interdepartmental faculty
PETER BROWNProfessor 135 Dickinson Hall Medieval History; Late Antiquity. |
MARINA BROWNLEEProfessor (Ph.D., Princeton) 342 East Pyne Marina Brownlee is the Robert Schirmer Professor of Spanish and Professor of Comparative Literature with an emphasis on the Medieval and Early Modern periods. Before joining Princeton’s faculty in 2002, she taught at Dartmouth College (1977-88), and the University of Pennsylvania (1988-2001). She has been awarded fellowships by the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her current research explores the nature and impact of 16th-century tabloid literature in Spain, cultural interactions between Spain and the New World, and issues of periodization in Medieval and Early Modern Spain. Recent Publication. The Poetics of Literary Theory: Lope and Cervantes (1981); The Status of the Reading Subject in the ‘Libro de Buen Amor’ (1985); The Severed Word: Ovid’s ‘Heroides’ and the ‘Novela Sentimental’ (1990); The Cultural Labyrinth of María de Zayas (2000). She has also co-edited volumes on Romance: Generic Transformation from Chrétien de Troyes to Cervantes (1985); Boundary and Transgression in Medieval Culture (1990); The New Medievalism (1991); Cultural Authority in Golden Age Spain (1995). |
MARK COHENProfessor (Ph.D., Columbia) 306 McCormick I regularly teach the department’s course in medieval Jewish history (under Islam and under Christendom), as well as graduate seminars dealing with Near Eastern Jewish history or Judaeo-Arabic (mainly Geniza documents). I have been instrumental (along with Professor Udovitch) in training graduate students to use the Geniza for general Islamic social and economic history. Representative Publication. Jewish Self-Government in Medieval Egypt: the Origins of the Office of Head of the Jews, ca. 1065-1126 (Princeton, 1980); Al-mujtama’al-yahudi fi Misr al-islamiyya fi’l-‘usur al-wusta (Jewish Life in Medieval Egypt, 641-1382) (Tel-Aviv, 1987); The Autobiography of a Seventeenth-Century Venetian Rabbi: Leon Modena’s Life of Judah (Princeton, 1988); Jews Among Arabs: Contacts and Boundaries, co-edited with A.L. Udovitch (Princeton, 1989); Under Crescent and Cross: The Jews in the Middle Ages (Princeton, 1994). |
SLOBODAN CURCICProfessor (Ph.D., NYU) 305 McCormick Professor Ćurčić is completing a book entitled In the Shadow of Hagia Sophia: Architecture in the Balkans from Diocletian to Suleiman the Magnificent. This will be the first book of this kind to have appeared in any language. He is also currently involved in the organization of the exhibition “Architecture as Icon: Representations of Architecture in Byzantine Art.” The exhibition is sponsored jointly by Princeton and the European Center for Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Monuments in Thessaloniki. The show is scheduled to open at the Museum of Byzantine Culture in Thessaloniki in 2006 and will then be on view at the Princeton University Art Museum in the Spring of 2007. He was involved in the organization of the exhibition “Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261-1557)”, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art until July 5, 2004. His main roles were the selection of objects and acting as a liaison between the museum and the lending institutions in Serbia, as well as writing one of the main essays for the exhibition catalogue. In Princeton, Ćurčić organized (with Shari Kenfield) an exhibition entitled “The House in Late Antique Syria” comprising original photographs and drawings by Howard Crosby Butler from the Butler Archive in the Department of Art and Archaeology. The exhibition was planned in conjunction with the graduate seminar on “The Byzantine House” taught by Ćurčić in the Spring semester of 2003. The exhibition will be on view until late October 2004. Ćurčić gave lectures at the University of Belgrade and at the Serbian Academy in Belgrade, and presented a paper at the annual Meeting of the Society for Early Christian Archaeology in Athens and will be presenting another paper in June at a conference in Moscow. Ćurčić has been elected an Honorary Member of the Society for Early Christian Archaeology in Athens. He joins 13 other members of this distinguished international group that includes only two other individuals from the U.S. Representative Publication. “Function and Form: Church Architecture in Bulgaria, 4th-19th Centuries,” in Treasures of Christian Art in Bulgaria, edited by Valentino Pace (Sofia, 2001); “Exonarthax of Hilandar: Question of Form and Patronage,” in Osam Vekova Hilandara, edited by Vojislav Korac (Belgrade, 2001); and “The House in the Byzantine World” in Everyday Life in Byzantium, which was published in English and Greek editions (Athens, 2002); “Religious Settings of the Late Byzantine Sphere,” Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261-1557), edited by Helen Evans (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2004) and “The Role of Late Byzantine Thessalonike in Church Architecture in the Balkans,” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 57 (2003). Four additional articles are in print and are expected to appear in the next few months. |
GILES CONSTABLEProfessor Emeritus |
KATHLEEN DAVIS Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Rutgers 1997) B55 McCosh Hall Old English and Middle English. Currently writing a book entitled Unbirthing the Nation: The Middle Ages and Postcolonial Time. Recent Publication. Essays on King Alfred, Chaucer, and the relation of the Middle Ages and post-colonialism. Deconstruction and Translation. |
JOHN V. FLEMINGProfessor (Ph.D., Princeton 1963) 49 McCosh Hall Medieval. Recent Publication. The Roman de la Rose: A Study in Allegory and Iconography; An Introduction to the Franciscan Literature of the Middle Ages; From Bonaventure to Bellini: An Essay in Franciscan Exegesis; Reason and the Lover; Classical Imitation and Interpretation in Chaucer's “Troilus”; 1492: A Continuing Voyage. Currently working on Columbus. |
PIETRO FRASSICAProfessor (Ph.D., Boston College) 328 East Pyne Professor in Italian at Princeton since 1976, during which time he has been instrumental in developing and overseeing the Italian undergraduate program. He is also director of the interdepartmental Program in Italian Studies, and serves on the committees for Medieval Studies and Renaissance Studies. His scholarship has been in the early Renaissance, the 18th century, and contemporary literature and theater. He has held positions in the American Association of Italian Studies, the Medieval Academy of America, and the American Association of Italian Teachers, and serves on several editorial boards including Rivista di letteratura italiana and Gradiva. In 1998 Frassica was the recipient of the Italian-American Hall of Fame award, and in 2001 received an “I migliori” prize from the Pirandello Society of Boston. He acts as the liaison and the undergraduate contact for the Princeton summer program at the Università di Macerata, Italy, where he has also taught courses. Over the years he has taught as a visiting professor at several other universities in the U.S. and abroad. He teaches courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels, has taught interdisciplinary seminars in conjunction with the music department, and currently teaches a seminar, popular with students, on the literature of Italian gastronomy. In the wider Princeton community Frassica serves as a trustee at the Dorothea van Dyke McLane Association, and as a consultant for the Princeton Public Library. Recent Publication. He has written over 60 scholarly and popular articles, and is the author of 5 books: Varianti e invarianti dell'evocazione (2004); Caro Maestro (letters by Marta Abba to Luigi Pirandello) (1994); Romanzo europeo tra Ottocento e Novecento (1992); A Marta Abba per non morire (1991); and his critical edition of Gian Mario Filfelfo's Chroniche de la città de Anchona (1979), which received the “Premio Internazionale Calabria di letteratura” in 1980. He is editor of the volumes Ercole Patti e altro Novecento siciliano (2004); Salvatore Quasimodo. Nel vento del Mediterraneo (2002); Studi di filologia e letteratura italiana (1992); Primo Levi as Witness (1991). In addition, he co-authored a first-year Italian grammar, Per modo di dire (1981); an anthology of 20th-c. Italian prose and poetry, Immagini del Novecento italiano (1986); and a second-year Italian grammar, Vivere in Italia (1992). Presently he is working on a new book on Guiseppe Parini, and another on Luigi Pirandello. |
ANTHONY GRAFTONProfessor (Ph.D., University of Chicago 1975) 24 Joseph Henry House Professor Grafton’s special interests lie in the cultural history of Renaissance Europe, the history of books and readers, the history of scholarship and education in the west from Antiquity to the nineteenth century, and the history of science from Antiquity to the Renaissance. He likes to see the past through the eyes of influential and original writers, and has accordingly written intellectual biographies of a fifteenth-century Italian humanist, architect and town planner, Leon Battista Alberti; a sixteenth-century Italian astrologer and medical man, Girolamo Cardano; and a sixteenth-century French classicist and historian, Joseph Scaliger. But he also studies the long-term history of scholarly practices, such as forgery and the citation of sources, and has worked on many other topics in cultural and intellectual history. Two collections of essays, Defenders of the Text (1991) and Bring Out Your Dead (2001), cover most of the topics and themes that appeal to him. Recent Publication. Leon Battista Alberti: Master Builder of the Italian Renaissance (Harvard); Cardano’s Cosmos : The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer (Harvard); Joseph Scaliger: A Study in the History of Classical Scholarship (Oxford-Warburg Studies) (Oxford); Defenders of the Text: The Traditions of Scholarship in the Age of Science, 1450-1800 (Harvard); Bring Out Your Dead: The Past as Revelation (Harvard). |
ANDRAS HAMORIProfessor W11A Dillon CT Most of my publications have had to do with pre-modern Arabic poetry and prose. Some of the studies of poetry have dealt with the transformations in the poetic presentation of the world brought about by the end of paganism in Arabia and the development of early Islamic civilization. In other studies I have tried to uncover some of the implicit conventions of this poetic tradition that was so rich and self-assured, and so different in its structural assumptions from what the modern reader (in the Arab world or in the West) is accustomed to. For a long time my studies on prose were directed at narrative in the 1001 Nights. Recently I have become very interested in two areas of research in medieval Islamic literature: the use of folkloric elements in “highbrow” entertainment literature, and the artistic shaping of historical narrative. Besides the Department’s third year Arabic course, I teach graduate courses whose content varies according to the students’ needs. Some serve to introduce the student to various aspects of medieval Arabic writing (e.g., historical); some are intended as fairly advanced surveys (e.g., of the genres of pre-modern poetry) or research seminars in poetry or belles-lettres. I have supervised dissertations on such subjects as medieval criticism, textual variation in poetry, and the relations among genres in classical Arabic prose. Representative Publication. On the Art of Medieval Arabic Literature (Princeton 1974); The Composition of Mutanabbi's Panegyrics to Sayf al-Dawla (Leiden, 1992); “Notes on Two Love Stories from The Thousand and One Nights,” Studia Islamica, 43 (1976); “The Magician and the Whore: Readings of Qamar al-Zaman,” in The 1001 Nights: Critical Essays and Annotated Bibliography, (Cambridge, MA 1985); “Reading a Hebrew Lyric with a Hispano-Arabic Background,” Edebiyat, N.S. 3 (1989); “Love poetry,” “Ascetic poetry,” and “Al-Mutanabbi,” in Cambridge History of Arabic Literature, vol. 2 (Abbasid Belles-Lettres), Cambridge 1990; “Folklore in Tanukhi: the Collector of Ramlah,” Studia Islamica, 71 (1990); “Tinkering with the text: Two variously related stories in the Faraj Ba’d al-Shidda”, in Story-telling in the Framework of Non-fictional Arabic literature, ed. S. Leder, (Wiesbaden 1998). |
DANIEL HELLER-ROAZEN Professor (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins) 12 East Pyne Daniel Heller-Roazen’s areas of interest include Greek and Roman letters; the transmission of classical learning to the Arabic world and to the Latin West; the vernacular literatures of the European Middle Ages; medieval Arabic, Hebrew and Latin philosophy; and twentieth-century philosophy. He is the author of Fortune’s Faces: The Roman de la Rose and the Poetics of Contingency (Johns Hopkins 2003) as well as editor of Giorgio Agamben’s Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy (Stanford 1999). He has written articles on classical, medieval, and modern literature and philosophy published or forthcoming in Diacritics, Littérature, MLN, October, Paragraph, Parallax, Romania, and South Atlantic Quarterly. His next book, Echolalias: On the Forgetting of Language, is forthcoming from Zone Books. Recent Publication. Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Meridian (Stanford, Calif.), Stanford University Press; Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy, Stanford University Press; The End of the Poem: Studies in Poetics (Meridian (Stanford, Calif.), Stanford University Press; Fortune’s Faces: The Roman de la Rose and the Poetics of Contingency (Parallax: Re-Visions of Culture and Society), Johns Hopkins Univ Pr; Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive, Zone Books. |
ROBERT HOLLANDERProfessor Emeritus (Ph.D., Columbia) C-5-L Firestone Library Robert Hollander is Professor of European Literature in the Italian section. From 1975-98 he was also a member of the Department of Comparative Literature, chairing that department, 1994-98. He also served as Master of Butler College, 1991-95. Hollander has devoted most of his writing to the age of Dante and Boccaccio in Italy. He is founder and director of the Dartmouth Dante Project (a database that has been consultable since October 1988 and currently includes 59 commentaries to the Commedia) and of the Princeton Dante Project, an on-line multimedia version of Dante’s poem. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the Electronic Bulletin of the Dante Society of America. Hollander has received a number of honors and awards: a Guggenheim Fellowship (1970), two NEH Senior Fellowships (1974, 1982), The Howard T. Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities (1986), and resident fellowships at Bellagio conferred by the Rockefeller Foundation (1987, 1993). In 1988 he received the Gold Medal conferred by the City of Florence for his contribution to Dante studies, as well as the Witherspoon Award of the New Jersey Committee for the Humanities. In September 1997 he was made an honorary citizen of Certaldo, Boccaccio’s birthplace. In June 1999 he was one of the two winners of the International Nicola Zingarelli Prize for Dantean philology and criticism. He has served or currently serves on various boards, including the National Council on the Humanities (1974-1980 [Vice Chairman, 1978-80], 1986-1991); the Dante Society of America (1976-1985 [President, 1979-1985]); the N.J. Committee for the Humanities (1980-1986 [Chairman, 1982-1983]); the National Humanities Center (1981-1991 [Chairman of the Board 1988-1991]); the Associazione Internazionale per gli Studi di Lingua e Letteratura Italiana (1985-1994 [Vice President]); Collegiate School (1990-1996; 1998- [President of the Board]); and La Scuola d’Italia (1986-1992). He was a founding member of the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities and served (1993-98) as chairman of its Advisory Board. He has directed dissertations dealing with the Italian Trecento. Representative Publication. He is the author, translator, or editor of twenty-four books and has published over seventy scholarly articles. Among the former are Allegory in Dante’s Commedia (Princeton, 1969); Boccaccio’s Two Venuses (Columbia, 1977); Studies in Dante (Longo, 1980); Il Virgilio dantesco (Olschki, 1983); Boccaccio’s Last Fiction: Il Corbaccio (Pennsylvania, 1988); Dante’s Epistle to Cangrande (Michigan, 1993); Boccaccio’s Dante and the Shaping Force of Satire (Michigan, 1997); Dante Alighieri (Rome, Editalia, 2000). His translations include André Malraux’s The Temptation of the West (Vintage, 1961); Giovanni Boccaccio’s Amorosa Visione (with T. Hampton and M. Frankel), (University Press of New England, 1986); and, with Jean Hollander, Dante’s Inferno, currently available in the Princeton Dante Project and to be published by Doubleday in autumn of 2000. He edited L’Espositione di Bernardino Daniello da Lucca sopra la Commedia di Dante (with J. Schnapp, assisted by N. Vickers and K. Brownlee), (UPNE, 1989). He was the Editor-in-Chief of the Lectura Dantis Americana, a series of readings of the individual cantos of the Commedia, the three volumes of which appeared 1989-93 (Pennsylvania). |
PETER JEFFERYProfessor 303 Woolworth Center The Scheide Professor of Music History, Professor Jeffery is a musicologist whose work focuses on Medieval and Renaissance music, especially Gregorian chant. He also has strong interests in world music, particularly Asian religious chanting and the music of the African diaspora. His interest in cross-cultural psychologies prompted him to develop the department's first course in music cognition. |
WILLIAM C. JORDAN Professor (Ph.D., Princeton 1973) 232 Dickinson Hall William Chester Jordan is Professor of History and Director of the Program in Medieval Studies. He has been Director of the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, from 1994 to 1999. He is the author of several books: Louis IX and the Challenge of the Crusade: A Study in Rulership; From Servitude to Freedom: Manumission in the Senonais in the Thirteenth Century; The French Monarchy and the Jews from Philip Augustus to the Last Capetians; Women and Credit in Pre-Industrial and Developing Societies; The Great Famine: Northern Europe in the Early Fourteenth Century (awarded the Haskins Medal of the Medieval Academy of America); and Europe in the High Middle Ages. He has edited a one-volume encyclopedia of the Middle Ages for elementary school pupils and a four-volume version for middle school students. He is the editor in chief of the first supplemental volume of the Dictionary of the Middle Ages. His current research focuses on church-state relations in the thirteenth and the first half of the fourteenth century. Recent Publication. Europe in the High Middle Ages: Penguin History of Europe; The Great Famine; Women and Credit in Pre-Industrial and Developing Societies; From Servitude to Freedom: Manumission in the Senonais in the Thirteenth Century; Louis IX and the Challenge of the Crusade: A Study in Rulership. |
THOMAS LEISTENProfessor (Ph.D., Tübingen, Germany) 371 McCormick Thomas F. Leisten is a native of Germany and holds a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies and Islamic Art History from Eberland-Karls-Universität in Tübingen. His courses at Princeton include survey courses on early and later Islamic art, undergraduate seminars on the history of illustrated manuscripts and calligraphy in the Islamic world, and graduate seminars on medieval and pre-modern urbanism in the Middle East as well as various archaeological topics. Professor Leisten has worked on excavations in Syria, Pakistan and Iraq, and is director of the ongoing excavation of an eight-century palace complex in Balis, Syria, a cooperative project of Princeton University and the Syrian Directorate of Antiquities. Recent Publication. “Turba” for Encyclopedia of Islam (2nd edition), vol 8; “The Architecture of Samarra. Results of the German Excavation in Samarra 1911-13,” Vol. 1: The First Campaign 1910-12 (Mainz); “Islamische Ikonographie,” Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart “Preliminary Report on the Excavation at Balis, 1996, 1999”, Berytosand "Baghdad um 800: Streiflichter auf das Leben in Palaesten und Huetten," in W. Dressen, G. Minkenberg and G. Oellers (eds.), Ex Oriente. Isaak und der weisse Elefant (Mainz, 2003) vol. 3, 80-95. |
JANET M. MARTINAssociate Professor (Ph.D., Harvard) 157 East Pyne Professor Martin teaches ancient and medieval Latin literature. She has published Peter the Venerable: Selected Letters (joint edition) and articles on Hildegard of Bingen, John of Salisbury, and the classical tradition. In 1995 she was honored by the Women’s Classical Caucus for her contributions to feminism. Her current research focuses on the classical scholarship of John of Salisbury and on women writing Latin. |
SIMONE MARCHESIAssistant Professor (Ph.D., Princeton 2000) 324 East Pyne His special interest is in the influence of classical and late-antique Latin works on Italian medieval writers, in particular Dante and Boccaccio. Published work includes Stratigrafie decameroniane (Olschki, 2004), articles on Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarch, and Giovanni della Casa, as well as on the tradition of the twentieth-century novel and contemporary Italian cinema. In the past, he has collaborated on the design and realization of Progetto Italica, a multimedia course of Italian language and culture accessible on the Web and hosted by the University of Notre Dame. |
SARA POORAssociate Professor (Ph.D., Duke 1994) 211 East Pyne Sara S. Poor ("Sally") received her PhD from Duke University's Graduate Program in Literature in 1994. After holding positions at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (1995-96) and Stanford University (1996-2002), she joined the faculty at Princeton in September of 2002. While at Stanford, she was awarded a Mellon Fellowship from the University of Pennsylvania Humanities Forum, where she taught and did research from 1999-2000. And she currently holds the Charles G. Osgood University Preceptorship (2005-2008) from Princeton University. Her primary research interests are in the areas of Gender Studies and medieval German literature, interests which are reflected prominently in her teaching. Her first book, Mechthild of Magdeburg and Her Book: Gender and the Making of Textual Authority was awarded the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship's 2006 Prize for the best first book on a medieval feminist topic. Ittakes a historical approach to the complex theoretical issues surrounding the study of medieval manuscripts, women's writing, and canon formation and was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2004. She is also at work on a second book project on women and medieval books, tentatively entitled Reading Compilations: The Contexts, Contents, and Owners of Fifteenth-Century German Devotional Books, as well as a series of articles on gender configurations in medieval German courtship narratives. Professor Poor has also recently completed two editing projects: a collection of essays, edited in collaboration with Jana K. Schulman (Western Michigan University) called Women and Medieval Epic: Gender, Genre, and the Limits of Epic Masculinity (forthcoming in December 2006 from Palgrave Press) and two issues of Medieval Feminist Forum (No. 38 and 39, Winter and Summer 2005). As part of efforts to foster the continued study of medieval German literature and culture in the United States, she has co-founded an association of American medievalists (YMAGINA) that is active in bringing young medievalists together at conferences, as well as in establishing more lasting and productive connections between medievalists and modernists in our field. |
PETER SCHAEFERProfessor (Ph.D., ) 1879 Hall, Rm 236 Peter Schaefer joined the faculty in 1998, appointed as the Ronald O. Perelman Professor of Judaic Studies and Professor of Religion. Schaefer’s research interests include Jewish History in Late Antiquity, the religion and literature of Rabbinic Judaism, Jewish Mysticism, 19th and 20th century Wissenschaft des Judentums and Jewish Magic. Recent Publication. The author of numerous books and articles, his 1998 book (Harvard University Press) Judeophobia: Attitudes toward the Jews in the Ancient World, has been translated into several languages. His latest books are: Mirror of His Beauty: Feminine Images of God From the Bible to the Early Kabbalah (Princeton 2002), The Bar Kokhba War Reconsidered: Archaeological, Historical, and Literary Perspectives on the Second Jewish Revolt against Rome (Tuebingen 2003), and Der Triumph der reinen Geistigketi. Sigmund Freud's “Der Mann Moses und die monotheistische Religion,” Berlin and Wien 2003. Since 1993, co-editor of Jewish Studies Quarterly. |
PAUL E. SIGMUNDProfessor Emeritus Corwin 237 He specializes in political theory and Latin American politics He has been a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, and the Institute for Advanced Study, and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. He is currently working on a collection of interviews with ex-guerrillas in Latin America. Recent Publication. He is the author of Nicholas of Cusa and Medieval Political Thought; Natural Law in Political Thought; The Overthrow of Allende and the Politics of Chile 1964-76; Multinationals in Latin America: The Politics of Nationalization; Liberation Theology at the Crossroads: Democracy or Revolution; and The United States and Democracy in Chile; co-author of The Democratic Experience; and The Military Institution in Latin America; editor of The Ideologies of the Developing Nations; Models of Political Change in Latin America; Chile 1973-1998: The Coup and its Consequences; Religious Freedom and Evangelization in Latin America; and John Locke, Selected Political Writings; co-editor of Views of America; Poder, Sociedad, y Estado; and The Political Economy of Income Distribution in Mexico; and translator of Alain Rouquie, The Military and the State in Latin America; St. Thomas Aquinas on Ethics and Politics; and The Catholic Concordance by Nicholas of Cusa. |
D. VANCE SMITHDirector 37 McCosh Hall Medieval. Recent Publication. Essays on Piers Plowman, historiography, the medieval masculine body. Co-ed. New Approaches to Medieval Studies. Currently working on possession, exchange, and aristocratic signification in the Middle Ages. New books: The Book of the Incipit: Beginnings in the Fourteenth Century and Arts of Possession: The Middle English Household Imaginary. |
RONALD E. SURTZProfessor (Ph.D., Harvard) 344 East Pyne Ronald Surtz is a Professor in Spanish specializing in medieval and Golden Age literature. He has directed dissertations on such topics as the Libro de miseria omne, Pedro de Corral’s Crónica sarracina, and censorship in 17th-century Spain. He currently serves the Department as Associate Chair and Director of Graduate Studies in Spanish. Recent Publication. He has written The Birth of a Theater (1979), The Guitar of God: Gender, Power, and Authority in the Visionary World of Mother Juana de la Cruz (1481-1534) (1990), and Writing Women in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain: The Mothers of St. Teresa of Avila (1995). Professor Surtz has edited Teatro castellano de la Edad Media (1992), and Juan Pastor’s Aucto nuevo (1981). He is co-editor of a collection of essays entitled Creation and Re-creation: Experiments in Literary Form in Early Modern Spain (1983). |
ROB C. WEGMANAssociate Professor (Ph.D., Univ of Amsterdam 1993) 218 Woolworth Center Professor Wegman is a musicologist whose research centers on the musical aesthetics and sociology of late-Medieval and Renaissance music. |