Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program

Expertise: Medieval literature, drama, digital humanities

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

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

Expertise: Late antique and Byzantine archaeology; early monasticism

Expertise: Roman and medieval history

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

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

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

Expertise: Renaissance and Baroque art

Expertise: Qur'anic studies, Islamic studies, Early Islamic history, Arabic epigraphy and paleography, philology

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

Expertise: Jewish history, women's and gender studies

Expertise: American drama and American studies; dramatic literature; theater history; performance theory; avant-garde theater; playwriting; dramaturgy; theater criticism; gender studies; men's studies; media studies; visual studies; comparative literature

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

Expertise: modern and contemporary Spanish and comparative literature, film, and culture; U.S. film and popular culture

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

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.