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Cara Baummer

cara.baummer@uconn.edu

Cara Baummer is a M.A. student originally from the Boston area of Massachusetts. She graduated from Russell Sage College in Troy, NY in May of 2007 with a B.A. in English. At UConn, her main interests include both Middle English and Old French Romance.

Danielle is a M.A. student. Her main interests include book history, specifically the transition to print, reception studies, and the intersection between a book's content and its physical presentation.  She is also interested in marginality and the spatial separation of society in the Middle Ages.

Jeremy DeAngelo

jeremy.deangelo@uconn.edu

Jeremy is a Ph.D. student. He earned his B.A. in English Creative Writing at Colgate University in 2005, and he earned his M.A. in Medieval Studies at UConn in 2008. His main research interests include Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic literatures with a particular focus on the interactions between cultures. In 2007, he received the Aetna Graduate Writing Award for his essay "The Matter with the North: the Finnar in the Medieval Sagas."

Breanna is a M.A. student.

Andrew Grubb

andrew.grubb@uconn.edu

Andrew is a Ph.D. student. Hailing from Louisville, Kentucky, he earned his BA with a double major in History and Humanities at the University of Louisville in 2005 before earning an MA in Humanities from U of L in 2007. His MA thesis investigated the cultural appropriation of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in twelfth-century England and architectural expressions of that trend. Having arrived at UConn in fall 2007, he concentrates primarily in Old English literature with interests in Anglo-Saxon history and early medieval art history. 

Brandon Hawk

brandon.hawk@uconn.edu

Brandon is an M.A. student.  He received his B.A. from Houghton College in 2007, where he majored in English and minored in medieval studies.  His interests include Old English and Old Norse languages and literature, Germanic mythology, medieval Christianity, as well as the intersections and portrayals of religion in medieval England and Scandinavia.

Erin Heidkamp

eheidkamp@hotmail.com

Erin is a Ph.D. student with research interests in medieval environmental history, German history (the Rhineland, in particular), German literature (Nibelungenlied, Edda), languages (Middle High German and Old Norse), and the Sagas. Erin holds a B.A. degree in Environmental Studies, Conservation and Restoration from Sonoma State University and a M.A. in Medieval Studies from UConn.  

Gretchen is a M.A. student. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Connecticut with a duel major in English and German in May of 2008 and began her studies in the University of Connecticut’s Medieval Studies graduate program in the fall of 2008. Her academic interests are medieval Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon culture, languages, and literature. 

Frederic Lardinois

frederic@lardinois.net

Frederic is a Ph.D. student.

Pamela is a Ph.D. student.

Andrew Maines

agm99001@uconnvm.uconn.edu

Andrew is a Ph.D. student.

Sean is a M.A. student. He earned his B.A. in Classics at Brigham Young University, and his main research interests include comparative and historical poetics.

Katherine K. O'Sullivan

katherine.o'sullivan@uconn.edu

Katherine (Kate) is a Ph.D. student with a major area in Medieval English Literature and minor areas in Theology and History. Her areas of interest include: late Middle English literature (Langland, Gowe, Lydgate, Chaucer), spirituality, mysticism, Lollardy, and medieval philosophy. Her dissertation addresses tears and sorrow in Langland's Piers Plowman. She has published an article in Mediaevalia entitled, "John Lydgate's Lyf of Our Lady: Translation and Authority in Fifteenth-Century England."

Mark Pearsall

mpearsall281@earthlink.net

Mark is a Ph.D. student with research interests in Late Antiquity, Byzantium, Roman Spain, classical philosophy, and early Christianity. He holds a B.A. in Latin and Greek from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a M.A.T. in Latin and Classical Humanities from Boston University. Mark also attended Arcadia University in Athens, Saint Louis University in Madrid, and the Classical Summer Program at the American Academy in Rome. For ten years he has taught high school Latin in Glastonbury, CT, and he has served as the president of ClassConn. Mark recently received a CBE grant for research on Mediterranean history and an NEH grant for the summer institute "Project Sol."

Andrew Pfrenger

apfrenger@yahoo.com

After receiving a B.A. in English and Latin from Florida State University, Andrew spent two years serving with the U.S. Peace Corps in the Russian Far East. In 2003 he earned his M.A. in Medieval Studies from the University of Connecticut. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Medieval Studies Program at the University of Connecticut. In 2005, Andrew was awarded the Aetna Award for excellence in teaching. During the 2007-2008 academic school year Andrew enjoyed some time off from teaching to research and write after receiving the Graduate Student Dissertation Fellowship from the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute. For the UCHI fellowship year, Andrew worked toward the completion of his dissertation, The Wrath of Kings: Emotion and Justice in Anglo-Saxon Literature. His dissertation defense is currently scheduled for March 2, 2009. Andrew is also a co-founder of the New England Saga Society (NESS), an academic society which promotes scholarly research and discourse on the saga literature of medieval Iceland. 

Britt Rothauser

rothauserb@easternct.edu

Britt is a Ph.D. student. She holds a B.A. in Medieval Studies from the University of Connecticut and a M.A. in English from the University of Maryland. Her major emphasis is Middle English literature and paleography with concentrations in Anglo-Saxon language, literature, history, and paleography.  At this time, Britt intends to focus her dissertation on the Anglo-Saxon perception of age and the place of the elderly within that society.  She is currently a full time visiting assistant professor at Eastern Connecticut State University.

Kisha Tracy

kisha.tracy@uconn.edu

Currently a Ph.D. student, Kisha holds a B.A. in English from the University of Evansville and a M.A. in Medieval Studies from UConn in 2004. At present, she is working on her dissertation, which is entitled Writing Memory: Reinvention and the Tradition of Confession in Middle English Literature. Kisha has an article published in L’Esplumeoir (Societe Internationale des Amis de Merlin) entitled “Un Héritage vertueux: présence, capacités, et caractère de la mère de Merlin.”  Her article “Character Memory and Reinvention of the Past in Béroul’s Roman de Tristan” appeared in the 2006 issue of Tristania. In the spring of 2008, she was named a Heckman Scholar at the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library at St. John's University. Kisha is also serving as the Medieval Studies Program Assistant.

Jeanette is a Ph.D. student. She received a B.A. in English from the University of Massachusetts and a M.A. in Medieval Studies at the University of Connecticut. Her interests include Middle English vernacular theology and literature, and she hopes to focus her dissertation on the theme of friendship in Piers Plowman. She is also currently the librarian for the Charles A. Owen Memorial Library.