Monthly Archives: March 2017

We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Agnieszka Rec has been appointed as the first two-year postdoctoral editorial fellow at Speculum, chosen from a pool of nearly 80 impressive applicants. Dr. Rec, a historian of the later Middle Ages with … Continue reading →

Grab your passport and meet us in Toronto! Registration for the 93rd Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America is now open. Register by 13 March to avoid the late-registration fee. Click here for information and to register: https://medievalacademy.site-ym.com/?page=2017Meeting.

The 93rd Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America will be held at Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia), 1 – 3 March 2018. The Program Committee invites proposals for papers on all topics and in all disciplines and periods of … Continue reading →

As always, the Medieval Academy of America will have a strong presence at the 2017 International Congress on Medieval Studies  (May 11-14). 1) The Friday morning plenary, sponsored by the Academy, will be delivered by Leor Halevi (Vanderbilt Univ.). His … Continue reading →

MAA/CARA Summer Scholarships The MAA/CARA Summer Scholarships support graduate students and especially promising undergraduate students participating in summer courses in medieval languages or manuscript studies. Applicants must be members of the Medieval Academy in good standing with at least one … Continue reading →

The Graduate Student Committee offers its 2017 Mentorship Program at the three major medieval conferences. Graduate students are paired with more established scholars at the MAA Annual Meeting, ICMS Kalamazoo, and IMC Leeds. The 2017 Mentorship Program is currently seeking … Continue reading →

The Medieval Academy of America is very pleased to announce that the 2017 MAA/GSC Grant in Innovation in Community Building and Professionalization has been awarded to The 17th Annual Vagantes Medieval Graduate Student Conference, to be held at the University … Continue reading →

Jeffrey J. Cohen (George Washington Univ.) has been awarded the 2017 Réné Wellek Prize for the best book in comparative literature from the American Comparative Literature Association for his monograph, Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman (Univ. of Minnesota Press, … Continue reading →