Carmela Vircillo Franklin
Professor of Classics
(212) 854-5687
cvf2@columbia.edu
612 Hamilton Hall
Spring 2025 Office hours: TBA
Research Interests
Medieval Latin literature
Transmission of texts and manuscript studies
Greek and Latin hagiography
Study of the Bible in the early Middle Ages
Early medieval Rome
Bede
Carmela Vircillo Franklin received her B.A. and Ph.D. in Classics (Medieval Latin) from Harvard University. She joined the Columbia faculty in 1993. From July 1, 2005 until September 2010, she served as the 20th Director of the American Academy in Rome.
Her research focuses on medieval Latin texts and their manuscripts, and much of it is conducted in Europe’s great manuscript repositories, especially the Vatican Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Among her recent publications are The Latin Dossier of Anastasius the Persian: Hagiographic Translations and Transformations (2004), which follows an interdisciplinary approach to early medieval culture, transcending traditional linguistic and geographical boundaries; and Material Restoration: An 11th Century Fragment from Echternach in a 19th Century Parisian Codex (2009), a study in “material philology.”
She is now engaged in a book project provisionally entitled “The Liber pontificalis of Pandulphus Romanus: From Schismatic Document to Renaissance Exemplar,” centered on the redaction of the papal chronicle created during the schism of 1130.
Selected Publications
Material Restoration: A Fragment from Eleventh-century Echternach in a Nineteenth-century Parisian Codex. Brepols Publishers, 2010.
The Latin Dossier of Anastasius the Persian. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2004.
The Ecclesiae Atinatis Historia of Marcantonio Palombo. Vatican City: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1996.
Early Monastic Rules: The Rules of the Fathers and the Regula Orientalis. Liturgical Press, 1982.
