Professors

• Mawy Bouchard – Département de Français
• Victoria Burke – Department of English
• Marie-Pierre Bussières – Department of Classics and Religious Studies
• Antoine Côté – Department of Philosophy
• Dominique Côté – Department of Classics and Religious Studies
• Jitse Dijkstra – Department of Classics and Religious Studies
• Kouky Fianu – Department of History
• Louise Frappier – Department of Theatre
• Geoffrey Greatrex – Department of Classics and Religious Studies
• James Nelson Novoa – Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
• Cristina Perissinotto – Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
• Pierluigi Piovanelli – Department of Classics and Religious Studies
• Kathryn Prince – Department of Theatre
• Geoffrey Rector – Department of English
• Andrew Taylor – Department of English

Part time professors

• Geneviève Bazinet, PhD, Adjunct Professor, Department of Music
• Pascale Duhamel, PhD, Adjunct Professor, Department of Music
• Caroline Prud’homme, PhD, Département de français

Areas of Research

• Manuscript culture
• Women’s writing
• Gender and sexuality
• History of reading
• History of literary, religious and universitary institutions
• History of the book and of booktrades in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
• Renaissance Italy
• Jews and Christians in the Renaissance
• French literature of the Middle Ages
• Literature, religion, and philosophy from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance
• Literature and historiography in Late Antiquity
• Production and social use of writing
• Rhetoric and education in Late Antiquity
• Theatre in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

MDV 4900 : Recherche dirigée en Études médiévales et de la Renaissance

• Proposition de projet de recherche
• Acceptation de supervision

Cours à thème variable / Variable topics courses, 2024-2025

Automne / Fall 2024

MDV 2500 / FRA 3760 – Initiation à la civilisation du Moyen Âge et de la Renaissance : « Héros et 
grands textes de l’épopée »

• Prof. Marie-Pierre Bussières (CLA)
• Automne 2024, Lundi 14:30-15:50 + Jeudi 16:00-17:20
• Ce cours propose d’étudier la figure des héros dans quelques grands textes du Moyen-âge et de la Renaissance, afin de découvrir les lieux communs héroïques mis en valeur par les auteurs. Les héros médiévaux portent certaines caractéristiques héritées de l’épopée, le genre poétique noble de l’Antiquité. L’héroïsation est en effet le moyen littéraire privilégié pour donner de l’autorité à un personnage, mythologique ou historique, dont on chante les hauts faits réels ou fictifs. Ce cours d’initiation à la civilisation médiévale explore les lieux communs au sujet du héros littéraire médiéval dans quelques grands textes, tout en faisant un panorama de la représentation héroïque dans divers genres littéraires.

MDV 4100 / HIS 4320 – Seminar in Medieval and Renaissance Studies: “Plague Pandemics”

• Prof. Lori Jones (HIS)
• Fall 2024, Wednesday 19:00-21:50
• This seminar will explore the effects of recurrent plague outbreaks on artistic, literary, religious, governmental, and medical-scientific history between the sixth and eighteenth centuries, introducing students to the ways in which plague pandemics can be used as an entry point to interdisciplinary scholarship and global history. While the primary focus will be on Europe, the seminar will also address plague’s impact across Eurasia and Africa.

MDV 5100 - Medieval and Renaissance Studies Research Methods and Tools

• Prof. Andrew Taylor (ENG)
• Fall 2024, Friday, 8:30-11:20
• How do you read an old manuscript? How do you find your way through an archive? This course will provide some preliminary answers, introducing you to the experience of working with a range of medieval and early modern books and documents. We will consider how works were composed, copied, and annotated, how they have been and can be transcribed and edited, the challenges they present, at a material level, to modern scholars, and their shifting institutional context, from the medieval monastery or college library to the renaissance library to the modern library to the internet.

Hiver / Winter 2025

MDV 2100 – Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Civilization: « Medievalism »

• Prof. Geoffrey Rector (ENG)
• Winter 2025, Monday 8:30-9:50 + Thursday 10:00-11:20
• This course is concerned with the revival of popular and scholarly interest in the Middle Ages in the period between the early 19th century and the present, in such fields as literature, the visual arts, popular media, and architecture. Topics will include both the formation of medieval studies as a discipline in this period as well as the surprising and often highly sentimentalized preoccupation with the medieval past in novels, poetry, and film. What did the Middle Ages mean to writers such as Victor Hugo or Walter Scott, whose novels set in a medieval past virtually defined the historical novel as a genre? Why were so many academic and institutional buildings of 19th and 20th centuries built in a “neo-medieval” style – including our own Parliament Hill? Why were so many – historians, literary scholars, architects, poets, painters– so preoccupied with the dream of reconstructing a lost and broken medieval past?

MDV 3100A – Selected Topics in Medieval and Renaissance Studies: “Byzantium and the Middle East: Foundation of the Medieval World”

• Prof. to be determined (CLA)
• Winter 2025, Wednesday 13:00-14:20 + Friday 11:30-12:50
• Throughout this course, students will engage in an in-depth study of the transformation of the Eastern Mediterranean world from the classical epoch to the medieval era. By adopting a multidisciplinary approach, they will explore a wide range of topics and perspectives aimed at cultivating a more holistic and nuanced understanding of the myriad events and circumstances that marked this pivotal transition. Spanning from A.D. 284 to 700, the Late Antique Near East will be examined as a wide-reaching, multifaceted, and interconnected system. While the Byzantine and Persian Empires are central to the curriculum, other peoples such as the Armenians and Arabs will also be covered in significant depth. Through exposure to these diverse perspectives, students will gain insight into the complex dynamics of cultural exchange, political maneuvering, and religious identity that characterized the region during this transformative period.

MDV 4500 / HIS 4720 – Séminaire en Études médiévales et de la Renaissance : « Reconnaitre et juger les agents du Diable : la sorcellerie en Europe (XIVe- XVIIe s.) »

• Prof. à déterminer (HIS)
• Hiver 2025, Jeudi, 14:30-17:20
• Ce séminaire a pour objectif d’étudier le développement de la sorcellerie en Europe entre le XIVe et le XVIIe siècle. La figure du sorcier ou de la sorcière se développe à partir de celle de l’hérétique, caractérisée par la désobéissance aux normes dictées par l’Église. La sorcellerie telle qu’elle se manifeste au XVe siècle associe des pratiques occultes, magiques, à la présence du Diable, pour élaborer un personnage menaçant la société tout entière. Le séminaire est fondé sur l’analyse des documents produits entre XIVe et XVIIe s. (traités, procès, récits, images) pour comprendre la manière dont les sorciers et les sorcières ont été décrit.e.s et perçu.e.s, mais aussi comment leur description a évolué au cours des siècles. Il s’agit de saisir qui étaient ces agents diaboliques qui terrorisèrent les Européens.

MDV 5900 - Séminaire de recherche interdisciplinaire / Interdisciplinary Research Seminar

• Prof. Kouky Fianu (HIS)
• Hiver 2025, Mardi, 8:30-11:20
• Séminaire bilingue à thèmes variables destiné à explorer le sens et la valeur du travail interdisciplinaire en études médiévales et modernes. / Bilingual seminar using varying themes as a vehicle for exploring the meaning and value of interdisciplinary work in medieval and modern studies.the course.