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.

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.

Irene A. Bierman-McKinney: Islamic architecture and art.

Charlene Villaseñor Black: Spanish and Mexican visual cultures, sixteenth to eighteenth centuries.

Meredith Cohen: Art, architecture, and urban development of high medieval Europe.

Sharon E. J. Gerstel: Byzantine art and archaeology; late medieval peasantry; art and archaeology of the Crusades; ethnography of the Early Modern Balkans.

Cecelia Klein: Aztec art before, during, and after the Spanish Conquest of 1521.

David Kunzle (Emeritus): Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century art in the Netherlands, England, and Germany; art and Reformation; now finishing a book called Chesuchristo, the fusion in word and image of jesus Christ and Che Guevara.

Donald McCallum: Medieval Japanese art.

Carlo Pedretti (Emeritus): Leonardo da Vinci and his context.

Joanna Woods-Marsden (Emeritus): Portraiture in Renaissance Italy; gender studies; Titian; Renaissance courts.

William M. Bodiford: Japanese religious life and culture; East Asian Buddhism.

Robert E. Buswell: Buddhism in medieval East Asia; Buddhist mysticism; monastic culture.

Jack W. Chen: Medieval Chinese literature, with a particular interest in lyric poetry, anecdotes, and gossip.

John B. Duncan: Medieval Korean institutional and intellectual history through the eighteenth century.

Torquil Duthie: Early Japanes poetry, mythology, and historical writing.

Natasha Heller: Religion in China, 9th-16th century; monasticism; legal culture.

Stephanie W. Jamison: Vedic Sanskrit; Indo-European linguistics.

Peter H. Lee (Emeritus): Classical and medieval Korean literature; comparative East Asian literature.

Gregory Schopen: Buddhist studies and Indology; social and religious history of south Asia.

Jonathan Silk (Emeritus): 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.

Richard E. Strassberg: Classical Chinese literature and culture.

David Blank: Ancient philosophy; ancient medicine and rhetoric; transmission of classical texts.

Shane Butler: Latin literature (ancient to Renaissance); the Classical tradition; intellectual history; poetics.

Sander M. Goldberg: Drama, rhetoric, and oratory.

Philip Levine (Emeritus): Paleography; late Latin literature.

Kathryn A. Morgan: Greek intellectual history and philosophy and its reception in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

Jaan Puhvel (Emeritus): Comparative philology; comparative mythology.

Giulia Sissa: Culture and thought in ancient societies; the classical tradition in medieval and Renaissance political theory; also Political Science.

Brent Vine: Classical and Indo-European linguistics; Vulgar Latin; history of English.

A. R. Braunmuller: Tudor and Stuart English drama; European drama and art; history of the book; also English.

Massimo Ciavolella (CMRS Director): Boccaccio; Renaissance literature; Renaissance theories of love; also Italian.

Katherine C. King: Epic; tragedy; the Classical tradition; women's studies.

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

Kirstie McClure: History and historiography of political thought; politics and literature; feminist theory; also Political Science.

Zrinka Stahuljak: Medieval romance, historiography, and poetry; history of sexuality; Middle Ages and the nineteenth century; medieval translation theory; translation studies; also French & Francophone Studies.

Michael J. B. Allen: Renaissance Platonism; Shakespeare; Spenser; also Italian and Philosophy.

A. R. Braunmuller: Tudor and Stuart English drama; European drama and art; history of the book.

King-Kok Cheung: Milton; Shakespeare; Marlowe.

Christine Chism: Old and Middle English literature, drama, and culture; theories of history, society, and cultural encounter; medieval Islam and Arabic; gender and sexuality

Edward I. Condren (Emeritus): Old and Middle English poetry; Chaucer; The Pearl poet; numerical design in medieval literature; intellectual property.

Matthew Fisher: Historiography, hagiography, paleography, codicology; Old and Middle English; Anglo-Norman literature.

R. A. Foakes (Emeritus): Shakespeare and Renaissance drama.

Barbara Fuchs: Early Modern English and Spanish literature, Mediterranean and
transatlantic studies, literature and empire, transnationalism and
literary history, race and religion in the early modern world; also Spanish & Portuguese.

Lowell Gallagher: Early modern cultural studies of England and France; Semiotics; Narratology; Spenser.

Eric Jager: Old English, Middle English, Latin, French, Italian; Augustine and patristics; the history of the book; law and ritual; literary theory.

Henry Ansgar Kelly, Distinguished Research Professor: England, Italy, France, Spain; literature, canon law, common law, liturgy, theology, history of ideas (biblical, classical, medieval, early modern).

Gordon Kipling: Medieval and Tudor drama; theatrical spectacle; Shakespeare; Chaucer; Netherlandic-British cultural relations.

V. A. Kolve (Emeritus): Medieval drama; Chaucer; literature and visual arts; medieval anti-Semitism.

Richard A. Lanham (Emeritus): Medieval, Renaissance, and modern digital rhetoric.

Arthur Little: Nationalism and imperialism in early modern English culture; Shakespeare; race, gender, and sexuality in early modern culture.

Claire McEachern: Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature; historiography; national identity; history of gender; political theory; religion; editing of Shakespeare.

Donka Minkova: History of English; English historical phonology; metrics; syntax.

Joseph Falaky Nagy: Medieval Celtic literatures; Celtic folklore; comparative folklore and mythology.

Jonathan F. S. Post: Seventeenth-century poetry; Milton; Shakespeare.

Florence H. Ridley (Emerita): 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.

Paul R. Sellin (Emeritus): 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: Tudor-Stuart religion and literature, neo-Latin, early modern intellectual history (especially religion, law, political thought).

Robert N. Watson: Shakespeare; Renaissance drama; Metaphysical poetry.

Jean-Claude Carron: Humanism; French Renaissance; poetry, literature, and philosophy; history of food.

Zrinka Stahuljak: Medieval romance, historiography, and poetry; history of sexuality; medieval Mediterranean; Middle Ages and the nineteenth century; medieval translation theory; translation studies; also Comparative Literature.

Norman J.W. Thrower (Emeritus): Geographical discovery and exploration; history of cartography.

Marianna D. Birnbaum (Emerita): 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.

Christopher M. Stevens: Germanic linguistics and philology; historical linguistics; dialectology.

Brian P. Copenhaver: History of philosophy; history of science; late medieval and early modern Europe; also Philosophy.

Patrick J. Geary: Early medieval social and cultural history; barbarian societies; history of memory; history of ethnicity.

Carlo Ginzburg (Emeritus): Popular culture; intellectual history; iconography.

Richard Hovannisian (Emeritus): History of Armenia and Caucasus.

Barisa Krekic (Emeritus): Medieval southeastern Europe; Medieval Russia; Byzantium; Dalmatian and Italian urban history in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

Lauro Martines (Emeritus): History and literature of Renaissance Italy and sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England.

Ronald Mellor: Roman history; religion and law.

Michael G. Morony: Early Islamic history.

Anthony Pagden: The history of political and social theory with special reference to European overseas expansion and its aftermath; also Political Science.

Gabriel Piterberg: Ottoman history; historiography and historical consciousness; Orientalism and nationalism.

Richard H. Rouse (Emeritus): History of texts and libraries; manuscript production; paleography.

Teofilo F. Ruiz: Late medieval social and cultural history; the kingdom of Castile; Iberian peninsula, late medieval and early modern.

Peter Stacey: Renaissance political theory and intellectual history.

Geoffrey Symcox (Emeritus): 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.

Kevin Terraciano: History of Spanish America, 1492-1800; social history; ethnohistory.

Scott L. Waugh: (Executive Vice-Chancellor and Provost): Social and political history of medieval England.

Dora B. Weiner: Social history of the health sciences, particularly in France; medical humanities; history of the hospital and of psychiatry.

Robert G. Frank, Jr.: History of medicine and disease in England.

Ynez Violé O'Neill: History of medicine, especially anatomy, surgery, and neurology; medical images.

Dora B. Weiner: Social history of the health sciences, particularly in France; medical humanities; history of the hospital and psychiatry.

Stephanie W. Jamison: Vedic Sanskrit; Indo-European linguistics; also Asian Languages and Cultures.

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; also Slavic Languages and Literatures.

Joseph Falaky Nagy: Medieval Celtic literatures; Celtic folklore; comparative folklore and mythology; also English.

Christopher M. Stevens: Germanic linguistics and philology; historical linguistics; dialectology; also Germanic Languages.

Brent Vine: Classical and Indo-European linguistics; Vulgar Latin; history of English; also Classics.

Michael J. B. Allen: Ficino, Pico, and the Quattrocento; Renaissance philosophy, especially Neo-Platonism; also English and Philosophy.

Luigi Ballerini: Medieval Italian poetry; Renaissance gastronomy.

Massimo Ciavolella (CMRS Director): Boccaccio; Renaissance literature; Renaissance theories of love.

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

Khaled Abou El Fadl: Medieval Muslim law.

Stephen C. Yeazell Medieval and Early Modern adjudicative procedure in Britain.

David Hayes-Bautista (General Internal Medicine): Pre-Columbian health and medicine; colonial medical practice; culture and health.

Frank A. D'Accone (Emeritus): Italian music of the fourteenth through seventeenth centuries.

Marie Louise Göllner (Emerita): Music of the twelfth through fourteenth centuries and the late Renaissance.

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

Mitchell Morris: Fourteenth- to sixteenth-century music; relationship between music and liturgical development in the late medieval mass.

Elizabeth Upton: Twelfth- through sixteenth-century music, especially courtly chansons of the 14th and 15th centuries; musical paleography and manuscript source studies; medievalism and music.

Carol Bakhos: Ancient and medieval rabbinic texts; comparative scriptural interpretation.

Amin Banani (Emeritus): Cultural history, literature of Persia in the Islamic era.

Michael Cooperson: Classical Arabic literature, especially biography; the cultural history of Abbasid Baghdad.

S. Peter Cowe: Medieval East Christian theology and spirituality; Armenian language and literature.

Herbert A. Davidson (Emeritus): Medieval Hebrew literature; Rabbinic literature; medieval Jewish and Arabic philosophy.

Ismail K. Poonawala: Early intellectual and cultural history of Islam; Shi'ism, Isma'ilis/Fatimids; classical Arabic literature; contemporary Islamic thought.

Yona Sabar: Hebrew and Aramaic; Syriac; Modern Aramaic dialects; Jewish languages; folk and religious literature of Kurdistani Jews.

Michael J.B. Allen: Renaissance philosophy, especially Neo-Platonism; also English and Italian.

John Carriero: Medieval Aristotelian philosophy; seventeenth-century philosophy.

Brian Copenhaver: Renaissance philosophy; also History.

Calvin Normore: Medieval philosophy.

Terence Parsons: Philosophy of language; metaphysics; history of logic.

Kirstie McClure: History and historiography of political thought; politics and literature; feminist theory; also Comparative Literature.

Anthony Pagden: The history of political and social theory with special reference to European overseas expansion and its aftermath.

Giulia Sissa: Culture and thought in ancient societies; the classical tradition in medieval and Renaissance political theory; also Classics.

Jesse L. Byock: Viking archaeology; Old Icelandic and Old Norse history, society, and sagas; feud and volence in the Viking world.

James R. Massengale (Emeritus): Scandinavian medieval ballads; Scandinavian folk tales.

Timothy R. Tangherlini: Folklore, oral traditions, ritual; Old Norse.

Henning Andersen (Emeritus): 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 (fourteenth-seventeenth 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: Old Russian hagiography, history writing, textual production.

Dean S. Worth (Emeritus): Russian language history; medieval Russian philology.

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

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

John Dagenais: Medieval Castilian and Catalan literature; Hispano-Latin; manuscript culture; Digital humanities; Romanesque architecture and pilgrimage.

Barbara Fuchs: Early Modern English and Spanish literature, Mediterranean and transatlantic studies, literature and empire, transnationalism and literary history, race and religion in the early modern world.

Claude L. Hulet (Emeritus): Brazilian literature; Portuguese maritime discoveriesin the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

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

Anna More: New World Spain; colonial baroque culture.

C. Brian Morris (Emeritus): 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 (Emeritus) : Cervantes/Spanish Golden Age; sixteenth- and seventeenth-century theater; popular culture and Spanish ballads.

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

Emma Lewis Thomas (Emerita): Renaissance and Baroque dance history; translation of Italian, French, German, English texts and notation; re-creation of dances; performance practice.