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Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Faculty

The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies relies on the talents, scholarship and research of affiliated faculty across Saint Louis University, including faculty in the departments of English, History, Philosophy, Theological Studies, Languages, and Visual and Performing Arts. 

Affiliated Faculty

  • Douglas R. Boin, Ph.D., Department of History
    Specialty: Late Antiquity
  • Susan Brower-Toland, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy
    Specialty: William of Ockham, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Religion
  • Sam Zeno Conedera, S.J., Ph.D., Department of History
    Specialty: Medieval Iberia, Early Modern Jesuits
  • Sheila Coursey, Ph.D., Department of English
    Specialty: Late Medieval and Early Modern Literature
  • Kayla Dang, Ph.D., Department of Theological Studies
    Specialty: Medieval Islam
  • Mary Dunn, Ph.D., Department of Theological Studies
    Specialty: Seventeenth-Century Catholicism
  • Ruth Evans, Ph.D., Department of English
    Specialty: Medieval English Literature, Chaucer
  • Thomas Finan, Ph.D., Department of History
    Specialty: Medieval Ireland, Medieval Archaeology 
  • Cathleen Fleck, Ph.D., Department of Visual and Performing Arts
    Specialty: Medieval Art History
  • Lea Frost, Ph.D., Pius XII Memorial Library
    Specialty: Rare Books and Manuscripts
  • Claire Gilbert, Ph.D., Department of History
    Specialty: Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain 
  • Jay Hammond, Ph.D., Center for Ignatian Service
    Specialty: Franciscan Studies
  • Joan Hart-Hasler, Ph.D., Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
    Specialty: Latin Language and Literature
  • Ani Honarchiansaky, Ph.D., Department of Theological Studies
    Specialty: Late Ancient Christianity
  • Chad Kim, Ph.D., Department of Theological Studies 
    Specialty: Late Ancient Christianity
  • Atria Larson, Ph.D., Department of Theological Studies
    Specialty: Medieval Canon Law 
  • Julia Lieberman, Ph.D., Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
    Specialty: Spanish Renaissance Literature
  • Kathleen LlewellynPh.D., Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
    Specialty: Medieval and Renaissance French
  • Thomas F. Madden, Ph.D., Department of History
    Specialty: Medieval History, Crusading Movement
  • Filippo Marsili, Ph.D., Department of History
    Specialty: Early Imperial Asia
  • Peter W. Martens, Ph.D., Department of Theological Studies
    Specialty: Greek Patristics
  • Colleen McCluskey, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy
    Specialty: Late Medieval Scholasticism and Nominalism
  • Evelyn Meyer, Ph.D., Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
    Specialty: Medieval German Literature, Gender Studies and Manuscript Studies
  • Nathaniel Millett, Ph.D., Department of History
    Specialty: Early Modern Atlantic World, Spanish Florida
  • Fabien Montcher, Ph.D., Department of History
    Specialty: Early Modern Iberia
  • Ana Montero, Ph.D., Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
    Specialty: Medieval and Renaissance Spanish Literature
  • Yea Jung Park, Ph.D., Department of English 
    Specialty: Middle English Literature
  • Charles H. Parker, Ph.D., Department of History
    Specialty: Dutch Reformation
  • John W. Peck, S.J., Ph.D., Department of Philosophy
    Specialty: Medieval Philosophy
  • Scott Ragland, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy
    Specialty: Early Modern Philosophy
  • James Adams Redfield, Ph.D.,  Department of Theological Studies
    Specialty: Late Antique Judaism, Talmud
  • Jennifer Rust, Ph.D., Department of English
    Specialty: Early Modern Literature 
  • Nicolò Sassi, Ph.D., Department of Theological Studies
    Specialty: Byzantine and Christian East
  • Jonathan Sawday, Ph.D., Department of English
    Specialty: Renaissance Literature
  • Steven A. Schoenig, S.J., Ph.D., Department of History 
    Specialty: Medieval History, Medieval Papacy 
  • Damian Smith, Ph.D., Department of History
    Specialty: Medieval Europe
  • Cynthia Stollhans, Ph.D., Department of Visual and Performing Arts
    Specialty: Renaissance Art
  • Donald Stump, Ph.D., Department of English
    Specialty: Renaissance Literature, Spenser
  • Eleonore Stump, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy
    Specialty: Thomistic Philosophy
  • Warren Treadgold, Ph.D. Department of History
    Specialty: Byzantine History
  • Sara van den Berg, Ph.D., Department of English
    Specialty: Renaissance and Early Modern English and Comparative Literature

Emeritus Faculty

  • J. A. Wayne Hellmann, O.F.M. Conv., Department of Theological Studies
    Specialty: Medieval Theology, Franciscan Traditions.
  • James Hitchcock, Ph.D., Department of History
    Specialty: Early Modern Britain, History of Catholicism
  • Susan L'Engle, Ph.D., Pius XII Memorial Library 
    Specialty: Medieval Legal Manuscripts
  • David Murphy, Ph.D., Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
    Specialty: Old Czech, Russian Language and Literature
  • John Renard, Ph.D., Department of Theological Studies 
    Specialty: Medieval and Early Modern Islam
  • Thomas Shippey, Ph.D., Department of English
    Specialty: Medieval English Literature
  • Kenneth Steinhauser, Th.D., Department of Theological Studies
    Specialty: Early Church Fathers

Visiting Scholars

  • Samantha Arten, Ph.D.
    Specialty: Medieval Musicology