Associate Professor and Undergraduate Chair, Russian and East European Studies
Director, Global Medieval and Renaissance Studies: Director, Undergraduate Humanities Forum, Wolf Humanities Center
- Historiography and Historical Writing
- Pre-Modern Genres and Literary Forms
- 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
Fields of Study
Research Interests:
Julia Verkholantsev is a scholar of cultural, religious and intellectual history, early modern and medieval literary and linguistic culture. Her publications and research are concerned with the cultural space of eastern, central, and southern medieval and early modern Europe. She is the author of Ruthenica Bohemica: Ruthenian Translations from Czech in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Poland (2008) and The Slavic Letters of St. Jerome: The History of the Legend and its Legacy or, How the Translator of the Vulgate Became an Apostle of the Slavs (2014). She is now working on a project that deals with the use of Isidorian etymology in medieval and early modern historical narrative writing.