Faculty Member, German and Romance Languages and Literatures
Charles Homer Haskins Professor
Krieger School of Arts and Sciences
About
I am the Director of the American Academy in Rome: www.aarome.org
Currently I am on extended leave from my home university, Johns Hopkins, where I am a Professor in the Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures, with secondary appointments in the Departments of History and Classical Studies. At Johns Hopkins, I served as Director of the Singleton Center for the Study of Premodern Europe from 2008-10. Before arriving at Johns Hopkins in 2005, I taught for nine years in the History Department at Michigan State University.
I hold two doctoral degrees, a PhD in History (Duke University, 1995) and a DrPhil in Classics and Neo-Latin Literature (University of Hamburg, 2001), as well as a BA (1988) and MA (1989) in History from SUNY-Albany.
My areas of interest include: the Latin literature and philosophy of the Italian Renaissance; late medieval intellectual history; the history of philosophy; the history of books and reading practices; Latin paleography; and the history of the classical tradition. My publications can be found on my CV, to the left.
