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Staff Bios

 

Sheryl Mullane-Corvi earned a bachelor's degree in journalism and graphic design before shifting to history in graduate school. Sheryl is a native of New England, having started in the Boston area. She was transplanted to New Hampshire when she was very young, but marriage to a fellow graduate student brought her back to Boston. Luke Wenger hired Sheryl as the Medieval Academy's Office Manager in 1994. She became Assistant to the Executive Director under Richard Emmerson. When time allows, Sheryl puts the business of the Academy aside and returns to her early days of illustration and painting.


Christopher Cole is the Memberships and Communications Coordinator. He studied computer information systems at the University of Massachusetts. Before coming to work at the Medieval Academy, he was a software engineer who wrote code for Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometers. His many interests include astronomy, the Cthulhu Mythos, and novels that don't use the letter 'e'.

 

 

 

 

 

 


Katie Taronas is currently a second-year M.A. student in art history at Tufts University. She holds a bachelor's degree in Visual and Environmental Studies with a Secondary Field in French Language and Literature from Harvard University. Her research interests include Carolingian and Byzantine art and material religion, as well as issues of cross-cultural exchange and the appropriation of the past through the re-use of objects.

Besides working as an assistant editor at Speculum, Katie is a teaching assistant in the Department of Art and Art History at Tufts and is a practicing photographer and filmmaker.

 


Paul Lindholm is an assistant editor at the Academy. He earned bachelor's degrees in History and Art History at Boston College, and began working at the Medieval Academy in February 2012. Paul is a Massachusetts native who currently lives in the Framingham area. His interests include history, fine art, film, sports, and many more.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Shirley Werner serves as Speculum's freelance copyeditor for articles through Cambridge University Press. She holds a Ph.D. in Classical Philology from Yale University. She has published on the medieval Latin manuscript and commentary traditions of Lucan's classical Latin epic poem, the Bellum civile; and on the poetry of Horace and Vergil. She contributes the annual bibliography of scholarship on Vergil and Vergilian reception for the journal Vergilius. In addition to doing freelance copyediting, she works at Duke University as an editor and abstractor for the American Office of l'Année philologique, an annually published, Paris-based print and electronic bibliography of international scholarship on Greek and Roman literature, history, and other disciplines pertaining to ancient Mediterranean studies.

She served as American Fellow (Mitarbeiter) at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich, Germany, where she wrote dictionary articles in Latin for the Thesaurus linguae Latinae. She has taught Latin, Greek, and classical literature and culture at the University of California, Irvine and at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick.

 


Ellen Wert serves as Speculum's freelance copyeditor for book reviews through Cambridge University Press. She holds a Ph.D. in English from Temple University, with concentrations in Old English and comparative medieval literature and historical linguistics. She has written on the poems of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles and has taught British and American literature, medieval literature, and linguistics at Temple University, the University of Delaware, and Lafayette College.

As a freelance copyeditor for clients that include national foundations and nonprofits, she works across a broad range of subjects and disciplines, from art history to education, environmental science to the performing arts, health and social services to economics.


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