Medieval (C6-C14 C.E)
Eva Del Soldato
Associate Professor of Italian Studies (FIGS)
Graduate Chair--Francophone, Italian and Germanic Studies (FIGS)evadel@sas.upenn.eduWebsite
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
Fatemeh Shams
Associate Professor of Persian Literature
fshams@sas.upenn.eduWebsite
Fields of Study: Art/ Media, Film, Historiography and Historical Writing, Life Writing, Auto/biography, Novel, Poetry/ Poetics, Pre-Modern Genres and Literary Forms, Short Story, Diaspora, Middle East/North Africa, Near East, World Literature, C20, including Modernism, C21/ Contemporary, Medieval (C6-C14 C.E), Deconstruction, Formalism/ Structuralism, Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Queer Theory, Trans Theory, Marxism, Narratology, Sociology of Literature, Spatial Theory, Translation, Trauma
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