pp. 27-40.
"Politics as a Vocation according to Aristotle," History of Political Thought, summer 2001, pp. 221-241.
"The Happiness of the City and the Happiness of the Individual in Plato's Republic," Ancient Philosophy, Spring 2001, pp. 1-25.
Linda Neagley (Indiana University, 1983)
- Associate Professor of Art History
- Research Interests: French Flamboyant architecture; gothic design theory; fifteenth-century Northern painting and sculpture
- Selected Publications:
Disciplined Exuberance. The Parish Church of Saint-Maclou and Late Gothic Architecture in Rouen (1998)
"Elegant Simplicity: The Late Gothic Plan Design of Saint-Maclou in Rouen"(1992)
"The Late Gothic Chapel from the Chateau at Herbeviller"(1992)
Deborah Nelson-Campbell (Ohio State University, 1970)
- Professor of French Studies
- Research Interests: French and Occitan lyric poetry, Christine de Pizan
- Selected Publications:
The Lyrics and Melodies of Adam de la Halle (1985)
Charles d'Orleans. An Analytical Bibliography(1990)
The Songs of Andrieu Contredit d'Arras(1992)
"Romance Epic: Essays on a Medieval Literary Genre"
"The Influence of Troubadour Poetry on Northern French Poetry"(1998)
Nanxiu Qian (Yale University, 1994)
- Associate Professor of Chinese Literature in Asian Studies
- Research Interests: TBA
- Selected publications:
Spirit and Self in Medieval China: The Shih-shuo hsin-yü and Its Legacy (2001)
Co-author, Shih-shuo hsin-yü hsüan-i , an abridged translation of the Shih-shuo hsin-yü from classical to modern Chinese, with introductions and annotations. Cheng-tu: Pa-shu shu-she (1989)
Co- editor, Ku-tai wen-hua chih-shih yao-lan (A Guide to Classical Chinese Culture). Ch'ang-sha: Hu-nan jen-min ch'u-pan she (1986)
Carol Quillen (Princeton University, 1991)
- Associate Professor of History; Vice Provost; Director, Boniuk Center for Religious Tolerance
- Research Interests: Renaissance intellectual history, early Italian humanism
- Selected Publications:
Rereading the Renaissance: Petrarch, Augustine, and the Language of Humanism (1988)
Editor, The Secret by Francesco Petrarch (2003)
Paula Sanders (Princeton University, 1984)
- Professor of History; Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
- Research Interests: Medieval Islamic history
- Selected Publications:
Creating Medieval Cairo: Empire, Religion, and Architectural Preservation in Nineteenth-Century Egypt (2007)
Ritual, politics, and the city in Fatimid Cairo (1994)
A Mediterranean Society (1993)
Sarah Westphal ( Yale University, 1983)
- Associate Professor of German
- Research Interests: The representation of women in medieval fictional trials and how it relates to the theory of gender in medieval customary law; forgotten literary works written by 18th century nuns from a Franciscan convent in central Munich
- Selected Publications:
"Calefurnia'a Rage: Emotions and Gender in Late Medieval German Literature." The Representation of Women's Emotions in Medieval and Early Modern Culture ( forthcoming Feb. 2005)
"Virtues in Print: Johannes Adelphus Muling and the 1512 Edition of 'Die Moerin'." Kulturen des Manuskriptzeitalters: Ergebnisse der Amerikanisch-Deutschen Arbeitstagung an der Georg-August Universitaet Goettingen von 17. bis 20. Oktober 2002. Ed. Hans-Jochen Schiewer and Arthur Groos. (2004): 341-364
"Magic in "Die Moerin" by Hermann von Sachsenheim (1453)." Zeitschrift fuer Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik, 33 (June, 2003): 72-86
"Bad Girls in the Middle Ages: Gender, Law, and German Literature." Essays in Medieval Studies, 19 (2002): 103-119
Textual Poetics of German Manuscripts 1300-1500, a study of how the production of hand-written books reveals aspects of medieval reading and interpretive practice ( 1993)
Co-editor, Sisters and Workers in the Middle Ages (1989)
Co-editor, Feminist Theory in Practice and Process (1989)
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