Past & Current Topics of Student Thesis Research

• Middle spaces and purgatory in relation to the seventeeth-century stage
• Uses of domesticity and the representation of domestic spaces in early modern Spanish literature
• Service relations and unequal friendship as ways of experiencing difference in early modern French memoirs
• Early modern women in print, gendering History of the Book
• Masculinity in twelfth-century French romance
• Heroism and violence in Old French chansons de geste
• Gender and authority in medieval and renaissance French and Latin letters
• Byzantium in medieval French romance
• Authority and performance in troubadour poetry
• The gaze in twelfth- and thirteenth-century French romances
• The queer history of French feminism
  

Catherine Brown: Medieval Iberian & Latin Literature; Theory; Comparative approaches

Alison Cornish: Medieval & Renaissance Italian Literature; Dante

Enrique García Santo-Tomás: Early Modern Spanish Literature

George Hoffmann: French Renaissance; Social & Religious History; Montaigne

Peggy McCracken: Medieval French & Occitan Literature; Gender & Sexuality; Women's Studies

Paolo Squatriti: Italian History & Culture; Landscape & Power; Technology & Resource Use; Environment

Ryan Szpiech: Medieval Iberian Literature; Sephardic Studies; Medieval Islam; Religious Studies and Comparative Exegesis

Gustavo Verdesio: Colonial Studies; Native American Studies; Pre-Contact Indigenous Societies; Material Culture; Popular Culture; Theory

More detail can be found on the faculty profile pages.

In addition to the medievalists and early modernists in Romance Languages is a vibrant community of pre-modernists across other Michigan departments:

For a full list of associated faculty, http://www.lsa.umich.edu/mems/directory/fac/.

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