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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