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
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
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
Sheldon Lu (Comparative Literature, East Asian Studies, Performance Studies, Cultural Studies, Film and Media Studies, Critical Theory, and Designated Emphasis in Environmental Humanities) shlu@ucdavis.edu Interests: literary studies, visual studies, film studies, China studies, cultural theory, and the medieval and early modern period
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
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.
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
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
Kenneth Connally (English) kmconnally@ucdavis.edu Interests: early modern English literature; gender and sexuality; the reception of ancient philosophy in Renaissance England
Charles Oriel (Spanish and Portuguese) cmoriel@ucdavis.edu Interests: Spanish Golden Age literature; The comedia; Cervantes; Speech-act theory; Philosophy of language
Valentina Popescu (Classics) vpopescu@ucdavis.edu Interests: Imperial literature; Ancient constructions of identity; Ancient novel, comedy, and paradoxography
John Rundin (Classics) jsrundin@ucdavis.edu Interests: Latin and Greek language and literature; Greek religion; Ancient eroticism; Ancient philosophy
Melissa Stem (Classics) mstem@ucdavis.edu Interests: Early Modern French and Spanish literature and classical reception; civil and religious conflicts; the construction of national identity; the revelations present in the re-tellings of stories; epic; historiography; memory studies
Wendy Terry (Religious Studies) wrterry@ucdavis.edu Interests: History of Christianity; Religion and Language; Mysticism; Somatic Piety Practices
Miki Wheeler (East Asian Languages & Cultures) cmwheeler@ucdavis.edu Interests: Heian and Kamakura court diaries; garments; inter- and intra-generational ties between women
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
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.
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.
