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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
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
Desiree Desierto Assistant Professor of Political Economy Hamilton School for Classical and Civic Education
Economic History, Political Economy
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
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
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 Koyama Professor Hamilton Center for Classical and Civic Education
Economic history and political economy
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
JODIE MILLER Visiting Assistant Professor jodiemiller@ufl.edu Languages, Literatures, and Cultures—Medieval and Renaissance French Literature; Old French; Global Middle Ages
Nuno Palma Professor of Political Economy nunopalma@ufl.edu Hamilton School for Classical and Civic Education
Economic and Political 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