Affiliated Faculty

Peter Rudnytsky
Professor
English
plr@english.ufl.edu
Editor, American Imago
Freud, history and theory of psychoanalysis; Shakespeare, early modern literature

Gareth L. Schmeling
Distinguished Professor
Classics
schmelin@classics.ufl.edu
Petronius, Apuleius, Historia Apollonii, Chariton, Xenophon; ancient novel; textual criticism

Richard Allen Shoaf
Professor
English
ras@english.ufl.edu
Editor, Exemplaria
Chaucer, Dante, Milton, Shakespeare; Middle English poetry; critical theory

Judy Shoaf
Language Learning Center
jshoaf@clas.ufl.edu
Moderator, Arthurnet
Managine Editor, Exemplaria
 Old French literature; Old Norse literature

C. John Sommerville 
Professor of English History,
History (emeritus)
jsommerv@history.ufl.edu
History of religions in England and America

David Stanley 
Associate Professor
College of Fine Arts
djstan@ufl.edu
Western Medieval art and Italian Renaissance architecture

Andrea Sterk
Associate Professor
History
sterk@history.ufl.edu 
Ancient and Medieval Christianity, Late Antiquity, Byzantium

Jennifer Thomas
Assistant Professor
College of Fine Arts
thomasjs@ufl.edu
Renaissance motets; Renaissance repertory formation; Josquin Desprez

Robert Thomson
Associate Professor
English
rthomson@english.ufl.edu
Folklore, ballads, Shakespeare, myth and legend

Paul Victor, Jr.
Assistant Librarian
Library West
pauvict@uflib.ufl.edu
Research assistance, instruction & collection management in medieval and early modern studies; Medieval warfare

Robert Wagman
Associate Professor
Classics
rsw@classics.ufl.edu
Greek religion, epigraphy and palaeography, poetry

John Ward
Professor
College of Fine Arts
johnward@ufl.edu
Flemish painting, pictorial space depiction and perception

Mary Watt
Assistant Professor
Romance Languages & Literatures
watt@rll.ufl.edu
Co-Director, MEMS.
Dante; cross-temporary overlap ofc ulture, iconography and semiotics in medieval and modern literature

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Will Hasty 
Professor
Germanic & Slavic Studies
hasty@germslav.ufl.edu
Co-Director, MEMS
Medieval German literature; Arthurian studies

Robert A. Hatch
Associate Professor
History
ufhatch@ufl.edu 
History & Philosophy of Science; Early Modern Europe; Scientific Organization; Astronomy; Cosmology

Yumiko Hulvey
Associate Dean, CLAS
Associate Professor
African & Asian Languages & Literatures
yhuvley@aall.ufl.edu
Classical and Medieval Japanese Literature; Women's Studies.

Guolong Lai
Assistant Professor 
Art and Art History 
gllai@ufl.edu
Early Chinese tombs

 Howard Louthan
Associate Professor
History
louthan@history.ufl.edu 
Early Modern Europe; Renaissance, Reformation

Stephen A. McKnight
Professor
History
smcknigh@history.ufl.edu
Renaissance European history; History of Science

 Jason Neelis
Assistant Professor
Religion
jneelis@religion.ufl.edu
South Asian Buddhism

Marie Nelson
Professor
English & Linguistics (semi-ret.)
mnelson@lin.ufl.edu 
Old and Middle English Literature; Women's Studies

Melvyn New
Professor
English
mnew@english.ufl.edu
18th-Century Literature; Fiction; Poetry from the 18th Century to present day; Modern Theory (except Marxism)

James J. Paxson
Associate Professor 
English
jpaxson@ufl.edu
Associate editor, Exemplaria. Medieval theater, rhetoric, love poetry; Chaucer; science and literature

 John M. Perlette 
Associate Professor 
English
jperlett@english.ufl.edu
Renaissance literature

Mario Poceski
Assistant Professor
Religion
mpoceski@ufl.edu
Buddhist Studies, Chinese Religion

María M. Portuondo
Assistant Professor
History
mport@history.ufl.edu
History of Science; Early Modern Cosmography; Discovery of the New World;
16th and 17th century Spain

Jennifer A. Rea
Assistant Professor 
Classics
jrea@classics.ufl.edu 
Latin literature, Roman material culture, ancient historiography

Elizabeth Ross
Assistant Professor
School of Art and Art History
elizross@ufl.edu
15th and 16th-century art in Northern Europe and Italy, early modern printmaking and printing, history of travel and cartography

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Shifra Armon
Associate Professor
Romance Languages & Literatures
sarmon@rll.ufl.edu
Early modern Spanish literatures and culture studies

Richard Burt
Professor
English
rburt@english.ufl.edu
Shakespeare; modern film and mass media

Avery Cahill
Lecturer
Classics
avcah@ufl.edu
Medieval Latin, Norwegian Science Fiction, Old Norse

William C. Calin 
Graduate Research Professor
Romance Languages & Literatures
wcalin@rll.ufl.edu 
Medieval Literature, French Poetry, Occitan (Provençal), Anglo-Norman, and modern Breton literature, Franco-British Literary Relations

Nina Caputo
Assistant Professor
History
ncaputo@ufl.edu
Medieval Jewish History, Medieval History

Cynthia Chennault
Associate Professor
African & Asian Languages & Literatures
cchenna@aall.ufl.edu
Editor, Early Medieval China Medieval Chinese poetry and culture

Ira Clark
Professor
English
irac@english.ufl.edu 
Renaissance Literature, History of Theological & Social Ideas

Patricia Craddock
Distinguished Professor
English
pcraddoc@english.ufl.edu
17th-century British literature and culture; children's literature

Florin Curta
Associate Professor
History
fcurta@history.ufl.edu 
Late Antiquity, Medieval Eastern Europe, Medieval Archaeology, Byzantium

George T. Diller
Professor
Romance Languages & Literatures (emeritus)
diller@rll.ufl.edu
Medieval French literature; Froissart

Frank DiTrolio
Associate Librarian
George A. Smathers Libraries
frandit@mail.uflib.ufl.edu
Humanities bibliographer, esp. for Arabic, French, Spanish, and Italian studies

Franz Futtterknecht
Professor
Germanic and Slavic Studies
futterk@germslav.ufl.edu
German literature; philosophy; Renaissance philosophy

Jules D. Gliesche
Lecturer 
Academic Spoken English
drjdg@ufl.edu
Germanic linguistics