Faculty Committee

Dorothy Kim
Program Chair
Assistant Professor of English

Expertise: Medieval literature, drama, digital humanities

Jonathan P. Decter
Edmond J. Safra Professor of Sephardic Studies
781-736-2960 Lown Center for Judaica Studies, Room 210

Expertise: Jews of the Islamic world, medieval Hebrew literature, medieval Jewish studies, Sephardic Studies, medieval Jewish thought

William Flesch
Professor of English
781-736-2142 Rabb Graduate Center, Room 139

Expertise: Poetry, renaissance, romanticism, theory, literature and philosophy, film, behavioral economics, cognitive studies

Darlene Brooks Hedstrom
Myra and Robert Kraft and Jacob Hiatt Associate Professor of Christian Studies

Expertise: Late antique and Byzantine archaeology; early monasticism

William E. Kapelle
Associate Professor of History
781-736-2279 Olin-Sang American Civilization Center, Room 120

Expertise: Roman and medieval history

Michael Randall
Professor of French and Comparative Literature
781-736-3204 Shiffman Humanities Center, Room 109

Expertise: Late medieval and Renaissance poetry, prose, and philosophy; Italian and comparative literature; modern politics and literature; detective novels

Govind Sreenivasan
Associate Professor of History
781-736-2277 Olin-Sang American Civilization Center, Room 117

Expertise: Early modern European history, especially Germany; world history

Ramie Targoff
Professor of English
781-736-2148 Mandel Center for the Humanities, Room 107

Expertise: Renaissance English and Italian literature; Shakespeare; Religion and literature; Renaissance women's literature

Jonathan W. Unglaub
Associate Professor of Fine Arts
781-736-2665 Mandel Center for the Humanities, Room 211

Expertise: Renaissance and Baroque art

Other Faculty Teaching MERS Courses

Carl Sharif El-Tobgui
Assistant Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, and Director of the Arabic Language Program
781-736-2071 Lown Center for Judaica Studies, Room 206

Expertise: Islamic thought, particularly Islamic theology, law, and jurisprudence; Arabic language (Qur'anic, classical & modern); classical Arabic literature and poetry

ChaeRan Yoo Freeze
Professor of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
781-736-2987 Lown Center for Judaica Studies, Room 312

Expertise: Jewish history, women's and gender studies

Thomas King
Associate Professor of English
781-736-2149 Rabb Graduate Center 244

Expertise: Early modern English drama and social performance, 18th-century British studies, performance studies, queer studies, gender studies

Laura Quinney
Professor of English
781-736-2144  Rabb 131

Expertise: Romanticism, literature and philosophy, 18th-century literature

Paola Servino
Senior Lecturer in Italian Studies
781-726-3226 Shiffman Humanities Center, 101

Expertise: Italian language, culture and literature instructor from beginning to upper level courses; Italian language course coordinator; language teaching methodology and assessment; ACTFL Italian tester; Italian film, Italian Jewish culture, immigration in Italy and Italian American representations

Eugene R. Sheppard
Associate Professor of Modern Jewish History and Thought
781-736-2965 Lown Center for Judaica Studies, Room 307

Expertise: Modern European Jewish intellectual history, history of Jewish nationalism and zionism, modern European intellectual history and the history of continental philosophy. A special interest in modern German Jewish thought, and the impact of European Jewish refugees on the American, European, and Israeli public sphere as well as the academy.

Amy Singer
Sylvia K. Hassenfeld Chair in Islamic Studies
Director of Graduate Studies
781-736-2281 Olin-Sang American Civilization Center, 217

Expertise: Ottoman and Turkish history; charity and philanthropy in Islamic history; agrarian history; Ottoman Jerusalem and Palestine