Brian FitzGerald

Brian FitzGerald is a Lecturer on Medieval Studies and the Study of Religion at Harvard University, affiliated with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He holds a D.Phil. in History from Oxford University and joined Harvard's Committees on Medieval Studies and the Study of Religion in 2023. His work focuses on the intellectual and religious culture of Europe from the 12th to 14th centuries, with particular attention to medieval historical consciousness, Renaissance humanism, and interactions between Eastern and Western Christianity.

Before joining Harvard, he taught in the Humanities Program and served as Academic Dean at Magdalen College (New Hampshire), and contributed to Harvard's History and Literature Program (2016–2017). His research explores how medieval intellectuals navigated competing claims of divine inspiration, as detailed in his seminal 2017 book Inspiration and Authority in the Middle Ages, which traces the evolution of prophetic thought from scholasticism to Renaissance secular literature.

His current interests include medieval literary theory and the legacy of scholastic debates on religious authority. No notable grants or awards are explicitly mentioned in the provided materials.