UCLA Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies

UCLA faculty who are currently members of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies are listed below by department with a summary of their academic interests and specialties. Faculty belonging to interdepartmental programs are cross-listed. An asterisk (*) indicates emeritus status.

UCLA faculty specializing in any aspect of Medieval and/or Renaissance Studies may request to be added to the Center's faculty roster. Such requests are directed to the Center Director and approved by the Center's Faculty Advisory Committee.

Diane Favro: Architecture and topography of early medieval Rome; eleventh-century Armenian architecture; architecture and urbanism in fifteenth-century Italy; virtual reality modeling projects. www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/classics/faculty/cooperating/Favro.htm

Irene A. Bierman: Islamic architecture and art. www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/arthist/faculty/bierman.html

Charlene Villaseñor Black: Spanish and Mexican visual cultures, sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/arthist/faculty/villasenor.html

Sharon E. J. Gerstel: Byzantine art and archaeology; late medieval peasantry; art and archaeology of the Crusades; ethnography of the Early Modern Balkans. www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/arthist/faculty/gerstel.html

Cecelia Klein: Aztec art before, during, and after the Spanish Conquest of 1521. www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/arthist/faculty/klein.html

David Kunzle: Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century art in the Netherlands, England, and Germany; art and Reformation. www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/arthist/faculty/kunzle.html

Donald McCallum: Medieval Japanese art. www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/arthist/faculty/mccallum.html

*Carlo Pedretti: Leonardo da Vinci and his context.

Joanna Woods-Marsden: Portraiture in Renaissance Italy; gender studies; Titian; Renaissance courts. www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/arthist/faculty/woods.html

William M. Bodiford: Japanese religious life and culture; East Asian Buddhism. www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/alc/faculty/bodiford.html

Robert E. Buswell: Buddhism in medieval East Asia; Buddhist mysticism; monastic culture. www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/alc/faculty/buswell.html

John B. Duncan: medieval Korean institutional and intellectual history through the eighteenth century. www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/alc/faculty/duncan.html

Stephanie W. Jamison: Vedic Sanskrit; Indo-European linguistics. www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/alc/faculty/jamison.htm

Peter H. Lee: Classical and medieval Korean literature; comparative East Asian literature. www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/alc/faculty/lee.html

Michael F. Marra: Japanese literature, aesthetics, and hermeneutics. www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/alc/faculty/marra/

*Herbert Plutschow: Classical Japanese literature and culture. www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/alc/faculty/plutscho.html

Gregory Schopen: Buddhist studies and Indology; social and religious history of south Asia. www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/alc/faculty/schopen.html

Jonathan Silk: Indian Buddhism and its transmission to Central and East Asia (Tibet and China), 5th century BCE to 10th century CE; scriptural literatures of early and Mahayana Buddhism, and the textual traditions of these literatures; Chinese reception of Buddhism. www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/ealc/faculty/silk.htm

Richard E. Strassberg: Classical Chinese literature and culture. www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/alc/faculty/strsberg.html

David Blank: Ancient philosophy; ancient medicine and rhetoric; transmission of classical texts. www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/classics/faculty/regular/Blank.htm

Shane Butler: Latin literature (ancient to Renaissance); the Classical tradition; intellectual history; poetics. http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/people/ShaneButler/

Sander M. Goldberg: Drama, rhetoric, and oratory. www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/classics/faculty/regular/Goldberg.htm

Michael W. Haslam: History of Greek texts. www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/classics/faculty/regular/Haslam.htm

*Philip Levine: Paleography; late Latin literature. www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/classics/faculty/emeritus/Levine.htm

Kathryn A. Morgan: Greek intellectual history and philosophy and its reception in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/classics/faculty/regular/Morgan.htm

*Jaan Puhvel: Comparative philology; comparative mythology. www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/classics/faculty/emeritus/Puhvel.htm

Brent Vine: Classical and Indo-European linguistics; transmission of classical texts; history of English. www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/classics/faculty/regular/Vine.htm

See also Giulia Sissa, Political Science

A. R. Braunmuller: see English. www.english.ucla.edu/person/PersonInfo.asp?person_id=17

Massimo Ciavolella: see Italian. www.italian.ucla.edu/faculty/Ciavolella%5FM/

Katherine C. King: Epic; tragedy; the Classical tradition; women's studies. www.complit.ucla.edu/Katherine_King.html

Efraín Kristal: see Spanish and Portuguese. www.complit.ucla.edu/Efrain_Kristal.html

*Lionel March: Euclidean geometry; Nicomachean arithmetic; architectonics of humanism. dma.ucla.edu/people/faculty.php?ID=16

Michael J. B. Allen: Renaissance Platonism; Shakespeare; Spenser; see also Italian. www.english.ucla.edu/person/PersonInfo.asp?person_id=3

Christopher Baswell: Chaucer; Classical traditions; codicology; high and late medieval culture. www.english.ucla.edu/person/PersonInfo.asp?person_id=380

A. R. Braunmuller: Tudor and Stuart English drama; European drama and art; history of the book. www.english.ucla.edu/person/PersonInfo.asp?person_id=17

King-Kok Cheung: Milton; Shakespeare; Marlowe. www.english.ucla.edu/person/PersonInfo.asp?person_id=23

Edward I. Condren: Old and Middle English poetry; Chaucer; The Pearl poet; numerical design in medieval literature; intellectual property. www.english.ucla.edu/person/PersonInfo.asp?person_id=26

Matthew Fisher: Historiography, hagiography, paleography, codicology; Old and Middle English; Anglo-Norman literature. http://www.english.ucla.edu/person/PersonInfo.asp?person_id=460

R. A. Foakes: Shakespeare and Renaissance drama. www.english.ucla.edu/person/PersonInfo.asp?person_id=202

Lowell Gallagher: Early modern cultural studies of England and France; Semiotics; Narratology; Spenser. www.english.ucla.edu/person/PersonInfo.asp?person_id=44

Eric Jager: Old English, Middle English, Latin, French, Italian; Augustine and patristics; the history of the book; law and ritual; literary theory. www.english.ucla.edu/person/PersonInfo.asp?person_id=315

*Henry Ansgar Kelly: England, Italy, France, Spain; literature, canon law, common law, liturgy, theology, history of ideas (biblical, classical, medieval, early modern). www.english.ucla.edu/faculty/kelly/

Gordon Kipling: Medieval and Tudor drama; theatrical spectacle; Shakespeare; Chaucer; Netherlandic-British cultural relations. www.english.ucla.edu/person/PersonInfo.asp?person_id=67

*V. A. Kolve: Medieval drama; Chaucer; literature and visual arts; medieval anti-Semitism. www.english.ucla.edu/person/PersonInfo.asp?person_id=69

*Richard A. Lanham: Medieval, Renaissance, and modern digital rhetoric. www.english.ucla.edu/person/PersonInfo.asp?person_id=209

Arthur Little: Gender, race, and ritual in early modern drama, especially in Shakespeare’s plays; the politics of James I’s writings; twentieth-century studies. www.english.ucla.edu/person/PersonInfo.asp?person_id=80

Claire McEachern: Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature; historiography; national identity; history of gender; political theory; religion; editing of Shakespeare. http://www.english.ucla.edu/person/PersonInfo.asp?person_id=90

Donka Minkova: History of English; English historical phonology; metrics; syntax. http://www.english.ucla.edu/person/PersonInfo.asp?person_id=96

Joseph Falaky Nagy: Medieval Celtic literatures; Celtic folklore; comparative folklore and mythology. http://www.english.ucla.edu/person/PersonInfo.asp?person_id=103

Jonathan F. S. Post: Seventeenth-century poetry; Milton; Shakespeare. http://www.english.ucla.edu/person/PersonInfo.asp?person_id=113

*Florence H. Ridley: Chaucer; fourteenth-century English poetry; Middle English dialects; medieval Scots poetry.

*David S. Rodes (Director Emeritus, UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts): Renaissance and Restoration theater and graphic arts; Shakespeare; Dryden; Wycherly; Molière.

Karen E. Rowe: Colonial American literature to 1800; Renaissance and seventeenth-century literature; women's literature. http://www.english.ucla.edu/person/PersonInfo.asp?person_id=124

*Paul R. Sellin: Neo-Latin criticism (especially Heinsius, Vossius, Scaliger); English literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; Anglo-Dutch relations; Renaissance and Golden-Age Dutch literature, history, and art; Donne; Milton; seventeenth-century poetry; Raleigh and the Orinoco.

Debora Shuger: Neo-Latin; Renaissance Bible; intellectual history and political thought through the seventeenth century; European cultural studies. http://www.english.ucla.edu/person/PersonInfo.asp?person_id=137

Robert N. Watson: Shakespeare; Renaissance drama; Metaphysical poetry. http://www.english.ucla.edu/person/PersonInfo.asp?person_id=150

Jean-Claude Carron: Humanism; French Renaissance; poetry, literature, and philosophy; history of food. http://www.french.ucla.edu/people/carron.htm

Zrinka Stahuljak: Medieval romance, historiography, and poetry; affect in the Middle Ages; medieval sexualities; Middle Ages and the Nineteenth Century; contemporary and medieval translation theory. http://www.french.ucla.edu/people/stahuljak.htm

Denis Cosgrove: Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century geography and cosmography; Venetian landscape and culture. http://www.geog.ucla.edu/faculty/cosgrove/cosgrove.html

*Norman J.W. Thrower: Geographical discovery and exploration; history of cartography.

*Franz Bäuml: Medieval literacy; oral tradition.

*Marianna D. Birnbaum: Hungarian literature; Renaissance culture of Central Europe; Jews in Renaissance Europe.

James A. Schultz: Middle High German literature; history of sexuality; history of childhood; gender. http://www.germanic.ucla.edu/faculty/schultz.htm

Christopher M. Stevens: Germanic linguistics and philology; historical linguistics; dialectology. http://www.germanic.ucla.edu/faculty/stevens.htm

*Kees W. Bolle: Myth; mysticism; methods in the history of religions; Hinduism; religion and politics; Editor, Hermeneutics: Studies in the History of Religions.

*Robert I. Burns, S.J.: Western Mediterranean; medieval Spain and southern France, especially Catalan lands; Muslim-Christian-Jewish relations. http://www.history.ucla.edu/burns/

Brian P. Copenhaver: History of science; history of philosophy; late medieval and early modern Europe. http://www.cmrs.ucla.edu/brian/

Patrick J. Geary: Early medieval social and cultural history; barbarian societies; history of memory; history of ethnicity. http://www.history.ucla.edu/geary/

Carlo Ginzburg: Popular culture; intellectual history; iconography.

*Richard Hovannisian: History of Armenia and Caucasus. http://www.history.ucla.edu/hovannisian/

*Baria Krekic: Medieval southeastern Europe; Medieval Russia; Byzantium; Dalmatian and Italian urban history in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. http://www.history.ucla.edu/krekic/

*James Lockhart: History of Spanish America, 1492-1800; social history; ethnohistory and Indian language studies.

*Lauro Martines: History and literature of Renaissance Italy and sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England.

Muriel C. McClendon: Tudor and Stuart England; the Reformation; religion and society in early modern Europe. http://www.history.ucla.edu/mcclendon/

Ronald Mellor: Roman history; religion and law. http://www.history.ucla.edu/mellor/

Michael G. Morony: Early Islamic history. http://www.history.ucla.edu/morony/

Gabriel Piterberg: Ottoman history; historiography and historical consciousness; Orientalism and nationalism. http://www.history.ucla.edu/piterberg/

Claudia Rapp: Late Antiquity; Byzantine studies; hagiography. http://www.history.ucla.edu/rapp/

*Richard H. Rouse: Literacy; manuscript production; paleography. http://www.history.ucla.edu/rouse/

Teofilo F. Ruiz: Late medieval social and cultural history; the kingdom of Castile; Iberian peninsula, late medieval and early modern. http://www.history.ucla.edu/ruiz/

Geoffrey Symcox: Urban history, architecture, and planning (Renaissance and Baroque); states and institutions in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, France and Italy; Columbus and the Columbian voyages. http://www.history.ucla.edu/symcox/

Kevin Terraciano: History of Spanish America, 1492-1800; social history; ethnohistory. http://www.history.ucla.edu/terraciano/

Scott L. Waugh: (Dean of Social Sciences): Social and political history of medieval England. http://www.history.ucla.edu/waughs/

Dora B. Weiner: Social history of the health sciences, particularly in France; medical humanities; history of the hospital and of psychiatry. http://www.history.ucla.edu/weiner/

See also Ynez Violé O’Neill, Neurobiology; Anthony Pagden, Political Science.

Listed under Classics: Stephanie Jamison and Brent Vine; under English: Joseph Falaky Nagy; under Germanic Languages, Christopher Stevens; under Slavic Languages and Literatures, Vyacheslav Ivanov.

Michael J. B. Allen: Ficino, Pico, and the Quattrocento; Renaissance philosophy, especially Neo-Platonism, see also English. www.english.ucla.edu/person/PersonInfo.asp?person_id=3

Luigi Ballerini: Medieval Italian poetry; Renaissance gastronomy. http://www.italian.ucla.edu/faculty/Ballerini_L/index.html

Massimo Ciavolella: Boccaccio; Renaissance literature; Renaissance theories of love; www.italian.ucla.edu/faculty/Ciavolella%5FM/.

*Marga Cottino-Jones: Medieval, Renaissance, and seventeenth-century literature; Boccaccio.

Edward F. Tuttle: Italian philology; comparative Romance historical linguistics; socio-pragmatic and structural motives of language change.

Khaled Abou El Fadl: Medieval Muslim law. http://www.law.ucla.edu/home/index.asp?page=386

*William M. McGovern: English legal history. http://www.law.ucla.edu/home/index.asp?page=612

Stephen C. Yeazell: Medieval and Early Modern adjudicative procedure in Britain. http://www.law.ucla.edu/home/index.asp?page=765

*Robert P. Stockwell: Old English; Middle English; history of English language; historical linguistics. http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/stockwel/stockwel.htm

David Hayes-Bautista (General Internal Medicine): Pre-Columbian health and medicine; colonial medical practice; culture and health. http://www.ph.ucla.edu/hs/hayes-bautista.html

Robert G. Frank, Jr.: History of medicine and disease in England. http://www.history.ucla.edu/frankr/

*Ynez Violé O'Neill: History of medicine, especially anatomy, surgery, and neurology; medical images. http://www.neurobio.ucla.edu/~yoneill/

*Murray C. Bradshaw: Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century music and music theory, especially the falsobordone, the toccata, early sacred monody, and embellishment.

*Frank A. D'Accone: Italian music of the fourteenth through seventeenth centuries.

*Marie Louise Göllner: Music of the twelfth through fourteenth centuries and the late Renaissance.

*Richard A. Hudson: Renaissance instrumental music, especially dance-related forms; tempo rubato; falling-third cadences.

Susan McClary: Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century music; cultural theory. http://www.musicology.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-bio.html

Mitchell Morris: Fourteenth- to sixteenth-century music; relationship between music and liturgical development in the late medieval mass. http://www.musicology.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-bio.html

*Robert Stevenson: Medieval and sixteenth-century Spain, Portugal, and Latin America.

Elizabeth Upton: Twelfth- through sixteenth-century music, especially the courtly chansons of the 14th and 15th centuries; musical paleography and manuscript source studies; medievalism and music. http://www.musicology.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-bio.html

Carol Bakhos: Ancient and medieval rabbinic texts; comparative scriptural interpretation. http://www.nelc.ucla.edu/Faculty/Bakhos.htm

*Amin Banani: Cultural history, literature of Persia in the Islamic era. http://www.nelc.ucla.edu/Faculty/Banani.htm

András J. E. Bodrogligeti: Central Asian Turkic languages and literatures. http://www.nelc.ucla.edu/Faculty/Bodrogligeti.htm

Michael Cooperson: Classical Arabic literature, especially biography; the cultural history of Abbasid Baghdad. http://www.nelc.ucla.edu/Faculty/Cooperson.htm

S. Peter Cowe: Medieval East Christian theology and spirituality; Armenian language and literature. http://www.nelc.ucla.edu/Faculty/Cowe.htm

*Herbert A. Davidson: Medieval Hebrew literature; Rabbinic literature; medieval Jewish and Arabic philosophy. http://www.nelc.ucla.edu/Faculty.htm

Ismail K. Poonawala: Early intellectual and cultural history of Islam; Shi'ism, Isma'ilis/Fatimids; classical Arabic literature; modern trends in Islam. http://www.nelc.ucla.edu/Faculty/Poonawala.htm

Yona Sabar: Hebrew and Aramaic; Syriac; Modern Aramaic dialects; Jewish languages; folk and religious literature of Kurdistani Jews. http://www.nelc.ucla.edu/Faculty/Sabar.htm

Hossein Ziai: Medieval Islamic philosophy; Persian classical literature; Post Avicennan logic and epistemology; impact of systematic philosophy on Persian poetic traditions. http://www.nelc.ucla.edu/Faculty/Ziai.htm

John Carriero: Medieval Aristotelian philosophy; seventeenth-century philosophy. http://admin.cdh.ucla.edu/webpage.php?par=88

Brian Copenhaver: Renaissance philosophy; see also History. http://www.cmrs.ucla.edu/brian

Calvin Normore: Medieval philosophy. http://admin.cdh.ucla.edu/webpage.php?par=84

Terrance Parsons: Philosophy of language; metaphysics; history of logic. http://admin.cdh.ucla.edu/webpage.php?par=91

See also Michael J. B. Allen, English, Italian; Hossein Ziai, Near Eastern.

Kirstie McClure: History and historiography of political thought; politics and literature; feminist theory. http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/polisci/

Anthony Pagden: The history of political and social theory with special reference to European overseas expansion and its aftermath; see also History. http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/polisci/menu/faculty_regular.htm#

Giulia Sissa: Culture and thought in ancient societies; the classical tradition in medieval and Renaissance political theory; see also Classics. http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/polisci/

Dora B. Weiner: See History. http://www.history.ucla.edu/weiner/

Jesse L. Byock: Old Norse/Icelandic sagas and history; medieval Scandinavian archaeology and society. http://www.germanic.ucla.edu/faculty/Byock.htm

*James R. Massengale: Scandinavian medieval ballads; Scandinavian folk tales. http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/scandinavian/faculty/massengale/index.html

Timothy R. Tangherlini: Folklore, oral traditions, ritual; Old Norse. http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/scandinavian/faculty/Tangherlini_T/index.html

*Henning Andersen: Cultural contacts in the Baltic and Slavic lands; historical linguistics.

Vyacheslav V. Ivanov: Old Church Slavonic and Old Russian; Old Russian literature; Old Lithuanian literature; linguistic and cultural situation in the Great Duchy of Lithuania (14th-17th cenuturies); Baltic and Slavonic folklore and mythology; Tocharian medieval texts; Sogdian and Khotanese Sana medieval texts.

Emily Klenin: Slavic linguistics, languages, and literature.

Gail Lenhoff: Comparative hagiography and historiography of medieval Russia; Orthodox liturgics; Byzantine heritage versus regional literary traditions; theological legitimization of the tsars; textual transmission and redaction.

*Dean S. Worth: Russian language history; Medieval Russian philology.

Rebecca Jean Emigh: Fifteenth-century Tuscan agriculture; historical demography; sociological theory.

*Shirley Arora: Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century chronicles, travel literature, folklore.

Verónica Cortínez: Colonial and contemporary Latin American literature; literary theory; Chilean film.

John Dagenais: Medieval Castilian and Catalan literature; Hispano-Latin; manuscript culture.

*Claude L. Hulet: History and literature of Renaissance Portugal and Brazil, especially maritime discoveries of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; Brazilian literature from 1500 to present.

Efraín Kristal: Spanish-American colonial literature; the Spanish historical epic.

Anna More: New World Spain; colonial baroque culture.

C. Brian Morris: Golden-Age Spanish poetry; the Picaresque novel.

Claudia Parodi: History of Spanish language (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries); Spanish dialectology; historiography of linguistics.

Enrique Rodríguez-Cepeda: Cervantes/Spanish Golden Age; sixteenth- and seventeenth-century theater; popular culture and Spanish ballads.

*Henry Goodman: Renaissance and Baroque theater; Shakespeare.

Michael Hackett: Early Baroque theater; Shakespeare; the English masque.

*Carl R. Mueller: Medieval and Renaissance theater; Shakespeare.

*Emma Lewis Thomas: Renaissance and Baroque dance history; translation of Italian, French, German, English texts and notation.