Daily Archives: June 16, 2016

Dear MAA Members: At our February 2016 Annual Meeting in Boston, the Council of the MAA, in anticipation of the upcoming centenary of the founding of the Academy in 1925, voted to constitute a long-range planning committee to review our … Continue reading →

Sara V. Torres (2014 Ph.D. UCLA) has been awarded the 2016-17 editorial postdoctoral fellowship at Speculum. Sara was selected from a pool of more than forty applicants. She will join the Speculum team in July and work as a full-time … Continue reading →

As always, the Medieval Academy of America had a strong presence at Kalamazoo. The Medieval Academy plenary lecture delivered by Jane Chance (Rice Univ.) was well-attended and -received, generating much discussion and comment about Tolkien and his take on female … Continue reading →

If you’re going to be at Leeds this year, please join us Tuesday evening (5 July) at 7 PM for the MAA Annual Lecture, to be presented by Elaine Treharne (Stanford Univ.), “Manuscript Edges, Marginal Time: Why Medieval Matters.” Afterwards, … Continue reading →

The July issue of Speculum is now available online and will soon be at your door. In  addition to book reviews, Memoirs, and the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, the issue includes the following articles: Speculum 91:3 (JULY 2016) Barbara … Continue reading →

We are very pleased to announce the winners of the 2016 MAA/CARA Summer Scholarships, supporting student participation in summer courses in medieval languages or manuscript studies: Lorenzo Bondioli (Oxford Univ. and Princeton Univ.): Classical Arabic (Qasid Arabic Language Institute, Amman, … Continue reading →

Last month’s call for good news resulted in the following announcements: Sarah Bromberg (Suffolk Univ.) has received the Newberry Library-John Rylands Research Institute Exchange fellowship for her book project, Art and Exegesis: Nicholas of Lyra’s Postilla. Lilla Kopar (The Catholic Univ. … Continue reading →

Check out the latest CARA newsletter to see what’s happening in Medieval Studies on North American campuses: http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.medievalacademy.org/resource/resmgr/pdfs/June_2016_CARA_news.pdf