History and culture of Russia & Eastern Europe, Medieval & Early Modern; cultural and social history of information technologies
Elected 2012
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
History Early Modern History Early modern state formation; the English civil war; the origins of the British empire. Western Europe
Medieval German literature: mysticism; allegory; learned discourse (vernacular reception of the artes); didacticism; courtly romance; orientalism; discourses of gender and violence