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
- chana.pires@mail.utoronto.ca
- academia.edu
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
- as.cohen@utoronto.ca
- academia.edu
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
- christine.kralik@utoronto.ca
- academia.edu
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
- cillian.ohogan@utoronto.ca
- hcommons
Christopher Patton
University of St. Michael’s College – Book & Media Studies Program
20th and 21st century poetry and poetics
- christopher.patton@utoronto.ca
- theartofcompost.com
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
- m.teramura@utoronto.ca
- website
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
- slwearing@gmail.com
- academia.edu
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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