Faculty Co-Director and Assistant Professor, French and Italian
Research areas: Medieval French and Occitan literature, particularly lyric and romance; Relationship between text and music; Medieval manuscripts, book history, paleography and codicology, manuscript fragments; Medievalism, reception of the Middle Ages, history of Medieval Studies
Faculty Co-Director and Martha Biggerstaff Jones Professor of British Literature
Research areas: Late-Medieval Literature and Culture; History of the Book; Arthurian Literature; Method and Periodization; Critical Theory; Psychoanalytic and Cognitive theories
Blake Overman
Graduate Research Assistant and PhD Student, English
Research areas: monster literature; literature of the long nineteenth century; queer theory; narratology; the grotesque
Joshua Pontillo
Graduate Research Assistant and PhD Student, English
Research areas: medieval England, Ireland, and Iceland; manuscript studies; ecocriticism; temporality and spatiality.
