The Renaissance Area Faculty

Core Faculty

Stephen Fallon (Ph.D., Virginia) studies seventeenth-century literature, Milton, literature and the history of philosophy. Read full profile >

Peter Holland (Ph.D., Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge) studies Shakespeare and performance. Read full profile >

Jesse Lander (Ph.D., Columbia) studies Renaissance drama, the history of books, early modern historiography and political theory, and religion. Read full profile >

Susannah Monta (Ph.D., Wisconsin) studies early modern literature in relation to Protestant and Catholic religious reformations. Read full profile >

Associated Faculty Profiles

  • Medieval
  • Eighteenth-Century
  • American
  • History and Philosophy of Science

Medieval

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), Associate 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 >

Eighteenth-Century

Margaret Anne Doody, Past President of the American Society For Eighteenth-Century Studies and author of many books, including The Daring Muse, The True Story of the Novel, and Frances Burney: The Life in the Work. Professor Doody also serves as Director of Notre Dame's interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Literature Program. Read full profile >

Christopher Fox, a member of the English Department, is Chairperson of the Irish Language & Literature Department and Director of the Keough Institute for Irish Studies. A well-known Swift scholar, Professor Fox has most recently edited The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift. Read full profile >

Luke Gibbons is the author of Edmund Burke and Ireland: Aesthetics, Politics and the Colonial Sublime. Read full profile >

John Sitter, who joined the department in 2004, is author of Literary Loneliness in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England and Arguments of Augustan Wit as well as other studies of poetry and satire; he recently contributed the chapter on poetry after Pope to The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660-1780 and edited The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry. Read full profile >

American

Sandra M. Gustafson is the author of Eloquence is Power: Oratory and Performance in Early America. She recently organized a conference on "Histories of Print, Manuscript, and Performance in Early America" at the American Antiquarian Society, where she also delivered the James Russell Wiggins Lecture on "The Emerging Media of Early America." Read full profile >