Faculty
Humanistic Studies Faculty
Philip Hicks
Professor and Chair
Email: phicks@saintmarys.edu
Office: 148 E Spes Unica Hall
Phone: (574) 284-4487
Fax: (574) 284-4855
Address: 79 Spes Unica Hall, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame IN 46556
Education: BA in History, University of Notre Dame; MA in History, Cambridge University (Selwyn College); MA, PhD in History, The Johns Hopkins University.
Courses Offered: Lives and Times (HUST 103), High Society (HUST 212), Renaissance and Reformation (HUST 322), Absolutism, Enlightenment, and Revolution (HUST 461), The Modern World (HUST 462).
Research Interests: British intellectual history and historical writing, 1660-1800; history of feminist thought.
Publications: Neoclassical History and English Culture: From Clarendon to Hume (Macmillan, 1996); “The Roman Matron in Britain: Female Political Influence and Republican Response, ca. 1750-1800,” Journal of Modern History 77 (March 2005): 35-69; “Portia and Marcia: Female Political Identity and the Historical Imagination, 1770-1800,” William and Mary Quarterly 62 (April 2005): 265-94; “Catharine Macaulay’s Civil War: Gender, History, and Republicanism in Georgian Britain,” Journal of British Studies, 41 (April 2002): 170-98; “Bolingbroke, Clarendon, and the Role of Classical Historian,” Eighteenth-Century Studies, 20 (Summer 1987): 445-71.
John Shinners
Professor
Bruno P. Schlesinger Chair in Humanistic Studies
Email: shinners@saintmarys.edu
Office: 152 E Spes Unica Hall
Phone: (574) 284-4494
Fax: (574) 284-4855
Address: 97 Spes Unica Hall, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame IN 46556
Education: BA in History, Loyola University, New Orleans; MA, PhD in Medieval Studies, University of Toronto.
Courses Offered: Lives and Times (HUST 103); Myth, Legend, and History (HUST 197); Greek and Roman Culture (HUST 292); Medieval Culture (HUST 321); Colloquium II (HUST 324); Renaissance and Reformation (HUST 322); The Modern World (HUST 462); Colloquium IV (464).
Research Interests: Daily religious life in medieval England.
Publications: Medieval Popular Religion: 1000-1500 (Broadview, 2nd ed., 2000); (with William J. Dohar) Pastors and the Care of Souls in Medieval England (University of Notre Dame Press, 1998).
Laura Williamson Ambrose
Assistant Professor
Email: lambrose@saintmarys.edu
Office: 147 E Spes Unica Hall
Phone: (574) 284-4465
Fax: (574) 284-4855
Address: 9 Spes Unica Hall, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame IN 46556
Website: www.laurawilliamsonambrose.com
Education: BA in English, Rutgers University; PhD in English, University of Michigan.
Courses Offered: Lives and Times (HUST 103), Colloquium I: Medieval Literature (HUST 323); Colloquium II: Renaissance and Reformation Literature (HUST 324); Colloquium III: 17th- and 18th-Century Literature (HUST 463).
Research Interests: Representations of travel in late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature; history of cartography; digital humanities.
Publications: "Crossings and Communication in Shakespeare's England," The Cambridge World Shakespeare Encyclopedia, edited by Bruce Smith and Katherine Rowe (forthcoming).
Gail Porter Mandell
Emerita Professor
Emerita of Bruno P. Schlesinger Chair in Humanistic Studies
Email: gmandell@saintmarys.edu
Education: BA in English, Maryville College; MA in English, University of Michigan; PhD in English, University of Notre Dame.
Research Interests: Working on a collection of stories based on her experiences in Belize, Central America.
Publications: Phoenix Paradox: A Study of Renewal through Change in the Collected Poems and Last Poems of D. H. Lawrence (Southern Illinois University Press, 1984); Life into Art: Conversations with Seven Contemporary Biographers (University of Arkansas Press, 1991); Madeleva: One Woman's Life (Paulist Press, 1995); Madeleva: A Biography (SUNY Press, 1997).
Barbara Westra
Staff Assistant
Email: bwestra@saintmarys.edu
Office: 166 E Spes Unica Hall
Address: 102 Spes Unica Hall, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame IN 46556
Phone: (574) 284-4534
Fax: (574) 284-4855
