Jobs for Medievalists

Posted on January 24, 2020 by Chris

PUBLIC HUMANITIES POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP at the University of Notre Dame’s Medieval Institute

Application Deadline: March 15, 2020

The Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame invites applications for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in public humanities, supported by a previous endowment grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to the Institute. The fellow will devote the majority of the fellowship time to working closely with the Institute’s staff, especially its director of undergraduate studies and engagement, in the Institute’s outreach and engagement efforts directed at local schools as well as potential donors, alumni, and undergraduate majors and minors. The Institute will be celebrating its seventy-fifth anniversary in 2021–22, and the fellow will be an integral part of the planning and execution of events connected to that celebration. The remainder of the fellow’s time may be devoted to research and/or teaching.

The fellow will be provided with a workspace in the Medieval Institute, enjoy full library and computer privileges, and have access to all the Institute’s research tools.

Eligibility: Applicants must hold a Ph.D. (or equivalent) in some area of the humanistic study of the Middle Ages, or have it in hand by the beginning of the fellowship term. Applicants must have relevant experience in public engagement in the humanities, highly effective people skills, and multimedia digital literacy. Experience with digital humanities is highly desirable.

Stipend: $48,000 per year, plus benefits

Start Date: August 16, 2020 | End Date: August 15, 2022

Application procedure: Applicants should submit a letter of application that includes reflection on how this postdoctoral position would fit into their broader career goals, a current c.v., and three confidential letters of recommendation. Digital portfolios and similar supporting materials may also be uploaded for consideration. Submit applications through Interfolio at https://apply.interfolio.com/73488. Further details regarding the fellowship are available at https://medieval.nd.edu/research/grants-fellowships/#public-humanities.

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Literature and Knowledge in Late Medieval England: A Codicological Perspective

Posted on January 23, 2020 by Chris

Literature and Knowledge in Late Medieval England:
A Codicological Perspective

Michael Johnston, Purdue University
Friday, February 21, 2020
2-4 pm
Newberry Library

CRS is pleased to announce the second meeting of the Premodern Studies Seminar for the 2019-2020 academic year.

Michael Johnston will examine the pourous boundary between information-based texts (e.g., medicine, encyclopedias, astronomy) and literary texts within the premodern world. As opposed to an epistemological or ontological perspetive, Johnston considers this question from a codicological perspective by asking what the surviving manuscripts can tell us about the relationship between forms of discourse, with a specific focus on England, 1350–1500. In this investigation, Johnston identifies two main ways in which literary and non-literary discourses overlapped and interpenetrated. First, he argues that most literary texts were copied by scribes whose main employment was the production of documents (charters, bonds, wills, etc.), and thus that all such texts arose within the same “codicological ecosystems.” Second, he offers close readings of several manuscripts preserving literary and nonliterary texts together, focusing specifically on a diverse set of manuscripts produced in English households. These manuscripts contain a combination of land documents, medical recipes, mathematical treatises, and literary texts. Ultimately, Johnston’s project argues that manuscript culture was quite comfortable with the cohabitation of the literary and the non-literary.

This scholarly program is free and open to all, but space is limited and registration in advance is required. Newberry Scholarly Seminars papers are pre-circulated. For a copy of the paper, email scholarlyseminars@newberry.org. Please do not request a paper unless you plan to attend.

For more information about the Premodern Studies Seminar, please visit our website: http://www.newberry.org/premodern-studies-seminar

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Call for Applications – Digital Editing and the Medieval Manuscript Roll

Posted on January 23, 2020 by Chris

Call for Applications

Digital Editing and the Medieval Manuscript Roll

April 3rd and 4th, 2020

Yale University

This graduate training workshop will cover topics in:

                        · Paleography and Cataloging of Medieval Manuscript Rolls

                        · Manuscript Transcription and Scholarly Editing

                        · Introduction to the Digital Edition: Challenges and Best Practices

                        · Collaborative Editing

                        · XML, Text Encoding Fundamentals and the TEI Schema

No prior paleography or encoding experience is required.

The workshop covers the fundamentals of digital editing while tackling the codicological challenges posed by manuscript rolls. Practical sessions inform collective editorial decision-making: participants will undertake the work of transcription and commentary, and encode (according to TEI P5 protocols) the text and images of a medieval manuscript roll. The workshop will result in a collaborative digital edition. The manuscript selected for this workshop is Takamiya 56, a late medieval devotional roll written in Latin and Middle English. No language proficiencies are required for participation in this course.

The workshop will run April 3rd and 4th, 2020 (Friday-Saturday) 9.30am-4.30pm. This graduate-run workshop is free of charge, and lunches will be provided for participants. The workshop will be limited to twelve places – preference will be given to graduate students with a demonstrated need for training in manuscript study and text encoding.

More information about the upcoming workshop and previous workshops can be found on the website – please read this information before applying, and apply online by February 14th. Applicants will be notified whether they can be offered a place by February 21th. For more information, see the project website (digitalrollsandfragments.com/workshops), or email organizers at digitalmanuscriptrolls@gmail.com.

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2020 Medieval Academy of America Publication Prizes

Posted on January 21, 2020 by Chris

The Medieval Academy of America congratulates the winners of the 2020 Medieval Academy Publication Prizes:

Haskins Medal: Richard F. Green. Elf Queens and Holy Friars: Fairy Beliefs and the Medieval Church (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016)

Karen Gould Prize in Art History: Benjamin Anderson. Cosmos and Community in Early Medieval Art (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017)

Digital Humanities and Multimedia Studies Prize: Columba Stewart, OSB, and Daniel Gullo, Principal Investigators. vHMML 

John Nicholas Brown Prize: Steven A. Schoenig. Bonds of Wool: The Pallium and Papal Power in the Middle Ages (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2016).

Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize: Randall Todd Pippenger. “Lives on hold: the Dampierre family, captivity and the crusades in thirteenth-century Champagne,” Journal of Medieval History 44 (2018), 507-528.

Please join us for the publication prize ceremony on Saturday, 28 March, at 10:45 AM in the Martin Luther King, Jr. Student Union’s West Pauley Ballroom, University of California at Berkeley, in conjunction with the Medieval Academy of America Annual Meeting.

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Summer 2021 ASCSA Program Directors: Call for Applications

Posted on January 16, 2020 by Chris

DIRECTORS OF THE ASCSA SUMMER PROGRAMS
(GERTRUDE SMITH PROFESSORS)
Deadline: January 31, 2020

Summer Session (traditional six-week course): One Position
Summer Seminars (18-day courses): Two Positions

SIX-WEEK ASCSA SUMMER SESSION

Term: Summer 2021

Eligibility: Former membership in the School and at least two years of teaching in a post-secondary educational institution. Qualified applicants in all areas of classical studies, including history, art history, languages, epigraphy, and archaeology, are encouraged to apply. Some knowledge of modern Greek, stamina, good health, and a sense of humor.
Description: See more information about the ASCSA Summer Sessions: http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/programs/Summer

Duties: Plan the itinerary of the session/seminar, in consultation with the staff in Athens, at least six months prior to the session; collaborate with the Committee on the Summer Sessions in the selection of participants; correspond with participants concerning travel, equipment, academic requirements, etc.; supervise all aspects of the program in Greece, including teaching, coordinating with on-site expert lecturers, keeping a detailed log of the sessions, managing incidental expenses, and submitting a report to the Director.
Compensation: Stipend of $9,064, plus travel and expenses, housing for the Summer Session leader(s) for eight weeks in total as available June 1 to August 15. See the policy.

Application: An online application consisting of a cover letter, a curriculum vitae, and three letters of support. More information can be found at:
https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/about/staff/positions-available

ASCSA SUMMER SEMINARS
Term: Summer 2021

Eligibility: Former membership in the School and at least two years of teaching in a post-secondary educational institution. Qualified applicants in all areas of classical studies, including history, art history, languages, epigraphy, and archaeology, are encouraged to apply. Some knowledge of modern Greek, stamina, good health, and a sense of humor.
Description: The theme of the18-day field seminars are open. Possible topics include: a “major sites” program (Athens, with short trips to Delphi, the Argolid, or other regions or sites); Mycenaean Greece; ancient athletics; pottery; sculpture; epigraphy; religious, public, and domestic architecture; ancient literature; numismatics; topography of myth; historical geography; the ancient economy; Roman Greece; Byzantine Greece; Ottoman Greece; the population exchange between Greece and Turkey; modern folklore; etc.

Residence in Loring Hall is available, though not required, for program participants during the first and third week of the seminar. The itinerary, therefore, must include at least one week of travel in the middle of the seminar. Two summer seminars are offered, one in June and one in July.

For more information about the ASCSA Summer Seminars: http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/programs/summer-seminars
Duties: Plan an 18-day seminar, in consultation with the staff in Athens, at least six months prior to the session; collaborate with the Committee on the Summer Sessions in the selection of participants; correspond with participants concerning travel, equipment, academic requirements, etc.; supervise all aspects of the program, including teaching, coordinating with on-site expert lecturers, keeping a detailed log of the sessions, managing incidental expenses, and submitting a report to the Director.

Compensation: Stipend of $5,000, plus travel and expenses, housing for four weeks in total including the dates of the seminar. See the policy.
Application: An online application consisting of a cover letter discusses your qualifications; a curriculum vitae; a description of the seminar and a preliminary 18-day itinerary indicating which sites would be visited and how much time would ideally be spent in and out of Athens; and three letters of support. More information can be found at: https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/about/staff/positions-available
Inquiries can be sent to:
Committee on the Summer Sessions
E-mail: ssapplication@ascsa.org 

The appointments will be announced by March 29.

Link to online posting: https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/about/staff/positions-available

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Understanding the Medieval Book X with Erik Kwakkel

Posted on January 16, 2020 by Chris

The University of South Carolina will hold its tenth annual seminar “Understanding the Medieval Book” on Monday and Tuesday, 6-7 April 2020. The specialist will be Dr. Erik Kwakkel, former Scaliger Chair at Leiden University in the Netherlands and now Professor of Book History at the iSchool, University of British Columbia. An international authority on medieval manuscripts and celebrated author of five books, most recently Books Before Print (2019), he specializes in early books as cultural media; the paleography, codicology and socio-historical context of medieval manuscripts; and the material culture of pre-modern Europe. For the seminar Erik proposes to explore the topic of “Understanding the Material Book.” He will also deliver an illustrated public lecture on Monday, 6 April, entitled, “How to Read a Medieval Book.”

Students, scholars, and librarians are all invited to enroll. Because participants will use this university’s collection of manuscripts, space is limited to 25 participants. Please apply early. DEADLINE: 15 January 2020.

 

Information and application materials can be found here and here.

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Fellows Election Results

Posted on January 13, 2020 by Chris

To the Members of the Medieval Academy of America,

The Second Ballot of the 2020 Election of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows closed on Wednesday, 2 January. The results have been certified by the President of the Fellows and the Fellows Nominating Committee, and the new Fellows have been informed of their election.

I am very pleased to introduce the Fellows Class of 2020:

Fellows:
Chris Baswell
David Burr
Helen Evans
Katherine Ludwig Jansen
Adam Kosto
Daniel Lord Smail

Corresponding Fellows:
Wim Blockmans
Jean Dunbabin
Yitzhak Hen
Gabor Klaniczay
Emilie Savage-Smith
Richard Sharpe

Please join us for the induction of new Fellows during the upcoming Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America. Inductions will take place on Saturday, 28 March, at 3:45 PM in Booth Auditorium at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law. The ceremony will be immediately followed by the Fellows Plenary lecture, to be delivered by Teofilo Ruiz. More information about the Annual Meeting is available here:

https://www.medievalacademy.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1125497

– Lisa Fagin Davis, Executive Director

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Study in Rome and Italy: Broneer Traveling Fellowship, 2020-2021

Posted on January 10, 2020 by Chris

OSCAR BRONEER TRAVELING FELLOWSHIP, 2020-2021

Deadline: March 15, 2020

The American Academy in Rome and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens award the Oscar Broneer Traveling Fellowship to encourage the study of the Greco-Roman world.

Purpose: The Fellowship will be awarded for research in Greece and Italy in alternate years. For the 2020-2021 academic year, the Fellowship will be awarded for research in Italy. It is expected that the Fellow will use the American Academy in Rome (AAR) as a base from which to pursue work through trips to sites, museums, or repositories of materials relevant to the Fellow’s research.

Eligibility: For the 2020-2021 fellowship year, only applicants previously at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA) are eligible for this Fellowship based at the AAR and for research based in Rome and Italy. Applicants must have spent a minimum of one month as a Member of the ASCSA at the time of application. Candidates must have an approved dissertation proposal or, if they already hold the Ph.D., they should be at the beginning of their teaching career and without tenure. Projects may focus on any period of study in the humanities, although preference will be given to topics dealing with classical antiquity.

Terms: The Fellowship is awarded to one individual per year. It may be held at any time during the 2020-2021 academic year for a minimum of three and a maximum of six months. The award is for a maximum of $30,000, and is meant to cover expenses including housing at the host institution, travel (only one round-trip excursion from home base in U.S. or Europe to Rome and travel within Italy will be funded), and living expenses. Support from the host institution includes access to research facilities, invitations to various scholarly and other events, and access to other activities offered by the host institution. The award amount will be determined by the applicant’s approved budget. Applicants are urged to explore supplementary sources of support.  A final report is due at the end of the award period, and the AAR and ASCSA expect that copies of all publications that result from research conducted at AAR and ASCSA be contributed to their relevant libraries.

Application: The application will consist of the candidate’s curriculum vitae, a detailed research proposal (maximum of three pages single spaced), a plan for travel connected with the project, a budget for all expenses including travel, housing, food, fees, and other living expenses, and proposed dates. Applicants should consult with the host institution for costs associated with housing, food, and fees. The selection committee, in evaluating the candidate’s proposal, will determine how reasonable and relevant the travel plan and budget appear in relation to the proposed research and the period of time requested for the Fellowship. Submit all application materials, including three letters of recommendation to the American Academy in Rome. Materials may be sent via email to Shawn Miller, Program Director at s.miller@aarome.org, or via ground mail addressed to Oscar Broneer Traveling Fellowship, c/o American Academy in Rome, 7 East 60th Street, New York, NY 10022.

Web site: https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/apply/fellowships-and-grants/graduate-and-postdoctoral

E-mail: s.miller@aarome.org
The award will be announced in spring 2020.

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The Summer School in Medieval Paleography: Manuscript Culture in Boccaccio’s Times

Posted on January 10, 2020 by Chris

“The Summer School in Medieval Paleography: Manuscript Culture in Boccaccio’s Times”.

The American Boccaccio Association Summer School in Paleography is a series of intensive courses taught directly in the major historical libraries of Florence and Rome (June 5-13, 2020). The seminar includes methodological and practical components taught by experts in the field from  a variety of Italian universities and institutions (professors Ceccherini, Cursi, De Robertis, Signorini, Zamponi). The teaching program includes morning classes and afternoon supervised study sessions in the libraries.Applicants should be affiliated with a North American university and have a basic reading knowledge of the Italian language.
Qualified applicants should send their CV and a statement which explains their interest in participating in the seminar (maximum 250 words) by February 15, 2020 to Valerio Cappozzo (vcappozz@olemiss.edu) and Susanna Barsella (barsella@fordham.edu).

The Seminar is open to scholars and graduate students alike.

More info: https://www.academia.edu/41463548/The_Summer_School_in_Medieval_Paleography_Manuscript_Culture_in_Boccaccios_Times

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MAA News – Medieval Academy of America Governance Election Result

Posted on January 9, 2020 by Chris

To the members of the Medieval Academy of America:
I am very pleased to announce the results of the 2020 governance election, which closed at 11:59 PM on Jan. 2:

President: Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski (French & Italian, Univ. of Pittsburgh (Emerita))
1st VP: Thomas Dale (Art History, Univ. of Wisconsin)
2nd VP: Maureen Miller (History, Univ. of California at Berkeley)

Council:

Lisa Bitel (Religion, University of Southern California)
Seeta Chaganti (English, Univ. of California, Davis)
Geraldine Heng (English & Comparative Literature, Middle Eastern Studies & Women’s Studies, Univ. of Texas at Austin)
Laura Morreale (French and Italian, Independent Scholar)

Nominating Committee:

Alison Beach (History, The Ohio State University)
Cord Whitaker (English, Wellesley College)

627 ballots were cast electronically and 9 were submitted by mail. This represents voter turnout of about 19%.

My thanks to all who voted and to all who stood for election, and my congratulations to all who were elected.

Lisa Fagin Davis
Executive Director, Medieval Academy of America

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