Faculty
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Sarah M. Allen
Assistant Professor of Chinese
A.B., Harvard College; M.A., University of Michigan; Ph.D., Harvard University
Works on medieval Chinese literature and culture, with a focus on tales written in classical Chinese.
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Gurminder Kaur Bhogal
Associate Professor of Music
B.Mus., Royal College; M.Mus., King’s College; Ph.D., University of Chicago
Interested in the practice of ornament in French music and the visual arts of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Héléne Bilis
Assistant Professor of French
B.A., Rutgers University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Specializes in early modern literature and culture, with a focus on theater and poetics, and how they intersect with royal discourses on power.
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Margaret D. Carroll
Professor of Art
B.A., Barnard College; A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University
Primary research in the field of 16th- and 17th-century Dutch and Flemish painting, with specialized work on Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Rubens, and Rembrandt.
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Sharon K. Elkins
Professor of Religion
B.A., Stetson University; M.T.S., Harvard Divinity School; Ph.D., Harvard University
Scholar of the history of Christianity and contemporary Catholicism with special attention to the Virgin Mary and to women’s spiritual writings.
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Claire Fontijn
Professor of Music
B.A., Oberlin College; Certificate, The Royal Conservatory of The Hague; M.A., Ph.D., Duke University
Interests include early music in general, Western Europe 1000-1750, music composed by women such as Fanny Hensel and St. Hildegard.
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Elena Gascón-Vera
Professor of Spanish
Licenciatura, University of Madrid; M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University
Researches topics from Spanish medieval and Golden Age literature and feminist studies, to Spanish postmodernism and Spanish and Mexican cinema; an educator who intends to teach a higher spiritual and ethical attitude toward life.
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Evelina Gužauskytė
Associate Professor of Spanish
B.A., Middlebury College; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University
Interested in questions of language and representation in the colonial, trans-Atlantic, and trans-Pacific realms.
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Yu Jin Ko
Professor of English
B.A., Columbia University; M.A., Cambridge University (Clare College); Ph.D., Yale University
Shakespearean engaged in bringing theatre and academia into greater dialogue; can also be found at home with kids or on soccer field.
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Barry Lydgate
Professor of French
B.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University
Interests: intellectual history of the French Renaissance; confessional writing; post-war Paris; exploring the power of interactive media to teach language and culture.
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Kathryn L. Lynch
Katharine Lee Bates and Sophie Chantal Hart Professor of English; Dean of Faculty Affairs
B.A., Stanford University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia
Teacher and scholar of Chaucer, medieval dream vision, food in Chaucer's poetry, medieval period boundaries
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Louise Marlow
Professor of Religion
B.A., Cambridge University; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University
Program Director for Middle Eastern Studies.
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Eugene Marshall
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin (Madison)
Avid teacher and historian of modern philosophy studying Spinoza, Cavendish, and the 17th Century.
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Jacqueline Marie Musacchio
Professor of Art
B.A., Wellesley College; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University
Specialist in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art.
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Sergio Parussa
Associate Professor of Italian Studies
Laurea in Lettere, Universitˆ degli studi di Torino (Italy); M.A., Ph. D., Brown University
Teaches Italian language and literature, literary theory, and writing; works as a translator.
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Valerie Ramseyer
Associate Professor of History
A.B., Smith College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago
Medieval historian of southern Italy and the Mediterranean, with special interest in t he relationship between Christian, Muslim, and Jewish communities.
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Francesca Southerden
Assistant Professor of Italian Studies
B.A., University of Oxford (Somerville College); M.St., D.Phil., University of Oxford (Hertford College)
Specializing in Italian medieval and early modern literature, especially Dante and Petrarch.
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Carlos Alberto Vega
Professor of Spanish
A.B., Columbia University; A.M., University of Virginia; Ph.D., Harvard University
Spanish literature, hagiography, gender issues, study-abroad theory and practice.
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Sarah Wall-Randell
Assistant Professor of English
B.A., Wellesley College; M.Phil, St. John’s College (Oxford University); Ph.D., Harvard University
Interests include Renaissance literature, book history, and the history and theory of literary genre.
