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Art and Art History
Jean Givens,
Ph.D. (University of California, Berkeley): Medieval Art; Medieval
English Architecture and Sculpture
Email:
jean.givens@uconn.edu
Jean A. Givens is an associate
professor of Art History. She received her B.A. in Graphic Design as
well as her Ph.D. in the History of Art from the University of
California at Berkeley. She joined the UConn faculty in 1987, and
in 1997 she was designated a University of Connecticut Teaching
Fellow. Professor Givens teaches
undergraduate courses on a range of medieval topics, and students wishing to
take these courses for graduate credit generally may do so with the
instructor's consent. In Spring 2007, Professor Givens will
be on research leave. Jean Givens
is the author of Observation and Image-Making in Gothic Art
(Cambridge UP, 2005) and co-editor with Karen Reeds and Alain
Touwaide of Visualizing Medieval Medicine and Natural History,
1200-1550 (Ashgate, 2006).
Bette Talvacchia,
Ph.D. (Stanford University): Renaissance; Baroque; History of Prints
Email:
bette.talvacchia@uconn.edu
Michael Young, Ph.D. Art Librarian;
available for consultation.
Email:
michael.s.young@uconn.edu
Classical and Ancient
Mediterranean Studies
(in the
Department of Modern and Classical Languages)
Sara R. Johnson, Ph.D.
(University of California, Berkeley): Classics. Hellenistic Roman History;
Hellenistic Judaism; Later Greek Literature; Hellenistic, Roman, and Late
Antique East
Email:
sara.johnson@uconn.edu
Sara Johnson focuses on Hellenistic
Jewish literature; ethnicity and identity in the Hellenistic world;
ancient fictions; apocalyptic oracles and ancient “resistance
literature.” She has published a book entitled Historical
Fictions and Hellenistic Jewish Identity: Third Maccabees in its
Cultural Context (UC Press, 2004), which is concerned with the
shaping of Jewish identity through the creation of fictions about
the past, focusing especially on Third Maccabees.
Roger Travis, Ph.D.
(University of California, Berkeley): Classics. Greek Tragedy; Latin Poetry;
Literary Theory; Comparative Literature
Email:
roger.travis@uconn.edu
English
C. David Benson, Ph.D. (University of California,
Berkeley): Chaucer, Middle English Literature
Email:
carl.benson@uconn.edu
At present, David Benson is working on
images of the medieval city (and especially London and Rome) in
Middle English prose and poetry in a variety of genres.
His past work has concentrated on the poetry of Chaucer and
Langland, but he also has written on other Middle English topics; in
addition, he has done past research on medieval urban history and
the visual culture of the Middle Ages, especially Italian and
English murals.
Frederick M. Biggs, Ph.D.
(Cornell University): Old and Middle English Language and Literature; Old
Irish Language and Literature
Email:
frederick.biggs@uconn.edu
At the
moment, Fred Biggs is writing on Beowulf, biblical apocrypha in
Anglo-Saxon England, and Chaucer's "Miller's Tale." He is also
currently involved with the Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary
Culture.
Robert J. Hasenfratz, Ph.D. (Pennsylvania State University): Old
and Middle English Literature and Language; Beowulf; Old Norse Language and
Literature; Chaucer
Email:
robert.hasenfratz@uconn.edu
Thomas J. Jambeck, Ph.D.
(University of Colorado): Old English; Medieval Drama; Medieval English
Literature
Email:
thomas.jambeck@uconn.edu
Kathleen
Tonry, Ph.D. (University of Notre Dame): Medieval Literature;
History of the Book (Caxton); 15th Century
Email:
kathleen.tonry@uconn.edu
French
(in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages)
Anne Berthelot,
Ph.D. (University of Paris): Medieval French Language and Literature
Email:
anne.berthelot@uconn.edu
Anne Berthelot's first book was based
on her French Doctorat d’Etat on the writer figures in thirteenth
century literture; she also has published
King Arthur and the Round
Table (1996)
and La Légende du roi Arthur (2004). He current
research includes a book-length study of the Roman de Perceforest,
which is interconnected to a new edition of Le roman des fils du
roi Constant. Professor Berthelot specializes in Arthurian
Literature with a comparatist approach and has published several
books on this topic.
German
(in the
Department of Modern and Classical Languages)
There is currently no medievalist on staff in the German
Department.
History
Daniel Caner, Ph.D. (University of California,
Berkeley): Late Antique History & Culture, Early Church
History, Byzantine History, Greek & Latin Prose, Greek History
Email:
daniel.caner@uconn.edu
Dan Caner has a joint
appointment in both History and Modern and Classical Languages and generally
supervises
the Medieval Studies Program Ph.D. Latin Exams. Professor Caner is
currently working on a couple of translations as well as two projects
entitled
"Christian Gifts and
Material 'Blessings' in Late Antiquity" and "Almsgiving, Monasteries and
Memory."
Kenneth Gouwens, Ph.D. European Cultural and Intellectual history,
1300-1600; Italian Renaissance
Email:
clement.7@uconn.edu
Kenneth
Gouwens is currently working on a critical edition and translation
of A Dialogue Concerning Women and Men Flourishing in Our Time,
by the historian and confidant of Renaissance popes, Paolo Giovio
(1486–1552), as well as a book analyzing Renaissance narratives
about apes and aping that were elaborated in four domains — literary
imitation, theology, anatomy, and portrayals of bestial “others.”
His long-term project is a biography of the second Medici pope,
Clement VII (1523–34).
Lawrence Langer, Ph.D.
(University of Chicago): Byzantine and Medieval Russian History
Email:
lawrence.langer@uconn.edu
Sherri Olson, Ph.D.
(University of Toronto): Medieval Social and Economic History
Email:
sherri.olson@uconn.edu
Sherri
Olson
recently
finished a book manuscript entitled A Mute Gospel: People and
Culture of the Medieval English Common Fields, which is
currently under consideration by the Pontifical Institute of
Mediaeval Studies (University of Toronto); this study is based on
village court records and employs a “microhistorical” lens to
uncover peasant mentality; chapters topics include landscape and
memory, names and naming systems, the court as a “performance
arena,” pragmatic literacy and peasants’ use of documents, among
other topics. She has also started a book project, under
contract to the Greenwood Press “Daily Life Through History” Series,
entitled Daily Life in a Medieval Monastery; this is a survey
text intended for an audience of general readers, high school
students and teachers, and college undergraduates.
Italian
(in the
Department of Modern and Classical Languages)
Franco Masciandaro, Ph.D. (Harvard University): Medieval
Italian Literature; Dante; Boccaccio
Email:
franco.masciandaro@uconn.edu
Music
Eric Rice,
Ph.D. and Certificate in Medieval and Renaissance Studies
(Columbia University): Medieval Liturgy, including the use or
architectural space; Medieval and Renaissance Musicology;
Performance Practices
Email:
eric.rice@uconn.edu
Philosophy
Donald Baxter,
Ph.D. (University of Pittsburgh): Metaphysics and Early Modern
Philosophy
Email:
donald.baxter@uconn.edu
Donald Baxter
is currently working on a book entitled
Hume’s Difficulty about
Identity: Time and Identity in
A Treatise of Human Nature. He teaches ancient and medieval philosophy both because they are interesting in
their own rights and to enrich his understanding of his own areas of specialization.
Spanish
(in the
Department of Modern and Classical Languages)
Benjamin Liu,
Ph.D. (Harvard University): Medieval Spanish Language and Literature
Email:
benjamin.liu@uconn.edu
Emeritus Faculty (Retired)
Bruce Bellingham,
Ph.D. (University of Toronto): Renaissance Musicology; Lutheran
Pedagogy; Practice Performance
Fred A. Cazel, Jr., Ph.D. (The Johns Hopkins University):
English History,1066-1307; History of the Crusades; History of
Taxation
Antonio Cirurgico, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin): Early
Portuguese; Camoes
Terrence McCormick, Ph.D. (University of Illinois): Historical
Germanic Languages
A.S. McGrade, Ph.D. (Cambridge University): Ph.D. (Yale
University): Ancient and Medieval Philosophy; William of Ockham
Michael McHugh, Ph.D. (Catholic University of America): Medieval
Latin and Patristics
Thomas A. Suits, Ph.D. (Yale University): Classical Latin and
Greek
Allen Ward, Ph.D. (Princeton University): Late Roman Empire
Barbara Wright, Ph.D.: Early German and Baroque Literature |
