Robert Stauffer, Ph.D.

Director of Humanities and Social Sciences & Associate Professor of English

B.A. – New York University (English)
M.A. – Brooklyn College (English Education)
Ph.D. – Arizona State University (Medieval Literature)

Robert Stauffer began working at Dominican University in 2012. His research and teaching interests are in medieval and Renaissance literature, postcolonial studies, science fiction and fantasy literature, and early 20th century writers. He is currently working on editing and writing for a volume for Brill Publishing entitled A Marguerite Porete Companion focusing on Marguerite Porete, a thirteenth-fourteenth century beguine, and her book The Mirror of Simple Souls. His publications include fantasy short stories and baseball biography. He has given several papers at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan.