People
Staff in Medieval and Early Modern Studies at The University of Manchester range in expertise from late antiquity to the end of the early modern period; from literature and language to economics and history.
The chief disciplines represented are History, Art History, English Literature, Religions and Theology, and European Languages. Also associated are staff of the John Rylands Research Institute and Library.
The John Rylands Research Institute and Library
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James Duff
Collection Care Manager (Interim), Special Collections.
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Stella Halkyard
Honorary fellow and former Joint Head, Special Collections.
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John Hodgson
Honorary Fellow.
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Dr Stefania Silvestri
Research Associate
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Art History and Visual Studies
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Dr Anthony Gerbino
Senior Lecturer in Art History.
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Dr Cordelia Warr
Senior Lecturer in Italian Art of the 14th-15th centuries.
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Dr Edward Wouk
Reader in Art History (1400-1800).
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Classics and Ancient History
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Dr Andrew Fear
Lecturer in Classics.
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Prof Peter Pormann
Professor of Classics and Graeco-Arabic Studies.
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English Literature
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Dr Naomi Baker
Senior Lecturer in English Renaissance Literature.
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Dr Anke Bernau
Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature and Culture.
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Dr Noelle Dückmann-Gallagher
Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture.
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Dr Jerome de Groot
Senior Lecturer in Literature and Culture of the Civil War Period.
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Prof David Matthews
Professor of Medieval and Medievalism Studies.
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Dr James Paz
Lecturer in Early Medieval Literature and Culture.
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Dr Fred Schurink
Lecturer in Early Modern Literature and Culture.
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History
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Dr Georg Christ
Senior Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern History.
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Prof Sasha Handley
Professor in Early Modern History.
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Dr Charles Insley
Senior Lecturer in Medieval History.
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Dr Stefan Hanss
Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History.
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Dr Stephen Mossman
Senior Lecturer in Medieval History.
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Prof Paul Oldfield
Professor in English Renaissance Literature.
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Dr Benjamin Pope
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow.
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Dr Ingrid Rembold
Lecturer in Medieval History.
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Prof Philipp Roessner
Professor in Early Modern and Economic History.
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Dr Rachel Winchcombe
Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow.
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Italian Studies
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Dr Guyda Armstrong
Senior Lecturer in Italian.
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Prof Stephen Milner
Serena Professor of Italian (currently on secondment to the British School in Rome).
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Music
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Prof Thomas Schmidt
Professor in Music.
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Dr Hannah Yip
Early Career Fellow in Music.
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Russian and East European Studies
Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
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Dr Francisco A Eissa-Barroso
Senior Lecturer in Latin American History.
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Dr Luis Castellvi Laukamp
Lecturer in Spanish Cultural Studies.
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Translation and Intercultural Studies
Emeritus professors
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Prof Suzanne Butters
CMEMS recognises the late Professor Suzy Butters, a member of the Art History department for more than thirty years.
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Emeritus Prof Paul Fouracre
Paul Fouracre is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History. He specialises in the history of the Franks, law and custom in medieval societies, hagiography, charters, serf-lord relations in the eleventh century, and the cost of the liturgy.
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Emeritus Prof Nick Higham
Nick Higham is Emeritus professor in Early Medieval and Landscape History in History. His research interests focus on two interrelated areas: the History and Archaeology of the Early Middle Ages in Britain, and the Landscape and Settlement History of North West and North England in the Middle Ages.
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Emeritus Prof Gale Owen-Crocker
Gale Owen-Crocker is an Emeritus Professor of Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture who specialises in medieval dress and textiles. She is programme secretary for the Medieval Dress and Textile Society and co-editor of Medieval Clothing and Textiles (Boydell and Brewer).
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Emeritus Prof Stephen Rigby
Stephen H. Rigby is Emeritus Professor of History whose research has focused on a number of different areas including Marxist historiography, Weberian social theory and the philosophy of history; Medieval English social and economic history, particularly urban history; and Medieval literature.
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Emeritus Prof Don Scragg
Don Scragg was Professor in the English Department for many years. He was a renowned specialist in Old English and the author and editor of many books, including The Return of the Vikings: The Battle of Maldon 991, A History of English Spelling, and Literary Appropriations of the Anglo-Saxons from the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Century.
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Honorary Senior Research Fellow Leah Scragg
Leah Scragg was Senior Lecturer in English Literature. She was an expert on Lyly and Shakespeare, and published editions Lyly's Euphues and several of his plays, as well as Discovering Shakespeare's Meaning (Macmillan, 1988), Shakespeare's Mouldy Tales (Longman, 1992), and Shakespeare's Alternative Tales (Longman, 1996).
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