Faculty

 
Jeremy duQuesnay Adams, Ph.D., Harvard University. Professor of History, Southern Methodist University. Dr. Adams has consistently focused on group identity–its formation and disintegration, exclusion from and inclusion into units of ethnic, cultural, political and social organization. His many works have approached materials from the Fathers of the Church (Augustine, Jerome, etc.), Visigothic Spain, and Capetian France. Professor Adams’ publications include: Patterns of Medieval Society (Prentice-Hall, 1969), The ‘Populus’ of Augustine and Jerome: A Study in the Patristic Sense of Community (Yale University Press, 1971), Joan of Arc: Her Story–a translation of Régine Pernoud’s Jeanne d’Arc (St. Martin’s Press, 1998), and numerous articles including: "Toledo’s Visigothic Metamorphosis," "Jerome, the Classic Correspondent," "Classic Problems and Structure of the University in the Middle Ages," "The Influence of Lucan on the Political Attitudes of Suger of Saint-Denis," and several essays on political grammar (those of Isidore of Seville, Ildefonsus of Toledo, Julian of Toledo, et al.); and contributions to: The Catholic Encyclopedia and the Encyclopedia of Early Christianity.

Annemarie Weyl Carr, Ph.D., University of Michigan. Professor and Chair, Division of Art History, Southern Methodist University. Dr. Carr’s primary interests lie in Byzantine art and the art of the Mediterranean Levant during the period of the Crusades. Professor Carr has published Byzantine Illumination 1150–1250: The Study of a Provincial Tradition (University of Chicago Press, 1987) and A Byzantine Masterpiece Recovered: The Thirteenth-century Murals of Lysi, Cyprus (University of Texas Press, 1991), and edited the periodical, Gesta. Her recent articles treat the great cult icons of Middle Byzantine Constantinople, popular art in Byzantium, the court art of the Crusader kingdoms, and the manuscript painting of Cilician Armenia. She also wrote the chapter on medieval women artists for the Dictionary of Women Artists, as well as made several contributions to the Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium.

David Davies,  Department of English, University of Dallas.

Raymond D. DiLorenzo, Ph.D., University of Toronto. Associate Professor of English, University of Dallas; Adjunct Associate Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Southern Methodist University. Dr. DiLorenzo studies the literatures, both sacred and secular, of the Latin, Italian, and English languages in the Middle Ages and beyond. His several scholarly publications include: "The Collection of Form and the Art of Memory in the Libellus Super Ludo Scachorum of Jacobus de Cessolis," "Ciceronianism and Augustine’s Conception of Philosophy," and "Dante’s St. Bernard and the Theology of Liberty in the Commedia," as well as other articles in Augustinian Studies, Communio, Mediaeval Studies, and Medievalia et humanistica: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture, and other such topics.
 
Richard J. Dougherty, Ph.D., Institute of Philosophic Studies, University of Dallas. Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics, University of Dallas; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Political Science, Southern Methodist University. Professor Dougherty’s research embraces constitutional theory and process (medieval and modern), natural law theory, and the relationship between religion and politics. Dr. Dougherty is the author of, among other things: "The Foundations of Political Authority: Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, and Augustine," "The Interplay of Philosophy and Statesmanship: Cicero’s De Re Publica," "Creation, the Fall, and the Role of the Will in St. Augustine’s De Civitate Dei XI–XIV," and "Christian and Citizen: The Tension in St. Augustine’s De Civitate Dei," in Collectanea Augustiniana, as well as many other works in medieval and modern political science.

William A. Frank, Ph.D., The Catholic University of America. Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Dallas; Adjunct Associate Professor of Medieval Studies, Southern Methodist University. Dr. Frank studies the key questions of medieval philosophy in general, and, more specifically, the Scholasticism of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. He is the co-author (with Allan B. Wolter) of Duns Scotus, Metaphysician, editor (second edition) of Duns Scotus on the Will and Morality, as well as several articles including: "Sine Proprio: On Liberty and Christ–A Juxtaposition of Bernard of Clairvaux and John Duns Scotus," and "Duns Scotus on Autonomous Freedom and Divine Co-Causality."

Jo Goyne, M.A., Southern Methodist University. Senior Lecturer in English, Director of the First-year Writing Program, Southern Methodist University; and Laura Kesselman Devlin Instructor of English 1995–96. Professor Goyne, recognized for the excellence and clarity of her teaching, is also Associate Editor of the scholarly journal Arthuriana, the official journal of the International Arthurian Society, North American Branch; as well as a past Co-Editor of Criteria, A Journal of Rhetoric (92–93; 93–94), a publication of the Rhetoric / First-year Writing Program at Southern Methodist University. In addition to her administrative and editorial obligations, Ms. Goyne has published several articles on medieval English literature, medieval thought, and gender / women’s studies, including: "Parataxis and Causality in the Tale of Sir Launcelot du Lake," "Pleasing Virtue: The Problem of Word and Will in Chaucer’s Clerk’s Tale," and "Arthurian Dreams and Medieval Dream Theory". Ms. Goyne is committed to pedagogy and has lectured on the subject at a number of conferences, including: "Teaching Arthurian Materials in a First-Year Writing Course".

John Christian Grooms, Ph.D., University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. Professor of English and Welsh, Collin County Community College; Adjunct Assistant Professor of English, Southern Methodist University. Dr. Grooms has been a Visiting Lecturer in the Celtic Languages Department at Harvard University in 1998, teaching medieval and modern Welsh. Professor Grooms studies all aspects of Welsh and by extension ‘Celtic’ culture, though his primary work has been in the study of Welsh folklore with an emphasis on the figure of the giant. His writings include: The Giants of Wales / Cewri Cymru (Edwin Mellen Press, 1993), "Si™n Dafydd Rhys and Geoffrey of Monmouth, Notes on Peniarth 118," and "The Origin of Welsh Giants."
 
Gavin R.G. Hambly, Ph.D., King’s College, Cambridge University. Professor of History, University of Texas at Dallas; Adjunct Professor of Medieval Studies, Southern Methodist University. Dr. Hambly has been the recipient of several awards from such prestigious organizations as the Royal Asiatic Society and the N.E.H. His research interests are: Persian, Central Asian and Indian history, especially the Mongol empire of the thirteenth century and its successor-states; the Delhi sultanate; mamluks [military slaves] in the Muslim world; and the Mughul empire. In general, the dynastic, urban and cultural history of the Muslim East, comparative empire-building, and historiography. Professor Hambly teaches courses in Middle Eastern and Indian history as well as Anglo-Saxon England, medieval Europe, and the Crusades. He is the author of Cities of Mughul India (Elek Books, 1968), editor of Central Asia (S. Fischer Verlag, 1966 and Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969) and co-editor of volume vii of The Cambridge History of Iran: From Nadir Shah to the Islamic Republic (Cambridge up, 1991), to which he also contributed five chapters. He has co-authored Comparative History of Civilizations in Asia, (Addison-Wesley, 1977), and has contributed to The Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. i (Cambridge up, 1982) and to Delhi through the Ages (Oxford up, 1986), as well as articles in Encyclopaedia Iranica and The Encyclopaedia of Islam. He is the editor of and a contributor to Women in the Medieval Islamic World: Power, Patronage, and Piety (St. Martin’s Press, 1998).

O.T. Hargrave, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University. Associate Professor of History; Associate Dean for Student Academic Affairs, Dedman College; Southern Methodist University. Dr. Hargrave’s interests may be grouped under three broad historical headings: Britain (specifically, during the medieval and Tudor-Stuart periods), early modern Europe, and the Renaissance-Reformation. Professor Hargrave was co-editor (with Charles R. Ritcheson) of Current Research in British Studies by American and Canadian Scholars (SMU Press, 1969); his articles include: "The Freewiller in the English Reformation," "The Predestinarian Offensive of the Marian Exiles at Geneva," "The Predestinarian Controversy Among the Marian Protestant Prisoners," and "Bloody Mary’s Victims: The Iconography of John Foxe’s Book of Martyrs." He is an active reviewer for publications including: American Historical Review, Church History, Catholic Historical Review, and Religious Studies Review. Dr. Hargrave has a keen interest in both the theory and practice of academic advising (and in pedagogy in general), he has made numerous presentations on topics related to field in a variety of conference settings.
 
Valerie R. Hotchkiss, Ph.D., Yale University. Director of Bridwell Library, J.S. Bridwell Foundation Endowed Librarian, and Associate Professor of Medieval Studies, Southern Methodist University. Dr. Hotchkiss’ interests lie in gender studies, church history, and the reformation. She divides her time between curating the collections of the Bridwell Library and her own research. Her publications include: Clothes Make the Man: Female Cross Dressing in Medieval Europe (Garland Press, 1996), the catalog of the exhibition: Jaroslav Pelikan, The Reformation of the Bible/The Bible of the Reformation, (with David Price; Yale University Press, 1996), along with contributions to collections such as: "An Overabundance of Grace: Women’s Convert Chronicles in Fourteenth-Century Dominican Convents," in a Festschrift for Jaroslav Pelikan (Garland, 1996), "Disquise and Despair: The Story of Hildegund von Sch_nau," in Women as Protagonists and Poets in the German Middle Ages: Feminist Approaches to the Study of Middle High German Literature, "Gender Transgression and the Abandoned Wife in Medieval Literature," in Gendering Rhetorics: Postures of Dominance and Submission in Human History, and "The Legend of the Female Pope in the Reformation."

Michael Iachetta,  Department of Classics, University of Dallas

Theresa Kenney, Ph.D., Stanford University. Assistant Professor of English, University of Dallas. Dr. Kenney's primary interest is in the poetry and drama of Medieval and Renaissance England, but her research also focuses on Italian humanism and on Arthurian materials, especially French romance. Her scholarly publications include "John Donne's Conversion from Misogyny," "From Francesca to Francesco: Transcribing the Tale of Passion from the Inferno to the Paradiso, or Thomas Aquinas as Romancier," and the book Women Are Not Human: An Anonymous Treatise and Responses (1998).

Dennis M. Kratz, Ph.D., Harvard University. Professor of Arts and Humanities, and Dean of Arts and Humanities, University of Texas at Dallas; Adjunct Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Southern Methodist University. Dr. Kratz studies the medieval Latin literature with an emphasis on the Alexander Legend. He also works with the Science Fiction genre, and has been recognized for his translation skills. Dr. Kratz has been the editor, with R. Schulte, of the periodical, Translation Review since 1979. His publications include: The Romances of Alexander the Great (Garland, 1991), Waltharius and Ruodlieb (Garland, 1984), Mocking Epic: Waltharius, Alexandreis and the Problem of Christian Heroism (1980), along with numerous articles learned journals of medieval studies as well as Science Fiction, including: "Medieval Literature in Translation: A Polemical Assessment," "Fictus Lupus: The Werewolf in Christian Thought," "Heroism in Science Fiction: Two Opposing Views," and "Teaching Science Fiction." Professor Kratz has been a frequent contributor to encyclopedias and dictionaries in both fields.

Fr. James Lehrberger, O.Cist., Ph.D., University of Dallas. Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Dallas; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medieval Studies, Southern Methodist University. Fr. Lehrberger studies the interface between philosophy and theology in the Middle Ages–not only in the Christian realm, but also in that of Islam and Judaism; St. Thomas Aquinas is of particular interest to him. Fr. Lehrberger was co-editor of Saints, Sovereigns, and Scholars: Studies in Honor of Frederick D. Wilhelmsen (Peter Lang, 1993), and made many contributions to academic journals, including: "Intelligo ut Credam: St. Augustine’s Confessions," "Crime Without Punishment: Thomistic Natural Law and the Problem of Sanctions," "A True or Adequate Account of the Whole: Leo Strauss and Thomas Aquinas on the Question of Philosophy and Revelation," and "Dialectic and Demonstration in Aristotle’s Argument for an Eternal Cosmos."
 
John M. Lewis, A.M., Harvard University. Associate Professor of English, Southern Methodist University. Mr. Lewis’ interests range from historical and comparative linguistics, the history and structure of the English language, classical and medieval thought and philosophy, literary theory, Old English and Old Norse (language, literature, and linguistics), and religion–Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and Hinduism–to film. His many writings include: "The Catastrophe of Metaphor," "Judgment Calls: The Name of the Rose and the Limits of Apocalypse," "A Politics of Invisibility: the Ideology of Marriage in A Midsummer Night’s Dream," the article: "Eros and the Polis in Theognis Book II" in Theognis of Megara, and numerous film reviews. He is currently engaged in the writing of a series of novels, the first of which is entitled SplitSong.

Dorothy McFarland, Ph.D., Department of Foriegn Languages, University of Dallas.

Stephen Maddux, Ph.D., University of Chicago. Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures, Chairman, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Dallas; Adjunct Associate Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Southern Methodist University. Dr. Maddux studies medieval romance and other ‘genres’ in a variety of languages ranging from Old French and Provencal to Middle High German. Professor Maddux’s publications include: "The Fiction of the ‘Livre’ in Robert de Boron’s Merlin," "La Penitence de Perceval," "Theology in the Lord of the Rings: The Uses of Secondary Worlds," and "Cocteau’s Tristan and Iseut: A Case of Overmuch Respect." He has also presented many papers on subjects such as: "Bernardine Rhetoric and the Vulgate Queste del Saint Graal," "Specula in the Works of Alain de Lille," and "Topography and Demography in Chretien’s Conte du Graal."

Donna Mayer-Martin, Ph.D., University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Music History, Southern Methodist University. Dr. Mayer-Martin’s primary interests are in manuscript studies, the poetry and music of the troubadours and trouveres, and gender studies. Her book, Thematic Catalogue of Troubadour and Trouvere Melodies with a Study of the Manuscripts, is forthcoming from Pendragon Press, and she currently is writing an extensive comparative manuscript study of Gautier de Coinci’s Miracles de Nostre Dame and the Cantigas de Santa Maria. Dr. Mayer-Martin is a popular lecturer in the States and in Paris on areas related to music and gender. In 1993, Dr. Mayer-Martin and her students presented a performance of Hildegard of Bingen’s Ordo Virtutum at SMU.

Lenora Moffa,  Department of Art, University of Dallas.

John Norris, Ph.D.,  Department of Theology, University of Dallas.

Joshua Parens, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy, University of Dallas. Jewish and Islamic Philosophy.
 
Pamela Patton, Ph.D., Boston University. Assistant Professor of Art History, Southern Methodist University. Dr. Patton came to SMU as a Haakon Fellow and now holds a joint appointment in the Meadows Museum, where she is Curator of Spanish Art, and the Division of Art History. She works, primarily, on Spanish medieval art, with interests in iconography, the shift from Romanesque to Gothic in Spain, and the artistic expressions of Spain’s multicultural heritage. Her publications include: "A Late Gothic Painted Cabinet from Catalonia," "Et partu fontis exceptum: The Typology of Birth and Baptism in an Unusual Spanish Image of Jesus Baptized in a Font," and "Intimations of the Redeemer in a Fifteenth-Century Relief of the Madonna and Child." She has also contributed to Goya: Revista de Arte and The Dictionary of Women Artists.

Philipp W. Rosemann, Ph.D., Universitè catholique de Louvain. Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Dallas. Dr. Rosemann studies medieval philosophy, especially the intellectual movement of the thirteenth century, from a contemporary perspective . Moreover, he has interests in the Greek and Arabic sources of medieval philosophy, the tradition of negative theology, paleography, and ecdotics. Currently, he is working on a short book devoted to The Apotheosis of St. Thomas Aquinas, a famous altarpiece in the Santa Caterina, Pisa, which he uses to explain the principal features of Scholastic thought. His publications include an edition of Robert Grossteste's Tabula in Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Mediaevalis, vol. 130; Omne agens agit sibi simile: A "Repetition" of Scholastic Metaphysics (Louvain, 1996); Omne ens est aliquid: Introduction 'a la lecture du "systeme" philosophique de saint Thomas d' Aquin (Louvain/Paris, 1996); Understanding Scholastic Thought with Foucault (New York, 1999); and several co-edited volumes, as well as over thirty scholarly articles.

Stephen Shepherd,.Ph.D., University of Oxford. Associate Professor of English, Southern Methodist University. Dr. Shepherd’s main interests are Middle English romance and allegory, medieval English historiography, medieval English codicology, and the history of English. He has held research fellowships from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Cananda, The Huntington Library, and the Bibliographical Society of America. His publications include Middle English Romances (Norton Critical Editions, 1995), "'I have gone for thi sak wonderfull wais’: The Middle English Fragment of The Song of Roland," "The Ashmole Sir Ferumbras: Translation in Holograph," "‘This Grete Journee’: The Sege of Melayne," "‘Of Thy Glitterand Gyde Have I Na Gle’: The Taill of Rauf Coilyear," "No poet has his travesty alone: The Weddynge of Sir Gawen and Dame Ragnell," "The Middle English Pseudo-Turpin Chronicle," and "Langland’s Romances." He is currently preparing a critical edition of the unique Huntington Library text of the Middle English Pseudo-Turpin Chronicle.
 
John R. Sommerfeldt, Ph.D., University of Michigan. Professor of History, University of Dallas; Adjunct Professor of Medieval Studies, Southern Methodist University. Dr. Sommerfeldt, in addition to general medieval history, concentrates on the theological histories and historical personalities of medieval Christian religion with particular interest in figures such as St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Aelred of Rievaulx, and Peter Abelard and institutions, namely, the Cistercian Order. His numerous publications include: The Spiritual Teachings of Bernard of Clairvaux (1991), Bernard of Clairvaux and the Society of His Time: A Cistercian Ecclesiology and Bernard of Clairvaux on the Life of the Mind: A Cistercian Epistemology. Professor Sommerfeldt has edited many volumes of Studies in Medieval Culture (fourteen volumes altogether), among other collections, and contributed a vast number of articles to learned journals including: "Epistemological and Social Hierarchies: A Potential Reconciliation of Some Inconsistencies in Bernard’s Thought," "Images of Contemplation in Aelred of Rievaulx’ Mirror of Love, Book I," "Abelard and Bernard of Clairvaux," and several entries in both the New Catholic Encyclopedia and the Encyclopedic Dictionary of Religion.

David R. Sweet, Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley. Assistant Professor of Classics, Director of the Classics Program and the Graduate Program in Humanities, University of Dallas; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Southern Methodist University. Dr. Sweet studies the many aspects of Greek epic and tragedy, Greek mythology, Plato, and Latin poetry (Catullus, Vergil, Horace, and Juvenal). His publications include: "Juvenal’s Satire 4: Poetic Uses of Indirection," "Catullus 11: A Study in Perspective," and "Plato’s Greater Hippias," a translation with notes and an interpretive essay in The Roots of Political Philosophy: Ten Forgotten Socratic Dialogues (1987).

Francis R. Swietek, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Associate Professor of History, University of Dallas; Adjunct Associate Professor of Medieval Studies, Southern Methodist University. Dr. Swietek specializes in ancient, medieval, and early British history; ecclesiastical history; Latin palaeography; and medieval Latin literature. His works include: Two Studies on Venetian Government (with Donald E. Queller), "Preserving Medieval Manuscripts and Promoting Research," "A Metrical Life of Thomas Becket by Simon Aurea Capra," "The Alms Repaid a Hundredfold: A New Latin Version of a Popular Exemplum," "Gunther of Pairis and the Historia Constatinopolitana," "‘Conversio et passio Sancte Afre’: A Poem by Altmann of St. Florian, Pupil of Rahewin of Freising," an annotated translation of Bernard’s The Sentences and a critical edition: Anonymi Mellicensis (Wolfgeri Prufeningensis) De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis in Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Medievalis (also in press).
 
Grace Starry West, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles. Associate Professor of Classics, University of Dallas; Adjunct Associate Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Southern Methodist University. Dr. West studies a variety of classical and medieval authors in Greek, Latin, and English; she is particularly interested in the legacy of classical civilization in the Middle Ages, and mythology. Her publications include: (Plato and Aristophanes), Four Texts on Socrates: Apology, Crito, Euthyphro, and Clouds translated and annotated (Cornell UP, 1984); (Plato), Charmides translated and annotated (Hackett, 1986), both with Thomas G. West; commentaries on the Dion of Cornelius Nepos (Bryn Mawr Commentaries, 1985), and Cicero’s pro Archia (Ibid., 1987–a second edition is in progress); and many articles, including: "Vergil’s ‘Helpful’ Sisters: Anna Juturna in the Aeneid," "Going by the Book: Classical Allusions in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus," an entry entitled "Giuturna" in Enciclopedia Vergiliana, "Andromache and Dido," "First Council of Seville: 590 ad, Introduction, Translation, and Notes" with Alexandra Wilhelmsen, and "Are Lucretius’ Danaids Beautiful? aevo florente puellas, de rerum natura iii.1008."

Bonnie Wheeler, Ph.D., Brown University. Associate Professor of English, D.D. Frensley Chair in English 1997–98, and Director of the Medieval Studies Program, Southern Methodist University. Dr. Wheeler’s major interests are medieval romance (especially Arthurian), Chaucer, gender studies, and pedagogy. She is editor of Arthuriana, the quarterly journal of the International Arthurian Society/North American Branch; and series editor of The New Middle Ages, a publication of St. Martin’s Press. In this series, Professor Wheeler has co-edited the essay collections: Becoming Male in the Middle Ages, with Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (1997); Fresh Verdicts on Joan of Arc, with Charles T. Wood (1996); and Medieval Mothering, with John Carmi Parsons (1996). Her articles include: "Joan of Arc’s Sword in the Stone," "Medieval Mothers, Medieval Motherers," "Medieval Studies and Mentoring," "Status of the Profession: Medievalists in 1996," and "Origenary Fantasies: Abelard’s Castration and Confession." She has recently been highlighted in the A&E Network’s Ancient Mysteries series episodes: "King Arthur and Camelot" (with Dr. Adams), "The Holy Grail," and the upcoming episode on Joan of Arc (also with Dr. Adams). She is currently writing a monograph on the medieval representations of masculinities.

Eric M. White, Ph.D., Boston University. Curator of Special Collections, Bridwell Library, Southern Methodist University. Dr. White oversees Bridwell Library’s growing collection of medieval manuscripts and its more than 750 printed books from the fifteenth century. His main interests are medieval and Renaissance art and the early history of books, printing and graphics. An art historian with specialization in early Netherlandish painting, he has taught at Southern Methodist University, the University of Dallas, Texas Christian University, and the University of Texas at Dallas. His publications include: Rogier van der Weyden, Hugo van der Goes, and the Making of the Netherlandish St. Luke Tradition (Brepols, 1997).

Alexandra Wilhelmsen, Department of Foriegn Languges, University of Dallas.