Category Archives: MAA Newsletter

MAA Publication Subventions have been awarded to Anito Savo, Portraying Authorship: Juan Manuel and the Rhetoric of Authority (University of Toronto Press) and Jenna Phillips, Seductions of War and the Dream of Solace in Thirteenth-Century France (Stanford University Press). We … Continue reading →

MAA Travel Grants have been awarded to Wendy Pfeffer (“Conseils dans le genre d’ensenhamen: la Diététique provençale/ Adding the Dietétique provençale to the Ensenhamen Corpus,” XIVe Congrès de l’Association Internationale d’Études Occitanes, Munich) and Caroline Solazzo (“Gilding Textiles: New Archaeological … Continue reading →

Speculations The Centennial Issue of Speculum January 2026 The centenary of a scholarly journal offers the opportunity to recognize, reflect on, and reimagine scholarly methods and objects, including canonicity and the discursive possibilities of scholarship; the boundaries, borders and spaces … Continue reading →

Olga Bush (Vassar College) was awarded the 2023 ICMA–Samuel H. Kress Foundation Research and Publication Grant to support on-site research in Spain and Sicily for her project entitled “Forced Labor: Exotic Fauna in the Animation of Medieval Court Environments.” She was … Continue reading →

I was very pleased to have attended the Annual Meeting of the American Council of Learned Societies in Philadelphia on April 27-29 together with the MAA’s new ACLS Delegate Afrodesia McCannon (New York Univ.). Many MAA members may not realize … Continue reading →

99th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America University of Notre Dame 14-16 March 2024 The 99th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America will take place on the campus of the University of Notre Dame (South Bend, … Continue reading →

Now that the International Congress on Medieval Studies is back to meeting in person (May 11-13), the Medieval Academy of America will be returning to Kalamazoo as well: 1) The Friday morning plenary, sponsored by the Academy, will be delivered … Continue reading →

May 5, 2023 at 12pm-1:30pm EST Nicole Lopez-Jantzen, CUNY: Borough of Manhattan Community College and Graduate Center, “Shifting Concepts of Race: Italy through the Earlier Middle Ages” Responder: Dr. Sarah Davis-Secord, University of New Mexico May 19, 2023 at 12pm-1:30pm … Continue reading →

Speculations The Centennial Issue of Speculum January 2026 The centenary of a scholarly journal offers the opportunity to recognize, reflect on, and reimagine scholarly methods and objects, including canonicity and the discursive possibilities of scholarship; the boundaries, borders and spaces … Continue reading →

The following grants were awarded in recent weeks: Olivia Remie Constable Awards: Louisa Foroughi, “Peasant Femininity and the Female Relations of Yeomen in Later Medieval England” Margaret K. Smith, “Identity and Authority in Medieval Ireland” Kristen Streahle, “Opportunities Underfoot: Repairing … Continue reading →