Frans van Liere is Professor of History. He holds an M.Div. in theology, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in medieval studies from Groningen University, in the Netherlands. After coming to the United States in 1994, he worked as research assistant for Giles Constable at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton , N.J., and taught religion and history at the College of Charleston, S.C. He teaches a two-semester survey of medieval history, from AD 300 to 1450, and upper-level classes on the history of the papacy, the twelfth century renaissance, and the Bible in the Middle Ages. He published a critical edition of Andrew of Saint Victor's Bible commentary on Samuel and Kings for the series Corpus Christianorum (a translation of which will appear in the TEAMS Commentary series), and he wrote several articles on twelfth-century intellectual history and fourteenth-century papal history. His critical edition of Andrew's commentary on the Twelve Prophets, together with Mark Zier, appeared in 2007.

Henry Luttikhuizen, Art Department
616-526-6327 | lutt@calvin.edu

Prof. Luttikhuizen is Professor of Art History (Ph.D., University of Virginia ), and he teaches courses in Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Medieval Art, and Northern Renaissance Art. He is the co-author of two major textbooks, Medieval Art, 2nd. ed. (Prentice-Hall, forthcoming in 2005) and Northern Renaissance Art, 2nd. ed. (Prentice-Hall, 2004). He has also co-edited books, contributed essays to scholarly books, and curated numerous exhibitions. Luttikhuizen is currently writing a book on art and religion in late medieval Holland.

Mark Williams, Classics Department
616-526-6293 | wilm@calvin.edu

Prof. Williams is Professor of Classics. He received his B.A. (hons) and M.A. in classics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and his Ph.D. in classical philology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His major research interests are medieval Latin; writing on friendship in antiquity and the middle ages; stylistics. Major publications include Studies in the Manuscript Tradition of Aristotle's Analytica (1984), Aelred of Rievaulx's Spiritual Friendship (1994). Forthcoming: The Making of Christian Communities (now scheduled for January, 2005), and a new edition of Goscelin of St.-Bertin's Liber Confortatorius (probably sometime in 2006).

Karen Saupe, English Department
616-526-6467 | ksaupe@calvin.edu

Prof. Saupe is Professor of English. She earned a B.A. from Wittenberg University and a Ph.D. in Medieval English literature from the University of Rochester. Her research interests include Chaucer, Middle English lyric poetry, drama, and romance, as well as English literature of the Renaissance). She is the author of Middle English Marian Lyrics, an introduction to and anthology of poetry about the Virgin Mary. She serves on the editorial board of TEAMS, The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages.

Tim Steele , Music Department
616-526-8523 | ths3@calvin.edu

Tim Steele is associate professor of music at Calvin, teaching courses in music history and theory.  Dr. Steele holds the Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of Chicago and his research has focused on Latin motets, medieval liturgy and the analysis of early music.  His article, “Tonal Coherence and the Cycle of Thirds in Josquin’s Memor esto verbi tui,” appeared in Tonal Structures in Early Music, published by Garland, and he is compiling a comprehensive catalog of musical settings of the psalms in manuscripts and prints of the sixteenth century.  Dr. Steele taught at Palm Beach Atlantic University and Covenant College before coming to Calvin and has served as a department chair and divisional dean.  He is a clarinetist, conductor and also performs on recorder, viola da gamba, and other early wind and string instruments.