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Bearden, Elizabeth B. Early modern prose and poetry, Reception of Antiquity, Comparative Literature, formal and philosophical approaches to literary study, Disability Studies http://www.english.wisc.edu/faculty-bearden.htm
Britland, Karen Shakespeare, Renaissance drama, women’s writing, early modern political and religious culture, theater history, early modern Europe, court culture. http://www.english.wisc.edu/faculty-britland.htm
Broman, Thomas Science and medicine in the Enlightenment; the role of science in the public sphere; 18th-century German intellectual and cultural history
Buccini, Stefania 17th, 18th, and early 19th-century Italian literature and culture; Baroque novel and poetry; Counter-reform sacred oratory; libertine fiction and ideology; antique printed editions and early modern manuscripts
Geiger, Gail Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art
Goodkin, Richard 17th-century French theater; 19th and 20th-century narrative; Symbolist poetry; French film; intertextuality; Greek tragedy; psychological approaches to literature; philosophy and literature; mathematics and literature
Hair, Ben 17th & 20th-century French tragedy, Rennaissance poetry & humanist thought. French New Wave cinema, Japanese cinema, the encounters between aesthetics and politics/philosophy.
Hildner, David Spanish Renaissance and Baroque theater and poetry, Portuguese literature before 1800, philosophy and literary criticism, and religion in literature
Hsia, Florence The Scientific Revolution, Jesuit science, science and religion, and science and European expansion in the Early Modern era
Hutchinson, Steven Early Modern Spanish literature, utopian thought, poetics, rhetoric, emotion, eroticism, geography, race, cultural and religious otherness
Hutchison, Jane German, Dutch and Flemish painting and graphic arts 15th-17th centuries; Albrecht Dürer, Martin Schongauer
Imbrigotta, Kristopher Center for Early Modern Studies Program Assistant
Kapust, Daniel The history of political thought, especially Roman, Florentine, early modern, and the 18th century, along with rhetoric, democratic theory, and the republican tradition. http://www.polisci.wisc.edu/people/person.aspx?id=1117
Langer, Ullrich 16th-century poetry and prose; Renaissance intellectual history (especially moral philosophy and political theory)
Miernowski, Jan Literary aesthetics, 16th-century literature; Renaissance poetic and rhetoric, especially in relation to philosophy, theology and political discourse
Mödersheim, Sabine Early Modern Visual Studies; Emblem Studies; Director of Center for Early Modern Studies
Phillips-Court, Kristin Italian Renaissance literature and culture; drama, painting and Renaissance inter-media; aesthetics; patronage; Machiavelli, Vasari, Tasso, Bruno
Rider, Robin Early Modern science; printing and publishing of science; history of mathematics
Sommerville, Johann Intellectual history and the history of political thought between the late Middle Ages and the Enlightenment; Thomas Hobbes; English political, social and economic history to 1688; early modern Europe. http://history.wisc.edu/people/faculty/sommerville.htm
Wandel, Lee Palmer Professor of History. My field of research is early modern Christianity. I study texts, objects, practices, and identities in the early modern world. My teaching area is early modern Europe, 1492 to 1648, and as it entered a wider world.