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Associate Professor of English

• P: 540-458-8345
• E: kaow@wlu.edu

Professor Kao’s teaching and research interests include medieval literature, especially Chaucer; whiteness studies; critical theory; race and ethnicity; gender and sexuality; queer studies; hotel theory; affect; and cute studies.

Professor of Romance Languages

• P: 540-458-8160
• E: baileym@wlu.edu

Bailey teaches Spanish language, culture and literature. His research interests include medieval Spanish literature and culture, and more specifically, medieval epic narrative.

Abigail Grigsby Urquhart Professor of Classics

• P: 540-458-8082
• E: benefielr@wlu.edu

Benefiel teaches classics and Latin courses such as Pompeii, Classics in a Digital Age, and The Poetry of Ovid. She studies Latin epigraphy, Roman social and cultural history, Latin literature and Roman archaeology.

Sidney Gause Childress Professor in the Arts

• P: 540-458-8863
• E: bentg@wlu.edu

Bent teaches courses on medieval art, Renaissance art and gothic art. He has researched Italian art extensively and recently taught a course called Digital Florence in which students helped to digitally reconstruct the city.

Professor of History

• E: brockm@wlu.edu

Brock teaches courses on British and Atlantic history, the Reformation, witchcraft and the devil, and the history of poverty. Her research focuses on the supernatural and religious beliefs and identities in early modern Scotland.

Professor of German

• P: 540-458-8825
• E: crockettr@wlu.edu

Crockett teaches courses on German literature and business.

Associate Dean of Strategic Initiatives and Thomas H. Broadus Professor of English

• P: 540-458-8763
• E: gertzg@wlu.edu

Gertz teaches courses on Milton, the Tudors and the Bible. She is currently working on methods of social network analysis as they apply to our understanding of the rise and fall of women mystics in English literary history.

Associate Professor of Theater/Acting, Core Affiliated Faculty, Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program

• P: 540-458-8005
• E: levyj@wlu.edu

Levy teaches courses on acting, directing, Shakespeare and theater history. She is a professional director with critically-acclaimed national and international credits, and for 10 years ran Muse of Fire Theatre Company.

Medieval and Renaissance Studies; Associate Professor of French and Italian

• P: 540-458-8817
• E: mccormicks@wlu.edu

McCormick heads �����������ֳ�'s Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program and teaches courses on French language and culture. He also supervises the French study abroad program. He has researched old French epic and medieval/early modern Italian cartography.

Department Head and Associate Professor of English

• P: 540-458-8078
• E: picketth@wlu.edu

Pickett teaches courses on Shakespeare, early modern drama and contemporary drama. Her research interests include religion and drama, history of the senses, and early modern religious identities and controversies.

Department Head, Associate Professor of German

• P: 540-458-8830
• E: pragerd@wlu.edu

Prager teaches courses in German language and literature.

Edwin A. Morris Professor of Comparative Literature

• P: 540-458-8030
• E: radulescud@wlu.edu

Radulescu teaches upper-level French and Francophone literature, theater, and the representations of women, gender, and sexuality in literature. She researches feminist theater and is an award-winning novelist/playwright.