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Medieval and Renaissance Studies

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Directors

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Victoria Morse Bio
Director of Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Director, Perlman Center for Learning and Teaching
Humphrey Doermann Professor of Liberal Learning
Professor of History
Off Campus: Spring 2023, Fall 2023
Office: Leighton Hall 203B / Weitz Center for Creativity 122
Phone: 507 222 4191
Phone: 507 222 4210
Email: vmorse@carleton.edu

Professor Morse came to the Carleton history department in 1999 as a specialist in medieval history. Professor of History, she is also co-Director of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies program and served as the co-director of the Carleton College VIZ initiative. Her interests include spirituality and religious life, geography, the medieval world view, urbanism, and how visuality applies to learning. She has a very keen interest in cartography and has worked on the History of Cartography Project at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She brings Medieval and Renaissance history and geography to life with hands-on research and cartography projects in the wide variety of medieval history survey and seminar courses she offers. She has a special interest in the Italian Renaissance and is fluent in Italian and French.

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William North Bio
Director of Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Professor of History
Off Campus: Spring 2023
Office: Leighton Hall 203A
Phone: 507 222 4202
Email: wnorth@carleton.edu

Professor North came to Carleton in 1999 as a medieval historian. In addition to being an Associate Professor of History, he has been Co-director of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program (MARS), 2001-2013, 2013-, and Coordinator of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program, 2002-. He offers a wide variety of seminar and survey courses on topics in Late Antiquity, Early Medieval History, and the History of the Byzantine World. He is fluent in Latin and Greek, and is fluent in Italian. He is also comfortable with French, German and Spanish. He is an avid translator of primary sources from all of the periods that he teaches as well as modern scholarship. He is currently finishing two book-length translation projects focused, respectively, on the Saxon War in the 11th century and a source reader on the period from 880-1050, together with Professor Jason Glenn of USC. Professor North’s current research includes a book-length monograph about the transformation of clerical culture in the Age of Reform (1050-1130), and a project about Ricardi Pratellensis’ Opera Omnia Exegetica, a study of the commentaries of Richard of Preaux on the five books of the Pentateuch, the Book of Ruth, the Solomonic books of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Songs, among many others. He served as editor of the Haskins Society Journal from 2008-2013, and is now assistant editor.

Faculty

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Sonja Anderson Bio
Assistant Professor of Religion
Office: Leighton Hall 323
Phone: 507 222 4218
Email: sanderson2@carleton.edu
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Jorge Brioso Bio
Professor of Spanish
Off Campus: Winter 2024, Spring 2024
Office: Language & Dining Center 358
Phone: 507 222 5986
Email: jbrioso@carleton.edu
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Kambiz GhaneaBassiri
Visiting Scholar in Religion
Office: Leighton Hall 318
Phone: 507 222 5372
Email: kghaneabassiri@carleton.edu
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Pierre Hecker Bio
Associate Professor of English
Office: Laird Hall 212
Phone: 507 222 4489
Email: phecker@carleton.edu

Wesleyan, B.A.; Columbia, M.F.A. (Film); Oxford, M.Phil. and D.Phil.

Pierre Hecker’s areas of teaching interest include Shakespeare; the drama, poetry, and prose of the English Renaissance; drama in performance; visual culture; the history, theory, and criticism of drama and film; screenwriting; and genre fiction.

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Humberto Huergo Bio
Chair of Spanish
Professor of Spanish
Office: Language & Dining Center 371
Phone: 507 222 4247
Email: hhuergo@carleton.edu
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Chumie Juni Bio
Assistant Professor of Religion
Off Campus: Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
Office: Leighton Hall 319
Phone: 507 222 4224
Email: njuni@carleton.edu
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Jessica Keating Bio
Associate Professor of Art History
Off Campus: Fall 2023, Winter 2024
Office: Boliou Hall 156
Phone: 507 222 4701
Email: jkeating@carleton.edu
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Yaron Klein Bio
Associate Professor of Arabic & Senior Lecturer in Oud
Senior Lecturer in Oud
Office: Language & Dining Center 262
Phone: 507 222 5178
Email: yklein@carleton.edu
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Alex Knodell Bio
Associate Professor of Classics
Director of Archaeology
Office: Language & Dining Center 255
Phone: 507 222 5136
Email: aknodell@carleton.edu
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Austin Mason Bio
Assistant Director for Digital Humanities
Assistant Director for Digital Humanities & Lecturer in History
Director, Digital Arts and Humanities
Off Campus: Fall 2023
Office: Weitz Center for Creativity 239B
Phone: 507 222 4853
Email: amason@carleton.edu
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Jake Morton Bio
Assistant Professor of Classics
Office: Language & Dining Center 257
Phone: 507 222 4228
Email: jmorton@carleton.edu
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Susannah Ottaway ’89 Bio
Laird Bell Professor of History
Off Campus: Spring 2023
Office: Leighton Hall 211
Phone: 507 222 5446
Email: sottaway@carleton.edu

Carleton College B.A. (History); Brown University M.A., Ph.D. (History)

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Timothy Raylor Bio
Stephen R. Lewis, Jr. Professor of English and the Liberal Arts
Off Campus: Winter 2024, Spring 2024
Office: Laird Hall 208
Phone: 507 222 4313
Email: traylor@carleton.edu
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Kathleen Ryor Bio
Director of Asian Studies
Tanaka Memorial Professor of International Understanding and Art History
Off Campus: Spring 2023
Office: Boliou Hall 157
Phone: 507 222 5590
Email: kryor@carleton.edu
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Asuka Sango Bio
John W. Nason Professor of Asian Studies and Religion
Off Campus: Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Fall 2023, Winter 2024
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George Shuffelton Bio
Chair of English
Professor of English
Office: Laird Hall 207
Phone: 507 222 4317
Email: gshuffel@carleton.edu

Harvard University A.B., Cambridge University M.Phil., Yale University, Ph.D.

George Shuffelton teaches courses in medieval and early modern English literature, particularly Chaucer and his contemporaries.  His edition of Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Ashmole 61,  a compilation of Middle English romances, courtesy manuals and other popular verse, was published by TEAMS in 2008.  Other publications include articles on Langland’s Piers Plowman, John Gower’s Confessio Amantis, and representations of minstrels in late medieval literature.   His current research interests focus on book ownership and social identity in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England. 

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Cathy Yandell Bio
Chair of French and Francophone Studies
W. I. and Hulda F. Daniell Professor of French and Francophone Studies
Office: Language & Dining Center 366
Phone: 507 222 4245
Email: cyandell@carleton.edu

University of New Mexico, B.A.; University of California, Berkeley, M.A., Ph.D.

In a nutshell, Cathy Yandell loves all things Renaissance (literature, history, music, and dance). Author of Carpe Corpus: Time and Gender in Early Modern France, she has also edited Pontus de Tyard’s Solitaire second, ou prose de la musique and most recently co-edited the collection Vieillir à la Renaissance. In 2011, she will become President of the Sixteenth Century Society, an interdisciplinary and international scholarly organization. She currently serves on the Editorial Board of three journals, French Review, Women in French Studies, and French Forum. In addition to over twenty-five articles published in journals and collections, Professor Yandell has articles forthcoming on Ronsard’s bawdy adaptations of Catullus as well as the poetry of the French Wars of Religion. Her current research focuses on the relationship between the body and knowledge (including pedagogical discourse and ways of knowing) in early modern France.

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Lei Yang Bio
Assistant Professor of Chinese
Office: Language & Dining Center 217
Phone: 507 222 5448
Email: yanglei@carleton.edu
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Seungjoo Yoon Bio
Associate Professor of History
Office: Leighton Hall 209
Phone: 507 222 4211
Email: syoon@carleton.edu

Emeriti Faculty

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Stephen Kelly Bio
Dye Family Professor of Music, Emeritus
Phone: 507 222 4347
Email: skelly@carleton.edu
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Alison Kettering Bio
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Art History, Emerita
Email: aketteri@carleton.edu

Oberlin College, B.A.; University of California, Berkeley M.A., Ph.D.

Professor Kettering specializes in the early modern period, with a special interest in seventeenth-century Dutch art. She has taught a wide range of courses on art throughout western Europe, focusing on gender issues in western art, Renaissance and Baroque art north and south of the Alps, and the art of the print.

Her books and articles have concentrated on 17th-century Dutch pastoral images, the art of Gerard ter Borch and his family, and Rembrandt’s portraiture and renderings of the male nude. Her books include: The Dutch Arcadia: Pastoral Art and Its Audience in the Golden Age and Drawings from the Ter Borch Studio Estate in the Rijksmuseum. In 2004, she produced an essay and entries for the catalogue of an exhibition of Gerard ter Borch’s paintings which opened at the National Gallery in Washington. Since then she has published and lectured on a variety of subjects, including depictions of the occupations, the windmill, and country life.  She is Editor-in-Chief of the peer reviewed, open access e-journal, Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art.

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Martha Paas Bio
Wadsworth A. Williams Professor of Economics, Emerita
Email: mpaas@carleton.edu
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Roger Paas Bio
William H. Laird Professor of German and the Liberal Arts, Emeritus
Phone: 507 222 4252
Email: rpaas@carleton.edu

Hamilton College, B.A.; Bryn Mawr College, Ph.D.

Professor Paas is interested generally in the history of book and print production from the fifteenth century to the present. His research projects, however, focus on Germany in the seventeenth century, with emphasis on German political graphics and on the production of literature in cities such as Nuremberg and Strasbourg. Within the context of MARS, he teaches courses on medieval German literature in translation and on the history of printing.

Student Departmental Advisors

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Margaret De Fer ’24
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Ellie Reinhold ’23
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Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program

Department of History, Carleton College
1 North College St
Northfield, MN 55057
Professor of History: William North
Professor of History: Victoria Morse
Email: wnorth@carleton.edu
Medieval and Renaissance Studies pages maintained by William North
This page was last updated on 13 September 2022
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