CEMERS Staff

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Elizabeth Casteen

Associate Professor of History

History

Director of CEMERS

Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Research Interests

  • Medieval and Early Modern European history
  • History of gender and sexuality
  • History of religion and spirituality
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Aparajita Das

Assistant Professor

History

Research Interests

  • Indian Ocean world
  • Environmental history
  • Labor and social history
  • Global history
  • Mughal India
  • Commodity history

Teaching Interests

  • Premodern South Asia
  • Global maritime history
  • Object history
  • Islam in South Asia
  • Gunpowder empires
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Olivia Holmes

Professor; Editor of Mediaevalia

Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Research Interests

  • Italian Literature
  • Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio
  • Medieval Studies
  • Early Modern Studies
  • Pre-modern Lyric Poetry
  • The Short-Story Tradition
  • Authorship
  • Rhetorical Discourse
  • Medieval Philosophy

Teaching Interests

  • Sicily in the Italian Cultural Imagination
  • Rhetorical Foundations: Literary Criticism and Rhetoric from Plato to the Renaissance
  • Medieval 101: Introduction to Medieval and Early Modern Studies
  • 顿补苍迟别鈥檚 Divine Comedy
  • 叠辞肠肠补肠肠颈辞鈥檚 Decameron: Love in a Time of Plague
  • Why Read? Pre-modern Narrative after the Cognitive Turn (graduate class)
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Ross Lerner

Associate Professor

Department of English

Teaching Interests

  • Medieval and Renaissance literature
  • History of poetry
  • History of race and incarceration
  • Theories of rhetoric and persuasion
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Bridget Whearty

Associate Professor

Department of English

Associate Professor

Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Research Interests

  • Queer+trans medieval literature and material culture
  • Medieval manuscripts, digital humanities, media history, and digitization
  • 14th- and 15th-century English literature, including Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Hoccleve, and John Lydgate
  • Information literacy and Special Collections pedagogy

Teaching Interests

  • Medieval literature and culture
  • Manuscript studies and the history of the book
  • LGBTQ+ literature
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Misty Lou Finch

Administrative Assistant

Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies