Emeritus Faculty

Tómas Ó Cathasaigh

cathas@fas.harvard.edu

Henry L. Shattuck Emeritus Professor of Irish Studies

M.A. National University of Ireland

Tómas Ó Cathasaigh's research and teaching deal with Old and Middle Irish language and literatures, in particular narrative texts, historiography, and mythology. He is the author of a number of articles on Irish heroic texts such as the Cath Almaine and...

Michael Flier

flier@fas.harvard.edu

Oleksandr Potebnja Professor of Ukrainian Philology Emeritus

Ph.D. University of California Berkeley

Michael Flier is a linguist and semiotician, with special interests in Ukrainian and East Slavic language, literature, and culture, and a member of the Steering Committee for the Ph.D. Program in Byzantine Studies. He is the author of Aspects of Nominal...

William Granara

granara@fas.harvard.edu

Research Professor of the Practice of Arabic

Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania

William Granara is research professor of Arabic in the departments of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Comparative Literature. Prof. Granara specializes in the literature and history of the Arab Mediterranean in both the medieval and modern...

Virginie Greene

vgreene@fas.harvard.edu

Professor Emerita of Romance Languages and Literatures

Ph.D. University of Illinois

Virginie Greene's research encompasses the literary history of the French Middle Ages, medieval romance, the history of individuality and subjectivity in the Middle Ages, and French medievalism. She is the author of Logical Fictions in Medieval Literature...

Joseph Harris

Francis Lee Higginson Research Professor in English

Ph.D. Harvard University

An editor of the journal Oral Tradition , Joseph Harris is a scholar of Anglo-Saxon and Scandanavian language and culture. He has published extensively on Germanic myth, the heroic tradition, and Anglo-Saxon literature, with a particular interest in the...

Baber Johansen

bjohansen@hds.harvard.edu

Research Professor of Islamic Religious Studies, Harvard Divinity School

Ph.D. Freie Universität Berlin

Baber Johansen's research has addressed the longue durée of Islamic legal and religious thought, ranging from works on early Islamic theology to theories of the state in the modern Middle East. Among his publications are Islamic Law on Land Tax and Rent (...

Mark D. Jordan

Richard Reinhold Niebuhr Research Professor of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School

Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin

Mark Jordan's research addresses the history of Christian theology and philosophy, gender studies, and sexual ethics. His publications include The Ethics of Sex (Blackwell, 2001), Rewritten Theology: Aquinas After His Readers (Blackwell, 2005), and...

Thomas Forrest Kelly

Morton B. Knafel Professor Emeritus of Music

Ph.D. Harvard University

Thomas Kelly is an historical musicologist whose interests embrace the role of music within Christian liturgy, chant, and medieval performance practice. He has written extensively on the history of medieval as well as modern music. Among his many...

Beverly Mayne Kienzle

John H. Morison Professor Emerita of the Practice in Latin and Romance Language Studies, Harvard Divinity School

Ph.D. Boston College

A past president of the International Medieval Sermon Studies Society, Beverly Mayne Kienzle is an affiliate member of the Committee on Medieval Studies. She is a scholar of medieval homiletics, sermon literature, and manuscript studies, and the...

Kevin Madigan

kmadigan@hds.harvard.edu

Winn Research Professor of Ecclesiastical History

Ph.D. University of Chicago

Kevin Madigan is an historian of medieval Christian theology and institutions, as well as of Jewish-Christian relations in the modern world; among his publications are Olivi and the Interpretation of Matthew in the High Middle Ages (University of Notre...

Catherine McKenna

cmckenna@fas.harvard.edu

Margaret Brooks Robinson Research Professor of Celtic Languages and Literatures

Ph.D. Harvard University

Catherine McKenna is a scholar of medieval Welsh verse and prose literature, as well as medieval sacred biography, in particular the hagiographic tradition surrounding Saint Brigit. She is the author of numerous articles as well as a monograph on medieval...

Stephen Mitchell

smitchell@fas.harvard.edu

Professor Emeritus of Scandinavian and Folklore

Ph.D. University of Minnesota

Stephen Mitchell specializes in Nordic culture and literature, especially on topics centering on witchcraft, charm magic, mythology, legends, and popular traditions in the late medieval and early modern periods. Winner of the 2019 Jarl Gallén Prize, he is...