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Literatures): Cultural contacts in the Baltic and Slavic lands; historical linguistics.</p> <p><strong>Luigi Ballerini </strong>(Professor Emeritus, Italian): Medieval Italian poetry; Renaissance gastronomy.</p> <p><strong>Marianna D. Birnbaum </strong>(Research Professor, Germanic Languages): Hungarian literature; Renaissance culture of Central Europe; Jews in Renaissance Europe.</p> <p><strong>William M. Bodiford </strong>(Professor Emeritus, Asian Languages and Cultures): Religion in the cultures of Japan and East Asia, and Buddhist Studies</p> <p><strong>A. R. Braunmuller</strong> (Distinguished Professor, English): Tudor and Stuart English drama; European drama and art; history of the book.</p> <p><strong>Robert E. Buswell </strong>(Distinguished Professor, Buddhist Studies): Buddhism in medieval East Asia; Buddhist mysticism; monastic culture.</p> <p><strong>Jesse L. Byock</strong> (Research Professor, Scandinavian): Viking archaeology; Old Icelandic and Old Norse history, society, and sagas; feud and violence in the Viking world.</p> <p><strong>John Carriero</strong> (Professor Emeritus, Philosophy): Medieval Aristotelian philosophy; seventeenth-century philosophy.</p> <p><strong>Jean-Claude Carron </strong>(Professor Emeritus, French & Francophone Studies): Humanism; French Renaissance; poetry, literature, and philosophy; history of food.</p> <p><strong><span class="TextRun SCXO257803318 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO257803318 BCX0">King-Kok Cheung </span></span></strong><span class="TextRun SCXO257803318 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO257803318 BCX0">(Professor Emerita, English): <span class="TextRun BCX0 SCXO257803318" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun BCX0 SCXO257803318">Milton; Shakespeare; Marlowe.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><strong>Brian P. Copenhaver</strong> (Professor Emeritus, History and Philosophy): Late medieval and early modern philosophy and science; magic, Cabala, and hermetica.</p> <p><strong><span class="TextRun BCX0 SCXO207461977" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun BCX0 SCXO207461977">Johanna Drucker </span></span></strong><span class="TextRun BCX0 SCXO207461977" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun BCX0 SCXO207461977">(Distinguished Research Professor Emerita, Information Studies): <span class="TextRun SCXO189477533 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO189477533 BCX0">Information Studies, classification systems, knowledge organization. History of writing and the book; alphabet historiography; information visualization and visual forms of knowledge production; graphic design.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXO189477533 BCX0"> </span></span></span></p> <p><strong>John B. Duncan</strong> (Professor Emeritus, Asian Languages & Cultures): Medieval Korean institutional and intellectual history through the eighteenth century.</p> <p><strong>Diane Favro </strong>(Professor Emerita, Architecture, and Urban Design): Architecture and topography of late Roman and early medieval Rome; eleventh-century Armenian architecture; architecture and urbanism in fifteenth-century Italy; virtual reality modeling projects.</p> <p><strong><span class="TextRun SCXO14615628 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO14615628 BCX0">Lowell Gallagher </span></span></strong><span class="TextRun SCXO14615628 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO14615628 BCX0">(Professor Emeritus, English): Sp<span class="TextRun SCXO259640234 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO259640234 BCX0">enser; English Catholic studies; early modern prose fiction; hermeneutic theory; queer theory.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXO259640234 BCX0"> </span></span></span></p> <p><strong>Patrick Geary </strong>(Professor Emeritus, History): Early medieval social and cultural history; barbarian societies; history of memory; history of ethnicity.</p> <p><strong>Carlo Ginzburg </strong>(Professor Emeritus, History): Popular culture; intellectual history; iconography.</p> <p><strong><span class="TextRun BCX0 SCXO228337196" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun BCX0 SCXO228337196">Michael Hackett </span></span></strong><span class="TextRun BCX0 SCXO228337196" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun BCX0 SCXO228337196">(Professor Emeritus, Theater): Early Baroque theater; Shakespeare; the English masque.</span></span></p> <p><strong>Henry Ansgar Kelly </strong>(Distinguished Research Professor, English): England, Italy, France, Spain: literature, canon law, common law, liturgy, theology, history of ideas (biblical, classical, medieval, early modern).</p> <p><strong>Katherine C. King </strong>(Professor Emerita, Comparative Literature): Epic; tragedy; Classical tradition; gender studies.</p> <p><strong>Gordon Kipling</strong> (Professor Emeritus, English): Medieval and Tudor drama; theatrical spectacle; Shakespeare; Chaucer; Netherlandic-British cultural relations.</p> <p><strong>Cecilia Klein</strong> (Professor Emerita, Art History): Aztec art before, during, and after the Spanish<br /> Conquest of 1521.</p> <p><strong>Emily Klenin</strong> (Professor Emerita, Slavic Languages and Literatures): Slavic linguistics, languages, and literature.</p> <p><strong>Richard A. Lanham </strong>(Professor Emeritus, English): Medieval, Renaissance, and modern digital rhetoric.</p> <p><strong>Peter H. Lee</strong> (Professor Emeritus, Asian Languages and Cultures): Classical and medieval Korean literature; comparative East Asian literature.</p> <p><strong>Lauro Martines </strong>(Professor Emeritus, History): History and literature of Renaissance Italy and sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England.</p> <p><strong>James R. Massengale</strong> (Professor Emeritus, Scandinavian): Scandinavian medieval ballads; Scandinavian folk tales.</p> <p><strong>Ronald Mellor </strong>(Distinguished Research Professor, History): Roman history; religion and law.</p> <p><strong>Donka Minkova</strong> (Distinguished Research Professor, English): History of English; English historical phonology; metrics; syntax.</p> <p><strong>Michael G. Morony</strong> (Professor Emeritus, History): Early Islamic history.</p> <p><strong>Brian Morris</strong> (Professor Emeritus, Spanish and Portuguese): Golden-Age Spanish poetry; the Picaresque novel.</p> <p><strong>Mitchell Morris </strong>(Professor Emeritus, Musicology): <span class="TextRun BCX0 SCXO15968686" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun BCX0 SCXO15968686">Fourteenth- to sixteenth-century music; the relationship between music and liturgical development in the late medieval mass.</span></span></p> <p><strong>Joseph Falaky Nagy </strong>(Professor Emeritus, English): Medieval Celtic literature; Celtic folklore; comparative folklore and mythology.</p> <p><strong>Ynez Violé O’Neill </strong>(Professor Emerita, Neurobiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA): History of medicine, especially anatomy, surgery, and neurology; medical images.</p> <p><strong>Ismail K. Poonawala</strong> (Professor Emeritus, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures): Early intellectual and cultural history of Islam; Shi’ism, Isma’ilis/Fatimids; classical Arabic literature; contemporary Islamic thought.</p> <p><strong>Jonathan F. S. Post</strong> (Distinguished Research Professor, English): Seventeenth-century poetry; Milton; Shakespeare.</p> <p><strong>David S. Rodes</strong> (Director Emeritus, UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts): Renaissance and Restoration theater and graphic arts; Shakespeare; Dryden; Wycherly; Molière.</p> <p><strong>Enrique Rodríguez-Cepeda</strong> (Professor Emeritus, Spanish and Portuguese): Cervantes/Spanish Golden Age; sixteenth- and seventeenth-century theater; popular culture and Spanish ballads.</p> <p><strong>Karen E. Rowe</strong> (Professor Emerita, English): Colonial American literature to 1800; Renaissance and seventeenth-century literature; women’s literature.</p> <p><strong>Teofilo F. Ruiz </strong>(Professor Emeritus, History, Spanish): Late medieval social and cultural history; the kingdom of Castile; Iberian peninsula, late medieval and early modern.</p> <p><strong>Yona Sabar</strong> (Professor Emeritus, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures): Hebrew and Aramaic; Syriac; Jewish languages; folk and religious literature of Kurdistani Jews.</p> <p><strong>Gregory Schopen</strong> (Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Asian Languages & Cultures): Buddhist studies and Indology; social and religious history of South Asia.</p> <p><strong>James A. Schultz </strong>(Professor Emeritus, Germanic Languages): Middle High German literature; history of sexuality; history of childhood; gender.</p> <p><strong>Christopher M. Stevens </strong>(Professor Emeritus, Germanic Languages): Language variation: language change; Indo-European studies.</p> <p><strong>Geoffrey Symcox </strong>(Professor Emeritus, History): Urban history, architecture, and planning (Renaissance and Baroque); states and institutions in the 16<sup>th</sup> through 18<sup>th</sup> centuries, France and Italy; Columbus; study of the Sacri Monti (sanctuaries) of Northwestern Italy.</p> <p><strong>Kevin Terraciano</strong> (Professor Emeritus, History): Mexico and the Indigenous cultures and languages of central and southern Mexico (including Nahuatl, Mixtec, and Zapotec).</p> <p><strong>Edward F. Tuttle </strong>(Professor Emeritus, Italian)<strong>:</strong> Italian philology; comparative Romance historical linguistics; socio-pragmatic and structural motives of language change; medieval Italian literature.</p> <p><strong> Brent Vine</strong>: (Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus, Indo-European Linguistics): Classical and Indo-European linguistics; Vulgar Latin; History of English.</p> <p><strong>Scott L. Waugh </strong>(Professor Emeritus and Former Executive Vice Chancellor & Provost): Social and political history of medieval England.</p> <p><strong>Stephen C. Yeazell </strong>(Distinguished Professor of Law, Emeritus): Medieval and Early Modern adjudicative procedure in Britain.</p> <p> </p> </section> </article> </div> <div class="col side"> <div class="content"> <nav class="page-nav" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="section navigation"> </nav> </div> </div> </div> <footer role="contentinfo"> <div class="content"> <nav role="navigation" aria-labelledby="footer navigation"> <ul id="menu-footer-menu" class="footer-nav"><li id="menu-item-11808" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page current-page-ancestor menu-item-11808"><a href="https://cmrs.ucla.edu/about/">About</a></li> <li id="menu-item-13641" class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-13641"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@uclacmrscegs">YouTube</a></li> <li id="menu-item-8836" class="menu-item menu-item-type-taxonomy menu-item-object-category menu-item-8836"><a href="https://cmrs.ucla.edu/category/news/">News</a></li> <li id="menu-item-8375" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-8375"><a href="https://cmrs.ucla.edu/podcasts/">Podcasts</a></li> <li id="menu-item-203" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-203"><a href="https://cmrs.ucla.edu/archives/">Archives</a></li> <li id="menu-item-301" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-301"><a href="https://cmrs.ucla.edu/royce-humanities-rooms/">Humanities Conference Rooms</a></li> </ul> <ul class="social-links"> <li class="icon"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/UCLA-Center-for-Medieval-Renaissance-Studies/333611920005787"><span class="fab fa-facebook" aria-label="Like us on Facebook"></span></a></li> <li class="icon"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/uclacmrscegs/?hl=en"><span class="fab fa-instagram" aria-label="Follow us on Instagram"></span></a></li> <li class="icon"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@uclacmrscegs"><span class="fab fa-youtube" aria-label="Subscribe to Youtube"></span></a></li> <li class="icon"><a href="https://cmrs.ucla.edu/contact-cmrs/"><span class="fas fa-envelope" aria-label="Contact us"></span></a></li> </ul> </nav> <form role="search" method="get" class="search-form" action="https://cmrs.ucla.edu/"> <label class="hidden">Search</label> <input type="search" class="search" placeholder="Search…" value="" name="s" title="Search for:" autocomplete="off" /> <button type="submit" class="search-btn" aria-label="Submit search"><span class="fas fa-search"></span></button> </form> <div class="copyright"> <a href="http://www.ucla.edu" class="university-logo"><img src="https://cmrs.ucla.edu/wp-content/themes/tuckerl-_sol-theme-ea78cf73cecc/library/images/ucla-logo-white.svg" alt="UCLA" /></a> <p> The CMRS Center for Early Global Studies is part of the <a href="http://humanities.ucla.edu">Humanities Division</a> within <a href="http://www.college.ucla.edu/">UCLA College</a>.<br /> 302 Royce Hall, 10745 Dickson Plaza <span>|</span> Los Angeles, California 90095-1485 <span>|</span> <strong>P:</strong> 310-825-1880 <span>|</span> <strong>F:</strong> 310-825-0655 <span>|</span> <strong>E:</strong> <a href="mailto:cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu">cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu</a> <br /> <br />The CMRS Center for Early Global Studies acknowledges the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (Los Angeles basin, So. 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