Graduate Medievalists at Berkeley

• Lauren Chiarulli (GMB co-chair)

Department of History

lchiarulli at (berkeley.edu)

• Ryan Perry (GMB co-chair)

Department of English

perry.ryan at (gmail.com)

• Benjamin A. Saltzman (GMB co-chair)

Department of English

Research interests: Anglo-Saxon England. Anglo-Latin and Old English Literature. Paleography and Codicology. Medieval Law. Monastic Culture. Critical Theory. 

BenjaminSaltzman at (berkeley.edu)

• Rachel Beck

Department of English

Research interests: book history and collaborative writing, especially in the late medieval period and the late 20th century

whollyword at (yahoo.com)

• Michael Bigley

Department of English

Research interests: Poetry, Music and Affect in the 12th through 14th centuries

zbigley at (berkeley.edu)

• Katherine R. Bollinger

Department of History

Research interests: Early medieval political ethics

kbollinger at (berkeley.edu)

• Chad Crosson (former GMB co-chair, 2009-2010)
  

Department of English

Research interests: Chaucer and 14th Century England. Medieval Science and Medicine. 

ccrosson at (berkeley.edu)

• Sean Curran
  

Department of Music

Research interests: Singing, singers and songs in Latin, French, Anglo-Norman, Middle English, Occitan, and related literature, from 1100-1450; the thirteenth-century motet; paleography and codicology of music manuscripts; devotion and prayer as modes of performance; and Maurice Ravel and French modernism.  He won the Gibbs Prize from the University of Oxford in 2005, a Mellon Foundation Fellowship in 2009, and will take up the Sydney Ehrman Fellowship, funded by UC Berkeley, at King's College, Cambridge, in October 2009. 

seancurran at (berkeley.edu)

• Molly Jacobs

Department of Scandinavian

Research interests: Old Norse, Old French, medieval romance, Eddic poetry,
manuscript studies, travel

mollyjacobs at (berkeley.edu)

• Kathryn Jasper

Department of History

Dissertation title:  "Peter Damian, Hermits, and the Communication of Reform: Fonte Avellana in the Eleventh Century"

kjasper at (berkeley.edu)

• Charity Ketz

Department of English

Research interests: 18th century, Old English, and Middle English literature

• Andrea Lankin

Department of English

Research interests: Early Middle English, manuscript studies, hagiography, medieval romance, multilingualism, geography, portrayals of Jews and Muslims in medieval English literature

• Elizabeth A. Terry

Department of History

Research interests: Medieval philosophy, Spain and Italy, Emperor Charles V

elizabethaterry at (berkeley.edu)

• Matthew Sergi (former GMB co-chair)

Department of English

Matthew's dissertation, "Recreation and Festival in the Chester Plays, 1400-1577," will explore the ways in which Chester’s extant dramatic texts provide at once for the representation and for the public practice of the two centuries of urban festival that generated them. Chapters (so far) will focus on public feasting, gambling, tourism, and community-based urban religion, within and around the dramatic action. Matt's research and teaching specialties, outside of his dissertation topic, include Old English, Old Norse, Chaucer, the History of the English Language, composition and pedagogy, contemporary drama, and new media.

mmsergi at (berkeley.edu)