Category Archives: MAA Newsletter

The following students have been offered MAA/CARA Summer Scholarships: Katie Despeaux (The University of New Mexico), “Reading Old French” at The Mediterranean Seminar; Eliza H. Feero (Northwestern University), “Introduction to Latin Paleography, 800-1500” at Rare Book School, Virginia; Eva Kuras … Continue reading →

Geraldine Heng (Univ. Texas at Austin) has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Sean Field (University of Vemont) will be a Fellow at the National Humanities Center in 2023-24, where he will be working on a … Continue reading →

Greetings from the editor’s desk at Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies. This month we are delighted to highlight the research published in the April 98/2 (2023) issue. The five articles published here admirably fulfill our mission to showcase new work drawn … 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 →

April 12, 2023, 3 – 4:30 PM EDT: The MAA Inclusivity & Diversity Committee presents “Medieval Crip Theory: New Approaches and Provocations,” moderated by Heide Estes (Monmouth University) and Nahir Otaño-Gracia (University of New Mexico). Click here for more information … 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 →

The Medieval Academy Book Subvention Program provides grants of up to $2,500 to university or other non-profit scholarly presses to support the publication of first books by Medieval Academy members. Click here for more information. The Medieval Academy Inclusivity and Diversity Book Subvention … 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 →

We are very pleased to announce that the 2024 MAA/GSC Grant for Innovation in Community Building and Professionalization has been awarded to the Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies, to be held at Northwestern University in March 2024. Congratulations!

What a joy it was to gather in Washington, DC last week with more than 500 friends and colleagues! This year’s Annual Meeting was remarkable in so many ways: the number of attendees, the breadth of programming, the demographic and … Continue reading →