People

A directory of people teaching and researching all things manuscript. Browse this list to see their specialties, institutional affiliation, and contact information.


Ola Alanqar

University of Toronto – Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations

Arabic/Ottoman/Persian/Islamic manuscripts; illumination; calligraphy; medieval non-Western manuscripts

  • ola.alanqar@mail.utoronto.ca

Chana Algarvio

University of Toronto – Robertson Davies Library (Massey College); Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations

Ancient Egyptian book culture; Achaemenid Empire; art history; material philology; non-Western manuscripts


Christy Anderson

University of Toronto – Department of Art History; John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture Landscape and Design

Maritime history; early modern architecture; North Atlantic history; fortifications; navigation; ships

  • christy.anderson@utoronto.ca

Miguel Ángel Andrés-Toledo

University of Toronto – Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations

Zoroastrianism; Avestan; Pahlavi; Indo-Iranian lexicography; critical editions; textual criticism

  • miguelangel.andrestoledo@utoronto.ca

Nasrin Askari

University of Toronto – Faculty of Information

Classical Persian literature; advisory literature for rulers; popular narratives

  • nasrin.askari@mail.utoronto.ca

Adam S. Cohen

University of Toronto – Department of Art History

Art history; codicology; Northern Europe; Monasticism; Hebrew manuscripts


Sébastien Drouin

University of Toronto – Department of French
University of Toronto Scarborough – Department of Language Studies

17th-18th centuries

  • sebastien.drouin@utoronto.ca

Georges Farhat

University of Toronto – John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture Landscape and Design

Perspective, optics, and landscape design processes; 16th-17th century France and the Netherlands; landscape design; means of representation and performance in both Western and non-Western contexts

  • georges.farhat@daniels.utoronto.ca

David Klausner

University of Toronto – Department of English; Centre for Medieval Studies

Records of Early English Drama

  • david.klausner@utoronto.ca

Christine Kralik

University of Toronto – Department of Art History

Late medieval manuscript illumination; death in medieval art


Dorothea Kullmann

University of Toronto – Department of French; Centre for Medieval Studies

Medieval Romance languages and literatures; Old French and Old Occitan epic, including the study of their manuscripts; medieval vernacular religious literature; Books of Hours; historical linguistics, including the stratification of the language of medieval vernacular manuscripts; 19th century narrative literature; historical narratology

  • dorothea.kullmann@utoronto.ca

Anne Lancashire

University of Toronto – Department of English

London theatre history, Roman times to 1600; London administrative history, 1190 to present; Lord Mayors’ Shows to 1642

  • anne.lancashire@utoronto.ca

Aylin Malcolm

University of Guelph – School of English and Theatre Studies

Medieval scientific manuscripts; early modern recipes; English poetry; digital editing

  • amalco08@uoguelph.ca

Pierre Marty

University of Toronto – Department of Art History

French manuscripts; 18th century; provinces; architecture; urbanism; painting

  • pierre.marty@utoronto.ca

Florian Geddes

University of Toronto – Department of Germanic Languages & Literature; Book History & Print Culture Program

German literature; late Middle Ages; early modern; manuscript culture; print culture; material philology; heroic poetry

  • florian.geddes@mail.utoronto.ca

Kari North

University of Toronto – Department of History

Medieval charters; seals; diplomatics; political book production; 13th and 14th century Mediterranean

  • kari.north@mail.utoronto.ca

Cillian O’Hogan

University of Toronto – Centre for Medieval Studies

Codicology of Latin and Greek manuscripts; provenance and ownership history; multilingual manuscripts; particular interest in pre-600 Latin manuscripts and Greek manuscripts of the 12th, 15th, and 16th centuries


Christopher Patton

University of St. Michael’s College – Book & Media Studies Program

20th and 21st century poetry and poetics


Timothy Perry

University of Toronto – Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
  • tim.perry@utoronto.ca

Jennifer Purtle

University of Toronto – Department of Art History; Centre for Medieval Studies; Department of East Asian Studies
  • jenny.purtle@utoronto.ca

Sebastian Sobecki

University of Toronto – Centre for Medieval Studies; Department of English

Book history; late medieval literature; early modern literature; law and literature; literary and critical theory; travel writing and global medieval literature; palaeography; archives

  • sebastian.sobecki@utoronto.ca

Misha Teramura

University of Toronto – Department of English

Early modern English literature; theatre history; history of the book; dramatic manuscripts; textual editing


Elisa Tersigni

University of Toronto Mississauga – Collaborative Digital Research Space

Early modern recipe books; commonplace books; letters

  • elisa.tersigni@utoronto.ca

Nora B. Thorburn

University of Toronto – Centre for Medieval Studies

Carolingian medical manuscripts; codicology

  • nora.foss@mail.utoronto.ca

Renée Trilling

University of Toronto – Centre for Medieval Studies; Department of English

Pre-Conquest England; vernacular texts; literary and social history

  • renee.trilling@utoronto.ca

Xin Yue (Sylvia) Wang

University of Toronto – Department of Art History

Word and image relationships; Christian devotion and mysticism

  • sylviaxinyue.wang@mail.utoronto.ca

Shannon Wearing

Independent Scholar

Art history; decorated charters and cartularies; twelfth century; Iberian peninsula


Andreas Winkler

University of Toronto – Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations

Papyrology; Demotic; Coptic; Graeco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt

  • andreas.winkler@utoronto.ca

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