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Brian FitzGerald

bfitzgerald@fas.harvard.edu

Lecturer on Medieval Studies and Religion

Director of Undergraduate Studies in Medieval Studies

D.Phil. Oxford University

Brian FitzGerald is Lecturer on Medieval Studies and the Study of Religion. A scholar of medieval history, his research focuses on the intellectual and religious culture of Europe from the twelfth to the fo­urteenth century. His first book, Inspiration...

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...

Fernanda García

fgarciaortiz@g.harvard.edu

Fernanda García is a doctoral candidate in the Committee on the Study of Religion (Literature Studies and the Arts subfield). She holds an MTS from Harvard Divinity School (2022) and a BA from The New School (2019). Her dissertation focuses on medieval...

Eurydice Georganteli

egeorganteli@fas.harvard.edu

Lecturer on the History of Art and Architecture

Steering Committee, Ph.D. Program in Byzantine Studies

D.Phil. Oxford University

Before joining the Harvard faculty, Dr. Georganteli taught at the University of Birmingham, where she was the Keeper of Coins and Lecturer on Numismatics at the University of Birmingham (2000–2016). A specialist in the arts and archeology of southeastern...

Sean Gilsdorf

gilsdorf@fas.harvard.edu

Lecturer on Medieval Studies

Administrative Director of the Committee on Medieval Studies

Director of Graduate Studies in Medieval Studies

Ph.D. University of Chicago

Sean Gilsdorf is Administrative Director and Lecturer on Medieval Studies, and an affiliate member of the Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology. His research addresses the intellectual, religious, and political history of the early and high...

Luis Girón Negrón

giron@fas.harvard.edu

William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Comparative Literature and of Romance Languages and Literatures

Ph.D. Harvard University

Luis Girón Negrón is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Comparative Literature and of Romance Languages and Literatures . His research focuses upon medieval and Golden Age Spanish literature, and on the religious and cultural life of Islamic, Jewish, and...

Mohsen Goudarzi

mgoudarzi@hds.harvard.edu

Associate Professor of Islamic Studies

Ph.D. Harvard University

On leave 2026-2027

Mohsen Goudarzi joined the Harvard Divinity School faculty in July 2021, having taught previously at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities). He is a scholar of religion who studies the Qur’an and early Islamic history using a variety of analytical...

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...

Eric Gurevitch

ericgurevitch@fas.harvard.edu

Assistant Professor of the History of Science

Ph.D. University of Chicago

Eric Moses Gurevitch is a historian of science, technology, and medicine in the medieval and early modern periods, with a focus on South Asia and the Indian Ocean. His first monograph, under contract with the University of Chicago Press, is titled...

Jeffrey Hamburger

jhamburg@fas.harvard.edu

Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture

Ph.D. Yale University

On leave Spring 2027

Professor Hamburger's research addresses the art of the High and later Middle Ages, with a focus on illuminated manuscripts. Areas of special interest include devotional imagery, interrelationships among art, mysticism and theology, diagrams and the...

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...