Religious Texts & Hagiography
Scott Francis
Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies
Undergraduate Chair, FIGSfranciss@sas.upenn.eduWebsite
Fields of Study: Drama, Philosophical Texts & Intellectual History, Poetry/ Poetics, Pre-Modern Genres and Literary Forms, Religious Texts & Hagiography, Short Story, Western Europe, Early Modern (C14-C17), Medieval (C6-C14 C.E), Digital Humanities, Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Queer Theory, Trans Theory, Material Texts, Manuscript Studies and Archival Studies, Religion, Rhetoric, Hermeneutics
Joseph Lowry
Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies
elowry@sas.upenn.eduWebsite
Donovan Schaefer
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
doschaef@upenn.eduWebsite
Fields of Study: Film, Historiography and Historical Writing, Philosophical Texts & Intellectual History, Religious Texts & Hagiography, Scientific Texts and Ideas, Britain, US, Western Europe, C19, C20, including Modernism, C21/ Contemporary, Deconstruction, Film theory, Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Queer Theory, Trans Theory, Media Studies, Race and Empire
Julia Verkholantsev
Associate Professor and Undergraduate Chair, Russian and East European Studies
Director, Global Medieval and Renaissance Studies: Director, Undergraduate Humanities Forum, Wolf Humanities Centerjuliaver@sas.upenn.eduWebsite
Fields of Study: Historiography and Historical Writing, Philosophical Texts & Intellectual History, Pre-Modern Genres and Literary Forms, Religious Texts & Hagiography, Central Europe, Eastern Europe / Russia, Early Modern (C14-C17), Medieval (C6-C14 C.E), Linguistic Theories and Culture, Material Texts, Manuscript Studies and Archival Studies, Narratology