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Faculty

Art History, School of Visual Arts

Allison Palmer.
Allison Palmer

Professor


Interests: Early Italian Renaissance; Italian Baroque architecture; modern architecture

apalmer@ou.edu

Classics & Letters Department, College of Arts & Sciences

David Anderson.
David Anderson

Associate Professor


Interests: The poetry and drama of the English Renaissance, particularly the relationship between literature and religion

dkanderson@ou.edu

Kyle Harper.
Kyle Harper

Professor


Interests: Early Italian Renaissance; Italian Baroque architecture; modern architecture

kyleharper@ou.edu

Samuel J. Huskey.
Samuel J. Huskey

Professor


Interests: Paleography, manuscript traditions, and the transmission of classical literature; Boccaccio's Latin poetry and the late medieval reception of Lucan

huskey@ou.edu

Scott Johnson.
Scott Johnson

Associate Professor


Interests: Greek literature in late antiquity; multilingualism in the late antique East; travel, pilgrimage, cartography; Syriac language and literature

sfj@ou.edu

English Department, College of Arts & Sciences

Joyce Coleman.
Joyce Coleman

Emerita Professor


Interests: Medieval literary reception, performance, and patronage; "the iconography of the book" in medieval manuscripts

joyce.coleman@ou.edu

Bill Endres.
Bill Endres

Associate Professor


Interests: Early medieval manuscripts; digital humanities

bill.endres@ou.edu

Joseph Mansky.
Joseph Mansky

Assistant Professor


Interests: Early modern literature; libel; theater and social history; rhetoric and poetics; political theory

jmansky@ou.edu

History Department, College of Arts & Sciences

Roberta Magnusson.
Roberta Magnusson

Associate Professor


Interests: Medieval Europe, particularly Italy; the origins and development of public services in medieval English cities

magnusson@ou.edu

Shmuel Shepkaru.
Shmuel Shepkaru

Professor


Interests: Late antique and medieval Jewish history; Hebrew; the history of heaven and hell

shepkaru@ou.edu

Jane Wickersham.
Jane Wickersham

Associate Professor


Interests: Renaissance Italian history, particularly the Italian Inquisition

jwickersham@ou.edu

History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, College of Arts & Sciences

Peter Barker.
Peter Barker

Emeritus Professor


Interests: History and historiography of the Scientific Revolution; 19th and 20th-century physical science and psychology; philosophy of science

barkerp@ou.edu

Kathleen Crowther.
Kathleen Crowther

Associate Professor


Interests: Early modern science and medicine; body and gender in early modern Europe; science and religion

kcrowther@ou.edu

Kerry Magruder.
Kerry Magruder

Associate Professor


Interests: 17th and 18th-century theories of the Earth; early geology, cosmology, visual representation; history of the book; science and religion

kmagruder@ou.edu

Rienk Vermij.
Rienk Vermij

Professor


Interests: Cartesian natural philosophy; Copernicanism; early modern meteorology; Enlightenment science and religion; science in the Netherlands

rienk.vermij@ou.edu

Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, College of Arts & Sciences

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Luis Cortest

Professor, Spanish


Interests: Spanish religious writers of the 16th century; medieval Spanish literature; the history of Spanish scholasticism and natural-law theory

lcortest@ou.edu

Joshua Frydman.
Joshua Frydman

Associate Professor, Japanese


Interests: 7th-9th century Japan; Tang dynasty China

joshua.frydman@ou.edu

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A. Robert Lauer

Professor, Spanish


Interests: Golden Age drama, poetry, and prose; film studies

arlauer@ou.edu

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Amelia Mañas

Assistant Professor, Spanish


Interests: colonial literature and culture, gender studies, and visual and media studies.

Andreea Marculescu.
Andreea Marculescu

Lecturer, French


Interests: The history of psychiatry and narratives of mental illnesses in medieval and early modern European literature; disability studies; history of witchcraft and demonology; affect studies and emotions

andreea.marculescu@ou.edu

Roberto Pesce.
Roberto Pesce

Assistant Professor, Italian


Interests: Medieval literature written in Latin and Italian; autobiography and historiography in the Middle Ages

roberto.pesce@ou.edu

Musicology Department, School of Music

Nathan Dougherty.
Nathan Dougherty

Visiting Lecturer of Musicology


Interests: Director, Collegium Musicum

nathan.k.dougherty-1@ou.edu

Religious Studies Program, College of Arts & Sciences

Rangar H. Cline.
Rangar H. Cline

Assistant Professor


Interests: The relationship between Greek and Roman religions, early Christianity, and Judaism in the Roman world; the economics of pilgrimage

rangar.cline@ou.edu

David Vishanoff.
David Vishanoff

Associate Professor


Interests: Islamic thought and legal theory; interactions between religious communities; modern Qur'anic hermaneutics

vishanoff@ou.edu

Women's and Gender Studies, College of Arts & Sciences

Carrie Schroeder.
Carrie Schroeder

Professor


Interests: Cultural history of early Christianity; gender studies; digital humanities

ctschroeder@ou.edu