News Archive
- Dr. Stanton Receives Bonnie Wheeler Fellowship
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Dr. Anne Rudolf Stanton (Art History and Archaeology) has received the Bonnie Wheeler Fellowship for work in summer 2016 on her book Turning the Pages: the Power of Narrative in English Gothic Prayerbooks. The prayerbooks in the cluster that she is investigating lie within the cultural orbit and patronage of Isabella of France, who was the daughter of Philip IV of France, the queen and widow of Edward II of England, and the mother of Edward III. Sources documenting her life include an inventory of the moveable properties she held at her death in 1358, which survives at the National Archives in London. During the fellowship period Professor Stanton will complete her examination of the inventory document and present a paper on her findings at the Harlaxton Symposium on “The Great Household” in medieval England. The Bonnie Wheeler Fellowship is intended to provide financial assistance to women medievalists throughout the nation who are close to completing a significant work of research that will fulfill a professional promotion requirement
- Graduate Student of History Earns Helen Maud Cam Dissertation Grant
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Alexis Miller (History), was awarded the Helen Maud Cam Dissertation Grant by the Medieval Academy of America. Her dissertation is titled: “Fording the Severn: The Influence of Intermarriage and Kin Networks on the Development of Identity in Shropshire and Montgomery, From the Norman Conquest to the Edwardian Conquest”
- Graduate Student of History Receives Schalleck Award
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Danielle Nicole Griego (History) was awarded a Schalleck Award to fund research for her dissertation, “Child Death, Grief and the Community in High and Late Medieval England” Schalleck awards are offered by the Medieval Academy, in collaboration with the Richard III Society-American Branch, in memory of William B. and Maryloo Spooner Schallek, funded by a generous gift to the Richard III Society from the Schallek family. The Schallek Awards support graduate students conducting doctoral research in any relevant discipline dealing with late-medieval Britain (ca. 1350-1500).
- 2016 MAMA XL Conference
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MAMA XL "Other Worlds" Conference Announcement and CFP for the Fortieth Annual Meeting of the MID-AMERICA MEDIEVAL ASSOCIATION
EMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY
SATURDAY, 17 September 2016Plenary speaker: Richard Firth Green, Humanities Distinguished Professor, The Ohio State University
Papers are invited on any medieval topic, including, of course, those aligned with the conference theme. While Professor Green’s plenary address will be drawn from his recent work on the world of faerie and his forthcoming book, The Bonny Road: Traffic with the Otherworld in the Middle Ages, “Other Worlds” can be construed to encompass many other worlds indeed, spiritual, supernatural, imaginary or fanciful, social, physical, metaphysical, psychological, gendered, ethnic, geographical—with Paradise, Purgatory, Hell, the past, the future, the cloister, the college, the East, Islam, Judaism, social classes other than one’s own, lands other than one’s own, Camelot, Avalon, and faerie, itself, representing only a few of the possibilities.
Please send 250-word abstracts of papers on any medieval topic no later than 6 May 2016 to:
Mel Storm
Department of English, Modern Languages, and Journalism
Emporia State University
1 Kellogg Circle
Emporia, KS 66801
mstorm@emporia.edu
- Romance Studies Lecture
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In April 2016, Roberta Krueger, Burgess Professor of French at Hamilton College, will present a talk on Jean de Saintré and gender. This lecture is organized by the Department of Romance Languages and Literature.
- Royal Studies Journal Official Blog
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Check out this blog post featuring History Professor Lois Huneycutt, History PhD Candidate Alexis Miller, and several former MARS students.
- Nathan Hofer published a new book
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Nathan Hofer (Religious Studies) recently published a new book: Popularisation of Sufism in Ayyubid and Mamluk Egypt, 1173-1325. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2015.