Old and Middle English Faculty
Core Faculty
Dolores Warwick Frese (Ph.D., University of Iowa), Professor, specializes in medieval poetic and prose vernacular fictions, with particular emphasis on the poetry of Chaucer. Read full profile >
Thomas N. Hall (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Professor, works on the religious literature of Anglo-Saxon and early Anglo-Norman England. Read full profile >
Kathryn Kerby-Fulton (D. Phil., York, U.K.), Notre Dame Professor of English, specializes in Middle English literature and related areas of Medieval Studies. Read full profile >
Katherine Zieman (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley), Assistant Professor, specializes in late medieval English literature and culture with particular interests in liturgical practices and definitions of literacy. Read full profile >
Associated Faculty Profiles
Medieval
Maureen B. McCann Boulton (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania; M.Litt., University of Oxford), is a medievalist with particular interests in religious literature, textual criticism, manuscript studies and the relations between lyric poetry and medieval romance. She has edited two fourteenth-century texts, the Old French Evangile de l'Enfance, and a related text in Anglo-Norman, the Enfaunces de Jesu Crist. Her third book, The Song in the Story, a study of lyric quotations in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century romances, was published in 1993. Her most recent book, completed in collaboration with Ruth J. Dean, is Anglo-Norman Literature: A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts (London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 2000).
Professor Boulton regularly offers courses on medieval literature, both French and comparative, and medieval culture, including "From Roland to the Holy Grail: Medieval French Literature 1100-1300," "Love and War in Late Medieval France," "Arthurian Literature," "Lyric and Narrative in Medieval French Literature," "King Arthur in History and Literature," and "Medieval Latin Paleography."
In March 2002, Professor Boulton was awarded the PRIX CHAVÉE from the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres for Anglo-Norman Literature. Read Arts and Letters profile >
Theodore J. Cachey Jr. (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles), Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Ravarino Family Director of the William and Katherine Devers Program in Dante Studies at the University of Notre Dame, works on Italian literary history and historiography of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, in particular Dante, Petrarch, the "Questione della lingua" and the literature and history of travel. He is the author of Le isole fortunate: appunti di storia letteraria italiana (Rome: L'erma di Bretschneider, 1995); editor and translator of A. Pigafetta's The First Voyage Around the World (New York: Marsilio, 1995); and the editor of Dante Now: Current Trends in Dante Studies (Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 1995).
His book, Petrarch's Guide to the Holy Land (Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 2002) won the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione prize for a manuscript in Italian Studies awarded by the Modern Languages Association in 2002. He is also co-editor, with Zygmunt G. Baranski, of two forthcoming volumes of the Dictionary of Literary Biography: Italian Literature of the Thirteenth Century and Italian Literature of the Fourteenth Century. Founder and co-editor (with Christian R. Moevs) of the William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante Studies published by the University of Notre Dame Press , he is also Executive Director of ItalNet, an international consortium for the creation of internet resources in the Italian Studies area.
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Stephen E. Gersh (M.A., Cambridge University), Professor of Medieval Studies and Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, works on medieval philosophy and rhetoric, modern French and German philosophy and literary theory, later ancient and medieval philosophy, medieval literary theory, and medieval musical theory. He is author of numerous monographs, including Concord in Discourse: Harmonics and Semiotics in Late Medieval and Early Modern Platonism (De Gruyter, 1998). He was appointed Solomon Katz Professor in the Humanities, University of Washington for 2001. Read Arts and Letters profile >
Dayle Seidenspinner-Núñez (Ph.D., Stanford University), Professor of Spanish and Associate Dean, College of Arts and Letters, works in medieval Spanish literature and comparative medieval literature; her recent research approaches fourteenth- and fifteenth-century peninsular literature and culture incorporating cultural studies and feminist theory and centers on converso texts (Jewish converts to Christianity), literature and the law, and the Inquisition.
She is author of The Allegory of Good Love: Parodic Perspectivism in the "Libro de buen amor" (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981) and The Writings of Teresa de Cartagena (London: Boydell and Brewer, 1998), and numerous articles on Celestina, the Arçipreste de Talavera, Juan Ruiz, Don Juan Manuel, La vida de Santa María Egipciaca, and converso criticism; editor of the Libro de don Tristán de Leonís, Arboleda de los enfermos, and Admiraçión operum Dey. Her current research project, “Conversion and Subversion: Converso Discourses in Trastámaran Spain,” examines the interventions of the conversos in Spanish culture under the Trastámara (1369-1516) in the context of nation-building and the formation of a persecuting society.
Professor Seidenspinner-Núñez offers courses on medieval and early modern Spanish literature and culture, including "Trastámara Spain," "Medieval Spanish Literature," "Literature and Inquisition," "Golden Age Drama," "Survey of Spanish Literature I," and "The Age of the Catholic Monarchs." Read Arts and Letters profile >
Daniel Sheerin (Ph.D., University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill). Professor of Classics and Concurrent Professor of Theology, studies Medieval Latin, early Christian studies, patrology, medieval Latin literature, liturgical studies, and Erasmus.
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Jesse M. Lander (Ph.D., Columbia University), Associate Professor of English, studies Shakespeare, Tudor-Stuart drama, Renaissance, history of books, and the connections between print technology, religious polemic, and literary form in early modern England. Read full profile >
Gerald Bruns (Ph.D., University of Virginia), the William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of English, focuses on comparative literature, hermeneutics, and poetics. Read full profile >
Joseph A. Buttigieg (Ph.D., State University of New York at Binghamton), William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English, is interested in the relationship between culture and politics. Read full profile >