Ph.D., Cornell, 1986
Medieval and early modern Europe
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carringt@stolaf.edu
Laurel Carrington was brought up in New England. She did her undergraduate work at Wellesley College, where she majored in Intellectual History, and completed her graduate work at Cornell. A member of the St. Olaf faculty since 1988, she offers courses in medieval, Renaissance, and Reformation history, as well as an EIN course called War and Peace, which she team-teaches with Charles Taliaferro. She has participated in the Great Conversation three times, and has taught in the Paracollege and the Center for Integrative Studies.
Her main research interest is the sixteenth-century humanist and Biblical scholar Erasmus. She has published articles in the Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook and the Archiv fur Reformationsgeschichte, and has worked on critical editions of several of Erasmus' works for the Collected Works of Erasmus series. Her current research is on the debate between Erasmus and the Strasbourg reformer Martin Bucer; at the moment she is working on a translation of Bucer's Epistola Apologetica.
She lives in Northfield with her husband Stephen May, organist and choirmaster at the Cathedral of Our Merciful Saviour in Fairbault; their son Paul; and an assortment of lovely parakeets and cockatiels. In addition to the company of these persons, she enjoys singing in the choir at the Cathedral, riding on her bicycle, digging in her garden, and reading.
OFFICE HOURS
Spring 2008
Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays
12:55-1:50,
and by appointment
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