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Charles Buchanan is a cultural historian specializing in medieval manuscript illumination. A former Fulbright scholar, Professor Buchanan received his PhD in Art and Architectural History from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1997. His interdisciplinary interests include iconology, art and power, word and image, and art and performance. Professor Buchanan is widely published in medieval studies and has just completed a book entitled Visual Polemics in Central Italian Manuscripts of the Eleventh-Century Church Reform.

Professor Buchanan teaches a variety of courses in western art and architectural history, including Late Antique/Early Christian Visual Culture; Medieval Book Culture, Medieval Architecture, Italian Renaissance Art and Architecture; Roman Baroque Art and Architecture, and Nineteenth-Century French Modernist Painting. During his time at ÃÛèÖÊÓƵ, Professor Buchanan has built an outstanding collection of medieval manuscript facsimiles, which are housed in Archives and Special Collections in Alden Library.