Current and Recent Renaissance Studies Graduate Faculty

Philippe Baillargeon
Lecturer, French and Francophone Studies, UMass

Frank Brownlow
Chair of English, Gwen and Allen Smith Professor of English, Mount Holyoke College
Liverpool University, England, B.A., Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, England, Ph.D
Shakespeare; English Renaissance literature

Jane Hwang Degenhardt
Assistant Professor in English, a Five Colleges Fellow.
B.A.,Hamilton College, Ph.D.,University of Pennsylvania
Conversions of identity (religious, cultural, and racial) on the Renaissance stage.How English contact with the East and the religion of Islam created anxieties about identity that were played out on the stage.

Edwin Gentzler
Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature, Director of UMass Translation Center
B.A., Kenyon College, 1973; Ph.D., Vanderbilt, 1990
Research focuses on issues of power and neutrality in translation. Course on International Shakespeare in Translation.

Eugene Hill
Professor of English, Mount Holyoke College
Columbia College, A.B., Princeton University, Ph.D.
16th and 17th century English literature; John Donne; John Milton.

Donald Maddox
Professor and Director of French and Francophone Studies
B.A., Kansas, 1966; M.A., Duke, 1969; Ph.D., 1970.

Elizabeth H.D. Mazzocco
Professor and Director of Italian Studies,
B.A., E. Texas State University, 1980; M.A., Bryn Mawr, 1983; Ph.D., 1988.

Brian Ogilvie
Associate professor of History, UMass
Ph.D., University of Chicago (1997).
Specializing in the history of science with focus on Renaissance scientific thought

William Oram
Helen Means Professor of English Language & Literature, Smith College

Michael Papio
Assistant Professor and Director of the Italian Studies Program, UMass
BA, Florida State, 1990; MA, Virginia, 1993; Ph.D., 1998

Nina Scott
UMass and Mount Holyoke Professor Emerita, Spanish and Portuguese
B.A., Wellesley, 1959; M.A., Stanford, 1961; Ph.D., 1968.
Spanish 16th- and 17th – century drama; Spanish women writers (eg. Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz)