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Faculty in Medieval and Early Modern Studies span a wide range of disciplines and cultures, encompassing premodern topics and issues in Africa, Asia, and Europe that have continued to shape our modern world. Please feel free to contact our faculty using their email addresses below.

Faculty

Rori Bloom
Associate Professor
ribloom@ufl.edu
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures—French
Eighteenth Century French Literature
Eleni Bozia
Assistant Professor
bozia@ufl.edu
Classics
Imperial Greek and Latin Literature
Richard Burt
Professor
burt@ufl.edu
English
Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama
Nina Caputo
Professor
ncaputo@ufl.edu
History
Medieval Jewish History
Amy Chandran
Assistant Professor
amychandran@ufl.edu
Hamilton Center for Classical and Civic Education
Historical and Contemporary Political Philosophy
Florin Curta
Professor
fcurta@ufl.edu
History
Carolingian Europe, Byzantium, Archaeology, Medievalism
Eloise Davies
Assistant Professor
eloise.davies@ufl.edu
Hamilton Center for Classical and Civic Education
Renaissance Italy and Early Modern British History
Max Deardorff
Assistant Professor
deardorff.max@ufl.edu
History
Colonial Latin America and Early Modern Spain
Yehoshua Ecker
Assistant Professor
yehoshua.ecker@ufl.edu
Jewish Studies
Jews in the Muslim World
Matthieu Felt
Assistant Professor
mfelt@ufl.edu
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures—Japanese
Premodern Japanese, History, and Religion
Mattias Gassman
Assistant Professor
mattias.gassman@ufl.edu
Hamilton Center for Classical and Civic Education
Late Antiquity, Patristics
James Gerien-Chen
Assistant Professor
jgerienchen@ufl.edu
History
Asia, China, Japan, Legal History, Empire
Karl Gunther
Associate Professor
k.gunther@ufl.edu
Hamilton Center
Intellectual History of Early Modern Europe
Valerie Hampton
Adjunct Assistant Instructional Professor
vhampton@ufl.edu
Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Will Hasty
Professor
hasty@ufl.edu
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures—German
German, European, and Global Literary and Cultural History, Arthurian Studies
Robert G. Ingram
Professor
ringram1@ufl.edu
Hamilton Center
Early modern intellectual and religious history
Jill P. Ingram
Professor
jillingram@ufl.edu
Hamilton Center
Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama
Ashley Jones
Assistant Professor
ashley.jones@ufl.edu
School of Art and Art History
Roman Art; Late Antique, Early Medieval and Byzantine Art
Stephan Kory
Assistant Professor
skory@ufl.edu
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures—Chinese
Classical Chinese; Ancient and Medieval Chinese Literature and Culture
Mark Law
Distinguished Professor
law@ece.ufl.edu
Electrical Engineering
Engineering in the Renaissance, Physics in Culture and Society
Anton Matytsin
Associate Professor
matytsina@ufl.edu
History
Early Modern European History and Intellectual History
Élie Pinta
Adjunct Lecturer, Archaeology
epinta@ufl.edu
Norse settlements in the North Atlantic
Wood studies
Mario Poceski
Professor
mpoceski@ufl.edu
Religion
Buddhist Studies, Chinese Religion
Jennifer Rea
Professor
jrea@ufl.edu
Classics
Ancient Rome and Modern Science Fiction and Fantasy
Elizabeth Ross
Associate Professor
elizross@ufl.edu
School of Art and Art History
Late Medieval and Renaissance Art History
Peter Rudnytsky
Professor
plr@ufl.edu
English
Shakespeare, Renaissance Literature
Max Skjönsberg
Assistant Professor
skjonsbergm@ufl.edu
Hamilton Center
Early-Modern History
Christopher Smith
Assistant Professor
csmith2@ufl.edu
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures—Japanese
Edo-Period Japanese Literature
Sarra Tlili
Associate Professor
satlili@ufl.edu
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures—Arabic
Qur’an Studies, Animals in Islam
Thomas Matthew Vozar
Assistant Professor of Humanities
thomasvozar@ufl.edu
Hamilton Center for Classical and Civic Education
Early Modern Literary, Cultural, and Intellectual History
Richard Wang
Professor
rwang1@ufl.edu
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures—Chinese
Premodern Chinese Fiction and Taoism
Mary Watt
Professor
marywatt@ufl.edu
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures—Italian
Medieval Italian Literature and Culture
Neil Weijer
Curator of the Harold and Mary Jean Hanson Rare Book Collection
n.weiher@ufl.edu
History of Early Books and Manuscripts
Andrew Wolpert
Associate Professor
wolpert@ufl.edu
Classics
Greek History, Oratory, Athenian Law and Society
Aaron Zubia
Assistant Professor
azubia@ufl.edu
Hamilton Center
Intellectual History
Paul C.H. Lim
Professor
paul.lim@ufl.edu
Hamilton Center for Classical and Civic Education
Early Modern Theology—Catholic and Protestant—and Intellectual History
Global Christianities and Empires in early modernity
Alexander Green
Assistant Professor
agreen5@ufl.edu
Hamilton Center for Classical and Civic
Education
Medieval and Early Modern Jewish Philosophy
Ethics
History of Biblical Interpretation

 

Emerita, Emeritus, Retired MEMS Faculty

Cynthia Chennault
cchenna@ufl.edu
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures—German
Premodern Chinese Poetry, Society, and History
Ira Clark
irac@ufl.edu
English
Renaissance Literature
Patricia Craddock
pcraddoc@ufl.edu
English
Eighteenth Century British Culture
Franz Futterknecht
franzo@ufl.edu
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures—German
German, European, and Global Literary and Cultural History
Jules Gliesche
drjdg@ufl.edu
Academic Spoken English
Historical Germanic Linguistics
Marie Nelson
mnelson@ufl.edu
English
Chaucer and Chaucer’s Women, Old English Language and Literature
Edward Schaefer
eschaefer@arts.ufl.edu
School of Music
Medieval and Early Modern Music
Judy Shoaf
jshoaf@ufl.edu
University of Florida Language Learning Center
French Medieval Literature, Marie de France, Arthurian Studies
R. Allen Shoaf
ras@ufl.edu
English
Medieval Studies, Early Modern Studies, Milton, Dante
John Sommerville
jsommerv@ufl.edu
History
English History
Jennifer Thomas
thomasjs@ufl.edu
School of Music
Medieval and Early Modern Music

 

In memoriam

William Calin
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures—French
History of Cultures and Mentalities
James Paxson
English
Medieval Literature and Literary Theory