Faculty & Staff
Institute Director: Rosemarie McGerr
Department of Comparative Literature
rmcgerr@indiana.edu
mestdir@indiana.edu
Ballantine Hall 902
(812) 855-7627
Professor McGerr's research and teaching focus on medieval European literature in its cultural context, including social history, religious studies, the visual arts, and music. She is particularly interested in applying current narrative and gender theory to medieval texts and studying the ways that the physical forms in which medieval texts circulated may have shaped readings of these works.
Core Faculty
Chancellor's Professor
anders@indiana.edu
Ballantine Hall 457
(812) 855-3845
Professor Anderson’s interests revolve around the creation, understanding, and value of imaginative thinking and writing. Her writing has explored these themes in Langland’s Piers Plowman, Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Shakespeare, Bede, Chaucer, and Milton, as well as in biographies and historical writing. For a description of her works, see her web page.
Department of Classical Studies
Assistant Professor
Member, Medieval Studies Institute Executive Committee
bkbalint@indiana.edu
Ballantine Hall 553
(812) 855-7202
Latin literature and poetics in the High Middle Ages (1000-1300), the classical tradition, the intersection of literature and philosophy, manuscript studies.
Professor, Department of Religious Studies
Department Chair, Department of Religious Studies
Adjunct Professor, Department of History
Adjunct Professor, Department of Classical Studies
dbrakke@indiana.edu
Sycamore Hall, Rm. 217
(812) 855-5117
Professor Brakke specializes in Ancient Christianity, late antiquity, Coptic and Syriac studies.
Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
Professor, History
Professor, Ancient Studies
Professor, India Studies
Adjunct Professor, Religious Studies
jchoksy@indiana.edu
Ballantine Hall 812
(812) 855-8643
Professor Choksy's interests include Medieval Iranian society, Zoroastrianism, Islam, and the Middle Persian and Classical Persian languages. He teaches several courses for medievalists, including U311/U511 "Prophets, Poets, and Kings: Iranian Civilization" and several language courses.
Assistant Professor, Department of History
Member, Medieval Studies Institute Executive Committee
ddeliyan@indiana.edu
Ballantine Hall, Rm. 708
(812) 855-3431
I specialize in the history and material culture of early medieval Europe.
Chancellor's Professor of English
Adjunct Professor of Germanic Studies
Member, Medieval Studies Institute Executive Committee
fulk@indiana.edu
Ballantine Hall 415
(812) 855-1943
Professor Fulk specializes in Medieval Germanic (especially Old English and Old Icelandic) and Celtic languages and literatures, the history of the English language, and comparative Indo-European linguistics. Some of his particular areas of research are Old and Middle English dialectology, textual criticism, phonological and morphological change, and early Germanic metrics. His personal webpage can be found here.
Professor of Germanic Studies and Director of Graduate Studies
Member, Medieval Studies Institute Executive Committee
gade@indiana.edu
Ballantine Hall 676
(812) 855-8138
Fields of interest: Old Norse-Icelandic language, literature, culture and history, together with Germanic philology, metrics, and linguistics. Professor Gade teaches courses on Old Norse-Icelandic language and literature (sagas), eddic, and skaldic Poetry, Old Norse poetic language, history of the Scandinavian languages, Old High German, Old Saxon, Gothic, runes and runic inscriptions, alliterative Meters, vikings and sagas.
Assistant Professor
sgayt@indiana.edu
Ballantine Hall 468
(812) 855-5546
Interests: Middle English language and literature; medieval religious writing; medieval art and iconography; Middle English paleography and codicology.
wendygil@indiana.edu
Merrill Hall, MU301
(812) 855-7594
A performer of medieval, renaissance, baroque and contemporary music, Wendy Gillespie teaches early bowed strings, early music performance, and notation. She has performed with ensembles worldwide ranging from the English Concert to Ensemble Sequentia. Ms. Gillespie has participated in more than 80 recordings for Harmonia Mundi, EMI, Virgin Classics, BIS, Channel Classics, and other recording companies.
Associate Professor
pingham@indiana.edu
Ballantine Hall 410
(812) 855-0521
My research and teaching focus on both on Chaucer and on texts of Medieval Romance from the high to the late Middle Ages, particularly in light of psychoanalytic, postcolonial, gender, and cultural theory.
Professor of Germanic Studies
hekeller@indiana.edu
Ballantine Hall 657
(812) 855-7611
Interests: German literature, especially from the beginnings up to 1700; mysticism in the Middle Ages and early modernity; medical history; historiography of the theatre; performative approaches to medieval literature.
klochrie@indiana.edu
Ballantine Hall 456
(812) 855-5430
Interests: Gender and Queer Theory; Cultural Studies; medieval studies; Chaucer; female mysticism; bluegrass fiddling; kayaking.
Associate Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
Associate Professor, Comparative Literature
plosensk@indiana.edu
Goodbody Hall 207
(812) 855-9665
Persian literature and literary history, in particular the literature of the 16th and 17th centuries in Iran, India, and Central Asia; literature, architecture, and topography; Sufism and literature; comparative studies in the Baroque; translation and translation studies.
David H. Jacobs Chair in Music; Distinguished Professor of Music (Musicology); Director, Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature
mathiese@indiana.edu
Eigenmann Hall 702
Professor Mathiesen's research interests include the history of music and music theory in the ancient world and the Middle Ages, textual criticism, bibliography, and the music for silent films. He is also director of the Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature.
Professor of French
jmercero@indiana.edu
Ballantine Hall 624
(812) 855-4336
French medieval studies, French folklore and mythology.
Department of French and Italian
mickel@indiana.edu
Ballantine Hall 621
(812) 855-8253
Interests: Old French chanson de geste and romance, Medieval Romance, The Rose; allegory and persona in European literature; 19th-century literature, classic tradition, ekphrastic writings and painting.
Associate Professor
dreilly@indiana.edu Fine Arts 132
Interests: Romanesque illuminated manuscript, especially Giant Bibles and early Cistercian Office manuscripts; the process and functions of text illustration in monastic culture and the image of the medieval king and queen.
shopkowl@indiana.edu
Ballantine Hall, Rm. 718
(812) 855-1938
Interests: Medieval intellectual and cultural history, historiography.
Curator of Books
silverj@indiana.edu
Lilly Library
(812) 855-2452
Joel Silver is the Associate Director and Curator of Books at the Lilly Library and Adjunct Associate Professor and Director of Special Collections Specialization at the IU School of Library and Information Science. His main interest related to medieval studies is the production, use, and dispersal of medieval books and manuscripts.
Department of French and Italian
hstorey@indiana.edu
Ballantine Hall 609
(812) 855-7035
Interests: Early Italian and Latin, Occitan, manuscript studies, textual criticism.
ejwatts@indiana.edu
Ballantine Hall 828
(812) 855-6882
To date, my research has concentrated on the intellectual and religious history of the later Roman Empire.
Affiliated Faculty
Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
Professor
aafsarud@indiana.edu
Memorial Hall, M17
(812) 856-7347
Pre-modern and modern Islamic religious and political thought; QurĠanic hermeneutics; Hadith criticism; Exegetical, legal, and ethical perspectives on jihad and martyrdom; Gender roles.
Associate Professors
catwood@indiana.edu
Goodbody Hall 157
(812) 855-2233
Interests: almost anything Mongolian, but currently I am focused on the intersection of lineage-building, state-building, and history-writing in the Mongol empire.
Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
beckwith@indiana.edu
Goodbody Hall
(812) 855-2428
The history of pre-modern Central Eurasia, historical linguistics (primarily Indo-European, Tibeto-Burman, Chinese, Japanese-Koguryoic, Turkic), theoretical phonology, typological linguistics, and computational linguistics.
carmicha@indiana.edu
Ballantine Hall 724
(812) 855-4151
I am interested in the relationships between social perceptions of health and illness, and the biomedical, physical realities that infectious diseases present. To explore such interests when I turned to historical records, I turned to the centuries of punishing recurrent plagues and pestilences in Europe.
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
cooper@indiana.edu
Ballantine Hall 515
(812) 855-6227
Specialties/Research Interests: South Slavic languages and literatures, especially Slovene and Croatian, Old Russian literature, Slavic Bible translations, Esperanto.
Professor of Music (Early Music; Voice)
elliottp@indiana.edu
Merrill Hall, MU310
(812) 855-8254
Paul Elliott has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Rotterdam Philharmonic, English Chamber Orchestra, and London Mozart Players. He has appeared in more than 100 recordings as a featured artist with the Early Music Consort of London, Consort of Music, Academy of Ancient Music, Pro Cantione Antiqua, Deller Consort, and the Theatre of Voices.
afield@indiana.edu
Ballantine Hall 827
(812) 855-5164
Italian Renaissance
Associate Professor
cfurey@indiana.edu
Sycamore Hall 227
(812) 855-6678
Research Interests: Christianity in Early Modern Europe, Friendship and community formation, Devotional poetry, Gender and Religious Subjectivity. I study how religious ideas and practices influence how people live in the world and understand themselves in relation to others.
Professor, Department of Religious Studies
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Religious Studies
Adjunct Professor, Department of History
Adjunct Professor, Jewish Studies Program
Adjunct Professor, Department of Classical Studies
jharrill@indiana.edu
Sycamore Hall 207
(812) 855-8654
Interests: New Testament, early Christianity, and Roman social history including primary source languages, classical civilization, comparative religion, including interdisciplinary research in New Testament, patristics, and classical studies; fields that traditionally have not been combined.
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
impey@indiana.edu
Ballantine 844
(812) 855-5732
Spanish Medieval Literature, Renaissance Literature
Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies
Director, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Program
rjaques@indiana.edu
Sycamore Hall 223
(812) 855-6907
I am interested in medieval Muslim biography, especially Tabaqat literature, and the rhetorical methods used by authors to shape their histories of the development of religious-intellectual disciplines, especially Islamic law and theology.
kaplanm@indiana.edu
Sycamore Hall 113
(812) 855-2539
Interests: epistomology, beliefs, decision theory, and the limits of knowledge.
East Asian Languages and Cultures
Department of Classical Studies
Ruth N. Halls Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
leach@indiana.edu
Ballantine Hall 569
(812) 855-4129
Interests: Roman Literature, Literary/Cultural Theory, Roman Art, Roman Letters.
Martha C. Kraft Professor of Humanities
Professor of The College of Arts & Sciences
Adjunct Professor of Law
bethel@indiana.edu
Law Building 341
(812) 855-4630
Interests: Legal issues related to gender.
History and Philosophy of Science
wnewman@indiana.edu
Goodbody Hall 130
(812) 855-3071
Interests focus on early modern “chymistry” and late medieval “alchemy,” especially as exemplified by Isaac Newton, Robert Boyle, Daniel Sennert, and the first famous American scientist, George Starkey. Much of his research has focused on the relationship of science, art, and nature in the premodern world. A major part of his research has also centered on the history of matter-theory, especially corpuscularism and atomism, and on the history of early chemical technology.
toconnor@indiana.edu
Sycamore Hall 115
(812) 855-6817
I am a philosopher whose chief interests lie in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of religion.
Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
Chair Professor, Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies
Director, Turkish Studies Program
ksilay@indiana.edu
Goodbody Hall 220
(812) 855-0705
Throughout his academic career, he has been teaching a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate courses, from “Islamic Civilization” to “Islamist Jihad”; from “Medieval Ottoman Manuscripts” to “Contemporary Turkish Media.”
spade@indiana.edu
Sycamore Hall 026
A historian of philosophy whose main research has been concentrated in medieval philosophy, particularly late medieval logic and semantic theory.
Department of Central Eurasian Studies
Associate Professor Tibetan Studies
sperlin@indiana.edu
Goodbody Hall 143
(812) 855-7344
Tibetan History
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
Professor, NELC
stetkevy@indiana.edu
Goodbody 319
(812) 335-4323
Classical Arabic Poetry, Ritual, performance, and Historicist approaches to the qasidah, Praise Poetry to the Prophet
Curator of Manuscripts
chedwill@indiana.edu
Lilly Library
(812) 855-3187
Cherry Williams is the Curator of Manuscripts at the Lilly Library.
Emeriti Faculty
Professor Emeritus
clopper@indiana.edu
(812) 855-2034
Medieval literature, culture, and intellectual history. Middle English and early modern drama. Franciscans, Lollards, Langland and the Gawain-Poet.
Professor Emeritus
huntsman@indiana.edu
Ballantine Hall 442
Native American literature. History of linguistics, especially lexicography and translation theory. Languages and literature of medieval Britain (Irish, Welsh, English). General linguistics. Computer applications, especially in the humanities.
Department of the History of Art
Professor Emeritus
Early Christian, Byzantine and Carolingian art and architecture
Professor Emerita
Drama to the 1590's. Shakespeare. Teaching of drama. Medieval and Renaissance paleography.
Professor Emerita
lopez@indiana.edu
Ballantine 871
(812)
855-1157
Hispano-Arabic language and literature, Aljamiado language and literature, History of the Spanish language, Peninsular dialectology, Romance linguistics
Department of French and Italian
Professor Emeritus
Until retirement in 1999, I taught undergraduate and graduate courses in French grammar, composition, translation; history of the French language; Old French lyric poetry; French Arthurian prose; occasionally, history of the Italian language as well. My research activity has centered – and continues to center – on textual edition and translation of trouvère poetry, and on translation and adaptation of Arthurian narrative.
Staff
Director: Professor Rosemarie McGerr
Assistant to the Director: Christine Dunn
Special Projects Assistant: Steve Stanzak
Participating Academic Departments
- Ancient Studies
- Central Eurasian Studies
- Classical Studies
- Comparative Literature
- Early Music Institute (School of Music)
- East Asian Languages and Cultures
- English
- Folklore Institute
- French and Italian
- Gender Studies
- Germanic Studies
- History
- History and Philosophy of Science
- History of Art
- Musicology (School of Music)
- Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
- Philosophy
- Religious Studies
- Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
- Department of Spanish and Portuguese
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