Associated Faculty

Current Faculty

  • Ali Anooshahr (History; Middle East/South Asia studies) aanooshahr@ucdavis.edu Interests: comparative Islamic empires; Indo-Persian culture; historiography and memory

  • Carlee Arnett (German) clarnett@ucdavis.edu Interests: Germanic linguistics, cognitive grammar.

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

  • 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.

  • C. Michael (Mike) Chin (Classics; 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; Cultural Studies; Jewish Studies) apcoudert@ucdavis.edu Interests: History of Christianity; religion and science; Jewish-Christian relations; women and religion; comparative mysticism.

  • Kathleen Cruz (Classics) kancruz@ucdavis.edu Interests: Post-Virgilian imperial Latin literature, Greek and Latin epic; Treatment of the body in Greek and Latin medicine and literature; literary depictions of Greco-Roman magic; classical reception (especially in medieval Icelandic literature and the Hispanic Caribbean and Latin America)

  • Grace Delmolino (French and Italian; Cultural Studies) gdelmolino@ucdavis.edu Interests: feminism; literature, law, and history of the Italian Middle Ages (12th-14th centuries)

  • Lynna Dhanani (Religious Studies) lrdhanani@ucdavis.edu Interests: Jainism, Sanskrit and Prakrit language and literature, medieval Indian alchemical traditions, yoga and tantra, Indian devotional movements, Indian philosophy, and especially South Asian religious art.

  • Frances (Fran) Dolan (English) fdolan@ucdavis.edu Interests: Shakespeare; early modern literature and history; early modern composting and soil amendment; children's literature 

  • Michael Dylan Foster (East Asian Languages and Cultures) mdfoster@ucdavis.edu Interests: Japanese folklore; Japanese literature; Folkloristics history/theory); Monsters/Supernatural; Ritual and Festival; Legend and Belief; Tourism; Intangible Cultural Heritage/ Cultural Policy/ UNESCO

  • Claire Goldstein (French and Italian) cbgoldstein@ucdavis.edu Interests: early modern French literature and material culture

  • David Gundry (East Asian Languages and Cultures) djgundry@ucdavis.edu Interests: Medieval and early modern Japanese literature; Comparative history of the novel; Edo-period popular culture

  • Daniela Gutiérrez Flores (Spanish and Portuguese) gutierrezflores@ucdavis.edu Interests: Early modern Spanish and colonial Latin American studies, with a focus on the relations between texts, food, and culinary practices

  • 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.

  • Mark Halperin (East Asian Languages and Cultures; East Asian Studies) 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.

  • Yuming He (East Asian Languages and Cultures) ymhe@ucdavis.edu Interests: Dramatic performance and texts; textual and visual culture; social and intellectual history, particularly history of the book, in medieval and early modern China

  • Ralph Hexter (Classics; Comparative Literature) hexter@ucdaivs.edu Interests: Classical Greek and Roman Literature

  • Kyu Hyun Kim (History; East Asian Studies) kyukim@ucdavis.edu Interests: Early modern and modern Japanese history; colonial modernity in East Asia; modern Korean history; Japanese popular culture; Japanese and Korean cinema

  • John López (Art History) jlop@ucdavis.edu Interests: visual; material, and spacial practices between early modern Europe and the New World

  • Tobias Menely (English; Critical Theory) tmenely@ucdavis.edu Interests: long eighteenth century from Restoration to Romanticism; material ecocriticism 

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

  • Sal Nicolazzo (English) snicolazzo@ucdavis.edu Interests: Restoration and 18th-century English literature, transatlantic literature, law and literature, literature and empire, racial capitalism, gender and sexuality

  • Pierpalo Polzonetti (Music; French and Italian) ppolzonetti@ucdavis.edu Interests: opera and eighteenth-century music and culture

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

  • Sven-Erik Rose (Comparative Literature; German and Jewish Studies) serose@ucdavis.edu Interests: German literature 1750-present; Jewish literature and thought in Germany and Europe; Yiddish literature and culture; Holocaust studies; Literary theory, trauma theory, and theories of memory; The German critical tradition, especially Kant, Hegel, Marx, and Freud

  • Cheri Ross (Comparative Literature) cross@ucdavis.edu Interests: ancient myth and literature; classical literary genres; medieval and early modern European literary tradition; European Renaissance adaptations and responses to ancient and classical literary culture

  • John T. Scott (Political Science; French and Italian) jtscott@ucdavis.edu Interests: history of political philosophy; early modern political thought; Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  • Carey Seal (Classics; Critical Theory) cseal@ucdavis.edu Interests: Latin literature; Greek and Roman intellectual history

  • Sudipta Sen (History; South Asian Studies) ssen@ucdavis.edu Interests: Late Mughal and British India; British Empire; Environment and Ecology

  • Jocelyn Sharlet (Comparative Literature; Middle East and South Asia Studies) jcsharlet@ucdavis.edu Interests: Arabic literature (6th-15th centuries) and classical Persian literature (9th-15th centuries); lyric poetry and commentary; praise poetry; hunting, gift exchange and invitation poetry; the historical anecdote; prosimetrum; the essay; Islamic thought; fictional narrative; the frame tale; narrative poetry; epic and romance.

  • John Smolenski (History) jsmolenski@ucdavis.edu Interests: Early American history (to 1820), with particular interests in religion, culture, and the history of slavery; History of the Atlantic world (to 1820)

  • Alexandra Sofroniew (Art History; Classics) asofroniew@ucdavis.edu Interests: ancient Greek, Roman, and Etruscan art; art history and archaeology of pre-Roman Italy and Sicily; material culture of ancient religions

  • Joseph Sorensen (East Asian Languages and Cultures) jsorensen@ucdavis.edu Interests: Classical and medieval poetry and drama; text-image relationships in pre-modern Japan; geography, place-names, and travel literature; pre-modern aesthetics and performance theory; Japanese art, architecture, and art history; modern Japanese literature and film

  • Carl Stahmer (English; Data Lab) cstahmer@ucdavis.edu Interests: digital humanities; digital approaches to bibliography and print history especially in the early modern period

  • Daniel Stolzenberg (History; French and Italian; Science and Technology Studies) dstolz@ucdavis.edu Interests: history of science and scholarship from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment

  • Kathy Stuart (History) kestuart@ucdavis.edu Interests: Early modern Germany; social and cultural history; crime, deviance, and marginality; microhistory; history of daily life; history of gender

  • Mairaj Syed (Religious Studies; Middle East and South Asia Studies) msyed@ucdavis.edu Interests: Islamic law; Early Islamic History; Hadith literature; Islamic ethics; Ethical theory; Islamic political thought; Islamic intellectual history; Legal theory; Law and society; Moral philosophy; Social theory; Gender

  • Baki Tezcan (History; Religious Studies; Middle East and South Asia Studies; Critical Theory) 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.

  • Anna Uhlig (Classics) asuhlig@ucdavis.edu Interests: performance and poetics in the Greek Mediterranean

  • Stefan Uhlig (Comparative Literature; German Studies; Critical Theory) shuhlig@ucdavis.edu Interests: literary studies; rhetoric; poetics; historiography; aesthetics; history of education

  • Archana Venkatesan (Comparative Literature; Religious Studies; Middle East and South Asia Studies) avenkatesan@ucdavis.edu Interests: Tamil Vaishnava (Alvar) poetry; South Indian performance; Women and Goddess traditions in India

  • Matthew Vernon (English) mxvernon@ucdavis.edu Interests: Medieval literature; travel narratives; migration; film; comic books

  • Heghnar Watenpaugh (Art History; Cultural Studies;Jewish Studies) hwatenpaugh@ucdavis.edu Interests: history of art, architecture, and urbanism in the Middle East, including architectural preservation, museums, and cultural heritage

  • Claire Waters (English) cmwaters@ucdavis.edu Interests: medieval religious literature and culture; saints' lives and preaching; doctrinal handbooks and miracles of the Virgin Mary; relationship between teachers and learners, audiences of sermons and religious writings and the creators of those works

  • Colin Webster (Classics; Psychology and Science and Technology Studies) cwebster@ucdavis.edu Interests: Ancient Science; medicine and philosophy

  • Tiffany Jo Werth (English) tjwerth@ucdavis.edu Interests: Renaissance literature; Reformation history; print culture; posthumanism; the long history of environmental narratives

  • Michael Yonan (Art History) meyonan@ucdavis.edu Interests: early modern European art especially eighteenth-century Austrian, German, and Scandinavian art; decorative arts; rococo design, material culture theory; art historical methodology and historiography

Current Lecturers

Emeritus Faculty

  • 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.

  • Robert Borgen (History, Philosophy, and East Asian Languages and Cultures) rborgen@ucdavis.edu

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

  • 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) jcadden@ucdavis.edu Interests: Science and medicine in the Middle Ages; medieval women; gender and sexuality in the Middle Ages.
     

  • 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

  • Peter Lichtenfels (Theatre & Dance and German) plichtenfels@ucdavis.edu Interests: Shakespeare and contemporary performance

  • 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.

  • James J. (Jerry) Murphy (English) 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) 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • Brenda Schildgen (Comparative Literature; Jewish Studies) 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.

  • 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.