Current Graduate Students

Katie Bugyis (B.A., University of Notre Dame; M.A.R., Yale University)

• Interests: historical theology
• Recent Award: Notebaert Fellowship

Nathaniel Campbell (B.A., Boston College)

• Interests: Hildegard of Bingen; apocalyptic and prophetic thought of the High and Later Middle Ages; relationships between texts and visual images; Middle High German literature
• Recent Award: Fulbright Scholarship to the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster (Germany), 2007-08

Lesley-Anne Dyer (B.A., Baylor University; M.Phil., Cambridge University; M.M.S., University of Notre Dame)

• Interests: Eternity and time in theology, Augustine and his influence, realism in Christian thought, the Victorines, Anselm, sacramental theology, literary expressions of theology, the history of exegesis
• Dissertation: “Eternity and Time in Twelfth-Century Augustinian Thought”
• Advisor: Stephen Gersh
• Conference Papers: “Red Herring? The Theology of Time and Eternity in John Wyclif,” International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds (2005); “Robert Grosseteste’s Influence on Wyclif’s Theology of Time,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (2005); “Exceptional Salvation? The Role of Trajan in Piers Plowman B-Text,” Western Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature (2006); “Ps.-Augustinian Interpretation of Genesis 1," Medieval Academy of America (2008)
• Recent Award: Graduate Student Professional Development Fund (2007)

Nicole Eddy (B.A., Smith College; M.A., University of Pennsylvania; M.M.S., University of Notre Dame)

• Interests: Middle English romance
• Advisor: Kathryn Kerby-Fulton
• Conference Paper: “Readers in the Margins: Fifteenth-Century Interpretations of Malory and Lovelich,” 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (2008)

Emily Gandolfi (B.A., University of Michigan; M.M.S., University of Notre Dame)

John Hall (B.A., Kenyon College; M.M.S., University of Notre Dame)

• Interests: early scholasticism, sacramental theology
• Dissertation: “The Sacramental Theology of Magister Martinus“
• Advisor: Thomas Prügl
• Conference Paper: “Omitting Nothing Which It Is Necessary to Include: The Use of Theology According to Magister Martinus,” 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (2008)
• Recent Awards: Fellowship for Georgetown Medieval Text-Editing Workshop; Presidential Fellowship

Andrew Irving (B.A., Auckland; B. Theol. Auckland; M.T.S., University of Notre Dame; M.M.S., University of Notre Dame)

• Interests: medieval liturgy; ritual use of the gospel book, codicology, and Beneventan paleography
• Dissertation: “Cum honore et tremore: Gospel Books in Ritual in Eleventh-Century Montecassino”
• Advisors: Daniel Sheerin, Nathan Mitchell
• Conference Papers: “Gospel Books in Ritual in Eleventh-Century Montecassino: A Project Description,” North American Academy of Liturgy (NAAL) Conference (2006); “The Stratigraphy of the Liturgical Book,” North American Academy of Liturgy Meeting (2008)
• Publications: “‘A Burden of Such Great Weight’: Restoring ‘Appropriate Formation’ in the Catechumenate,” Worship 78 (2004): 500-17; Kent Emery, Jr, Cheryl M. Jones, Andrew I. Irving & Victor Kotusenko, “Quaestiones, Sententiae and Summae from the Later Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries: The Joseph N. Garvin Papers (I),” Bulletin de philosophie médiévale 47 (2005): 11-68; Kent Emery, Jr, Andrew I. Irving, Stephen M. Metzger & Cheryl M. Jones, “Quaestiones, Sententiae and Summae from the Later Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries: The Joseph N. Garvin Papers (II),” Bulletin de philosophie médiévale 48 (2006): 15-81; “The Scrutinies and the Arousal of Desire,” Notre Dame Center for Liturgy Bulletin March (2006); “The Future of Medieval Church History?: Review of Constance Hoffman Berman’s Medieval Religion: New Approaches and Dawn Marie Hayes’ Body and Sacred Place in Medieval Europe: 1100-1389,” www.h-net.org/~catholic (September 2007)
• Translations: six chapters from French originals for The New Cambridge History of Christianity, Vol. 3: 600-1100
• Recent Awards: Newberry Library/École des Chartes Exchange Fellowship (2006); The Albert Ravarino Italian Studies Travel Scholarship (2006); Nanovic Institute Graduate Travel/Research Grant (2006); Vatican Film Library Mellon Fellowship (2006); Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts Dissertation Research Grant (2007); Zahm Graduate Research Grant (2007); Kaneb Center Pre-Doctoral Fellowship (2008-09)

Jonathan Juilfs (B.A., University of Puget Sound; M.A.R., Yale Divinity School; M.M.S., University of Notre Dame)

• Interests: medieval religious literature
• Dissertation: “Redefining Continental Influences on Late Medieval English Literature: The Impact of Women’s Religious Literature on Julian of Norwich and the Text of A Revelation of Love”
• Advisor: Kathryn Kerby-Fulton
• Conference Papers: “Exile and Mystical Authority: The Alexander Exemplum in Marguerite Porete’s The Mirror of Simple Souls,” International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds (2002); “John of All Trades: The Multiple Roles of the Evangelist in the Douce Apocalypse (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 180),” Vagantes Conference, University of Notre Dame (2005); “Subversive Sub-texts: Implications of Julian of Norwich’s Models of Female Piety in A Revelation of Love,” Vagantes Conference, University of California, Berkeley (2006); “Love’s ‘Transcending’ of the Scriptures: Marguerite Porete’s Debt to I Corinthians 13 in The Mirror of Simple Souls,” Medieval Academy of America Annual Meeting (2008); “Hands-On or Hands-Off? What the Westminster Excerpts of Julian of Norwich’s Revelation of Love Tell Us about a Medieval Reader of Julian’s Texts,” 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (2008)
• Recent Award: 2003 Riley Prize for Best Graduate Student Essay in Art History
• Employment: Visiting Professor of English at College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA (2008-09)

Erik Koenke (S.T.B., Pontifical Univ. of St. Thomas Aquinas; S.T.L., Augustinianum Patristic Institute; M.M.S., University of Notre Dame)

• Interests: biblical exegesis

Hailey LaVoy (B.A., Tulane; M.A., Toronto; M.M.S., University of Notre Dame)

• Interests: East-Frankish realm, Old High German literature, and Carolingian notions of empire

Brian Long (B.A., Kenyon College)

• Interests: High and late medieval intellectual history; Byzantine and Near Eastern history

Courtney Luckhardt (B.A.,University of California, Los Angeles; M.M.S., University of Notre Dame)

• Interests: Hagiography, early medieval history, Brittany and the Carolingian marches
• Dissertation: “The Sea and the Saints: Travel and Hagiography in the Northwestern Atlantic in the Ninth Century”
• Advisor: Thomas F. X. Noble
• Recent Awards: Beinecke Graduate Fellowship; Kaneb Center Outstanding Teacher Award; Zahm Travel Grant

Hannah Matis (B.A., Lee University; M.A., University of Durham; M.M.S., University of Notre Dame)

• Interests: Early medieval biblical exegesis, the early Irish church, all things Hiberno-Latin
• Recent Award: Presidential Fellowship

Stephen Metzger (B.A., Xavier University; M.M.S., University of Notre Dame)

• Interests: Thirteenth-century Scholastic theology and philosophy; relationship of faith and reason
• Publication: Kent Emery Jr, Andrew I. Irving, Stephen M. Metzger & Cheryl M. Jones, “Quaestiones, Sententiae and Summae from the Later Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries: The Joseph N. Garvin Papers (II),” Bulletin de philosophie médiévale 48 (2006): 15-81

Theresa O’Byrne (B.A., Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder; B.A., History, University of Colorado, Boulder; M.A., Classics, University of Colorado, Boulder; M.M.S., University of Notre Dame)

• Interests: English vernacular literature, Celtic literature, codicology
• Conference Paper: “Ensuring Fair Trade: the Piepowder Court of St. Ives (1270-1325),” Vagantes Conference, Loyola University of Chicago (2007)

Daniel Perett (B.A., Middlebury College; M.M.S., University of Notre Dame)

• Interests: Late classical and early medieval Latin and Greek literature
• Dissertation: “Calculated Insults: The Rhetorical Role of Invective in Late Antique Controversy”
• Advisor: Sabine MacCormack
• Conference Paper: “Marketing Devotion: Alanus de Rupe and the Rosary Confraternity,” Vagantes Conference, University of California, Berkeley (2006)
• Recent Awards: University Presidential Fellowship; Kaneb Award for Excellence in Teaching

Ben Reinhard (B.A., Purdue University; M.M.S., University of Notre Dame)

• Interests: Anglo-Saxon language and literature
• Conference Paper: “God and Governance in the Old English Boethius,” Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) conference (2008)

Nathan Ristuccia (A.B., Princeton University; M.M.S., University of Notre Dame)

• Interests: early medieval intellectual and religious history
• Conference Paper: “Justinian’s Monogram? An Examination of Grierson’s Attribution,” 42nd Annual International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (2007)

Joshua Robinson (B.A., University of South Carolina; M.T.S., Harvard Divinity School; M.M.S., University of Notre Dame)

• Interests: Neoplatonic influences on patristic and medieval theology and philosophy

Andrew Rosato (B.A., Fordham University; M.T.S., University of Notre Dame; M.M.S., University of Notre Dame)

• Interests: Medieval theology and philosophy
• Dissertation: “The Redemptive Work of Christ in the Thought of John Duns Scotus”
• Advisors: Joseph Wawrykow, Stephen Dumont

Martin Sastri (B.Hum., Carleton University; B.A., M.A., Dalhousie University; M.M.S., University of Notre Dame)

• Interests: Pagan schools of Neoplatonism and their Christian disciples; St. Augustine; John Scotus Eriugena
• Conference Papers: “To Include and To Be Included: Ammianus' Use of Juvenal in the Res Gestae” Graduate Conference on Ancient Invective, Brown University (2005); “Paradise Remembered and Regained: Memory and Its Relation to the Earthly Paradise in St. Augustine’s Confessions,” 10th Annual Graduate Student Colloquium, University of Virginia (2006); “The Neoplatonic Origins of Michel Henry’s Phenomenological Christianity” International Society for Neoplatonic Studies, Université Laval (2006)
• Publication: “The Influence of Plotinian Metaphysics in St. Augustine’s Conception of the Spiritual Senses,” Dionysius XXIV (2006): 99-124.

Julia Schneider (B.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; M.A., Saint Louis University; M.M.S., University of Notre Dame)

• Interests: liturgy and liturgical commentaries, sacramental theology, the works of St. Albert the Great and St. Thomas Aquinas, Scholasticism, intellectual history
• Dissertation: “Liturgy and Theology in De mysterio missae, a Thirteenth-Century Commentary on the Liturgy attributed to Albertus Magnus”
• Advisors: Thomas Prügl, Calvin Bower
• Conference Paper: “The Dominican Salve Procession: Its Antecedents, Influences, and Exorcistic Value,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (2003); “In Search of a Typology: A New Look at Medieval Liturgical Commentaries as Sources,” North American Academy of Liturgy (2008)
• Recent Award: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Graduate Scholarship for Dissertation Research, conducted in residence at the Albertus-Magnus-Institut, Bonn, Germany (AY 2005-06)

Eric Shuler (B.A., Cornell University; M.M.S., University of Notre Dame)

• Interests: early medieval religious and social history; almsgiving
• Dissertation: “Almsgiving and the Formation of Christian Societies, 700-1025 AD”
• Advisor: Thomas F. X. Noble
• Conference Paper: “Abstineatis vos a sanguine: Exegesis, Society, and Christian Dietary Law,” 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (2005); “Alms Beyond Duty: Caesarius of Arles and the Creation of the Ecclesiastical Tithe,” 16th New College Conference on Medieval & Renaissance Studies (2008); “Poor People Smell: The Possibilities and Improbabilities of Christ’s Body among the Poor in Early Medieval Almsgiving,” Vagantes Conference, Ohio
  State University (2008); “Following and Serving the Poor Christ: Monastic Ideas of Sanctity, Charity, and the Poor in the Carolingian Era,” 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (2008)
• Recent Awards: Presidential Fellowship, Dolores Liebmann Fellowship

Garrett Smith (B.A., Indiana University; M.M.S., University of Notre Dame)

• Interests: Medieval philosophy, especially the thought of St. Bonaventure and Duns Scotus
• Conference Paper: “Science and Theology in the Prologue to the Parisian Reports of John Duns Scotus,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (2008)
• Publication: “The Opera Philosophica of John Duns Scotus,” Bulletin de philosophie médiévale 49 (2007): 316-19

David Squires (B.S., Berry College; M.A., Boston College; M.A., University of Notre Dame)

• Interests: natural theology and metaphysics/Neoplatonism

Anik Stanbury (B.A., University of Winnipeg; M.M.S., University of Notre Dame)

• Interests: early medieval Neoplatonic philosophy
• Recent Award: Presidential Fellowship

Lauren Whitnah (B.A. Gordon College; M.St., Oxford; M.M.S., University of Notre Dame)

• Interests: English saints lives and early medieval history

Phillip Wynn (B.A., University of Tennessee; M.A., University of Virginia; M.M.S., University of Notre Dame)

• Interests: early medieval history
• Dissertation: “Justification and Repentance: War and Military Service in Early Western Christian Thought, 200-850”
• Advisor: Thomas F.X. Noble
• Conference Papers: “Frigeridus and the Barbarian Invasion of Gaul,” 27th Annual International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (1992); “Wars, Warriors, and noxiae gentes in Gregory of Tours” Histories I-IV, 32nd Annual International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (1997); “The Canonical Compilation of Augustinian dicta on the Just War,” Vagantes Conference, University of Notre Dame (2005); “Gregory of Tours’ Use of Vouillé in the Shadow of Mount Gilboa,” Symposium on the 1500th Anniversary of the Battle of Vouillé, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2007)
• Publications: “The Conversion Story of Nicholas Trevet’s ‘Tale of Constance,’” Viator 13 (1982): 259-74; “Rufinus of Aquileias Ecclesiastical History and Victor of Vita’s History of the Vandal Persecution,” Classica et Medievalia (1990): 187-98; “Frigeridus, the British Tyrants, and the Early Fifth-century Barbarian Invasions of Gaul and Spain,” Athenaeum 85 (1997): 69-120; “Wars and Warriors in Gregory of Tours’ Histories I-IV,” Francia 28:1 (2001): 1-35

John Young (B.A., Brigham Young University; Diploma in Jewish Studies, University of Oxford; M.M.S., University of Notre Dame)

• Interests: medieval cultural and religious history
• Dissertation: “Business Partners, Privileged Neighbors, and Sworn Enemies: Jews and the Monasteries of Germany, 1100-1300“
• Advisor: John Van Engen
• Conference Papers: “Artist, Jews, and Heretics: The West Lintel of St. Lazare, Autun,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (2003); “Demonology in High Medieval Biblical Commentary,” Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Conference, University of Wyoming, (2005); “A Reforming Bishop: Stephen of Bégé and Episcopal Stewardship in the Early Twelfth Century,” Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Conference, Brigham Young University-Idaho (2006): “Enemies of the Cloister: Ideas about Jews in the Monasteries of Medieval Germany,” Midwest Medieval History Conference, St. Louis University (2007).
• Recent Awards: Hugh W. Nibley Fellowship, University Presidential Fellowship