Graduate Student Committee

Purpose: To act on behalf of the graduate student members of the Academy in voicing their concerns about medieval studies and promoting their participation within both the Academy and the broader academic community. In addition to fostering international and interdisciplinary exchange, the committee is especially dedicated to providing guidance on research, teaching, publishing, professionalization, funding, and employment in conformity with the purposes for which the Academy was formed, as set forth in Article 3 of the Academy's By-Laws.

Composition: Five appointed members, including a chair, who has a nonvoting seat on Council. All members must be graduate students and members of the Medieval Academy.

Term: Two years, rotating. The date in parentheses is the final year of the incumbent's current term in office. The administrative year for committees runs from annual meeting to annual meeting.

Members:

Jen Gonyer-Donohue (2006) University of Washington, GSC Committee Co-Chair
Email: jengd@u.washington.edu
Dissertation topic: "'Naso telleth al': The Medieval Scholarly Reception of Ovidian Heroines and Chaucer's Legend of Good Women" Interests: Chaucer and 14th century literature, Classical appropriations and mythography (Ovid, Vergil, commentary traditions, Trojan War narratives, translatio imperii et studii), historiography, gender studies, Old French literature, pedagogy.

Patrick Hornbeck (2006) University of Oxford (St Cross College / Faculty of Theology), GSC Committee Co-Chair
Email: patrick.hornbeck@st-cross.oxford.ac.uk
Dissertation topic: "The Evolution of Heresy: The Theology of English Lollard Dissent, 1380-1520" Interests: the genesis and evolution of medieval heretical movements, especially the Lollards of fourteenth-, fifteenth-, and sixteenth-century England; the development of heresy as a theological category; the Cathar, Waldensian, and Free Spirit movements; the theological implications of Ricardian and Lancastrian literature; and (in a modern, constructive vein) the use of dissent and resistance as categories for contemporary theological reflection.

Patricia Kiernan(2007) Rutgers University
Email: kiernan@eden.rutgers.edu
Dissertation topic: Art in late medieval Italy, particularly Rome

Janine Larmon Peterson (2007) Indiana University, Bloomington
Email: janipete@indiana.edu
Dissertation topic: “Contested Sanctity: Disputed Saints, Inquisitors, and Communal Identity in Northern Italy, 1250-1400” Interests: Constructions of sanctity and heresy, gender, Italian communes, analytical theory, identity

Ryan Szpiech(2007) Yale University
Email: ryan.szpiech@yale.edu
Dissertation topic: Abner of Burgos, a fourteenth-century convert and polemicist in Castile Interests: Cross-cultural contact in medieval Iberia, conversion, polemics, exegesis, and translation Click here for a promotional poster that invites students to join the Medieval Academy and explains membership benefits. Please help us reach graduate students by printing the poster and hanging it on your bulletin boards and office doors