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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Misty Lou Finch
Administrative Assistant
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
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