Faculty and Staff
Program Chair
Wan-Chuan Kao
Associate Professor of English and Chair of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program
Payne Hall 214
540-458-8345
kaow@wlu.edu
Core Faculty
Matthew Bailey
Professor of Spanish
On Sabbatical 2022/2023
Tucker Hall, Room 302
540-458-8160
baileym@wlu.edu
Rebecca R. Benefiel
Abigail Grigsby Urquhart Professor of Classics
on Sabbatical Winter/Spring '24
Tucker Hall 105
540-458-8082
benefielr@wlu.edu
Latin epigraphy, Latin literature, Pompeii and Herculaneum, Roman archaeology
George Bent
Sidney Gause Childress Professor in the Arts
Wilson Hall 3020
540-458-8863
bentg@wlu.edu
Michelle D. Brock
Associate Professor of History
Newcomb 219
540-458-8780
brockm@wlu.edu
The Age of the Witch-hunts, history of Medieval, early modern, and modern Britain, Scottish history, the British Reformations
Roger Crockett
Professor of German
Ruscio Center for Global Learning 239
540-458-8825
crockettr@wlu.edu
Genelle Gertz
Associate Dean of Strategic Initiatives and Thomas H. Broadus, Jr. Professor of English
Payne 108
540-458-8763
gertzg@wlu.edu
Jemma Alix Levy
Associate Professor of Theater
Lenfest 308
540-458-8005
levyj@wlu.edu
Stephen P. McCormick
Associate Professor of French and Italian
Tucker Hall, Room 324
540-458-8817
mccormicks@wlu.edu
Old French epic, Italian medieval and early modern literature, digital humanities, manuscript studies, TEI, IIIF.
Holly Pickett
Professor of English
Payne 124
540-458-8078
picketth@wlu.edu
Debra Prager
Associate Professor of German
Ruscio Center for Global Learning 241
540-458-8830
pragerd@wlu.edu
Elementary German I & II, Intermediate German, Highlights of German Civilization,The Grimms Revisited: Fairy Tales and Popular Culture; Living by the Code: Literature of the High Middle Ages19th-Century Literature
Domnica Radulescu
Edwin A. Morris Professor of Comparative Literature
Newcomb Hall, Room 313
540-458-8030
radulescud@wlu.edu
Melissa Vise
Associate Professor of History, Head of the Italian Studies Faculty Cohort
Newcomb Hall 314
540-458-8249
mvise@wlu.edu
Affiliated Faculty
Kameliya N. Atanasova
Assistant Professor of Religion
Tucker 207
540-458-8797
atanasovak@wlu.edu
Alexandra Brown
Fletcher Otey Thomas Professor in Bible
Interim Chair
Tucker 206
540-458-8789
browna@wlu.edu
Early Christian Writings and Culture from the New Testament to Late Antiquity, Bible and Film, Pilgrimage, Mysticism, Gender and Religion, Early Irish Religion, Theory and Method in the Study of Religion
Timothy Lubin
Jessie Ball duPont Professor of Religion and Adjunct Professor of Law
Tucker 204
540-458-8146
lubint@wlu.edu
History of religion and law of South and Southeast Asia, working on texts and inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, Old Javanese, and Old Tamil; National Endowment for the Humanities fellow and American Council of Learned Societies fellow, 2020-2021 (h)
Ellen Mayock
Ernest Williams II Professor of Spanish
Tucker Hall, Room 305
540-458-8816
mayocke@wlu.edu
The Novel in Spain and Latin America; Literary Naturalism: Women Writers of Spain, Latin America, and the U.S.; Feminist Theory; Immigrant Populations in the U.S.
Emeritus Faculty
Gwyn E. Campbell
Professor of Spanish
Years of Service: 1985 - 2021
campbellg@wlu.edu
Edwin Craun
Professor of English Emeritus
craune@wlu.edu
Staff
Alex Williams
Administrative Assistant II
Tucker Hall, Room 308
540-458-8821
awilliams@wlu.edu