Gerard J. Brault

Edwin Erle Sparks Professor Emeritus of French and Medieval Studies

Specializations: French epic and Heraldry

Brooke Findley

Assistant Professor of French, Altoona

Specializations: medieval French literature. She is currently working on a book about fictional figures of women writers in medieval French romances.

Alan E. Knight

Professor Emeritus of French

Specializations: Medieval French Theatre, Textual Criticism, Paleography

Norris J. Lacy

Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of French and Medieval Studies

Specializations: Arthurian studies; medieval narrative (especially romance and fabliaux)

B. Richard Page

Associate Professor of German and Linguistics  

Specializations: older Germanic dialects, historical linguistics, language change, language contact, Pennsylvania German, and phonology.

Sherry Roush

Associate Professor of Italian

Specializations: Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature, esp. Poetry, Dante, Poetic Self-Commentary, Confessional Literature, Genre Studies, and Theories of Translation.

Vickie L. Ziegler

Director Emerita, Center for Medieval Studies; Professor of German & Medieval Studies

Specializations: Ordeal in medieval German literature; Karlsepik

Ronald E. Buckalew

Associate Professor Emeritus of English; Life Member, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge

Specializations: Old English language and literature, AElfric, Beowulf, Middle English language and literature, Chaucer, history of the English language, linguistics, medieval grammar, manuscript studies  

Peter Dendle

Associate Professor, English, Penn State Mont Alto

Specializations: Old and Middle English language and literature; philosophy and literature; folklore and mythology; hagiography; liturgy; narrative as rite; 20th-century literary representations of the Middle Ages

Caroline D. Eckhardt

Director, School of Languages and Literatures;  Department Head, Comparative Literature;  Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Specializations: Medieval chronicles, Chaucer and other Middle English writers; Arthurian tradition; medieval manuscripts, readers, and book production.

Robert R. Edwards

Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Comparative Literature; Fellow, Institute for Arts and Humanities; Life Member, Clare Hall

Specializations: Chaucer and Middle English Literature; literary criticism and theory; medieval Romance and Latin literatures

Bridget A. Henisch

Retired

Specializations: literature, medieval food

Lewis Jillings

Associate Professor of German; Executive Director & Associate Dean of International Programs

Specialization: German Arthurian Romance

Phone: (814) 863-2138

Jeanne E. Krochalis

Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Penn State - New Kensington

Specializations: Medieval manuscripts; Medieval Latin literature;  pilgrimage; Chaucer.

Thomas R. Liszka

Associate Professor of English;  English Program Coordinator, Penn State – Altoona

Specializations: The South English Legendary, hagiography, manuscript studies, Middle English language and literature

Anthony Cutler

Evan Pugh Professor of Art History

Specializations: Early Christian, Byzantine, and Early Islamic Art  

Elizabeth B. Smith

Associate Professor of Art History

Specializations: western medieval art, esp. Romanesque and Gothic art and architecture in France and Italy, 12th and 13th centuries  

Marica S. Tacconi

Associate Professor of Musicology; Executive Director, Institute for Arts and Humanities

Specializations:  medieval and Renaissance music, the service-books of the Cathedral of Florence, manuscript studies  

A. Daniel Frankforter

Professor of Medieval History, Penn State Erie--The Behrend College

Specializations:  Ecclesiastical administration, England  

Paul Harvey

Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, History, and Religious Studies, Head of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies

Specializations: history of ancient Italic religions, the traditions and texts of Roman law, and early Christian literature

Benjamin T. Hudson

Professor of History and Medieval Studies

Specializations: Celtic and Scandinavian studies

Tijana Krstic

Assistant Professor of History,

Specializations:

Bill Pencak

Professor of American History

Specializations:

Janina M. Safran

Associate Professor of History

Specializations:

Kathryn Salzer

Assistant Professor of History

Specializations:  

Steve Wheeler

Associate Professor of Classics and Mediterranean Studies (CAMS)

Specializations:

Erica Brindley

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and History

Specializations: intellectual history of Warring States and early imperial China

(500 BC to 200 AD).

Charlotte Eubanks

Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Japanese, and Asian Studies

Specializations: Classical and medieval Japanese literature; Buddhism and the literary arts; contemporary Japanese fiction; the fantastic; theories of orality, body, memory and performance.

Greg Smits

Associate Professor of History

Specializations:History of the Ryukyu Kingdom; social history of earthquakes in premodern Japan

Tom E. Boothby

Professor of Architectural Engineering

Specializations: structural engineering of stone bridges and vaults

E. Paul Durrenberger

Professor of Cultural Anthropology

Specializations: Medieval Iceland, archaeology of Medieval Iceland

Martin McGann

Professor of Horticulture

Specializations:

Steven A. Walton

Asst. Prof. of Science, Technology, & Society

Specializations: History of science and technology from late antiquity through early modern period;  military history and technology; medieval and early modern artillery, fireworks, and automata; notions of technological transfer within and without Europe in the middle ages.

Greg R. Ziegler

Professor of Food Science

Specializations: medieval baking and ovens