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 Mario DiGangi, English Early modern period, especially the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries; gender and sexuality in the Renaissance; historicism in Renaissance studies 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. Top