Faculty

Bookbinding and Printing

James Kelly, Research Librarian
History of the book in early modern England

Codicology

Kathleen Scott, University of Massachusetts Modern Language Association Prize Winner for Distinguished Bibliography
Later Gothic manuscripts, codicology, illuminated manuscripts in the British Isles

Classics

Melissa Mueller, Associate Professor
Greek epic, lyric, and tragedy, with special attention to how Greek literary texts, envisioning certain performance parameters for themselves, engage with their material environments

English

Jenny Adams, Associate Professor of English
Chaucer and late medieval period, with a current research focus on academic debt and university life in late medieval England

Joseph Black, Professor of English
Early modern literature with a broad focus on book history

Jane Hwang Degenhardt, Professor of English
Shakespeare, non-Shakespearean Renaissance drama, gender and race studies, Asian American literature, and African American literature

Stephen Harris, Professor of English
Old English, medieval Latin poetry, early medieval Christianity, and historical linguistics

Marjorie Rubright, Director of the Kinney Center & Associate Professor of English
English literature and culture, early modern race and ethnicity studies, feminist criticism, Renaissance lexical culture, and critical approaches to the study of the global Renaissance

Adam Zucker, Associate Professor of English
Sixteenth and seventeenth-century English literature, with a special focus on the plays of William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and their contemporaries

History

Anne F. Broadbridge, Professor of History
The Mamluk Sultanate, the Mongol Empire, the Ottoman Empire and Temür (Tamerlane), ideology, legitimacy, diplomacy, and women in history

Barry Levy, Professor of History
Early American history and social history

Brian W. Ogilvie, Professor of History
Renaissance and early modern Europe, history of science, history of scholarship, witchcraft belief and persecution, and the history of religion

Heidi Scott, Associate Professor of History
Historical geography and anthropology in the Andes during the sixteenth and seventeenth-centuries

History of Art & Architecture

Sonja Drimmer, Assistant Professor of Medieval Art History
The material production and illumination of English literature between 1350 and 1500 and the visual and material culture of politics at the end of the Middle Ages

Ximena Gómez, Assistant Professor of American Art
The art and visual culture of colonial Latin America and the early modern transatlantic world.

Monika Schmitter, Associate Professor of Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art
Italian art of the late-fifteenth and early-sixteenth-century with an emphasis on the material culture and built environment of Venice

Italian Studies

Arturo Figliola, Senior Lecturer
Socio-spatial aspects of Italian literature and the role of Italy (especially Venezia and Sicilia) as a “cultural mediator” between ‘East’ and ‘West’

Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Philippe Baillargeon, Senior Lecturer & Director for the Program in French & Francophone Studies
Literature and culture of the Renaissance and the early seventeenth century, in particular, Erasmus, Rabelais, Marguerite de Navarre, Pierre de L’Estoile, Béroalde de Verville, la Pléiade, l’école de Lyon, rhetoric, poetics, the history of ideas and Bakhtinian dialogism

Jessica Barr, Associate Professor
Medieval mystical, devotional, and visionary literature, hagiography/saints’ lives, and medieval women’s writing.

Frank Hugus, Professor of German & Scandinavian Studies
Old Icelandic language and literature, Scandinavian mythology

Albert Lloret, Associate Professor of Spanish and Catalan
Literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, textual scholarship, cultural history, translation studies, and the digital humanities

Stephen D. Miller, Associate Professor of Japanese
Classical and medieval Japanese literature, Japanese Buddhism, translation studies, Japanese queer literature and culture

Michael Papio, Professor of Italian
Thirteenth to fifteenth century Italy, including Boccaccio, Dante, philology, and geocriticism

Robert G. Sullivan, Associate Professor of German
Medieval Literature, early German culture, economics and culture of Germany, Crusades and Islam

Theater

Milan Dragicevich, Professor of Acting
Actor and playwright, a member of the Northern New England Repertory Theatre Company in New London, NH, performing leading roles in Anna Christie, Much Ado About Nothing, Hedda Gabler, and Arms and the Man

Harley Erdman, Professor of Theater & Dramaturgy
A dramaturg, playwright, and scholar whose work focuses on adaptation and translation, early modern women playwrights, Spanish Golden Age drama, rebels and outsiders in local history

Music

Evan MacCarthy, Visiting Assistant Professor, Music History
Late medieval and early modern music and music theory, Renaissance and early modern humanism and history of ideas, reception of classical antiquity, liturgy, chant, and processions, music manuscripts, music and diplomacy, soundscapes, performances of Greek drama in 19th-century America

Emiliano Ricciardi, Assistant Professor, Music History
Early music, late Italian madrigal, with an emphasis on the settings of Torquato Tasso’s poetry. A secondary interest is music in fascist Italy and the reception and practice of the twelve-tone technique and the reception of Bach’s music

Art

Brigitte Buettner, Louise Ines Doyle 1934 Professor of Art
Illuminated manuscripts, late medieval court culture, mineralogy and the history of science.

English Language & Literature

Craig Davis, Professor of English Language & Literature and of Comparative Literature
Old and Middle English language and literature, Beowulf, the Arthurian legend and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Old Norse, Medieval Welsh, Old Irish, Gothic, Old High German, Old Saxon language and literature, epics from around the world in translation, Milton and Tolkien

Douglas Lane Patey, Sophia Smith Professor of English
Eighth-century literature, history of the English language, history of the book

French

Eglal Doss-Quinby, Professor of French Studies
Old French lyric poetry. Working alone or in collaboration with philologists and musicologists, she has published seven books

History

Joshua C. Birk, Associate Professor of History
Political history and cultural history across religious boundaries in the medieval Mediterranean world

Political Science

John Patrick Coby, Esther Booth Wiley 1934 Professor of Government
Reformation Parliament, America's Founding & the Constitutional Convention, Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII, Machiavelli, Livy, Socrates, Plato

Rare Books

Shannon Supple, Curator of Rare Books
Archival imaginaries, book history, the history of science, and their intersections

Religion

Suleiman Ali Mourad, Professor of Religion
The symbolism of Jerusalem in Islam, Qur'an and Qur'anic exegesis, the Islamic Near East during the Crusader period, Jihad ideology, the employment of history in Modern thought and national identity

Art History

Michael T. Davis, Chair of Architectural Studies, Professor of Art History
French Gothic architecture of the thirteenth and fourteenth-centuries, the history of modern architecture, the arts of Islam

English

Amy Rodgers, Associate Professor of English
Early Modern literature and culture, film studies, performance studies, dance studies, and literary theory

Sally Sutherland, Chair of Theatre Arts; Senior Lecturer in English
Shakespeare and other early modern playwrights; Shakespeare in performance (stage and film); the court masque; sixteenth and seventeenth-century poetry and prose

Wesley Chihyung Yu, Associate Professor of English
Literature of the Middle Ages with emphases in medieval rhetoric, logic, and early poetics

Spanish

Nieves Romero-Díaz, Chair of Spanish, Latina/o and Latin American Studies; Chair of Romance Languages and Cultures; Professor of Spanish
Spanish Renaissance and Baroque prose literature, the relation between literature, history and politics, women writers, and cultural practices by and about women

Theater Arts

Noah Tuleja, Assistant Professor, Director of the Rooke Theater
Acting, directing, fight choreography, and physical theater. Director of The Players Project.

Robert Eisenstein, Early Music Coordinator, Director of Early Music Program, Mt. Holyoke College
Specialization: Conductor, Collegium, Euridice Ensembles. Medieval Ensemble, seventeenth-century Song Seminar, Music History, viola da gamba, baroque violin, medieval fiddle.

History

Jutta Sperling, Professor of History
Her teaching interests focus on the social and cultural history of early modern Europe, with a special emphasis on Renaissance Visual Culture, Body History, Catholicism, and Comparative Legal Studies of the Mediterranean

James Wald, Associate Professor of History
Modern European history with an emphasis on cultural history from the Eighteenth through the twentieth-centuries, the French Revolution, Central Europe, fascism and Nazism, and early modern Europe. Particular research interests involve the history of intellectuals and literary life

Architectural Studies & Art History

Nicola M. Courtright, William McCall Vickery 1957 Professor of the History of Art; Chair of Architectural Studies
Sixteenth and seventeenth-century European art history, including the art and architecture of the Vatican, Bernini sculpture, Rembrandt drawings, and most recently the art and architecture of French royal residences

Yael R. Rice, Assistant Professor of Art & the History of Art and of Asian Languages and Civilizations
Art and architecture of South Asia and Greater Iran, with a particular focus on manuscripts and other portable arts of the fifteenth to eighteenth-centuries

English

Anston L. Bosman, Associate Professor of English & Chair of English
Early modern literature, transnational Shakespeares, magic and belief in Renaissance literature

French

Sanam Nader-Esfahani, Assistant Professor of French
The literature of sixteenth-century France and Italy, and the relationship between literature, science, and technology.

Theater and Dance

Ron Bashford, Associate Professor of Theater and Dance; Chair of Theater and Dance
Theater Directing and Shakespeare in Production