CEMERS Staff

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Elizabeth I. Casteen

Associate Professor of History; Director of CEMERS

History; Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Research Interests

  • Medieval and Early Modern European history
  • History of gender and sexuality
  • History of religion and spirituality
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Olivia Holmes

Professor; Editor of Mediaevalia

Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Research Interests

  • Italian Literature
  • Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio
  • Medieval Studies
  • Early Modern Studies
  • Pre-modern Lyric Poetry
  • The Short-Story Tradition
  • Authorship
  • Rhetorical Discourse
  • Medieval Philosophy

Teaching Interests

  • Sicily in the Italian Cultural Imagination
  • Rhetorical Foundations: Literary Criticism and Rhetoric from Plato to the Renaissance
  • Medieval 101: Introduction to Medieval and Early Modern Studies
  • ¶Ù²¹²Ô³Ù±ð’s Divine Comedy
  • µþ´Ç³¦³¦²¹³¦³¦¾±´Ç’s Decameron: Love in a Time of Plague
  • Why Read? Pre-modern Narrative after the Cognitive Turn (graduate class)
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Bridget Whearty

Associate Professor

Department of English; Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Research Interests

  • Queer+trans medieval literature and material culture
  • Medieval manuscripts, digital humanities, media history, and digitization
  • 14th- and 15th-century English literature, including Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Hoccleve, and John Lydgate
  • Information literacy and Special Collections pedagogy

Teaching Interests

  • Medieval literature and culture
  • Manuscript studies and the history of the book
  • LGBTQ+ literature
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