As a multi-disciplinary program, all Centre faculty are cross-appointed from various departments of the University of Toronto. Faculty marked F are full members of the School of Graduate Studies, and can function as supervisors for PhD students; those marked A are associate members.
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | K | L | M | N | O | P | R | S | T | W | Emeriti
| Name | Office | Field | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jane Abray email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-978-8484 |
F | SS 2059 | Reformation history and gender history in Western Europe |
| Suzanne Akbari email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-978-6791 416-978-6271 |
F | LI 315 UC B304 |
The intersection of English and Comparative Literature with intellectual history and philosophy; neo-platonism and science in the twelfth century; national identity and religious conflict in the fourteenth century |
| Alexander Andrée email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-978-2092 416-926-1300 x3335 |
A | LI 313C OH 016 |
Medieval biblical commentaries, philology, codicology, palaeography |
| Lawrin Armstrong email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-946-8712 |
F | LI 317 | Political economy and legal sociology of late-medieval Italy |
| Kenneth Bartlett email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-585-4590 |
F | VC 202 | Anglo-Italian relations in the sixteenth century |
| Deborah Black email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-946-5983 416-978-2034 |
F | JH 501 LI 222 |
Classical Arabic philosophy; Medieval Latin philosophy, especially epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind |
| Josiah Blackmore email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-585-4456 |
F | NF 305 | Medieval Portugal and Spain; historiography; lyric; expansionist literature; gay and lesbian studies |
| Marjorie O’Rourke Boyle email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-978-7833 |
A | Cultural history; rhetoric; medicine | |
| William Bowen email hidden; JavaScript is required |
F | UTSC | Speculative musical thought from Antiquity to the end of the Renaissance, with particular focus on harmonic science and its implications for Renaissance culture |
| James Carley email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-736-2100 x33179 |
F | PI 32 York |
English antiquaries (John Leland in particular); post-dissolution |
| Jill Caskey email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-978-8652 |
F | LI 303 | Medieval art and architecture |
| Isabelle Cochelin email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-978-7414 |
F | UC F103 | Medieval church and society, monastic communities |
| Adam Cohen email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-946-7554 |
F | Uses of art, especially by male and female monastics, to articulate complex theological structures and the intersection of such ideological positions with the lived experience; Jewish art (broadly defined) and Jewish-Christian polemics in the Middle Ages | |
| Gabriela Currie email hidden; JavaScript is required |
A | Medieval music theory, the intersection between musical and scientific thought in the early- and pre-modern eras, iconography, and travel accounts as early ethnographies of Byzantine, Balkan, and Ottoman musical traditions | |
| Michael Dewar email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-978-0483 |
F | LI 215 | Epic and political poetry of the first, fourth, and fifth centuries |
| Martin Dimnik email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-926-7137 |
F | PI 42 | History of Kievan Rus’ from the middle of the 10th to the middle of the 13th century (political history, dynastic studies, church and cultural history); the history of the Slavs in the Balkans from the 6th-14th centuries |
| Greti Dinkova-Bruun email hidden; JavaScript is required |
A | PI 44 | Latin biblical versification, palaeography and textual criticism |
| B. Elan Dresher email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-978-1762 |
F | SS 4075 | Linguistic theory, phonology, diachronic linguistics, Old English and Germanic phonology and prosody; Biblical Hebrew |
| Konrad Eisenbichler email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-585-4486 |
F | NF 308 | Italian literature, history, and culture in the 15th and 16th centuries; esp. Tuscany, theatre, and confraternities |
| Claude Evans email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-946-3847 905-828-5287 |
A | LI 221 UTM NB 245 |
Medieval Brittany with a focus on the edition of the charters of Cistercian foundations (Bégard, Boquen and Saint-Aubin-des-Bois)and of a Premonstratensian abbey, Beauport; Middle Breton toponymy and onomastics |
| Nicholas Everett email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-946-0175 |
F | SS 3113 | Early medieval Italian history, history of literacy and education in early medieval Europe |
| Elizabeth Ewan email hidden; JavaScript is required 519-824-4120 x56228 |
F | Guelph | Social history of Scotland c. 1200–1600, especially in the fields of gender, crime and urban history |
| Iván Fernández Peláez email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-926-1300 x3238 |
A | AH 406B | Spanish and Portuguese |
| Michael Gervers email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-287-7130 416-978-2014 416-978-4882 |
F | UTSC H511 SS 2077 RL 14290 |
Medieval social and economic history, religious life, military orders, monasticism, ancient textiles, history of Ethiopia, history and ethnography of Central and Inner Asia, computer analysis of medieval records |
| Alexandra Gillespie email hidden; JavaScript is required 905-828-5394 |
F | UTM 293NB | Old English, Middle English, and Renaissance Literature; History of the Book (manuscript and print) |
| Joseph Goering email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-926-1300 x3225 416-946-0974 |
F | OH 120 SS 2053 |
Church and society, intellectual history, history of education |
| Sebastian Günther email hidden; JavaScript is required +49 (0)551 / 39-4397 |
F | Classical Arabic literature, including belles-lettres (Adab) and religious texts (such as prophetic traditions, Hadith) | |
| John Haines email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-978-6798 416-946-8468 |
F | LI 316 | Musical palaeography, the liturgy and magic |
| Bert Hall email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-978-4945 |
F | BC 28 | Medieval and renaissance technology, material culture and everyday life; military technology, esp. gunpowder; documentary sources for early technology, including manuscripts, printed texts, and illustrated works; medieval and renaissance science and magic; medieval and renaissance medicine, esp. non-learned medical practices |
| Jennifer Harris email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-978-5938 |
F | Concepts of place in the medieval world; Jewish-Christian relations; the Bible and historiography; the intersection between medieval theories and modern popular culture | |
| Antonette diPaolo Healey email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-978-8883 |
F | RL 14285 | Language and literature of England in the early medieval period; especially, Old English lexicography and word studies; language and culture; history of the English language; development of computing tools in the humanities and their specific applications to medieval texts |
| Michael Herren email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-736-2100 x66629 |
F | York | Latin literature of Ireland and early Britain; Medieval Latin philology (Vulgar Latin, Hiberno-Latin); Late Latin and Early Medieval Latin poetry (c300-c900), insular and continental; ecclesiastical history of the British Isles (c400-c800); edition of texts; transmi ion of texts; grammars and glossaries |
| Richard Hoffmann email hidden; JavaScript is required |
F | York | Economic, environmental, and social history of medieval Europe; medieval frontiers |
| Ann Hutchison email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-926-1300 x3396 |
F | PI 47 York |
St Bridget of Sweden and the English Brigettine house, Syon Abbey; women’s education and literacy; late medieval spirituality |
| Yolanda Iglesias email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-813-4088 |
A | VC 204 | Spanish Medieval literature, with an emphasis on courtly love, sentimental romance, and La Celestina |
| Brad Inwood email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-978-3178 |
F | LI 210 | Ancient philosophy, esp. Presocratic and Hellenistic |
| Bernice Kaczynski email hidden; JavaScript is required 905-525-9140 x24142 |
F | McMaster | Intellectual culture of the early Middle Ages, especially the world of the Carolingian monasteries |
| Alison Keith email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-946-0038 |
F | LI 211 | Gender and genre in Latin literature |
| Peter King email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-978-4951 |
F | JH 521 | Anselm, Buridan, Duns Scotus, Abelard |
| Jüri Kivimäe email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-946-0970 |
F | SS 2056 | Medieval and early modern Baltic history; late medieval European economic history, esp. Hanseatic merchants and trade; Reformation and early printed books in the 16th century |
| Dorothea Kullmann email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-926-1300 x3349 |
F | CR 310 | Medieval Romance Languages and Literatures, especially Old French Epic |
| D. Ian Lancashire email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-978-8279 |
F | WE 122 | Chaucer; early bilingual English-French/Italian/Latin/Spanish dictionaries; early English drama; bibliography and editing; computer applications and stylistics |
| Sally-Beth MacLean email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-978-6345 |
A | JH 810 | Medieval and early modern English theatre and its social context; popular customs and the progress of the reformation at the local level; touring practices and patronage of medieval and renaissance entertainers; research productions of medieval and renaissance plays; research and editorial methodology for English historical records before 1642 |
| John Magee email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-946-7264 416-978-5422 |
F | LI 304 | Late ancient philosophy and philosophical commentators; textual criticism |
| David McDougall email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-978-8883 |
A | RL 14285 | Transmission of Latin learning in England, Iceland, and Scandinavia in the Middle Ages |
| Ian McDougall email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-978-8883 |
A | RL 14285 | Old English and Old Norse language and literature, particularly the transmission of Latin learning in vernacular texts of the British Isles and Scandinavia |
| Fabienne Michelet email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-978-6418 |
A | JH 928 | Old English literature, especially Old English poetry; cultural geography and questions of space and place; discourses of heroism and heroic agency |
| Mark Meyerson email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-978-8475 |
F | SS 3071 | Medieval and early modern Spain, social history, Christian-Muslim-Jewish relations |
| Michèle Mulchahey email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-926-7129 |
F | PI 26 | Universities, role of the friars, teaching of Thomas Aquinas, Franciscan and Dominican third orders and confraternities |
| Jacqueline Murray email hidden; JavaScript is required 519-824-4120 x58521 |
F | Guelph | Medieval men and the construction of masculinity and male sexuality |
| Linda Northrup email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-978-0378 |
F | BF 221 | Medieval Islamic history and historiography; Mamluk history, historiography, and institutions |
| Andy Orchard email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-978-2689 416-946-3499 |
F | Trinity LI 225 |
Old English; Old Norse; Medieval latin; Medieval Celtic |
| Carol Percy email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-978-4287 |
F | JH 732 | History of the English language, esp. 1700-present; standardization; grammars and dictionaries; women’s language; sociolinguistics; corpus linguistics |
| Martin Pickavé email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-978-6781 416-978-2926 |
F | JH 515 LI 305 |
Later medieval philosophy (13th and 14th centuries); medieval metaphysics and philosophy of mind |
| Domenico Pietropaolo email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-926-1300 x3379 |
F | Dante; Boccaccio; medieval and renaissance theatre; medievalism and the history of medieval studies | |
| William Robins email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-585-4432 |
F | NF 214 | Middle English Literature; Medieval Italian Literature; Classical and Biblical Traditions; Editorial Theory |
| Bert Roest email hidden; JavaScript is required |
A | LI 222 | Late medieval mendicant life and learning |
| Jill Ross email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-813-4086 |
F | BT 316 | Castilian, Latin, Catalan and Hebrew literatures written in medieval Iberia; the feminine and medieval poetic theory |
| Marleen Rozemond email hidden; JavaScript is required 905-828-3747 416-978-3316 |
F | UTM 274NB JH 510 |
Early modern philosophy and its relationship to medieval philosophy; the nature of mind and body |
| Walid Saleh email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-946-3241 |
F | BF 220 | The Qur’an, Quranic exegetical tradition, apocalyptic Islamic literature, history of Arabic lexicography, medieval Arabic biographies |
| Joseph Schallert email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-926-1300 x3246 |
F | AH 409 | Balkan Slavic dialects, Slavic accentology, West Slavic prosody, Old Russian syntax |
| Giulio Silano email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-926-1300 x3274 416-946-0974 |
F | OH 118 SS 2053 |
Medieval, ecclesiastical, institutional, legal |
| T. Allan Smith email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-926-7291 |
F | Early and Medieval Church History; Russian Church History and Theology; Eastern Orthodox Spirituality; Monasticism; 19th and 20th Century Orthodox Theology; Sergei Bulgakov | |
| Markus Stock email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-926-2327 |
F | OH 326 | Middle High German language and culture, medieval German poetry, epic and romance, language history, Old Saxon |
| Maria Subtelny email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-978-5245 |
F | BF 216 | History (social, economic, cultural) of medieval Iran and Central Asia, esp. Mongol and post-Mongol periods; Classical Persian language and literature; Turkic languages and literatures |
| Robert Sweetman email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-979-2331 x231 |
F | ICS | Thirteenth and fourteenth century theology, esp. narrativity and its anthropological ground, mendicant and beguinal/Cistercian mysticism, Dominican theories of the virtues and vices |
| Nicholas Terpstra email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-585-4428 |
F | NF 202 | Renaissance and early modern Italy, social and political history, reform movements |
| David Townsend email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-978-6776 |
F | LI 321 | Old and Middle English |
| Jens Wollesen email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-585-4479 |
F | History of European and East Asian art; classical archaeology; Sinology and medieval Christian and Classical architecture and iconography |
Professors Emeriti
| Name | Office | Field |
|---|---|---|
| James Burke email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-585-4576 |
VC 103 | Medieval Spanish and Medieval European literature |
| Natalie Z. Davis email hidden; JavaScript is required |
Early modern Europe, social and cultural history, cultural mixture, 16th-17th century France | |
| Ann Dooley email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-926-7145 |
OH 023 | Early Irish narrative; bardic verse, including political and religious poetic traditions; texts and documents of the early Irish church; comparative socio-literary issues in the general field of cultures of the British Isles; comparative Indo-European mythology |
| JoAnna Dutka email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-978-2576 905-828-3763 |
LA 301 UTM |
English |
| James Farge email hidden; JavaScript is required |
PI 29 | |
| Roberta Frank email hidden; JavaScript is required 203-432-2238 |
Early England and Scandinavia | |
| Walter Goffart email hidden; JavaScript is required 203-432-1367 |
Late Rome, barbarian kingdoms, early middle ages, historical atlases | |
| E. Ruth Harvey email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-978-8652 |
LI 315 | Medieval literature, learning, medicine |
| Andrew Hughes email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-978-8648 |
Medieval liturgy, plainsong and other music, and liturgical manuscripts | |
| Alexandra Johnston email hidden; JavaScript is required |
Medieval and Renaissance drama (continental as well as English); Medieval English didactic literature; Chaucer; the Bible and literature | |
| David Klausner email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-978-7379 416-978-3390 |
LI 314B | Middle Welsh, Old/Middle English, including Drama |
| Hartwig Mayer email hidden; JavaScript is required |
Germanic Languages and Literatures | |
| James McConica email hidden; JavaScript is required |
PI 28 | |
| Christopher McDonough email hidden; JavaScript is required |
Medieval Latin | |
| Brian Merrilees email hidden; JavaScript is required |
The French language in the Middle Ages; Anglo-Norman language and literature; editing medieval texts; the teaching of languages in the Middle Ages; medieval lexicography; bilingual dictionaries in France before 1500; French medieval grammars | |
| John Munro email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-978-4552 |
GE 348 | Economics |
| Alexander Murray email hidden; JavaScript is required 905-828-3730 |
UTM 149 | Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, social and legal history, historiography |
| Roger Reynolds email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-505-1781 |
PI 12 | |
| A. George Rigg | LI 322 | |
| Robert Sinkewicz email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-926-7128 |
AH 313 | Early Christian Studies, Eastern Christianity, Christian asceticism and monastic institutions |
| Brian Stock | Literature and society in late antiquity; Augustine of Hippo; the history of reading from antiquity to the 16th century; 12th century culture and society; church history in the Middle Ages; selected topics in Renaissance philosophy | |
| Bob Taylor email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-585-4429 |
VC 207 | Textual criticism (French and Occitan literature); editing medieval texts (lyric, sermons, saints’ lives, translations); medieval lexicography (French, Occitan) |
| Pauline Thompson email hidden; JavaScript is required |
Language and literature of England in the early medieval period |