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 | |
| Corinne Denoyelle email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-926-1300 x3496 |
A | CR 314 | Old and Middle French prose and verse romances, especially Arthurian and Tristanian literature |
| 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 |
| Ann Dooley email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-926-7145 |
F | 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 |
| 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 905-828-5287 |
A | UTM 245NB | Medieval Brittany with a focus on Bégard Abbey |
| 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 |
| 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 203 | 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 |
| David Klausner email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-978-7379 416-978-3390 |
F | LI 314B | Old/Middle English, including Drama |
| 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 416-978-5542 |
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 |
| Alexander Murray email hidden; JavaScript is required 905-828-3730 416-978-1941 |
F | UTM 149 SS 2062 |
Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, social and legal history, historiography |
| 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 |
| Franco Pierno email hidden; JavaScript is required 416-926-1300 x3373 |
A | History of the Italian language, Italian lexicography, the “Questione della lingua”, Italian language and religion, Italian and European linguistic policies, linguistic aspects of Jesuit Relations (17th century), Italian Protestant literature (16th century) | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
Classics | |
| 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 |
| 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 |