Faculty

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Jeremy duQuesnay Adams, Ph.D., Harvard University Professor of History, Southern Methodist University. Dr. Adams has consistently focused on group identity, its formation and disintegration, exclusion from and inclusion into units of ethnic, cultural, political and social organization. His many works have approached materials from the Fathers of the Church (Augustine, Jerome, etc.), Visigothic Spain, and Capetian France. Professor Adams’ publications include: Patterns of Medieval Society (Prentice-Hall, 1969), The Populus of Augustine and Jerome: A Study in the Patristic Sense of Community (Yale University Press, 1971), Joan of Arc: Her Story - a translation of Régine Pernoud’s Jeanne d’Arc - (St. Martin’s Press, 1998), and numerous articles including: ‘Toledo‘s Visigothic Metamorphosis’,‘Jerome, the Classic Correspondent,’ ‘Classic Problems and Structure of the University in the Middle Ages,’ ‘The Influence of Lucan on the Political Attitudes of Suger of Saint-Denis,’ and several essays on political grammar (those of Isidore of Seville, Ildefonsus of Toledo, Julian of Toledo, et al.); and contributions to: The New Catholic Encyclopedia and The Encyclopedia of Early Christianity.

Annemarie Weyl Carr, Ph.D., University of Michigan Professor and Chair, Division of Art History, Southern Methodist University. Dr. Carr’s primary interests lie in Byzantine art and the art of the Mediterranean Levant during the period of the Crusades. Professor Carr has published Byzantine Illumination 1150 1250: The Study of a Provincial Tradition (University of Chicago Press, 1987), A Byzantine Masterpiece Recovered: The Thirteenth-century Murals of Lysi, Cyprus(University of Texas Press, 1991), Cyprus and the Devotional Arts of Byzantium in the Era of the Crusades (Ashgate Press, 2004), served as the president of the International Center of Medieval Art, and edited the periodical, Gesta. Her recent articles treat the great cult icons of Late Byzantine Constantinople, and aspects of the art of Crusader and Venetian Cyprus. She contributed to the catalogue of “Byzantium, Faith and Power” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and wrote the chapter on medieval women artists for the Dictionary of Women Artists.

Jo Goyne, M.A., Southern Methodist University. Senior Lecturer in English, Director of the First-year Writing Program, Southern Methodist University; and Laura Kesselman Devlin Instructor of English 1995–96. Professor Goyne, recognized for the excellence and clarity of her teaching, is also Associate Editor of the scholarly journal Arthuriana, the official journal of the International Arthurian Society, North American Branch; as well as a past Co-Editor of Criteria, A Journal of Rhetoric (92–93; 93–94), a publication of the Rhetoric / First-year Writing Program at Southern Methodist University. In addition to her administrative and editorial obligations, Ms. Goyne has published several articles on medieval English literature, medieval thought, and gender / women’s studies, including: "Parataxis and Causality in the Tale of Sir Launcelot du Lake," "Pleasing Virtue: The Problem of Word and Will in Chaucer’s Clerk’s Tale," and "Arthurian Dreams and Medieval Dream Theory". Ms. Goyne is committed to pedagogy and has lectured on the subject at a number of conferences, including: "Teaching Arthurian Materials in a First-Year Writing Course".

Valerie A. Karras, Ph.D., Catholic University of America. Associate Professor of Church History, Southern Methodist University. Dr. Karras' teaching specialties include Patristic theology, Byzantine church history, and Orthodox theology. Her research interests include women in the Byzantine liturgy, gender in Greek patristic thought, Orthodoxy and feminist theology, Orthodoxy in ecumenical and interreligious contexts, and Greek patristic anthropology and soteriology. Her professional distinctions include membership in the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies Board, 2002-present; the Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research Board of Directors, 1997-2001; the North American Academy of Ecumenists Executive Board, 1996-2001; the American Academy of Religion, Eastern Orthodox Studies Group Steering Committee, 1993-2000; and service as a Byzantine chanter, Greek Orthodox Church. Her publications include Women in the Byzantine Liturgy (Oxford U. Press, forthcoming); “The Liturgical Functions of Consecrated Women in the Byzantine Church,” Theological Studies 66:1 (Spring 2005): 96-116; “A Reevaluation of Marriage, Celibacy, and Irony in Gregory of Nyssa’s On Virginity,” Journal of Early Christian Studies 13:1 (Spring 2005): 111-121; “Female Deacons in the Byzantine Church,” Church History 73:2 (June 2004): 272-316; “Beyond Justification: An Orthodox Perspective,” in Justification and the Future of the Ecumenical Movement, ed. William G. Rusch (Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, 2003), 99-131; and “Eschatology,” in Cambridge Companion to Feminist Theology, ed. Susan F. Parsons (Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2002), 243-260.

John M. Lewis, A.M., Harvard University. Associate Professor of English, Southern Methodist University. Mr. Lewis’ interests range from historical and comparative linguistics, the history and structure of the English language, classical and medieval thought and philosophy, literary theory, Old English and Old Norse (language, literature, and linguistics), and religion–Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and Hinduism–to film. His many writings include: "The Catastrophe of Metaphor," "Judgment Calls: The Name of the Rose and the Limits of Apocalypse," "A Politics of Invisibility: the Ideology of Marriage in A Midsummer Night’s Dream," the article: "Eros and the Polis in Theognis Book II" in Theognis of Megara, and numerous film reviews. He is currently engaged in the writing of a series of novels, the first of which is entitled SplitSong.

Bruce D. Marshall, Ph.D., Yale University. Professor of Historical Theology, Southern Methodist University. Dr. Marshall's teaching specialties are Medieval and Reformation theology and systematic theology. His research interests include the Doctrine of the Trinity, Christology, philosophical issues in theology, and Judaism and Christian theology. He is a member of the American Theological Society, the Lutheran/Orthodox Dialogue (USA), the Consultation on Faith and Reason, Center of Theological Inquiry, and the editorial boards of Modern Theology and International Jourrnal for the Study of the Christian Church. His publications include Trinity and Truth (Cambridge University Press, 2000); Christology in Conflict: The Identity of a Saviour in Rahner and Barth (Blackwell, 1987); Editor, Theology and Dialogue: Essays in Conversation with George Lindbeck (University of Notre Dame Press, 1990); "Justification as Declaration and Deification," International Journal for Systematic Theology 4/1 (2002); and "Do Christians Worship the God of Israel?" Knowing the Triune God, ed. James J. Buckley & David S. Yeago (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2001).

Donna Mayer-Martin, Ph.D., University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Music History, Southern Methodist University. Dr. Mayer-Martin’s primary interests are in manuscript studies, the poetry and music of the troubadours and trouveres, and gender studies. Her book, Thematic Catalogue of Troubadour and Trouvere Melodies with a Study of the Manuscripts, is forthcoming from Pendragon Press, and she currently is writing an extensive comparative manuscript study of Gautier de Coinci’s Miracles de Nostre Dame and the Cantigas de Santa Maria. Dr. Mayer-Martin is a popular lecturer in the States and in Paris on areas related to music and gender. In 1993, Dr. Mayer-Martin and her students presented a performance of Hildegard of Bingen’s Ordo Virtutum at SMU.

Pamela Patton, Ph.D., Boston University. Assistant Professor of Art History, Southern Methodist University. Dr. Patton came to SMU as a Haakon Fellow and now holds a joint appointment in the Meadows Museum, where she is Curator of Spanish Art, and the Division of Art History. She works, primarily, on Spanish medieval art, with interests in iconography, the shift from Romanesque to Gothic in Spain, and the artistic expressions of Spain’s multicultural heritage. Her publications include: "A Late Gothic Painted Cabinet from Catalonia," "Et partu fontis exceptum: The Typology of Birth and Baptism in an Unusual Spanish Image of Jesus Baptized in a Font," and "Intimations of the Redeemer in a Fifteenth-Century Relief of the Madonna and Child." She has also contributed to Goya: Revista de Arte and The Dictionary of Women Artists.

Stephen Shepherd,.Ph.D., University of Oxford. Associate Professor of English, Southern Methodist University. Dr. Shepherd’s main interests are Middle English romance and allegory, medieval English historiography, medieval English codicology, and the history of English. He has held research fellowships from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Cananda, The Huntington Library, and the Bibliographical Society of America. His publications include Middle English Romances (Norton Critical Editions, 1995), "'I have gone for thi sak wonderfull wais’: The Middle English Fragment of The Song of Roland," "The Ashmole Sir Ferumbras: Translation in Holograph," "‘This Grete Journee’: The Sege of Melayne," "‘Of Thy Glitterand Gyde Have I Na Gle’: The Taill of Rauf Coilyear," "No poet has his travesty alone: The Weddynge of Sir Gawen and Dame Ragnell," "The Middle English Pseudo-Turpin Chronicle," and "Langland’s Romances." He is currently preparing a critical edition of the unique Huntington Library text of the Middle English Pseudo-Turpin Chronicle.

Bonnie Wheeler, Ph.D., Brown University. Associate Professor of English, D.D. Frensley Chair in English 1997–98, and Director of the Medieval Studies Program, Southern Methodist University. Dr. Wheeler’s major interests are medieval romance (especially Arthurian), Chaucer, gender studies, and pedagogy. She is editor of Arthuriana, the quarterly journal of the International Arthurian Society/North American Branch; and series editor of The New Middle Ages, a publication of St. Martin’s Press. In this series, Professor Wheeler has co-edited the essay collections: Becoming Male in the Middle Ages, with Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (1997); Fresh Verdicts on Joan of Arc, with Charles T. Wood (1996); and Medieval Mothering, with John Carmi Parsons (1996). Her articles include: "Joan of Arc’s Sword in the Stone," "Medieval Mothers, Medieval Motherers," "Medieval Studies and Mentoring," "Status of the Profession: Medievalists in 1996," and "Origenary Fantasies: Abelard’s Castration and Confession." She has recently been highlighted in the A&E Network’s Ancient Mysteries series episodes: "King Arthur and Camelot" (with Dr. Adams), "The Holy Grail," and the upcoming episode on Joan of Arc (also with Dr. Adams). She is currently writing a monograph on the medieval representations of masculinities.

Eric M. White, Ph.D., Boston University. Curator of Special Collections, Bridwell Library, Southern Methodist University. Dr. White has been Curator of Special Collections at Bridwell Library since 1997. He was an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania, earned his doctorate in Art History from Boston University in 1995, and received his Master of Library Science degree from the University of North Texas, Denton. Since coming to SMU his research has focused mainly on Bridwell Library's rare books and manuscripts, with emphasis on Gutenberg and the spread of early printing. His publications include an in-depth commentary for the CD-ROM facsimile of the Gutenberg Bible at the University of Texas, Austin (2005), two articles in Gutenberg-Jahrbuch (2002 and 2006), and the catalogues for the Bridwell exhibitions "Peter Schoeffer: Printer of Mainz" (2003) and "Six Centuries of Master Bookbinding at Bridwell Library" (2006, with Dr. Elizabeth Haluska-Rausch and John McQuillen). He lectures widely on early printing topics, and was invited to speak on 15th-century illustrated books at the Library of Congress in 2005. His wife, Dr. Pamela Patton, is Associate Professor of Art History in the Meadows School of the Arts. In 1999, they collaborated on the Meadows Museum exhibition Faith in Conflict: Devotional Images and Forbidden Books from Spain’s Counter Reformation.