Faculty
Areas of interest: Ancient Greece and Rome, Medieval history, military history, British history
Classes taught: Greece, Rome, Medieval Europe, Britain to 1688, Women in Antiquity, Renaissance and Reformation, Ancient and Medieval Warfare, Latin, Greek, Medieval Latin, Experimental archaeology and Mythology (co-taught with Dr. Nagy).
Areas of interest: Old English Poetry, Old Norse-Icelandic Eddas and Sagas, 14th-Century English Poetry, The Alliterative Tradition and Tolkien.
Classes taught: British Literature 1, Age of Chaucer, Old and Middle English Literature, Shakespeare, Medieval Outlaw Tales, The Alliterative Tradition, Old Norse Eddas and Sagas, Monsters and the Monstrous in Medieval Literature, Tolkien’s Sources and Analogues, Arthurian Literature throughout the Ages, Seminar in English Literature to 1660 and Icelandic independent study.
James Murphy
Associate Director and Associate Professor of Religion
School of American and Global Studies
Areas of interest: Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, Second-Temple Judaism, Christian Origins/New Testament, Early Christianity, Middle Eastern archaeology, and the European Renaissance and Reformation.
Classes taught: Old Testament, New Testament, Jesus Remembered: Gospels, Renaissance and Reformation, Reformations and Religious Conflict, Early Christian Era.
Sharon Smith
Professor
School of English and Interdisciplinary Studies
Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Areas of interest: Restoration, eighteenth-century, and early Romantic British literature, with a particular focus on women's poetry.
Classes taught: British Literature 1, 18th Century English Literature, Shakespeare; Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama; Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Women and Poetry in the Eighteenth Century, Eighteenth-Century Travel Narratives, Eighteenth-Century Gothic, Satire and Social Change: The Eighteenth-Century and Now.
Areas of interest: Early Christian writers and philosophy, Medieval Christian history and theology, ethics.
Classes taught: Old Testament, New Testament, Renaissance and Reformation, Reformations and Religious Conflict, Early Christian Era.
Christine Garst-Santos
Director and Associate Professor of Spanish
School of American and Global Studies
College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Areas of interest: Medieval Spain, Renaissance Spanish literature, early modern Hispanic culture.
Classes taught: Colonial Spanish America, Early Modern Spain, Medieval Spain Independent Study.