Category Archives: MAA Newsletter

Sara V. Torres (2014 Ph.D. UCLA) has been awarded the 2016-17 editorial postdoctoral fellowship at Speculum. Sara was selected from a pool of more than forty applicants. She will join the Speculum team in July and work as a full-time … Continue reading →

As always, the Medieval Academy of America had a strong presence at Kalamazoo. The Medieval Academy plenary lecture delivered by Jane Chance (Rice Univ.) was well-attended and -received, generating much discussion and comment about Tolkien and his take on female … Continue reading →

If you’re going to be at Leeds this year, please join us Tuesday evening (5 July) at 7 PM for the MAA Annual Lecture, to be presented by Elaine Treharne (Stanford Univ.), “Manuscript Edges, Marginal Time: Why Medieval Matters.” Afterwards, … Continue reading →

The July issue of Speculum is now available online and will soon be at your door. In  addition to book reviews, Memoirs, and the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, the issue includes the following articles: Speculum 91:3 (JULY 2016) Barbara … Continue reading →

We are very pleased to announce the winners of the 2016 MAA/CARA Summer Scholarships, supporting student participation in summer courses in medieval languages or manuscript studies: Lorenzo Bondioli (Oxford Univ. and Princeton Univ.): Classical Arabic (Qasid Arabic Language Institute, Amman, … Continue reading →

Last month’s call for good news resulted in the following announcements: Sarah Bromberg (Suffolk Univ.) has received the Newberry Library-John Rylands Research Institute Exchange fellowship for her book project, Art and Exegesis: Nicholas of Lyra’s Postilla. Lilla Kopar (The Catholic Univ. … Continue reading →

Check out the latest CARA newsletter to see what’s happening in Medieval Studies on North American campuses: http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.medievalacademy.org/resource/resmgr/pdfs/June_2016_CARA_news.pdf

In 1925, the Medieval Academy of America (including both Canada and the United States) and its journal Speculum were founded in Cambridge, Mass.  In 2025 we will mark the centenary of the founding of our professional organization. These festivities will … Continue reading →

The 92nd Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America will be held in Toronto, Ontario, on 6-8 April 2017, hosted by the University of Toronto and The Pontifical Institute for Mediaeval Studies. The Organizing Committee invites proposals for papers … Continue reading →

As always, the Medieval Academy of America will have a strong presence at the 2016 International Congress on Medieval Studies  (May 12-15). 1) The Friday morning plenary, sponsored by the Academy, will be delivered by Jane Chance (Rice Univ.). Her … Continue reading →