Category Archives: MAA Newsletter

Because we cannot greet each other in person this spring or summer, the Medieval Academy has been busily developing, hosting, and promoting scholarship in a digital environment. Development of the Database of Medieval Digital Resources is ongoing, with a streamlined … Continue reading →

Dear Colleague, We hope you are well and are staying safe. In the present crisis, as a growing number of our medievalist colleagues find themselves facing financial precarity, job insecurity, and difficulty accessing research resources, your Medieval Academy membership matters … Continue reading →

We are very pleased to announce that the 2020 MAA Publication Subventions have been awarded to: Athi Andronikou, Italy, Cyprus, and Artistic Exchange  (Cambridge University Press) and Joyce Hendrickson, Leaving Iberia: Islamic Law and Christian Conquest in North West Africa (Harvard … Continue reading →

Jonathan Fruoco has been awarded an MAA Travel Grant to present a paper titled “Geoffrey Chaucer et la plurivocalité urbaine” at the Moscow conference, “‘Littérature urbaine’: une donnée culturelle médiévale ou un concept de l’histoire littéraire contemporaine?”

Our congratulations to Mary Carruthers (F ’96), who has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. If you have good news to share, please send it to Executive Director Lisa Fagin Davis (LFD@themedievalacademy.org)

Although Boston is slowly reopening, the MAA Staff will continue to work from home through at least the end of August. In the meantime, we recommend that you contact us by email instead of by phone. We hope you are … Continue reading →

As the semester winds down and restrictions begin to be lifted in different locales, we hope you are all well and that you are staying safe. Although we cannot greet each other at Kalamazoo or Leeds, we hope you will … Continue reading →

Thanks to an extraordinary anonymous donation, 2020 membership dues will be waived for all members in the following membership categories: Students, Retired, Independent, Unemployed, Part-Time, and K-12 Educator. Members in these categories who have already renewed for 2020 will have … Continue reading →

96th Annual Meeting Medieval Academy of America  Indiana University, Bloomington 15-18 April, 2021 Call for Papers The 96th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America will take place on the campus of the Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. The … Continue reading →

We are very pleased to announce that the 2020 Dissertation Grants are being awarded as follows: Amy W. Clark (UC Berkeley), “Familiar Distances: Beating the Bounds of Early English Identity” (John Boswell Dissertation Grant) Robert Edward Cutrer (University of Sydney), … Continue reading →