NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
ARTS AND SCIENCE
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCE

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MARC Staff
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Martha Dana Rust
Director, Medieval and Renaissance Center
Email: martha.rust@nyu.edu
Crystal Parsons
Department Administrator
Email: ccp1@nyu.edu
Affiliated Faculty
Anthropology
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Pam J. Crabtree
Email: PamCDougC@comcast.net
Research/Interest: Zooarchaeology; animal domestication and history of domestic animals; archaeology of later prehistoric and early medieval Europe; Iron Age Ireland; historical archaeology of North America.
Art History
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Carol Krinsky
Email: chk1@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: 20th century architecture and planning; 15th century painting.
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Dennis V Geronimus
Email: dennis.geronimus@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Renaissance art, crosscurrents between the art of Italy and Northern Europe in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
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Finbarr Barry Flood
Email: barry.flood@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Art and architecture of the Islamic world; Cross-cultural dimensions of Islamic material culture; Theories and practices of image-making; Technologies of representation; Art historical historiography, methodology, and theory; and Orientalism.
Kathleen Weil-Garris  Brandt
Email: kathleen.brandt@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Italian Renaissance art and culture.
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Louise Rice
Email: louise.rice@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture; history of prints and print culture.
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Kathryn A. Smith
Email: kathryn.smith@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Early Christian and medieval art; illustrated Gothic manuscripts; image-text relationships in medieval art, especially illuminated manuscripts; the roles of imagery in lay religion; images and one-off illustrated books as expressive and constitutive of medieval notions of the self.
Chemistry
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Paul Gans
Email: paul.gans@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Theoretical chemistry: determination of conforma-tional and thermodynamic properties of macromolecules by Monte Carlo simulation
Classics
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Phillip Mitsis
Email: phillip.mitsis@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Ancient philosophy and its reception; ancient drama; modern Greek literature and culture.
Comparative Literature
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Daniel Javitch
Email: dj15@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: European literature of the Renaissance, poetic theory before 1700, postclassical history of Ancient genres.
English
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John M. Archer
Email: john.archer@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Renaissance drama; early modern literature and culture; the history of subjectivity; literary theory; colonial and postcolonial studies
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Christopher Cannon
Email: christopher.cannon@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Grammar and grammar school learning; early Middle English; Chaucer; Langland; problems of literary history; language and theories of language
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Mary J Carruthers
Email: mary.carruthers@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Medieval literature and rhetoric; memory and mnemonic technique; the history of spirituality
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Denis Donoghue
Email: dd1@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Modern English, Irish, and American Literature; aesthetics and the practice on reading
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Juliet Fleming
Email: jf102@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Renaissance literature and culture; history of the book; literary theory; theories of writing.
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Ernest B Gilman
Email: ernest.gilman@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: English Renaissance literature; interrelationships of literature and the visual arts; literature and disease
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John Guillory
Email: john.guillory@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Renaissance poetry and prose; Shakespeare; Milton; literature and science in the Renaissance; the history of rhetoric; the history of criticism; the sociology of literary study; twentieth-century literary theory
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David L. Hoover
Email: david.hoover@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: authorship attribution, linguistic stylistics, statistical stylistics, corpus stylistics, humanities computing, English language, animal language and cognition, Old English meter
Richard D Horwich
Email: richard.horwich@nyu.edu
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Haruko Momma
Email: hal.momma@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Old English language, literature, and culture; medieval literature and culture; history of the English language; philology and historical linguistics; history of language studies; medievalism
French
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Michel Beaujour
Email: mb2@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Renaissance literature; contemporary poetry; literary theory; stylistics; rhetoric; poetics; comparative and ethno-poetics.
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Benoît Bolduc
Email: benoit.bolduc@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Early Modern French Literature, Theatre and the Performing Arts, Court and Civic Festivals, Festival Books; Dramatic repertoire, Performance practices ; Poetry; Literature and the Arts
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Nancy Freeman Regalado
Email: nancy.regalado@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Medieval literature and culture; lyric and narrative; reader reception and performance theory
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Sarah Kay
Email: hsk8@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Medieval literature, philosophy, culture; contemporary theory and criticism
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Evelyn Birge Vitz
Email: ebv1@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Medieval literature. Performance. Oral and written tradition. Hagiography. Biblical and religious literature, Crusader culture. Storytelling. Literary theory. Cognitive approaches to literature.
Hebrew and Judaic Studies
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Robert Chazan
Email: robert.chazan@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Medieval Jewish History; the Church and the Jews
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Jeffrey L. Rubenstein
Email: jr6@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Rabbinic stories; Talmud; Jewish law; Jewish liturgy; ethics; Second Temple literature
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Elliot R. Wolfson
Email: erw1@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Jewish mysticism and philosophy; gender construction and the history of religion; symbolism and myth; philosophical hermeneutics and the phenomenology of religious experience
History
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Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak
Email: bbr2@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: History and Theory; Semiotic Anthropology; Material Culture; Media and Communication; Historical Anthropology of the Middle Ages; Medieval France; Medieval Sign Theory; Medieval Diplomatics and Sigillography; Latin and Old French Paleography
Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak, Brigitte Bedos-Rezak, History, Medieval Europe
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Fiona J. Griffiths
Email: fjg3@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: History of Women and Gender, Monasticism, Medieval libraries and book production, the Twelfth-Century Renaissance, Friendship, Heloise and Abelard.
Fiona Griffiths, History
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Karen Kupperman
Email: karen.kupperman@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Early modern Atlantic world; American colonization; American Indian history
Karen Kupperman, History
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Leslie Peirce
Email: lp50@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: early modern Ottoman history, gender, law & society, comparative empires
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Kostis Smyrlis
Email: ks113@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Byzantine empire, 9th to 15th century; economic history; emperor and subjects; state finances; law and land ownership; diplomatics
History, Kostis Smyrlis
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Joanna Waley-Cohen
Email: jw5@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Early modern Chinese history; China and the West; Chinese imperial culture.
Joanna Waley-Cohen, History
Italian
Maria Luisa Ardizzone
Email: mla1@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Medieval poetry, philosophy, and science; contemporary poetry; intellectual history
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Virginia Cox
Email: virginia.cox@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Sixteenth-century Italian literature and intellectual history; early modern women’s writing; history of rhetoric (medieval/early modern).
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John Freccero
Email: jfreccero@cs.com
Research/Interest: Dante; medieval poetry and poetics; Machiavelli.
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Jane Tylus
Email: jt76@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Late medieval and early modern Italy and Europe, particularly issues related to gender and religion; history of theatre; literature of 19th-century Sicily; the history and culture of Siena
Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
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Peter J Chelkowski
Email: pc5@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: literature, mysticism, Islamic studies and performing arts of the Middle East.
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Tamer el-Leithy
Email: tamer.elleithy@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Social and Cultural History of the Medieval Middle East and Mediterranean;
History of Religious Difference, esp. Conversion, Martyrdom, and Communal Violence; Coptic history;
Family History; Islamic Law and Society; Arabic and Judeo-Arabic/Geniza Documents; Medieval Archives.
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Marion Holmes Katz
Email: marion.katz@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: My research interests revolve primarily around issues of Islamic law (shari'a), gender, and ritual.
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Philip F. Kennedy
Email: philip.kennedy@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Medieval Arabic language and literature; classical poetry and poetics; adab; narrative and fiction; recognition/anagnorisis in literature; Qur'an and Tafsir
Maurice Pomerantz
Research/Interest: Premodern Arabic Literature
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Everett K. Rowson
Research/Interest: Medieval Islamic literature; law; theology; gender and society.
Music
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Stanley Boorman
Email: stanley.boorman@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Early music and its performance; music of the avant garde; musical notation
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Suzanne Cusick
Email: sc103@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: gender, sexuality and embodiment in relation to musical culture, especially those of early modern Italy and contemporary North America; acoustemology of contemporary life, especially acoustical violence in contemporary war; feminist and queer approaches to music scholarship; cultural history of music
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Edward H Roesner
Email: edward.roesner@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Currently engaged on studies of the 12th-century Codex Callixtinus and a book on the Las Huelgas Codex, medieval music (12th- and 13th-century polyphony, Gregorian chant, music theory and aesthetics), paleography, history of liturgy, early music performance practice, medieval studies.
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Anna Zayaruznaya
Email: zayaruznaya@gmail.com
Research/Interest: Modes of musical representation in medieval song, text-music relations, Russian music, medieval studies, music and technology, monsters.
Philosophy
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Don Garrett
Email: don.garrett@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: early modern philosophy
Social and Cultural Analysis
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Carolyn Dinshaw
Email: carolyn.dinshaw@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Medieval literature and culture; feminist studies; lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender studies; history of sexuality; theories of history and historiography; mysticism; theories and experiences of temporality
Spanish and Portuguese
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Georgina Dopico-Black
Email: gdb3@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Early-modern Spanish literatures and cultures; cultural history; the body / anatomy; biopolitics; human / animal studies; gender studies; translation studies; canon formation / libraries; nation / empire; transatlantic studies; Cervantes
Kenneth Krabbenhoft
Email: kk1@nyu.edu
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Jacques Lezra
Research/Interest: Comparative literature and literary theory; Shakespeare; the literary and visual culture of Early Modern Europe.
H. Salvador Martínez
Email: hsm1@nyu.edu
Other
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Karl Appuhn
Email: appuhn@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Environmental History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, History of Animals, Mediterranean History, Italian Renaissance.
Karl Appuhn
Gallatin School of Individualized Study
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Valerie Forman
Email: vf20@nyu.edu
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Andrew Romig
Email: romig@nyu.edu
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Susanne Wofford
Email: susanne.wofford@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Shakespeare, Spenser, Renaissance and classical epic, comparative European drama, and narrative and literary theory
Institute of Fine Arts
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Alexander  Nagel
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Thelma Thomas
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Marvin Trachtenberg
Email: mt2@nyu.edu