Texas Tech University

Affiliated Faculty

Dr. Jacob Baum
Associate Professor, History. Faculty Profile Page.
email: jacob.m.baum@ttu.edu
Research & Teaching: Germany, 1400-1800; Cultural history; History of Daily Life; Sensory Studies; Disability Studies

Dr. Jacob Bell
Assistant Professor, History. Faculty Profile Page.
email: jacob.bell@ttu.edu
Research & Teaching: Medieval Globe, Documentary & Material Culture, Global Slavery, Women, Gender, and Sexuality.                  

Dr. John Beusterien
Professor, Spanish. Faculty Profile Page.
email: john.beusterien@ttu.edu
Research & Teaching: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Spanish Culture and Literature; Early Spanish Southwest United States; Animal Studies; Cultural and Literary Theory

Dr. Caroline Bishop
Associate Professor, Classics. Faculty Profile Page.
email: caroline.bishop@ttu.edu
Research & Teaching: Greek and Roman Intellectual History; Cicero; late Roman Republic; Latin Prose.

Dr. Klinton Burgio-Ericson
Assistant Professor, Art History. Faculty Profile Page.
email: klinton.burgio-ericson@ttu.edu. 
Research & Teaching: Early modern Spanish borderlands, 17th Century New Mexico, colonial encounters, cultural exchange, material culture.

Dr. Sarah Cantor
Lecturer, Italian. Facuilty Profile Page.
email: scantor@ttu.edu
Research & Teaching: Italian Renaissance literature & culture, women, gender.

Dr. Julie Nelson Couch
Associate Professor, English. Faculty Profile Page.
email: julie.couch@ttu.edu
Research & Teaching: Middle English literature and the modern reception of medieval literature

Dr. Stefano D'Amico
Professor, History. Faculty Profile Page.
email: stefano.damico@ttu.edu
Research & Teaching: Renaissance and Reformation; Early Modern Italy; Urban History

Dr. Francesca Di Poppa. Faculty Profile Page.
Associate Professor, Philosophy; Women's Studies Program
email: francesca.di-poppa@ttu.edu
Research & Teaching: Scholastic and Renaissance Influences on Early Modern Thought

Dr. Carole Edwards
Associate Professor, French. Faculty Profile Page.
email: carole.edwards@ttu.edu
Research & Teaching: North African, Sub-Saharan and Caribbean Francophone literature

Dr. Janis Elliott
Associate Professor, Art History, Emerita. Faculty Profile Page.
email: janis.elliott@ttu.edu
Research & Teaching: Art and its patronage in 14th-century Italy, particularly the patronage of churches and family chapels by the Angevin monarchs and the aristocracy in the kingdom of Naples.

Dr. Theresa Flanigan
Assistant Professor, Pre-Modern Art History. Faculty Profile Page.
email: theresa.flanigan@ttu.edu
Research & Teaching: Italian late medieval and Renaissance art & architecture; Bodies, Senses, and Emotions; Urbanism; Women's History; Cultural Constructions of Identity; Christian art & ethics; Images & Viewer Response.

Dr. Linda Gosner
Assistant Professor, Classical Archaeology. Faculty Profile Page.
email: lgosner@ttu.edu
Research & Teaching: Mediterranean archaeology; Iron Age; Roman Imperialism; Iberia and Western Mediterranean; Technology; Labor; Daily Life.

Dr. Sara Guengerich
Associate Professor, Spanish. Faculty Profile Page. 
email: sara.guengerich@ttu.edu
Research & Teaching: Colonial Spanish American Literature, Colonial Latin American History, Indigenous Peoples of the Andes (16th-18th centuries), Gender, Afro-Hispanic Colonial Narratives, Ecocriticism, Colonial Spanish Northern Frontier, Material Culture in the Early Modern Hispanic World.

Dr. Ryan Hackenbracht
Associate Professor, English. Faculty Profile Page.
email: ryan.hackenbracht@ttu.edu
Research & Teaching: Seventeenth-century English Literature; Apocalyptic Anxieties

Dr. John Howe
Professor, History, Emeritus. Faculty Profile Page.
email: john.howe@ttu.edu
Research & Teaching: Central medieval Latin ecclesiastical and social history; hagiography; medieval Italy

Dr. Matthew Hunter
Assistant Professor, English. Faculty Profile Page.
email: matthew.hunter@ttu.edu
Research & Teaching: Early modern British literature and drama, especially Shakespeare

Dr. Stacey Jocoy
Associate Professor, Music. Faculty Profile Page.
email: stacey.jocoy@ttu.edu
Research & Teaching: Early modern musics; Politics, staged music, and vernacular song, 16th -18th centuries; Shakespearean, Jacobean, and Restoration soundscapes; animation soundtracks, Japanese anime

Dr. David Larmour
Horn Professor, Classics. Faculty Profile Page.
email: david.larmour@ttu.edu
Research & Teaching: Classical Literature and the Classical Tradition

Dr. Angela Mariani
Professor, Musicology. Faculty Profile Page.
email: angelamariani.smith@ttu.edu
Research & Teaching: Medieval music; Historical performance; Popular and vernacular musics; Contemplative education

Dr. Peter Martens
Associate Professor, Music Theory; TCVPA Associate Dean for Faculty, Research, and Creative Activity. Faculty Profile Page.
email: peter.martens@ttu.edu
Research & Teaching: Music theory; Music cognition; Communication/perception of musical rhythm and meter; Pre- and early modern music theory

Dr. Brian McFadden
Associate Professor, English. Faculty Profile Page.
email: brian.mcfadden@ttu.edu
Research & Teaching: Old English and Anglo-Latin miracle and marvel texts; Monsters; Medievalism

Dr. Christopher J. Smith
Professor, Music; Chair of Musicology. Faculty Profile Page.
email: christopher.smith@ttu.edu
Research & Teaching: Music; Performance practice; Historical contexts; Improvisation; Oral/aural vernaculars; Dance

Dr. Brian Steele
Associate Professor, Art History, emeritus.
email: brian.steele@ttu.edu
Research & Teaching: Renaissance Art; Italy.

Dr. Victoria Surliuga
Associate Professor, Italian. Faculty Profile Page.
victoria.surliuga@ttu.edu
Italian Studies; Modern and Contemporary Italian Poetry; Creative Writing; Comparative Literature; Italian Cinema; Modern and Contemporary Italian Art

Dr. Abigail Swingen
Associate Professor, History. Faculty Profile Page.
abigail.swingen@ttu.edu
Early modern Britain

Dr. Christopher Witmore
Professor, Archaeology and Classics. Faculty Profile Page.
christopher.witmore@ttu.edu
Archaeological Theory; Chorography; Land and Regions in Archaeology; Thing Theory and Material Culture Studies; Duration; Contemporary Archaeology; Archaeological Practice; the History of Archaeology; Science and Technology Studies; Digital Humanities

Dr. Lucas Wood
Assistant Professor, French. Faculty Profile Page. 
lucas.wood@ttu.edu
Medieval French literature; Arthurian romance (12th-13th c.); Theories, practices, and critiques of love and courtliness.