Amy Neff’s book, A Soul’s Journey: Franciscan Art, Theology, and Devotion has been awarded the 2022 AFCEMS Book Prize for the best book on medieval art. AFCEMS is the Association of Friends of the Center for Early Medieval Studies, Brno.
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CATALOGER OF ETHIOPIC MANUSCRIPTS, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library
POSITION SUMMARY:
The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) invites applications for the full-time, benefit-eligible position of Cataloger of Ethiopic Manuscripts. This is a three-year, grant-funded position.
The Cataloger will participate in HMML’s effort to catalog recently digitized Ethiopic manuscripts and to support the creation of authority files by HMML’s metadata librarian. The Cataloger will do both original cataloging of digital surrogates as well as the correction of existing catalog records. This position is supervised by the Lead Cataloger of Eastern Christian Collections and reports to the Director of Cataloging.
Founded in 1965, HMML holds the world’s largest archive of manuscript photographs in both microfilm and digital format. HMML identifies manuscript collections around the world that need photographic preservation and online access. Its archives now contain more than 500,000 complete manuscripts, ranging in size from large codices of hundreds of folios to brief documents consisting of just a few leaves.
Visit hmml.org to learn more about the places, people and communities that have been part of HMML’s global story, and the manuscripts in HMML’s digital and microfilm collections.
Located on the campus of Saint John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota, HMML is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit corporation that contracts with the Order of Saint Benedict (OSB) for employees and employee services.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, & ABILITIES:
PHYSICAL ABILITIES:
Sitting for prolonged periods of time. Extensive use of computers and keyboard. Occasional lifting may be required.
ADDITIONAL REQUISITES:
In addition to the qualifications noted on the job description, all employees are expected to abide by the following expectations:
ADDITIONAL DEPARTMENTAL REQUISITES:
Help create and foster a positive, respectful, and inclusive work environment.
TO APPLY:
Applications are accepted online at https://www.schooljobs.com/careers/csbsju/osb. Candidates are asked to complete the application form and submit a cover letter and resume.
If you require an accommodation to participate in the OSB hiring process, please contact Human Resources at (320) 363-2874.
It is the policy of OSB to conduct a pre-employment background check. An offer of employment is contingent upon a successful background check.
HMML is a cultural heritage institution that welcomes applicants from all religious and cultural backgrounds.
Order of Saint Benedict is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
CATALOGER OF WESTERN MANUSCRIPTS, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library
POSITION SUMMARY:
The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) invites applications for the full-time, benefit-eligible position of Cataloger of Western Manuscripts. This is a three-year, grant-funded position.
The Cataloger will participate in HMML’s effort to catalog Western manuscripts and to support the creation of authority files by HMML’s metadata librarian. The Cataloger will focus primarily on the migration and correction of legacy data for microfilmed manuscript collections. This position is supervised by and reports to the Director of Cataloging.
Founded in 1965, HMML holds the world’s largest archive of manuscript photographs in both microfilm and digital format. HMML identifies manuscript collections around the world that need photographic preservation and online access. Its archives now contain more than 500,000 complete manuscripts, ranging in size from large codices of hundreds of folios to brief documents consisting of just a few leaves.
Visit hmml.org to learn more about the places, people and communities that have been part of HMML’s global story, and the manuscripts in HMML’s digital and microfilm collections.
Located on the campus of Saint John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota, HMML is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit corporation that contracts with the Order of Saint Benedict (OSB) for employees and employee services.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, & ABILITIES:
PHYSICAL ABILITIES:
Sitting for prolonged periods of time. Extensive use of computers and keyboard. Occasional lifting may be required.
ADDITIONAL REQUISITES:
In addition to the qualifications noted on the job description, all employees are expected to abide by the following expectations:
ADDITIONAL DEPARTMENTAL REQUISITES:
Help create and foster a positive, respectful, and inclusive work environment.
TO APPLY:
Applications are accepted online at https://www.schooljobs.com/careers/csbsju/osb. Candidates are asked to complete the application form and submit a cover letter and resume.
If you require an accommodation to participate in the OSB hiring process, please contact Human Resources at (320) 363-2874.
It is the policy of OSB to conduct a pre-employment background check. An offer of employment is contingent upon a successful background check.
HMML is a cultural heritage institution that welcomes applicants from all religious and cultural backgrounds.
Order of Saint Benedict is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
CATALOGER OF SLAVIC MANUSCRIPTS, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library
POSITION SUMMARY:
The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) invites applications for the full-time, benefit-eligible position of Cataloger of Slavic Manuscripts. This is a two-year, grant-funded position.
The Cataloger will participate in HMML’s effort to catalog recently digitized Slavic manuscripts and to support the creation of authority files by HMML’s metadata librarian. The Cataloger will do both original cataloging of digital surrogates as well as the correction of existing catalog records. This position is supervised by the Lead Cataloger of Eastern Christian Collections and reports to the Director of Cataloging.
Founded in 1965, HMML holds the world’s largest archive of manuscript photographs in both microfilm and digital format. HMML identifies manuscript collections around the world that need photographic preservation and online access. Its archives now contain more than 500,000 complete manuscripts, ranging in size from large codices of hundreds of folios to brief documents consisting of just a few leaves.
Visit hmml.org to learn more about the places, people and communities that have been part of HMML’s global story, and the manuscripts in HMML’s digital and microfilm collections.
Located on the campus of Saint John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota, HMML is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit corporation that contracts with the Order of Saint Benedict (OSB) for employees and employee services.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, & ABILITIES:
PHYSICAL ABILITIES:
Sitting for prolonged periods of time. Extensive use of computers and keyboard. Occasional lifting may be required.
ADDITIONAL REQUISITES:
In addition to the qualifications noted on the job description, all employees are expected to abide by the following expectations:
ADDITIONAL DEPARTMENTAL REQUISITES:
Help create and foster a positive, respectful, and inclusive work environment.
TO APPLY:
Applications are accepted online at https://www.schooljobs.com/careers/csbsju/osb. Candidates are asked to complete the application form and submit a cover letter and resume.
If you require an accommodation to participate in the OSB hiring process, please contact Human Resources at (320) 363-2874.
It is the policy of OSB to conduct a pre-employment background check. An offer of employment is contingent upon a successful background check.
HMML is a cultural heritage institution that welcomes applicants from all religious and cultural backgrounds.
Order of Saint Benedict is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
CATALOGER OF ARMENIAN MANUSCRIPTS, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library
POSITION SUMMARY:
The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) invites applications for the full-time, benefit-eligible position of Cataloger of Armenian Manuscripts. This is a three-year, grant-funded position.
The Cataloger will participate in HMML’s effort to catalog recently digitized Armenian manuscripts and to support the creation of authority files by HMML’s metadata librarian. The Cataloger will do both original cataloging of digital surrogates as well as the correction of existing catalog records. This position is supervised by the Lead Cataloger of Eastern Christian Collections and reports to the Director of Cataloging.
Founded in 1965, HMML holds the world’s largest archive of manuscript photographs in both microfilm and digital format. HMML identifies manuscript collections around the world that need photographic preservation and online access. Its archives now contain more than 500,000 complete manuscripts, ranging in size from large codices of hundreds of folios to brief documents consisting of just a few leaves.
Visit hmml.org to learn more about the places, people and communities that have been part of HMML’s global story, and the manuscripts in HMML’s digital and microfilm collections.
Located on the campus of Saint John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota, HMML is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit corporation that contracts with the Order of Saint Benedict (OSB) for employees and employee services.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, & ABILITIES:
PHYSICAL ABILITIES:
Sitting for prolonged periods of time. Extensive use of computers and keyboard. Occasional lifting may be required.
ADDITIONAL REQUISITES:
In addition to the qualifications noted on the job description, all employees are expected to abide by the following expectations:
ADDITIONAL DEPARTMENTAL REQUISITES:
Help create and foster a positive, respectful, and inclusive work environment.
TO APPLY:
Applications are accepted online at https://www.schooljobs.com/careers/csbsju/osb. Candidates are asked to complete the application form and submit a cover letter and resume.
If you require an accommodation to participate in the OSB hiring process, please contact Human Resources at (320) 363-2874.
It is the policy of OSB to conduct a pre-employment background check. An offer of employment is contingent upon a successful background check.
HMML is a cultural heritage institution that welcomes applicants from all religious and cultural backgrounds.
Order of Saint Benedict is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS) is pleased to announce that the call for applications to the 2023-2024 Visiting Research Fellowship program is now open. Guided by the vision of its founders, Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, SIMS aims to bring manuscript culture, modern technology, and people together to provide access to and understanding of our shared intellectual heritage. Part of the Penn Libraries, SIMS oversees an extensive collection of premodern manuscripts from around the world, with a special focus on the history of philosophy and science, and creates open-access digital content to support the study of its collections.
Fellowships are open to scholars living outside of the greater Philadelphia-area whose research would benefit from direct access to our collections and staff expertise in manuscript studies and the digital humanities. Applicants must have completed a Ph.D. or an equivalent professional degree by the time the fellowship begins. The fellowship offers $5000 to spend 1 month (minimum of 4 work weeks) at SIMS between July 1, 2023, and June 30, 2024. Up to 3 fellowships will be awarded this year. For more information and to apply, please visit https://schoenberginstitute.org/visiting-research-fellowships.
Applications are due May 15, 2023.
Medieval Academy of America Webinar
Wednesday, April 12
3:00 to 4:30 pm
Medieval Crip Theory: New Approaches and Provocations
This Webinar, organized by the Inclusivity & Diversity Committee, will explore and present new research on disability studies and the Middle Ages. The three papers will be followed by questions and discussion.
Moderators and Introduction
Heide Estes, Monmouth University, and Nahir Otaño-Gracia, University of New Mexico
Richard H. Godden, Louisiana State University,
“Cripping Langland’s Will”
In the C.5 interlude of William Langland’s Piers Plowman, the dreamer presents himself as physically unable to perform manual labor. Confronted by Reason and Conscience, Will states that he is too weak to wield tools and too tall to work the earth. Therefore, he labors with his hands after a different fashion, which is to say the making of the poem. Is Will not asking for accommodation? Reason is not only asking Will, are you disabled? He is asking, are you disabled enough? To take Will seriously that he is too long to work is to center disability, to make it inextricable from the social and salvific urgency in the poem. While the C-text expands on some of the severe and searching identifications of who is justifiably disabled, it does so while also positing a disabled subject. Will occupies an antinormative position, one that highlights the tension between normative frameworks and individual experience, between disability as something determined (or perhaps overdetermined) by social, religious, and economic desires on one hand, and disability as a site for transformative potentialities, nonnormative, alternative embodiments on the other.
Richard H. Godden is Assistant Professor of English at Louisiana State University. He works primarily on medieval romance, Chaucer, and representations of disability and monstrosity in the Middle Ages. He is completing a book manuscript titled Material Subjects: An Ecology of Prosthesis in Medieval Literature and Culture. He is co-editor of the collection Monstrosity, Disability, and the Posthuman in the Medieval and Early Modern World and he is also co-editor of The Open Access Companion to The Canterbury Tales.
Leah Parker, University of Southern Mississippi
“Eschatologies of Disability / Crip Eschatologies”
The afterlife was an embodied life in the medieval Christian eschatological imaginary. This embodied afterlife functioned both figurally, because language of the body made possible discussions of the soul, and literally, because Christians were promised a resurrected body that would be both perfected and yet still continuous with one’s earthly self. Where there is body, there can be disability, and indeed, many discussions of the afterlife, particularly matters of salvation, relied upon figural and literal references to disability for their production of eschatological hope. This paper considers some of the ways disability supported eschatological hope in vernacular literature from early medieval England, and how such literature witnesses early medieval Christians imagining the afterlife through disability, and inescapably reimagining disability through the afterlife.
Leah Parker is an Assistant Professor of English and English Undergraduate Coordinator at the University of Southern Mississippi. Parker researches embodied difference and eschatology in medieval England, and is completing a book manuscript on Disability and Salvation in Old English Literature.
Tory V. Pearman, Miami University
“Cripping Time in Chaucer’s Pardoner’s Tale”
This paper offers a reading of Chaucer’s Pardoner’s Tale with attention to the disruptive crip time produced by its setting during the Black Plague. As I will show, the “plague time” depicted in the tale frustrates normative measures of time, allowing readers living in an era in which time has been disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic to connect with the text through and across time in all of its iterations. This antinormative potential reveals one way in which the lens of disability can not only expand past representations of disability, but also use the medieval to help us better understand how disability is viewed and used in a post-COVID-19-onset world.
Tory V. Pearman is Professor of English at Miami University. She researches representations of gender and disability in medieval literature and culture and is author of Women and Disability in Medieval Literature (Palgrave 2010) and Disability and Knighthood in Malory’s Morte Darthur (Routledge 2019). She is co-editor of The Cultural History of Disability in the Middle Ages (Bloomsbury 2022).
Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, a journal sponsored by the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies, has these opportunities available:
Call for Papers: Comitatus invites the submission of articles by graduate students and recent PhDs in any field of medieval and Renaissance studies. We particularly welcome articles that integrate or synthesize disciplines. March 6, 2023, is the deadline for submissions to Volume 54 (2023). See the full call for papers here.
Call for Book Reviewers: Comitatus is now accepting proposals from prospective book reviewers. Interested reviewers should consult the list of potential review titles and send a first and second choice to Allison McCann (allisonmccann@humnet.ucla.edu) by March 6, 2023. Requests should also include university affiliation and a brief explanation of research interests and qualifications. See the full call for reviewers here.
The History Department at Hamilton College invites applications for a one-year position at the rank of Visiting Assistant Professor, beginning July 1, 2023. We seek candidates to teach courses on Late Antiquity and Early Medieval Histories. We are especially interested in candidates whose teaching and research explore cross-cultural, interconnected histories of Europe and the wider Mediterranean, including Byzantium, North Africa, the Near East, or the Carolingian Empire. We are receptive to interdisciplinary methodologies, including historical archaeology, manuscript/book studies, or gender/LGTBQ studies. Candidates should be prepared to teach a lower-division, writing-intensive course, History 160: The Global Middle Ages and to participate in the college’s Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program. We are seeking candidates who can demonstrate their experience in teaching or working with diverse student populations. Your cover letter should address ways in which you raise issues of diversity and inclusion in your teaching, scholarship, and/or service.
Candidates with ABD will be considered, although candidates with a Ph.D. are preferred. The teaching load for this position is five courses. Candidates should submit a cover letter, c.v., and two letters of recommendation via interfolio at http://apply.interfolio.com/121331. Questions regarding the search may be directed to John Eldevik, Search Committee Chair, at jeldevik@hamilton.edu. Our review of applications will begin on March 20, 2023.
Hamilton (www.hamilton.edu) is a residential liberal arts college located in upstate New York. Applicants with dual-career considerations can find other Hamilton and nearby academic job listings at https://www.hercjobs.org/regions/higher-ed-careers-upstate-new-york/, as well as additional information at https://www.hamilton.edu/dof/faculty-development/resources-for-prospective-or-new-faculty/opportunities-for-spouses-or-partners (Opportunities for Spouses or Partners). Hamilton College is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer and is committed to diversity in all areas of the campus community. Hamilton provides domestic partner benefits. Candidates from underrepresented groups in higher education are especially encouraged to apply.
As the death toll and suffering in Turkey and Syria mounts, and reports on the destruction of museums and monuments of the Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman period filter in, the Medieval Academy of America and its community of scholars wishes to convey its utmost sympathy and concern for those affected by the recent earthquakes. Even those living and teaching outside the area have lost colleagues and students (many had gone home for the holidays), as well as the very materials on which their research is based. Our membership mourns the loss of life, homes destroyed, livelihoods interrupted, and utter devastation in Antakya (Antioch), Aleppo and many other centers in this historic region.
Should you wish to do something, there are many ways to support relief efforts, among those ways are giving to the International Rescue Committee (rescue.org); the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC.org); the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR.org); and Doctors Without Borders (doctorswithoutborders.org).
