Dr. Carmela Franklin

Biography

Carmela Vircillo Franklin is a Professor in the Department of Classics at Columbia University, where she has been a faculty member since 1993. She received her B.A. and Ph.D. in Classics, specializing in Medieval Latin, from Harvard University. Franklin served as the 20th Director of the American Academy in Rome from July 1, 2005, to September 2010. Her research focuses on medieval Latin texts and manuscripts, with a notable engagement in studying Europe’s major manuscript repositories, including the Vatican Library and Bibliothèque nationale de France. Franklin's interdisciplinary approach to early medieval culture transcends traditional linguistic and geographical boundaries. She has authored significant works including 'Latin Dossier Anastasius Persian: Hagiographic Translations Transformations' (2004) and 'Material Restoration: 11th Century Fragment Echternach 19th Century Parisian Codex' (2009). She is currently involved in a book project tentatively titled 'The Liber pontificalis Pandulphus Romanus: Schismatic Document Renaissance Exemplar', which explores a papal chronicle created during the schism of 1130.

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