Judy Schaaf
Professor

Education
Ph.D. Yale University
M.Litt. Middlebury College
M.A. Columbia University
B.A. Rice University

Specializations
Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 19th century American literature, and Travel and Nature writing

Contact Info
Office Location: LARTS 305A
Phone: 508.999.8436
email: jschaaf@umassd.edu

Judy Schaaf is Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where she has served as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. She received her Ph.D. in Medieval Literature from Yale University, a M. Litt. in American Literature from Middlebury College, a M.A. in English literature from Columbia University, and B.A. degrees in English and in Anthropology from Rice University.

Prof. Schaaf has also taught at North Carolina State University, at Norwich University in Vermont, where she was Charles A. Dana University Professor and Head of the Division of Humanities, and at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, where she was Fulbright Senior Lecturer in American literature. In Vermont, she served on the governing board of the Vermont Council on the Humanities and chaired the Council’s Program Committee.