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Assistant Professor of Spanish
B.S., University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras; Ph.D., Harvard University
Research and teaching interests: early modern Spanish literature, visual culture and Luso-Castilian bilingualism, theories of poetic inspiration, literature in language teaching. -
Professor of French and Francophone Studies
B.A., Rutgers University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Specializes in French culture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with a particular focus on the relationship between literary texts and the socio-historical contexts in which they emerged.
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Assistant Professor of Art
B.A., Vassar College; M.A., Ph.D., Bryn Mawr
Historian of art and architecture focusing on the medieval Islamic world. Interests include cross-cultural transmission, landscape studies, and digital art history.
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Professor Emerita 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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Professor Emerita 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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Phyllis Henderson Carey Professor of Music
B.A., Oberlin College; Certificate, The Royal Conservatory of The Hague; M.A., Ph.D., Duke University
Research and Teaching Interests: Early Music, Women Composers, Symphonic and Chamber Music Repertoire, J.S. Bach
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Associate Professor of History
A.B., Harvard University; M.Phil., Cambridge University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Intellectual and cultural historian of early modern Europe.
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Associate Professor of Spanish
B.A., Middlebury College; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University
Specializes in gender, race, and philosophy of language in colonial Latin American literature and visual culture; digital humanities and blended learning; history of clothing and of food; cultural exchanges between Eastern Europe and Latin America.
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Senior Music Performance Faculty in Viola da Gamba
B.A., Wheaton College; M.M., Yale University
Specialist in early music string playing. Plays repertory from the medieval, Renaissance & baroque eras with internationally-known ensembles.
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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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Professor Emeritus of French, Francophone and Italian Studies
B.A., 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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Katharine Lee Bates and Sophie Chantal Hart Professor of English
B.A., Stanford University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia
Specialist in Chaucer, medieval dreaming, literary and cultural biography, cultural geography, gender, and food; advocate for the humanities and freedom of expression on campus. -
Lecturer in Art
B.A., Brown University; M.A., Williams College; Ph.D., Princeton University
Research focuses on the city of Venice, Renaissance to the eighteenth-century.
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Professor of Religion
B.A., Cambridge University; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University
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Professor of Art
B.A., Wellesley College; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University
Specialist in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art.
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Associate Professor of History
B.A., M.A., New York University; Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook
Scholar of urban history and political culture in the Spanish Habsburg world.
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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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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 the relationship between Christian, Muslim, and Jewish communities.
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Curator of Special Collections & Visiting Lecturer, Art Department
B.A., Middlebury College; M.S., Simmons College
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Visiting Lecturer in Italian Studies
B.A., Moody Theological Seminary; M.Div., Princeton Theological Seminary; Ph.D., Boston College
My major research interests are in Dante studies, Neoplatonism, medieval vernacular literature, apocalyptic and eschatological texts, political theology, and the thought of Augustine and its modern reception.
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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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Professor of English; Faculty Director, Pforzheimer Learning and Teaching Center
B.A., Wellesley College; M.Phil, Oxford University (St. John's College); Ph.D., Harvard University
Interests include Renaissance literature, book history, and the history and theory of literary genre.
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Associate Professor of Philosophy; Co-Director, The Suzy Newhouse Center for the Humanities
B.A., University of Toronto; M.A., Ph.D., University of Western Ontario
Researches and teaches topics in early modern philosophy, with a focus on theories of human freedom and philosophical method, and in the ethics of digital technology.
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Associate Professor of English
B.A., Yale University; M.A., Ph.D. Duke University
Researches and teaches late medieval English literature, the history of race, religious and cultural conflict in the Middle Ages, and the modern literary and political uses of medievalism.