Material Texts, Manuscript Studies and Archival Studies

Vance Byrd

Presidential Associate Professor of German vbyrd@sas.upenn.eduWebsite

Fields of Study: Art/ Media, Western Europe, C19, Long Eighteenth Century, Ecocriticism/ Ecology, Material Texts, Manuscript Studies and Archival Studies, Media Studies, Race and Empire, Sociology of Literature

Jean-Christophe Cloutier

Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature Undergraduate Chair, Englishcloutier@english.upenn.eduWebsite

Fields of Study: Art/ Media, Comics Studies, Film, Folk Tale & Oral Literature, Life Writing, Auto/biography, Novel, Africa & the Caribbean, Diaspora, US, Western Europe, World Literature, C20, including Modernism, C21/ Contemporary, Film theory, Material Texts, Manuscript Studies and Archival Studies, Media Studies, Translation

Eva Del Soldato

Associate Professor of Italian Studies (FIGS) Graduate Chair--Francophone, Italian and Germanic Studies (FIGS)evadel@sas.upenn.eduWebsite

Fields of Study: Historiography and Historical Writing, Pre-Modern Genres and Literary Forms, Western Europe, Early Modern (C14-C17), Medieval (C6-C14 C.E), Material Texts, Manuscript Studies and Archival Studies, Philology, Translation

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

Megan Robb

Julie and Martin Franklin Assistant Professor of South Asian Religions robbme@sas.upenn.eduWebsite

Fields of Study: Historiography and Historical Writing, Life Writing, Auto/biography, Philosophical Texts & Intellectual History, South Asia, Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Queer Theory, Trans Theory, Material Texts, Manuscript Studies and Archival Studies, Post-colonial

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, 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