Hamessley received her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota before coming to Hamilton in 1991. She teaches courses in Medieval and Renaissance music history, world music, American folk and traditional music, opera, and film music. She received the Class of 1962 Outstanding Teaching Award in 2007 and was twice awarded the Class of 1963 Faculty Fellowship to support the development of additional areas of teaching expertise. Her current area of research is in old-time and bluegrass music, with a particular focus on Southern Appalachian music and women. She was the coordinator for the conference Feminist Theory and Music: Toward a Common Language, in Minneapolis, held in 1991. Hamessley has published articles in Music & Letters; Queering The Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology; Menacing Virgins: Images of Virginity in the Middle Ages and Renaissance; Women & Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture; Ruth Crawford Seeger's Worlds: Innovation and Tradition in Twentieth-Century American Music; and 19th-Century Music. She is the co-editor, with Elaine Barkin, of Audible Traces: Gender, Identity, and Music. Hamessley is currently working on a project about Dolly Parton as well as a preparing an article on the music for Paul Green's symphonic drama The Lost Colony (1937). She is also a clawhammer banjo player.
John McEnroe teaches courses in classical art, Renaissance art, medieval art and critical theory. His most recent book is Architecture of Minoan Crete (University of Texas Press, 2010). McEnroe combines academic research in Athens with archaeological fieldwork in Crete. Before coming to Hamilton, McEnroe worked as a field archaeologist in Greece and taught art history at Indiana University and the University of Virginia.
The interdisciplinary nature and immense range of medieval and Renaissance studies — from antiquity to the late 17th century — makes the minor an attractive option for students across the humanities. It enables students to make connections among and across specialized fields and to develop historical perspectives on contemporary areas of interest such as women's studies, foreign languages, culture and sociology.
Courses in medieval and Renaissance studies at Hamilton are taught in small classes by faculty members who are distinguished scholars and know their students on an individual basis. That means one-on-one encouragement, personal direction and research opportunities suited to your needs and interests. In the best liberal arts tradition, courses stimulate analytical thinking, critical reading and the ability to write and speak with clarity, precision and authority.
Imagine a field of study in which you can read and discuss Chaucer, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Molière and great, unheralded women writers from several centuries and cultures. You explore them not in isolation, but in the context of their times and cultures. The Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program presents literary works as windows on a vibrant, fascinating past.
The interdisciplinary nature and immense range of medieval and Renaissance studies — from antiquity to the late 17th century — makes the minor an attractive option for students across the humanities. It enables students to make connections among and across specialized fields and to develop historical perspectives on contemporary areas of interest such as women's studies, foreign languages, culture and sociology.
Courses in medieval and Renaissance studies at Hamilton are taught in small classes by faculty members who are distinguished scholars and know their students on an individual basis. That means one-on-one encouragement, personal direction and research opportunities suited to your needs and interests. In the best liberal arts tradition, courses stimulate analytical thinking, critical reading and the ability to write and speak with clarity, precision and authority.
Imagine a field of study in which you can read and discuss Chaucer, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Molière and great, unheralded women writers from several centuries and cultures. You explore them not in isolation, but in the context of their times and cultures. The Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program presents literary works as windows on a vibrant, fascinating past.
The interdisciplinary nature and immense range of medieval and Renaissance studies — from antiquity to the late 17th century — makes the minor an attractive option for students across the humanities. It enables students to make connections among and across specialized fields and to develop historical perspectives on contemporary areas of interest such as women's studies, foreign languages, culture and sociology.
Courses in medieval and Renaissance studies at Hamilton are taught in small classes by faculty members who are distinguished scholars and know their students on an individual basis. That means one-on-one encouragement, personal direction and research opportunities suited to your needs and interests. In the best liberal arts tradition, courses stimulate analytical thinking, critical reading and the ability to write and speak with clarity, precision and authority.
Imagine a field of study in which you can read and discuss Chaucer, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Molière and great, unheralded women writers from several centuries and cultures. You explore them not in isolation, but in the context of their times and cultures. The Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program presents literary works as windows on a vibrant, fascinating past.
