The Department of English and Communication and Media Studies has long been committed to teaching and research in the field of medieval and early modern studies, and our faculty members' wide-ranging professional interests in English literature and culture from the ninth through the seventeenth centuries cross disciplinary boundaries. Departmental research strengths include Old English literature, Middle English literature, manuscript studies, secular and religious poetry, non-fiction, religious drama and drama of the public playhouses, Chaucer, Shakespeare, civic and royal pageantry, early modern print culture, and the literature of the English Reformation.

Faculty Working in this Area

John Geck
Agnes Juhasz-Ormsby
Robert Ormsby
William Schipper