Elected 2000
Italian Renaissance literature; the Art of Memory; literature and philosophy, the utopian tradition, medieval vernacular preaching, chivalric poetry, treatises on women and love; literary and visual portraits; the relationship between literature and the
Renaissance and Early Modern intellectual culture, especially in France and the Low Countries; sixteenth and early-seventeenth century French literature; Neo-Latin Studies; the Republic of Letters; the Classical tradition
Renaissance philosophy, particularly the Platonism of Marsilio Ficino & Pica della Mirandola; Renaissance poetry, magic, mythology, iconography & hermeneutics; Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare.
