Faculty

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.

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Name Office Field
Jane Abray
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416-978-8484
F SS 2059 Reformation history and gender history in Western Europe
Suzanne Akbari
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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
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416-978-2092
416-926-1300 x3335
A LI 313C
OH 016
Medieval biblical commentaries, philology, codicology, palaeography
Lawrin Armstrong
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416-946-8712
F LI 317 Political economy and legal sociology of late-medieval Italy
Kenneth Bartlett
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416-585-4590
F VC 202 Anglo-Italian relations in the sixteenth century
Deborah Black
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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
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416-585-4456
F NF 305 Medieval Portugal and Spain; historiography; lyric; expansionist literature; gay and lesbian studies
Marjorie O’Rourke Boyle
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416-978-7833
A Cultural history; rhetoric; medicine
William Bowen
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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
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416-736-2100 x33179
F PI 32
York
English antiquaries (John Leland in particular); post-dissolution
Jill Caskey
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416-978-8652
F LI 303 Medieval art and architecture
Isabelle Cochelin
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416-978-7414
F UC F103 Medieval church and society, monastic communities
Adam Cohen
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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
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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
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416-978-0483
F LI 215 Epic and political poetry of the first, fourth, and fifth centuries
Martin Dimnik
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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
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A PI 44 Latin biblical versification, palaeography and textual criticism
B. Elan Dresher
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416-978-1762
F SS 4075 Linguistic theory, phonology, diachronic linguistics, Old English and Germanic phonology and prosody; Biblical Hebrew
Konrad Eisenbichler
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416-585-4486
F NF 308 Italian literature, history, and culture in the 15th and 16th centuries; esp. Tuscany, theatre, and confraternities
Claude Evans
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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
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416-946-0175
F SS 3113 Early medieval Italian history, history of literacy and education in early medieval Europe
Elizabeth Ewan
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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
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416-926-1300 x3238
A AH 406B Spanish and Portuguese
Michael Gervers
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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
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905-828-5394
F UTM 293NB Old English, Middle English, and Renaissance Literature; History of the Book (manuscript and print)
Joseph Goering
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416-926-1300 x3225
416-946-0974
F OH 120
SS 2053
Church and society, intellectual history, history of education
Sebastian Günther
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+49 (0)551 / 39-4397
F Classical Arabic literature, including belles-lettres (Adab) and religious texts (such as prophetic traditions, Hadith)
John Haines
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416-978-6798
416-946-8468
F LI 316 Musical palaeography, the liturgy and magic
Bert Hall
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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
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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
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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
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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
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F York Economic, environmental, and social history of medieval Europe; medieval frontiers
Ann Hutchison
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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
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416-813-4088
A VC 204 Spanish Medieval literature, with an emphasis on courtly love, sentimental romance, and La Celestina
Brad Inwood
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416-978-3178
F LI 210 Ancient philosophy, esp. Presocratic and Hellenistic
Bernice Kaczynski
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905-525-9140 x24142
F McMaster Intellectual culture of the early Middle Ages, especially the world of the Carolingian monasteries
Alison Keith
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416-946-0038
F LI 211 Gender and genre in Latin literature
Peter King
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416-978-4951
F JH 521 Anselm, Buridan, Duns Scotus, Abelard
Jüri Kivimäe
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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
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416-926-1300 x3349
F CR 310 Medieval Romance Languages and Literatures, especially Old French Epic
D. Ian Lancashire
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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
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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
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416-946-7264
416-978-5422
F LI 304 Late ancient philosophy and philosophical commentators; textual criticism
David McDougall
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416-978-8883
A RL 14285 Transmission of Latin learning in England, Iceland, and Scandinavia in the Middle Ages
Ian McDougall
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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
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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
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416-978-8475
F SS 3071 Medieval and early modern Spain, social history, Christian-Muslim-Jewish relations
Michèle Mulchahey
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416-926-7129
F PI 26 Universities, role of the friars, teaching of Thomas Aquinas, Franciscan and Dominican third orders and confraternities
Jacqueline Murray
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519-824-4120 x58521
F Guelph Medieval men and the construction of masculinity and male sexuality
Linda Northrup
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416-978-0378
F BF 221 Medieval Islamic history and historiography; Mamluk history, historiography, and institutions
Andy Orchard
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416-978-2689
416-946-3499
F Trinity
LI 225
Old English; Old Norse; Medieval latin; Medieval Celtic
Carol Percy
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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
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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
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416-926-1300 x3379
F Dante; Boccaccio; medieval and renaissance theatre; medievalism and the history of medieval studies
William Robins
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416-585-4432
F NF 214 Middle English Literature; Medieval Italian Literature; Classical and Biblical Traditions; Editorial Theory
Bert Roest
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A LI 222 Late medieval mendicant life and learning
Jill Ross
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416-813-4086
F BT 316 Castilian, Latin, Catalan and Hebrew literatures written in medieval Iberia; the feminine and medieval poetic theory
Marleen Rozemond
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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
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416-946-3241
F BF 220 The Qur’an, Quranic exegetical tradition, apocalyptic Islamic literature, history of Arabic lexicography, medieval Arabic biographies
Joseph Schallert
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416-926-1300 x3246
F AH 409 Balkan Slavic dialects, Slavic accentology, West Slavic prosody, Old Russian syntax
Giulio Silano
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416-926-1300 x3274
416-946-0974
F OH 118
SS 2053
Medieval, ecclesiastical, institutional, legal
T. Allan Smith
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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
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416-926-2327
F OH 326 Middle High German language and culture, medieval German poetry, epic and romance, language history, Old Saxon
Maria Subtelny
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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
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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
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416-585-4428
F NF 202 Renaissance and early modern Italy, social and political history, reform movements
David Townsend
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416-978-6776
F LI 321 Old and Middle English
Jens Wollesen
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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
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416-585-4576
VC 103 Medieval Spanish and Medieval European literature
Natalie Z. Davis
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Early modern Europe, social and cultural history, cultural mixture, 16th-17th century France
Ann Dooley
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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
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416-978-2576
905-828-3763
LA 301
UTM
English
James Farge
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PI 29
Roberta Frank
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203-432-2238
Early England and Scandinavia
Walter Goffart
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203-432-1367
Late Rome, barbarian kingdoms, early middle ages, historical atlases
E. Ruth Harvey
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416-978-8652
LI 315 Medieval literature, learning, medicine
Andrew Hughes
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416-978-8648
Medieval liturgy, plainsong and other music, and liturgical manuscripts
Alexandra Johnston
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Medieval and Renaissance drama (continental as well as English); Medieval English didactic literature; Chaucer; the Bible and literature
David Klausner
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416-978-7379
416-978-3390
LI 314B Middle Welsh, Old/Middle English, including Drama
Hartwig Mayer
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Germanic Languages and Literatures
James McConica
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PI 28
Christopher McDonough
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Medieval Latin
Brian Merrilees
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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
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416-978-4552
GE 348 Economics
Alexander Murray
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905-828-3730
UTM 149 Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, social and legal history, historiography
Roger Reynolds
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416-505-1781
PI 12
A. George Rigg LI 322
Robert Sinkewicz
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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
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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
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Language and literature of England in the early medieval period