FACULTY SPECIALIZATIONS
Allan
Atlas, Music
15th century music; Puccini; free-reed instruments
Barbara
Bowen, English
Feminism and materialist theory and criticism; early modern period, especially
Shakespeare and women writers; postcolonial literature and theory
Marvin
Carlson, Theatre; Comparative Literature
Dramatic theory and Western European theatre history and dramatic literature
Clare Carroll, Comparative Literature
Critical theory; comparative epic; early modern colonialization; Humanism;
16th century Italian literature
Raquel
Chang-Rodríguez, Hispanic & Luso-Brazilian Literatures
Colonial literary studies with an emphasis on the Andean area
Joseph
Dauben, History
History of science, history of mathematics; the Scientific Revolution;
sociology of science; intellectual history, 17-18th centuries
Ruth
I. DeFord, Music
Italian secular music; Italian madrigal; music theory of the Renaissance
Ottavio
DiCamillo, Hispanic & Luso-Brazilian Literatures
Spanish literature of the Renaissance; Humanism
Jacqueline
Di Salvo, English
Early modern literature; the Romantic movement; politics and psychology
of poetics/religion; Milton and Blake
Martin
Elsky, English; Comparative Literature
Early modern literature and history; Elizabethan/Jacobean print culture
and the emergence of authorship; Renaissance language theory; 17th-century
religious lyric; early modern trans-Atlanticism
Daniel
Gerould, Comparative Literature; Theatre
European drama and theatre (Polish and Russian); genre studies; theatre
theory.
Hermann Haller, Comparative Literature
Italian; Romance linguistics
Barbara
Hanning, Music
Early opera;17th-century Italian music; musical iconography
Thomas
Hayes, English
Shakespeare, Jonson; the metaphysical poets; Milton; mysticism; painting
Margaret
L. King, History
Italian Renaissance; Humanism; women's history, history of childhood
Isaías
Lerner, Hispanic & Luso-Brazilian Literatures
Spanish literature of the Renaissance and the Baroque
Michael Mallory, Art History
Italian Renaissance art
Richard
McCoy, English
Late medieval and early modern periods; 16th- and 17th-century English
literature; Skelton, More, Sidney, Shakespeare, Spenser, Milton; Renaissance
and Reformation politics, religion, and culture; ritual and iconography;
new historicism and cultural poetics.
Eloise Quiñones-Keber
(Art History)
Pre-Colombian and Latin American art; Mesoamerican manuscripts;
Aztec art before and after the Spanish conquest; issues surrounding
encounter between indigenous and European traditions in the Americas
James
M. Saslow, Art History & Theatre
Italian Renaissance and Baroque period, with special interests in generder
and sexuality in art and the visual aspects of the theatre
Francesca
Canadé Sautman, French
16th-century literature and ethnology; Francophone African literature;
gender studies
Laurie
Schneider-Adams, Art History
Art of the Italian Renaissance
Lía
Schwartz, Hispanic & Luso-Brazilian Literatures;
Comparative Literature
Hispano-Classical relations in early modern Spanish literature, in particular,
the work of Francisco de Quevedo (1580-1645)
Dennis
Slavin, Music
15th century music; Binchois
Domna C.
Stanton, French
17-century French literature and culture; Early-Modern
studies, women writers; critical theory, Feminist theory
Andrew Tomasello, Music
Historical musicology; French Ars Nova
John
Van Sickle, Classics; Comparative Literature
Pastoral tradition; Latin poetry, epic-bucolic tradition
Catherine
Wilson
(Philosophy)
Early Modern philosophy; moral and political theory;
philosophy of literature
Joseph
Wittreich, English
Milton; the Romantics (with special interest in Blake); the visionary
tradition; theories of influence; reception theory; gay and lesbian literature
and queer theory; narratology.