DIRECTORY
OF FLORIDA MEDIEVALISTS
CARRIE BENES (Ph.D.,
UCLA, 2004), Assistant Professor of Medieval and Renaissance History,
New College of Florida in Sarasota. She is a cultural historian
specializing in late medieval Italy; her dissertation entitled Roman Foundations:
Constructing Civic Identity in Late Medieval Italy explores the
use of the classical Roman past as political propaganda in the medieval
Italian city-states. Her main research interests involve intellectual
networks, the classical tradition,
and the construction of history and collective memory. Along with
revising her dissertation for publication, she is currently working on
projects on the medieval resurrection of the classical Roman SPQR
acronym and on the status of the Roman rebel Catiline as a local hero
in the Tuscan town of Pistoia. Other academic interests include urban
history, book history (palaeography, codicology, illumination, and the
history of libraries), Italian humanism, the history and historiography
of the Renaissance, Norman Sicily, and historical epidemiology
(especially of the Black Death). She teaches courses on these
subjects as well as medieval and early modern European history more
generally.
ALEX
BRUCE, Associate Professor of English, Florida Southern College
JOHN SCOTT CAMPBELL (Ph.D.,
Classical Philology, Brown University, 1979), Associate Professor of
Latin and Greek, University of South Florida
NINA CAPUTO (Ph.D., History,
University of California, Berkeley, 1999), Assistant Professor of
History, University of Florida
DAVID R.
CARR (Ph.D., University of Nebraska Lincoln, 1971) teaches medieval
and Renaissance history at the University of South Florida, St.
Petersburg. Carr has edited The First General Entry
Book of the City of Salisbury 1387-1452 for the Wiltshire Record
Society and currently serves as the editor of The Historian,
the journal of the national history honorary Phi Alpha Theta. His
research focuses of medieval urban history, and he is currently working
on medieval English municipal environmental regulations.
FLORIN CURTA,
Associate Professor of Medieval History and Archaeology, University of
Florida. His recent studies include color perception and color
vocabulary in the twelfth-century French literature; ethnic stereotypes
in Suger's Deeds of Louis the Fat; the relationship between cave
monasticism and frontiers in tenth-century Spain, Bulgaria and the
Byzantine Empire; female dress and "Slavic" bow fibulae in early
seventh-century Greece. Ethnicity is a major theme in his recent book
entitled The Making of the
Slavs. History and Archaeology of the Lower Danube Region, A.D. 500-700
(Cambridge University Press, 2001), which won the Herbert Baxter Adams
Award of the American Historical Association in 2003. His second book,
a history of medieval Southeast Europe between 500 and 1250, is now in
print. He is now working on a third book, a study of state formation
and representation of power in ninth-century Moravia and Bulgaria, as
compared with contemporary developments within the Carolingian Empire.
Two collections of essays on East Central Europe in the Middle Ages and
frontiers in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, respectively, are also
in print. He has published extensively in such journals as Hesperia, Speculum, Early Medieval Europe, and Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies.
He is the recent recipient of a Andrew Mellon visiting fellowship at
the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame.
MICHAEL DECKER (Ph.D., Oxford
University, 2001), Maroulis Professor of Byzantine History, University
of South Florida.
JAMES D'EMILIO
(Ph.D., Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, 1989),
Associate Professor of Humanities, University of South Florida. His
research interests include art, culture, and the church in
medieval Galicia (Spain); Romanesque architecture and sculpture; and
monasticism in medieval Iberia. Recent articles include “The Legend of
Bishop Odoario and the Early Medieval Church in Galicia,” in Church, State, Vellum and Stone:
Essays...in Honor of John Williams, ed. J. Harris and T. Martin
(Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2005); “The Royal Convent of Las Huelgas:
Dynastic Politics, Religious Reform and Artistic Change in Medieval
Castile”, Studies in Cistercian Art
and Architecture, ed. M. P. Lillich, VI (2005); “The Cistercians
and the Romanesque Churches of Galicia: Compostela or Clairvaux?”, in
Perspectives for an Architecture of Solitude. Essays...in Honour of
Peter Fergusson, ed. T. Kinder (Turnhout: Brepols, 2004), and “Writing
is the Precious Treasury of Memory: Scribes and Notaries in Lugo
(1150-1240)” in La collaboration
dans la production de l’écrit médiéval...,
ed., H. Spilling (Paris: École des Chartes, 2003). He has held
grants or fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities,
the George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation, and the Graham
Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.
NICOLE GUENTHER DISCENZA (Ph.D.,
University of Notre Dame, 1996), Associate Professor of English,
University
of South Florida. Her
research
focuses mainly on the Anglo-Saxon era, especially Alfredian
translations, on
which she has published several articles and a book, The King's English:
Strategies of Translation in the Old English Boethius (State
U of NY Press, 2005). Her
interests also include
Anglo-Saxon conceptions of the world and the universe, and she is
currently
working on a book tentatively titled A
Boss on the Shield of the Universe:
Geography and Cosmology in Anglo-Saxon England. In addition, she
contributes
annual reviews to the Prose section of Year’s Work in Old English in
the Old
English Newsletter. She enjoys teaching British
Literature to 1616,
History of the English Language, Chaucer, and graduate courses that
include Beowulf, the Pearl-poet, and Middle
English Romance.
RICHARD
K. EMMERSON (Ph.D., English and
medieval studies, Stanford University, 1977), since 1999
Executive Director of the Medieval
Academy of America and Editor of Speculum. In August 2006 he
will join
the faculty of Florida State University to chair the Department of Art
History.
Emmerson chaired the Department of English at Western Washington
University,
and has taught at Georgetown University, Harvard University, Tufts
University,
and Walla Walla College. At the National Endowment for the Humanities
he held
the positions of Program Officer for Summer Seminars for College
Teachers
(1983-85) and Deputy Director of the Division of Fellowships and
Seminars
(1987-90). In addition to editing Speculum, he has served as a
co-editor
of Studies in Iconography (1993-2004) and Traditio (1989-99).
His
publications include numerous articles and reviews on medieval
apocalypticism,
drama, illustrated manuscripts, and visionary literature, and six
books: Antichrist
in the Middle Ages: A Study of Medieval Apocalypticism, Art, and
Literature
(1981), Approaches to Teaching
Medieval English Drama (1990), The
Apocalyptic Imagination in Medieval Literature (1992), The Apocalypse in
the Middle Ages (1992), Antichrist
and Doomsday: The Middle French “Jour
du Jugement” (1998), and Key Figures in Medieval Europe (2006)
MARIA ESFORMES (Ph.D.,
University of Colorado), Associate Professor of Spanish, University of
South Florida
PAULA GERSON (Ph.D., Columbia
University), Professor of Medieval Art, Chair of Department of Art
History, Florida State University
THOMAS GOODMANN (Ph.D., Indiana
University, 1990), Associate Professor of English, University of Miami
WILL HASTY, Professor of German
Studies and co-founder and co-director of the Center for Medieval and
Early Modern Studies at the University of Florida. Among his book
publications are Art
of Arms: Studies of Aggression and Dominance in Medieval German Court
Poetry (Winter, 2002) and Adventures in
Interpretation: The Works of Hartmann von Aue and Their Critical
Reception (Camden House, 1996). His edited volumes include A Companion to
Gottfried von Strassburg's 'Tristan' and A Companion to Wolfram
von Eschenbach's 'Parzival' (Camden House, 2003 and 1999
respectively). His research and teaching interests are mainly in
medieval and early modern German literature and culture and the
Arthurian tradition.
ANDREW HOLT (M.A., History,
University of North Florida, 2005). Andrew is spending the 2005-2006
academic year as an
Adjunct Professor at both the University of North Florida and Florida
Community College at Jacksonville. He is co-author, with Dr. James
Muldoon, of Fighting Words:
Competing Voices from the Crusades, under contract with
Greenwood Press, and he is working on another book with Dr. Alfred
Andrea
(co-editors and contributors) on Crusade Myths. He is also the author
of a number of minor publications for the
forthcoming Handbook of Medieval Studies (de Gruyter) edited
by Dr. Albrecht Classen and the forthcoming World History
Encyclopedia (ABC-Clio) edited by Dr. Alfred Andrea. He has presented
several
papers on the crusades at numerous conferences throughout the United
States and is the editor and originator of the www.crusades-encyclopedia.com.
Andrew hopes to continue his studies of the crusades by securing
acceptance into a PhD program in the Fall of 2006.
DAVID F. JOHNSON, originally
a native of upstate New York
(Rochester), he earned a kandidaats
(roughly MA) in English Language and Literature (Historical
Linguistics) at the
Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, the Netherlands in 1986. After 11
years living
in Holland, he returned to the States in 1987 and earned a PhD in
English
(Medieval Studies) from Cornell University. He has taught at Florida
State
University since 1993. His main teaching and scholarly interests
include Old and
Middle English language and literature, and Middle Dutch Arthurian
romance. In
addition to a number of articles on those subjects he has published
three
co-edited collections of articles (Rome and the
North. The Reception of the Works of
Gregory the Great in the Early Germanic Vernaculars. Ed. Rolf
Bremmer, Jr., Kees Dekker, and David F.
Johnson. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2001; King Arthur in the Medieval Low Countries. Ed. Geert H.M. Claassens
and David F. Johnson. Medievalia Lovaniensia 28. Leuven: Leuven
University
Press, 2000; and Readings
in Medieval Texts: Interpreting Old and Middle English Literature,
Ed. David F. Johnson and Elaine M. Treharne. Oxford
University Press, 2005), and edited and translated three volumes of
Middle
Dutch Arthurian romances (of a series of six, all in the Arthurian
Archives
series, published by : D.S. Brewer
, co-edited with Geert H. M. Claassens)): Dutch Romances I:
Roman van Walewein (2000); Dutch
Romances II: Ferguut (2000); and Dutch
Romances III: Five Interpolated Romances from the Lancelot Compilation
(2003).
In addition to the Arthurian romances, he is currently working on a new
critical
edition of the Old English translation of Gregory the Great’s Dialogues. He is an Executive
Advisory Council member of
the International Arthurian Society, North American Branch, and have
served as
Executive Director of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists
since 2000.
ANNE LATOWSKY (Ph.D, University
of Washington, Seattle, 2004), Visiting Assistant Professor of French,
University of South Florida. She previously taught as
a lecturer at New College of Florida and at the University of
Tennessee, Knoxville. Professor Latowsky specializes in Medieval French
literature and its relationship to Frankish and Anglo-Norman
historiographical traditions. She is working on a book, The Medieval French
Emperor of Constantinople: 800-1400, in which she studies the
literary figure of the Byzantine emperor as a tool for understanding
the interplay of Latin prose and vernacular verse texts. Her course
offerings include Medieval French literature, Old French, French
Linguistics, Introduction to French Drama and Poetry, Readings in
French Literature and Culture, French Civilization, Contemporary
France, French for Reading, and French Composition.
FELICE LIFSHITZ (Ph.D., History,
Columbia University, 1988), Associate Professor of History, Florida
International University. She was born and raised in New York City,
where she attended Hunter College High School (class of ’76), Barnard
College (B.A., Medieval Studies, 1981) and Columbia University (M.A.
and Ph.D. in History, 1983 and 1988). She has taught at Florida
International University in Miami since 1989. In addition to numerous
journal articles and book chapters, she is the author of The Norman Conquest of
Pious Neustria: Historiographic Discourse and Saintly Relics, 684 – 1090
(Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Press, Toronto, 1995),
of an English translation of Dudo of St. Quentin’s Gesta Normannorum,
and of The Name of the Saint:
The Martyrology of Jerome and Access to the Sacred in Francia, 627-827
(U Notre Dame P, 2005). Her research is currently focused above all on
ideas about gender during the early Middle Ages, especially as those
ideas are evidenced in a variety of Rhine-Main area manuscript sources
of the 8th and 9th centuries. She serves on the editorial boards of the
Oxford Dictionary
of
the Middle Ages (ODMA) and the Medieval Feminist Forum, and she
is
the Section Editor for Medieval Europe for The History Compass.
KATHRYN MCKINLEY
(Ph.D., University of Delaware), Associate Professor of English,
Florida International University
MARCELLA MUNSON, Assistant
Professor of French, Florida Atlantic University
MARIE NELSON, Professor Emerita,
University of Florida. She teaches Old English (for the Linguistics
Program) and Writing about Language (for the Honors Program). She has
published two books, Structures of
Opposition in Old English Poems (Rodopi B.V. Editions, 1989) and
Judith, Juliana,
and Elene: Three Fighting Saints (Peter Lang, 1991), and a
number of essays on Old, Middle, and Modern English literature.
Essays currently in process are "John Gardner: Master of
Transformation" and "Knowing and Not-Knowing in Beowulf."
TISON PUGH,
Assistant Professor of English, University of Central Florida. He
specializes in medieval and Arthurian literatures and gender/queer
theory. He is the author of Queering Medieval Genres
and the co-editor of Approaches to Teaching
Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and the Shorter Poems (with
Angela Jane Weisl) and Filming the Other
Middle Ages: Race, Class, and Gender in 'Medieval' Cinema (with
Lynn Tarte Ramey). He has won teaching awards at the University of
Oregon and the University of California at Irvine, as well as a
University of Central Florida College of Arts and Sciences Excellence
in Undergraduate Teaching Award.
DAVID ROHRBACHER (Ph.D.
University of Washington, 1998), Assistant Professor of Classics, New
College of Florida. He teaches Latin at all levels and classical
civilization in all periods. He is also active in the program in
Medieval and Renaissance Studies at New College, and helps to organize
the biennial New College conference in Medieval and Renaissance
Studies. He is the author of The Historians of Late
Antiquity (Routledge, 2002) and articles and book chapters
on late Roman historians, especially Ammianus Marcellinus. His current
research focuses on source criticism and literary culture in late
antique historiography.
ROMAN ROMANCHUK (Ph.D.,
University of California, Los Angeles, 1999), Assistant Professor of
Modern Slavic Languages and Linguistics, Florida State University
MARYLOU RUUD (Ph.D., University
of California, Santa Barbara, 1989), Associate Professor of History,
University of West Florida.
MARY JANE SCHENCK, Professor of
English, University of Tampa, has published The
Fabliaux: Tales of Wit and Deception (Purdue U Monograph Series
in Romance
Languages, 1987), co-edited Echoes of the Epic:
Essays in Honor of Gerard J.
Brault (Summa, 1997), and articles in Comparative Literature, Romanic
Review, Reinardus, Olifant, Meleus, and the South
Atlantic Review. Early work was on fabliaux and other short Old
French
narratives forms. A series of recent articles on Philippe de
Beaumanoir’s Coutumes,
The Roman de Renart, and the Song of Roland are part of a
manuscript in preparation on customary law and literary trials entitled
The
Imaginary and the Law: Medieval Negotiations. Her article
on the Baligant
episode will appear in a new MLA Approaches to
Teaching the Song of Roland
and an article re-interpreting the Charlemagne window at Chartres is
currently
being revised. She has held fellowships from NEH, faculty research
grants,
awards from UT for teaching and scholarship, and was a Fulbright Senior
Scholar
in both Togo and South Africa.
SHIRA
SCHWAM-BAIRD (Ph.D., Tulane University, 1994), Associate Professor
of French, University of North Florida
JUDY SHOAF (Ph.D.,
Cornell University, 1978), Director, University of Florida Language
Learning Center; managing editor, Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in
Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Her translation, in verse,
of eight of Marie de France's Lais has been available on the
Web for some ten years. She has been the moderator of the Arthurnet
email discussion list, in association with the journal Arthuriana,
since 1997.
R. ALLEN SHOAF (Ph.D., Cornell
University, 1977), Professor of English, University of Florida.
LESLEY STONE (M.A., Art
History, University of South Florida, 2005), Special Collections,
University of South Florida Library
JACE
STUCKEY (Ph.D. candidate, University of Florida)
HUGH THOMAS (Ph.D., Yale
University, 1988), Professor of History, University of Miami, author of
Vassals,
Crusaders, Heiresses, and Thugs: The Gentry of Angevin Yorkshire
(U. Pennsylvania P, 1993) and The
English and the Normans: Ethnic Hostility, Assimilation and Identity
after the Norman Conquest, 1066-c. 1220 (Oxford UP, 2003).
RALPH TURNER
(Ph.D. the
Johns Hopkins University), Distinguished Research Professor of History
(emeritus), Florida State University. He taught medieval and English
history, Renaissance and Reformation for over thirty years at Florida
State University and served the History Department for several years as
Associate Chair for Graduate Studies. He has done research at major
British libraries, centering around Henry II, his sons Richard
Lionheart and John, their administration of justice and the common law,
as well as the transformation of royal servants into professionals. His
studieshave resulted in numerous papers presented at conferences in
both the United Kingdom and the United States, some forty articles and
six books. He has written both individual biographies of
thirteenth-century figures and collective biographical studies of royal
officials. Among his books are The Origins of the
English Judiciary (1985), Men Raised from the Dust
(1988), King John
(1994), The
Reign of Richard Lionheart, co-authored with R.R. Heiser (2000),
and Magna
Carta through the Ages (2003). Prof. Turner has remained in
Tallahassee, Florida, after his retirement where he continues to do
research and write on his favourite topics, and he travels widely in
Britain and in France, attending scholarly meetings. His current
project is a biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine.
MICHELLE R.
WARREN (Ph.D., Stanford University, 1993), Associate
Professor of French and Director of the Ph.D. in Romance Studies,
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Miami.
She teaches courses in French language and culture, and medieval
and early modern studies. Her research areas include French
medieval literature, romance philology, Arthurian studies, translation
theory, and
postcolonial theory. She is the author of History on the Edge:
Excalibur and the Borders of Britain (1100-1300) (U
Minnesota P,
2000) and co-editor of Postcolonial Moves:
Medieval through Modern (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) and Arts of Calculation:
Quantifying Thought
in Early Modern
Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). She has two
projects in development, one on the colonial formation of French
medieval studies
and the other on French translation in fifteenth-century London.
NANCY WARREN (Ph.D., Indiana
University, 1997), Associate Professor of English, Florida State
University, author of Spiritual Economies:
Female Monasticism in Later Medieval England (U Pennsylvania
P, 2001) and Women of God and Arms:
Female Spirituality and Political Conflict, 1380-1600 (U
Pennsylvania P, 2005).
MARY A. WATT (Ph.D., University
of Toronto, 1998), Assistant Professor of Italian and Co-Director of
the Center for Medieval Studies at the University of Florida. She
is the author of several articles on Dante and medieval Italian
culture, as well as the book The Cross that Dante
Bears (UP of Florida, 2005). She is interested in pilgrimage and
crusading imagery in medieval and early Modern Italian literature.
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