Participating Faculty

Alphabetical Listing by Last Name

Clorinda Donato (PhD, University of California, Los Angeles)
Professor, French and Italian
Areas of Interest: French Enlightenment reception, Fortunato Bartolomeo de Felice鈥檚 encyclopedism.

Bonnie Gasior (PhD, Purdue University)
Associate Professor, Romance, German, and Russian Languages and Literatures
Areas of Interest: Travel literature, theories of monstrosity, subaltern studies, transatlantic studies

Heather Graham (PhD, University of California, Los Angeles)
Co-Director, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Associate Professor, Art History
Areas of Interest: late medieval and Renaissance art in Italy; the history of the body, the history of emotions, gender and sexual culture

Lloyd Kermode (PhD, Rice University)
Associate Professor, English
Areas of Interest: early modern drama and culture, English-foreign relations, provincial drama, contemporary critical theory

Eileen Klink (PhD, University of Southern California)
Professor, English
Areas of Interest: early modern women and rhetoric

Katherine McLoone (PhD, University of California, Los Angeles)
Comparative Literature
Areas of Interest: fairy tales, folklore, mythology

Ilan Mitchell-Smith (PhD, Texas A&M)
Co-Director, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies 
Assistant Professor, English
Areas of Interest: British literature and culture of the Middle Ages; gender, violence, and monstrosity in later medieval English literature, esp. chivalric narratives

Lawrence Nolan (PhD, University of California, Irvine)
Associate Professor, Philosophy
Areas of Interest: 17th-century philosophy, especially the rationalists such as Descartes; medieval philosophy

Mariah Proctor-Tiffany (PhD, Brown University)
Professor, Art History
Areas of interest: women, art, and identity in the late Middle Ages and the twentieth century

Mar铆a S谩nchez-Reyes  (PhD, New York University)
Assistant Director, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies
Areas of Interest: French Literature, Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Martine van Elk (PhD, Rice University)
Associate Professor, English
Areas of Interest: Shakespeare, early modern drama, early modern vagrants, early modern women writers from England and the Netherlands, gender