Professor of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
Research Interests: Philosophy, Intellectual History, History of Science, Modernity
John Hay Library and Center for the Study of the Early Modern World Graduate Fellow (2023-2024), Integrative Studies
Graduate Student Representative and Colloquia Coordinator, Doctoral Student in Anthropology
Research Interests: Colonialism, Inequality, Infrastructure, Mobility, Identity
Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Humanities, Religious Studies
Research Interests: Religious Studies, Middle East Stiudies, Central Asia, Iran, Middle East, South Asia
Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies and History of Art and Architecture, Chair of Hispanic Studies, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Research Interests: Hispanic Literature and Culture, History, Art History, Miguel de Cervantes, Luis de Góngora, Diego Velázquez, El Greco, Fashion and Fiction, Poetry and Poetics, Urbanism and Empire
Doctoral Student in History of Art and Architecture
Research Interests: Artistic Practice, Art Theory, History of Science and Religion, Eighteenth-Century Britain
Doctoral Student in History
Research Interests: Iberian Atlantic World; Intersections of Gender/Sexuality and Race; Libidinal Economies; Transmuting of Cultural Practices Across the Atlantic
Chen Family Professor of China Studies, Professor of History, Professor of East Asian Studies
Research Interests: Book Culture, East Asia, Imperial China, Late Imperial China, Ming, Print Culture, Qing, Woodblock Publishing
Lecturer in Classics
Research Interests: Late Medieval and Early Modern Religious Literature, India
Doctoral Student in History
Research Interests: Environmental Histories, Indigenous Histories, Pacific Histories, Material Cultures, Representations of the Tropics
Professor of Italian Studies, Professor of History
Research Interests: Political History in Italy and Europe Betweem 1500 and 1800, Microhistory, History of Women and Gender, Popular Culture, Law Courts and Legal Culture in Early Modern Italy and Europe
Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies
Research Interests: History of Technology, Late Imperial Chinese Literature, Material Culture
Doctoral Student in English
Research Interests: Early Modern Drama, Feminism, Literary and Cultural Studies, Law as Literature, Historiography
John F. Nickoll Professor of History
Research Interests: Early Modern Europe, Dutch Republic, Science Medicine, CommerceTranslation
Doctoral Student in Classics
Research Interests: Latin Prose, Classical Reception, Rhetoric, Style, Early Modern Astronomy
Doctoral Student in Hispanic Studies
Research Interests: Imperial Subjects, Early Modern Iberian Literature, the Picaresque Novel
Professor of English
Research Interests: 17th- and 18th-century British-American writing, the history of the book, the early modern Atlantic world, colonial British-American Orientalism, early modern theories of identity
Doctoral Student in History
Research Interests: Early Modern and Modern Ottoman History, Islamic History, History of Political Thought, Legal History, Early Modern Empires, Intellectual History
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Research Interests: Drugs, Language, Latin America, Linguistics, Mexico, Mushrooms, Music, Salvia, Singing, Species Ethnography
Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
Research Interests: European Renaissance Culture and Letters, Classical Traditions, Literary Theory, Literary Form, Aesthetics
Doctoral Student in Hispanic Studies
Research Interests: Material Culture, Notions of Truth and Falsehood, Baroque Texts from Spain and Colonial Latin America
Doctoral Student in History
Research Interests: Early Modern Europe, the History of the Book, Mapping, Theology, History of Religion, Color and Coloring
Doctoral Student in Italian Studies
Research Interests: “Comedy” of Dante Alighieri, Renaissance’s Italian Authors
Doctoral Student in Hispanic Studies
Research Interests: Women’s Writing, Feminism, Critical Theory, Medieval and Early Modern Women’s Authors, Literary Theory
Adrienne Minassian Associate Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, Department of History of Art and Architecture
Research Interests: Art and Architecture of the Islamic World; Medieval Art and Materiality; Art and Craft in the Colonial Era; Faking and Forgery
Professor of Classics
Research Interests: Athens, Drama, Greece, Literary Biography, Performance, Theatre, Tragedy
Munro-Goodwin-Wilkinson Professor of European History
Research Interests: Early Modern England, Scotland, and Ireland; Social History of Politics; History of Ideas
Assistant Professor of History
Research Interests: European History, Transatlantic Cultures, Migration, History of Capitalism
Doctoral Student in History of Art and Architecture
Research Interests: Cross-Cultural Exchange Between Western Europe and Central Africa, Baroque Art and Architecture, the Catholic Counter-Reformation, Iconography, Museum Studies, Collection and Curatorial Practices, African and African American Studies
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, French and Francophone Studies, and Hispanic Studies
Research Interests: Medieval and Early Modern Literature and Philosophy; Classical Traditions; Disability Studies; Women, Gender, and Sexuality Stidies; Digital Humanities
Doctoral Student in History of Art and Architecture
Research Interests: Visual and Material Culture of the Early Modern Netherlands
Doctoral Student in Hispanic Studies
Research Interests: Women’s Writing, Early Modern Female Authors, Lope de Vega, Epic Poetry, the Spanish Comedia Nueva, Elizabethan Theatre
Doctoral Student in Hispanic Studies
Research Interests: Early Modern Peninsular and Colonial Culture, Early Modern Women’s Writing, Reading and Writing Practices, the Body
Senior Lecturer in Music
Research Interests: Early Music, Organ, Harpsichord, Brown University Chorus, Boston Camerata, Shcola Cantorum of Boston
Doctoral Student in Classics
Research Interests: Greece, 18th-Century-Present; Classical Reception; Intellectual Culture of Greece; Education in Greece; Antiquarianism in Literature; Queer Classical Receptions
Professor Emerita of English
Research Interests: Shakespeare, Feminism, Gender
Professor of French Studies
Research Interests: Early Modern France, Witchcraft, History of the Novel
Professor Emerita of History of Art and Architecture
Research Interests: Visual Culture of Britain and the Atlantic World in the 18TH and 19TH Centuries
Associate Professor of English
Research Interests: Early Modern Literature, Selfhood, Political Imagination
Director of the Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, John Rowe Workman Distinguished Professor of Classics and Humanities, Professor of Hispanic Studies
Research Interests: Renaissance Latin Humanism and History of Scholarship, Education and Intellectual History in Colonial Spanish America, Humanist Learning and Nahua Ethnohistory in Post-Conquest Mexico
Doctoral Student in English
Research Interests: 16th- and 17th-Century Literature and Drama, Early Modern England, the Early Colonial Caribbean, Atlantic Studies, Oceans, Decolonial Epistemologies and Unknowability
Research Associate in Latin America and Caribbean Studies
Research Interests: Digital Humanities, Books and Material Culture in the Americas, Early Modern Iconography and Iconology, Emblem Studies, Jesuit Image Theory, Renaissance Hieroglyphs, Cultural History
Digital Scholarship Editor, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Italian Studies
Research Interests: Early Modern Italian visual and material culture
Doctoral Student in History (Penn State), John Carter Brown Fellow
Research Interests: Early Modern Iberia, Colonial Latin America, Blackness, Indigenous history, Race and ethnicity, Global History, Iberian Nobility, Military Orders, Chivalry, Empires, Trans-imperial mobility, Religious History, Women and Gender Studies
Doctoral Student in History
Research Interests: Atlantic World, Colonial Latin America, Transnational Networks, Race and Labor, Disease and Medicine, Early State Formation
2019–20 Hay Library Fellow in Early Modern Studies, Doctoral Student in English
Research interests: Early Modern English Literature, Historiography, Poetics, Genre Studies, Shakespeare
George S. Parker II ’51 curator of maps and prints at the John Carter Brown Library
Research Interests: Historical Cartography and Historical Geography; Historical Methods; Early Modern French Colonial History; Plantation Slavery; Commodities and Consumption; and the Early Modern Caribbean
Professor of Italian Studies
Research Interests: Dante, Trecento Literature, Renaissance Drama, Cultural History
2023–25 International Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Classics and the Cogut Institute for the Humanities
Research Interests: Latin in Early Modern Europe and Americas, Ethnohistory and Education in Colonial Spanish America, Jesuit Pedagogy, Renaissance Humanism, Manuscript Studies and History of the Book, Latin Composition, Reception of the Classics in Classical Music
Doctoral Student in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
Research Interests: Book History, Nationalism, Maritime Historiography, the Portuguese Empire, Brazilian History and Culture, 19th-Century Printed Books, Early Modern Manuscripts
Professor Emerita of Hispanic Studies, Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature
Research Interests: 16th-Century New World Historiography; the Baroque; 17th-Century Women's Writing in Spanish, English, and French; Contemporary North and South American Literatures; Latin American Existentialism
2020-21 Hay Library Fellow in Early Modern Studies, Doctoral Student in Theater Arts and Performance Studies
Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies
Research Interests: History of Science and Medicine, Colonial Latin America, Early Modern Iberian World, Indigenous Studies, Animal Studies, Nahua Ethnohistory
Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture
Research Interests: Art history; China; East Asia; hermeneutics; intellectual history; material culture; ritual; Song-Yuan era
Professor of French Studies, Professor of Comparative Literature
Research Interests: Enlightenment Literature and Philosophy, Literature of the French and Haitian Revolution, Orientalism in the 18th Century, Emigration, Migrations
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Associate Professor of History
Research Interests: Encyclopedism, Book Culture, Intellectual History, Vernaculars, Islamic World, Classical Arabic
Professor of History of Art and Architecture
Research Interests: Flemish Renaissance and Baroque Art, Peter Paul Rubens, Counter Reformation Art and Society, the Jesuit Global Strategy of Accommodation
Associate Professor of History
Research Interests: Early Colonial Andes, Mediterranean and Andean Ideas of Kinship and Sexuality, Comparative Indigenous Histories in the New World
Owen F. Walker '33 Professor Emerita of Humanities, Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature, Professor Emerita of English
Research Interests: Shakespeare; comparative early modern letters and cultures
Doctoral Student in History
Research Interests: The History of Medicine, Food History, Maritime Culture
Professor of History, Professor of Italian Studies
Research Interests: Science and Medicine, Alchemy, Holy Roman Empire, Gender, the Body, Religion, History of the Book, Digital Publication
Doctoral Student in Hispanic Studies
Research Interests: Chivalric Romances, Neoplatonism, Self-Fashioning, Early Modern Iberian Literature, Sequel Writing
Doctoral Student in English, Cogut Institute for the Humanities Fellow (2023-'24)
Research Interests: Seventeenth-Century English Literature and Culture; Religion; Imperialism; Literary and Cultural Theory; Spiritual Authority; Modern South Asia
Doctoral Student in History
Research Interests: Patronage, Power, and Piety in Renaissance Italy; Digital Humanities, Visualization Projects, Historical Video Games
Professor Emeritus of Classics
Research Interests: Virgil, Pastoral Poetry, Classics, Latin Literature, Republican and Augustan Rome, Elegy, Epic
Doctoral Student in French and Francophone Studies
Research Interests: Enlightenment Literature and Philosophy, Encyclopedias and Dictionaries, Intellectual History, the Digital Humanities, Film
Professor of English
Research Interests: Literature and Culture of the Long 18th Century, Satire, War Trauma and Literature, Early Modern Women's Writing
Folger Library Representative, Nicholas Brown Professor of Oratory and Belles Lettres, Professor of English, Chair of English
Research Interests: 16th- and 17th-century English literature and culture; Milton, Shakespeare, Spenser; the metaphysical poets; devotional texts and images; the baroque
Professor of Classics, Professor of Comparative Literature
Research Interests: Ancient Greek and Roman Literature and Culture, Hellenistic and Augustan Poetry, Poetic Representation of Cultural Identity, Myth and Cult of Adonis
Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence, Professor of Italian Studies
Research Interests: Boccaccio's Narrative Work, Pico Della Mirandola, Information Technology, Digital Humanities, Virtual Realism in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Associate Professor of Archaeology, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Department of Egyptology and Assyriology
Research Interests: Archaeology, Antiquarianism, Anatolia and the Levant, Comparative Intellectual History
Associate Professor of History
Research Interests: Environmental and Ethnographic History, the Amazon River Basin, the Atlantic World, the Age of Revolutions
Professor of Religious Studies, Professor of East Asian Studies
Research Interests: Buddhism, Edo, Fuji Shinkō, History, Italy (Rome), Japan, Mt. Fuji, Neo-Confucianism, New Religions, Popular Religion, Religion, Shingaku, Shugendō, Tokugawa
Assistant Professor of English
Research Interests: Law and Literature, Queer Theory, and the History of Sexuality
Professor of French Studies
Research Interests: Early Modern France, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Libertinage, Folk Narrative, Environmental Humanities
Doctoral Student in History
Research Interests: Early Modern Material Culture, History of Design and History of Science with an Emphasis on Jewelry Gems and Gem Imitations
Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture
Research Interests: 18th- and 19th-Century Art and Architecture in South Asia and Britain, Pune (India) in the 18th Century, Print in the 19th Century, Ephemeral Arts in the Northern India Region of Awadh, 19th-Century European Representations of India
Center Manager, Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
Professor of History, Professor of Judaic Studies
Research Interests: Early Modern Jewish History, Economic History, the History of Hasidism
Doctoral Student in Comparative Literature
Research interests: Early Modern Iberian Empires, Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Classical Reception, Nahua Memory and History
Doctoral Student in History
Research Interests: Spanish Pacific, Global Empire, Classical Reception, Material Culture, Engaged Scholarship
Beatrice and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Director and Librarian of the John Carter Brown Library, Professor of History
Research Interests: History of gender, family and politics in eighteenth-century British America
Doctoral Student in History of Art and Architecture
Research Interests: Visual and Material Culture of Late Imperial China; Painting, Prints, and Garden Culture in 17th-Century China
Professor Emerita of History of Art and Architecture
Doctoral Student in History
Research Interests: Early Modern British Isles Politics, Society, and Memory in the 17th Century
