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associated faculty (by last name)
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• Don Abbott (English) dpabbott@ucdavis.edu
  Interests: Renaissance rhetoric; history of rhetoric.

• Emily Albu (Classics) emalbu@ucdavis.edu
  Interests: Norman historical writing; religions, literatures, and societies in the twelfth century; Byzantium and the west; the classical tradition; medieval cartography.

• Sam Armistead (Spanish) koolson@ucdavis.edu
  Interests: Medieval Spanish epic poetry; primitive lyric; medieval Hispanic historiography; early and modern Hispanic and pan-European ballad literature. Teaching: medieval Spanish literature; Old Spanish epic; Hispanic lyric; origins of prose literature; later prose works through Celestina; Libro de buen amor; Hispanic ballad literature.

• Carlee Arnett (German) clarnett@ucdavis.edu
  Interests: German linguistics; Old Saxon; Germanic myth and linguistics in Tolkien’s fiction.

• David Biale (History) dbiale@ucdavis.edu
  Interests: Jewish intellectual and cultural history; European intellectual history; history of religion.

• Gina Bloom (English) gbloom@ucdavis.edu  

  Interests: Early modern literature; drama; performance theory.

• Robert Borgen (East Asian Languages and Cultures; History) rborgen@ucdavis.edu
  Interests: history and literature of Japan’s Heian period (794-1185); Sino-Japanese cultural contacts; East Asian religion. Teaching: Japanese literature in translation, beginnings to 1185 and 1185–1867; Japanese history from the Paleolithic period to 1600.

• Beverly Bossler (History; Program in East Asian Studies) bjbossler@ucdavis.edu
  Interests: Gender, family, and cultural history in the Song and Yuan dynasties
  (960–1368).

• Katharine Burnett (East Asian Languages and Cultures; Art History) kpburnett@ucdavis.edu
  Interests: Chinese art history, 16th and 17th centuries.
  

  
  

  
  

• Anna Maria Busse Berger (Music) amberger@ucdavis.edu
  Interests: Medieval and Renaissance music history and theory; notation, mensuration and proportion signs; music and memory; mathematics and music.

• Joan Cadden (History; Science and Technology Studies Program); emerita. jcadden@ucdavis.edu
  Interests: Science and medicine in the Middle Ages; medieval women; gender and sexuality in the Middle Ages.

• Seeta Chaganti (English) schaganti@ucdavis.edu
  Interests: Middle English poetry, including Chaucer, the Pearl-poet, and late medieval drama; Old French and Anglo-Norman courtly literature; Old English; devotional art and culture from the twelfth and fourteenth centuries; interdisciplinary studies; poetics; theories of aesthetics and landscape.

• Catherine Chin (Religious Studies) chin@ucdavis.edu 

  Interests: Early Christian social and intellectual history; early Christian ritual; literary cultures of late antiquity and the early middle ages; history of religious media and text transmission in Western culture; premodern notions of gender, sexuality, and the body; history of religious architecture.

• Greg Clark (Economics) gclark@ucdavis.edu
  Interests: World economic history; economic history of India; economic growth since the Middle Ages; the Agricultural Revolution.

• Allison Coudert (Religious Studies) apcoudert@ucdavis.edu
  Interests: History of Christianity; religion and science; Jewish-Christian relations; women and religion; comparative mysticism.

• Frances Dolan (English) fdolan@ucdavis.edu
  Interests: Early modern drama; women’s history and writing; law; popular print.

• Linda Egan (Spanish) ldegan@ucdavis.edu
  Interests: Mexican literature and culture from the colony to the present, including Mexican novel, Mexican poetry, Mexican culture, colonial non-fiction genres (chronicle, essay, testimonial, documentary, journalism); Sor Juana; cultural studies.

• Margaret Ferguson (English) mwferguson@ucdavis.edu
  Interests: literature and literacy in the period 1400-1700; I also have interests in Dante and Chaucer; and in questions about the transmission of culture (across spaces as well as times and languages) from antiquity through the eighteenth century; in translation theory; in periodization; and in ideologies of gender & race.

• Cristina González (Spanish) crigonzalez@ucdavis.edu
  Interests: Medieval and early modern Hispanic literature, history and culture; chronicles and romances in Spain and Latin America; women’s literature in Spain and Latin America; the Spanish empire and the formation of Latino identity.

• Noah Guynn (French and Italian) ndguynn@ucdavis.edu
  Old French and Latin literature; medieval philosophy and theology; late-medieval theater, especially farce; sexuality and gender studies; critical theory.

• William Hagen (History) wwhagen@ucdavis.edu
  Interests: Early modern European social history, especially Germany and east-central Europe.

• Mark Halperin (East Asian Languages and Cultures) mhalperin@ucdavis.edu
  Interests: Medieval Chinese literature, religion, and literati culture; Han Chinese accounts of border peoples.

• A. Katie Harris (History) akharris@ucdavis.edu
  Interests: Spain and Portugal, Mexico and Central America, early modern Europe; cult of saints; sacred archaeology; hagiography; collectors and collecting.

  
  
  

• Norma Landau (History) nblandau@ucdavis.edu
  Interests: British “long eighteenth century” (1660-1840); government, the legal system, and local communities.

• Richard Levin (English) ralevin@ucdavis.edu
  Interests: Renaissance literature and drama.

• Adrienne Martín (Spanish) almartin@ucdavis.edu
  Interests: Golden Age Spanish literature (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries), with special interests in Cervantes, women writers, sexuality and erotic literature, drama and performance, and humor.

• Winder McConnell (German; Medieval and Early Modern Studies) wamcconnell@ucdavis.edu
  Interests: Medieval German heroic epic and courtly romance; chivalry; the hero in the Middle Ages; medieval German manuscripts; translation of medieval German epics into English.

• Sally McKee (History) sjmckee@ucdavis.edu
  Interests: Mediterranean slavery, Venice, women’s and family history. Teaching interests: medieval history, medieval and early modern colonization in the Mediterranean.

• James J. (Jerry) Murphy (English; emeritus) jermurphy@ucdavis.edu
  Interests: History of writing instruction; history of rhetoric, especially medieval and Renaissance; medieval universities; manuscript to print; Chaucer.

• David Nutter (Music) danutter@ucdavis.edu
  Interests: 16th-century Italian music; secular and sacred vocal music; music for the lute.

• Marijane Osborn (English); emerita. mjosborn@ucdavis.edu
  Interests: Old English and Old Norse literatures, Middle English verse romances, and Chaucer.

• Jessie Ann Owens (Music) jaowens@ucdavis.edu 

  Interests: Compositional Process in Renaissance Music

• Larry Peterman (Political Science) lipeterman@ucdavis.edu
  Interests: late medieval (e.g., Dante) and early modern (e.g., Machiavelli) political thought.

• Andrés Resendez (History) aresendez@ucdavis.edu
  Interests: Pre- and post-colonial Mexico and U.S.-Mexican relations.

• Chris Reynolds (Music) chreynolds@ucdavis.edu
  Interests: music of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; questions of ecclesiastical patronage in that period.

• Kevin Roddy (Medieval and Early Modern Studies) kproddy@ucdavis.edu
  Interests: Medieval nutrition and, more broadly, farming and food production; desert Fathers, Irish monasticism, and medieval popular religion.

• Lynn Roller (Classics; Art History) leroller@ucdavis.edu
  Interests: Ancient Near Eastern, Greek, and Roman art and archaeology; classical civilization: the Near East and early Greece; Greek language and literature, especially Homer, Herodotos, Thucydides, tragedy; Greek religion.

• Jeffrey Ruda (Art History) jhruda@ucdavis.edu
  Interests: Art in Italy, 14th–15th centuries. Teaching areas: Art in Italy, 14th–16th centuries; European art, 17th century.

• Seth Schein (Comparative Literature) slschein@ucdavis.edu
  Interests: comparative epic and drama, especially tragedy, and the reception of archaic and classical Greek literature, culture, and thought.

• Juliana Schiesari (Comparative Literature) jkschiesari@ucdavis.edu
  Interests: Feminist theory, psychoanalysis, Renaissance and early modern literature, women's literature and cultural studies.

• Brenda Schildgen (Comparative Literature) bdschildgen@ucdavis.edu
  Interests: Bible, particularly the New Testament; Dante, Chaucer, and the fourteenth century; hermeneutics; Saint Augustine and the patristic period. Teaching areas: Historical fiction; Bible; Dante; Chaucer; fairy tales and fables; myth and legend.

• Winfried Schleiner (English) whschleiner@ucdavis.edu Interests: Early modern literature, comparative literature, iconography, gender studies, and history of medicine.

• Jocelyn Sharlet (Comparative Literature; Middle East and South Asia Studies) jcsharlet@ucdavis.edu
  Interests: Arabic literature 8th–12th centuries and Persian literature 11th-–15th centuries. Teaching areas: classical Islamic and modern West Asian and North African literatures in translation; medieval European literature; fairy tales, fables, and parables.

• Scott Shershow (English) scshershow@ucdavis.edu
  Interests: Elizabethan, Jacobean and Restoration drama, with a particular interest in historical theories of drama; contemporary literary theory.

• John Smolenski (History) jsmolenski@ucdavis.edu
  Interests: Religious, political, and cultural history in 17th and 18th century British North America; comparative colonization in the early modern period; the intersection between history and anthropology. Teaching interests: colonial and revolutionary America, religion in American history, and the history of the colonial Atlantic world.

• Rex Stem (Classics) srstem@ucdavis.edu

  Teaching Interests: Latin and Greek language and literature, especially oratory and historiography; Greek and Roman Civilization. Research Interests: Cicero, Caesar, and the fall of the Roman Republic; Roman oratory, historiography, and political thought.

• Daniel Stolzenberg (History) dstolz@ucdavis.edu  

  Interests: Early modern Europe, especially the seventeenth century; history of science; intellectual and cultural history; history of the book; Italy, especially Rome.

• Kathy Stuart (History) kestuart@ucdavis.edu
  Interests: Deviance, marginality and crime in early-modern Germany; social and cultural history of early-modern Germany; gender history; urban history.

• Jan Szaif (Philosophy) jmszaif@ucdavis.edu

  Interests: History of Philosophy, especially Ancient Philosophy, ontology/metaphysics, ethics

• Alan S. Taylor (History) astaylor@ucdavis.edu

  Interests: Early American history (colonial, revolutionary and early republic); history of the American West; History of Canada (pre-Confederation).

• Baki Tezcan (History; Religious Studies; Middle East and South Asia Studies) btezcan@ucdavis.edu
  Interests: Islam, political culture of the medieval and early modern West Asia, race and ethnicity in the pre-modern world, and Ottoman intellectual history.

• Lenora Timm (Linguistics) latimm@ucdavis.edu
  Interests: Breton literature and culture; Middle Breton; history of witchcraft in Europe.

• David Traill (Classics) datraill@ucdavis.edu
  Interests: Medieval Latin poetry of the 12th and 13th centuries, particularly lyric, as found in the Carmina Burana, Arundel and other anthologies, and especially in the work of Philip the Chancellor and Walter of Châtillon. Teaching: Medieval Latin; the classical tradition.

• Heghnar Watenpaugh (Art History) hwatenpaugh@ucdavis.edu

  Research interests: Early modern and modern Islamic Art and Architecural History, urban history, theory of architectural preservation, and architecture and gender.

• Claire Waters (English) cmwaters@ucdavis.edu
  Interests: Medieval religious literature, especially preaching materials and saints’ lives; Chaucer; Old French fabliau; manuscript studies; gender studies.

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