Students
Current Ph.D.
Colleen Farrell
Dissertation title: "The Role of Chartres in the Cult of St. Anne"
Advisor: Paul Freedman
Samantha Katz
Medieval Studies
Dissertation title: "The Unnatural Womb: Anxieties of Sex and Authority in the Canterbury Tales"
Advisor: Alastair Minnis
Katherine Hindley
Medieval Studies
Anglo-Saxon England, medieval England and manuscript studies.
Anne Schindel
Medieval Studies
Advisor: Roberta Frank
Emily Ulrich
Medieval Studies
Aaron Vanides
Medieval Studies
Advisor: Anders Winroth
Elizabeth Walgenbach
Dissertation title: "Forms of Community Exclusion in Medieval Iceland, 1000-1350"
Advisor: Anders Winroth
Current M. Phil
Elizabeth Anderson
Religious Studies Ph.D. Candidate
Shannon Beddingfield
English Ph.D. Candidate
Greg Bryda
History of Art Ph.D. Candidate
Advisor: Jacqueline Jung
French Ph.D. Candidate
Advisor: R. Howard Bloch
Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, Ph.D. Candidate
Advisor: Dimitri Gutas
English Ph.D. Candidate
Advisors: Jessica Brantley, Alastair Minnis
English Ph.D. Candidate
Advisors: Ian Cornelius, Alastair Minnis
English Ph.D. Candidate
Advisor: Roberta Frank
Recent Ph.D.
Ph.D. December 2009
Dissertation title: "Muslim Jurists under the Almoravids"
Eric Knibbs
Ph.D. May 2009
Dissertation title: "The Origins of the Archdiocese of Hamburg-Bremen"
Bobbi Sutherland
Ph.D. May 2009
Advisor: Paul Freedman
Ph.D. May 2006
Dissertation title: "Applied Science: Technologies of Learning and Cistercian Politics in the Central Meddle Ages"
Ph.d : May 2005
Dissertation Title: Konrad of Ammenhausen’s “Chess-Book”: A case of Late Medieval Book Production and Readership
Ph.D. May 2004
Dissertation title: Delight in the Cross: The Beautiful, the Agreeable, and the Good in St. Bonaventure’s Spiritual Treaties
Ph.D. December 2003
Dissertation Title: The Geography of Dissent Lollardy, Popular Religion, and Church Reform in Late Medieval York
Howard Miller
Ph.D. December 2003
Dissertation title: According to Christian Sunna: Mozarabic Notarial Culture Toledo
Laura Williams
Ph.D. May 2003
Dissertation title: Carolingian Script at Luxeuil in the Ninth Century
Nicola Masciandaro
Ph.D. May 2002
Dissertation title: The Voice of the Hammer: Work in Medieval English Literature
M.Phil Alumni
Ph.D. in French, 2012
Dissertation title: Heroic Uncertainties: Representations
of the Hero in the French Epic of the
Later Middle Ages
Irina Dumitrescu
Ph.D. in English, 2009
Dissertation title: The Instrucitonal Moment in Anglo-Saxon Literature
Advisor: Roberta Frank
Marc Elder
Ph.D. in Religious Studies, 2010
Dissertation title: Eruditio sacri eloquii: The integration of scriptural hermeneutics and theological system in Hugh of St Victor
Advisor: Denys Alan Turner
Valija Evalds
Ph.D. in History of Art, 2006
Dissertation title: The Cloister in the Landscape: Monastic Architecture in England to 1174
Advisor: Walter Cahn
Denis Ferhatovic
Ph.D. in English, 2010
Dissertation title: An Early English Poetics of the Artifact
Advisor: Roberta Frank
Dana Goldblatt
Ph.D. in English, 2008
Dissertation title: From Contract to Social Contract: Fortescue’s Governance and Malory’s Morte
Advisors: David Quint and Alastair Minnis
Margaret Hadley
Ph.D. in History of Art, 2007
The Yale Missal (Beinecke MS 425): Mendicant Spirituality and a Vernacular Mass Book from the Fouquet Circle
Advisor: Jacqueline Jung
Scott Hiley
Ph.D. in French, 2007
Dissertation title: Usury and the economies of literature in medieval France
Adviosr Howard Bloch
Junius Johnson
Ph.D. in Religious Studies, 2010
Dissertation title: Christ and Analogy: The Metaphysics of Hans Urs von Balthasar
Advisor: Miroslav Volf
English
Thesis Title: The Study of the Bible in Oxford, c. 1370-1420: Academic Discourse and Its English Translation
Advisor: Alastair Minnis
Shialing Kwa
Ph.D. in Spanish & Portuguese, 2009
Dissertation title:
Double-cross: Juan Manuel and the ambiguous art of betrayal
Advisor: Maria Rosa Menocal
Laura Miles
English
Dissertation Topic: Mary's Book: The Annunciation in Medieval England
Advisors: Jessica Brantley and Alastair Minnis
P.h.D. in Religious Studies, 2012
Dissertation Title: God is Beautiful and He Loves
Beauty: Ruzbihan Baqli’s Sufi
Metaphysics of Beauty
Advisor: Gerard Böwering
Christiane Nockels
Ph.D. in History of Medicine & Science, 2006
Dissertation Title: Continuity and Change in Late Medieval Plague Medicine: A Survey of 152 Plague
Tracts from 1348-1599
Advisor: Paul Freedman
Sarah Novacich
Ph.D. in English, 2011
Dissertation Title: Ark and Archive: Narrative Enclosures in Medieval and Early Modern Texts
Advisor: Roberta Frank and Alastair Minnis
Research: Miniature Painting, Major Patrons: Italian Gothic Illumination in the Albergati Bible (MS 407) and the Visconti Tarot (Cary Collection of Playing Cards, ITA 109)
Advisors: Robert Nelson and Laurence Kanter
Erin Tremblay Ponnou-Delaffon
Ph.D. in French, 2012
Dissertation: The Echoes of Silence: Silence as an Ethical and Textual Problem in Contemporary French Literature
Advisor: Ora Avney
Jenny Sisk
Ph.D. in English,
2008
Dissertation title: Forms of Speculation: Religious Genres and Religious Inquiry in Late Medieval England
Advisor: Lee Patterson
Ryan Szpiech
Ph.D. in Spanish, 2006
Dissertation Title: From Testimonia to Testimony: Argument and Authority in the Mostrador de justicia of Abner of Burgos/Alfonso de Valladolid
Advisor: Maria Rosa Menocal
Matthew Vernon
English
Matt Wranovix
(History)
Dissertation Title: Parish Priests and their Books in the Fifteenth-Century Diocese of Eichstaett
Advisor: Paul Freedman
Jordan Zweck
(English)
Dissertation Title: "Letters from Heaven in the British Isles, 800-1500"
Advisor: Roberta Frank
