Medieval Academy News

Candidates in 2010 election

(NB: ballots will be mailed out in December.)

President: Elizabeth A. R. Brown, Professor Emerita of History, at Brooklyn Coll., City Univ. of New York.

Education: B.A., Swarthmore Coll.; A.M., Ph.D., Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Radcliffe Coll. and Harvard Univ.

Interests: medieval and early modern French history; medieval intellectual history; historiography.

Publications: The Monarchy of Capetian France and Royal Ceremonial (1991); Politics and Institutions in Capetian France (1991); Customary Aids and Royal Finances in Capetian France: The Marriage Aid of Philip the Fair (1992); Saint-Denis, la basilique (2001).

First Vice-President: Alice-Mary Talbot, Director emerita of Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks

Education: B.A., Radcliffe Coll.; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia Univ.

Interests: Byzantine cultural history, monasticism and hagiography; editing and translation of texts; gender studies.

Publications: The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium (1991, with A. Kazhdan); Holy Women of Byzantium (1996), Byzantine Defenders of Images (1998), Women and Religious Life in Byzantium (2001, with D. Sullivan), The History of Leo the Deacon: Byzantine Military Expansion in the Tenth Century (2005).

Second Vice-President: Maryanne Kowaleski, Joseph Fitzpatrick SJ Distinguished Professor of History and Director of Medieval Studies at Fordham University

Education: A.B., University of Michigan; M.S.L., Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies; M.A., Ph.D., University of Toronto

Interests: towns, women, demography, maritime history, England

Publications: Local Markets and Regional Trade in Medieval Exeter (1995, paperback ed. 2003); Medieval Towns: A Reader (2006, ed.); Medieval Domesticity: Home, Housing and Household in Medieval England (2009, ed. with P. J. P. Goldberg); "The French of England: A Maritime lingua franca?" in Language and Culture in Medieval Britain: The French of England, c. 1100–c. 1500, ed. Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (2009).

Councillors (three-year term):

Albert Russell Ascoli, Terrill Distinguished Professor of Italian Studies at University of California, Berkeley

Education: B.A., English, University of Illinois; Ph.D., Romance Studies (Italian), Cornell University

Interests: Medieval and Renaissance literature and culture of Italy

Publications: Ariosto's Bitter Harmony: Crisis and Evasion in the Italian Renaissance (1987); Dante and the Making of a Modern Author (2008, Italian translation forthcoming from Laterza); "A local habitation and a name": Essays in the Historicity and Historiography of Italian Renaissance Literature (forthcoming).

Lynda Coon, Associate Professor of History and Chair of Department at the University of Arkansas

Education: B.A., James Madison University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia

Interests: early medieval history, gender and spirituality

Publications: "What Is the Word if Not Semen? Priestly Bodies in Carolingian Exegesis," in Gender and the Early Medieval World, East and West, 300–900, ed, Leslie Brubaker and Julia Smith (2004); "Somatic Styles of the Early Middle Ages," in Gender and History (2008); "Gender and the Body, 600–1100," in Cambridge History of Christianity, vol. 3, Early Medieval Christianity, c. 600–1100, ed. Thomas Noble and Julia Smith (2008); Dark Age Bodies: Gender and Monastic Practice in the Early Medieval West (2010).

William J. Diebold, Jane Neuberger Goodsell Professor of Art History and Humanities at Reed College

Education: B.A., Yale University; M.A., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University

Interests: early medieval art; reception of the Middle Ages

Publications: "The Ruler Portrait of Charles the Bald in the S. Paolo Bible" in The Art Bulletin (1994); Word and Image: An Introduction to Early Medieval Art (2000); "The Anxiety of Influence in Early Medieval Art? The Codex aureus of Charles the Bald in Ottonian Regensburg" in Under the Influence: The Concept of Influence and the Study of Illuminated Manuscripts, ed. J. Lowden and A. Bovey (2007); "The Early Middle Ages in the Exhibition Deutsche Größe (1940–1942)," in Medieval Art and Architecture after the Middle Ages, ed. J. T. Marquardt and A. Jordan (2009).

Bruce Holsinger, Associate Dean for Humanities and the Arts and Professor of English and Music at the University of Virginia

Education: B.A., B.Mus.A., University of Michigan, M.A. University of Minnesota, M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University

Interests: Medieval literature and music; history and practice of liturgy; modern and contemporary critical thought

Publications: Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture: Hildegard of Bingen to Chaucer (2001); The Premodern Condition: Medievalism and the Making of Theory (2005); Neomedievalism, Neoconservatism, and the War on Terror (2007); History in the Comic Mode: Medieval Communities and the Matter of Person (2007, ed., with Rachel Fulton).

Anthony Kaldellis, Professor of Greek and Latin, Ohio State University

Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan

Interests: Byzantium

Publications: Procopius of Caesarea: Tyranny, History, and Philosophy at the End of Antiquity (2004); Hellenism in Byzantium: The Transformations of Greek Identity and the Reception of the Classical Tradition (2007); The Christian Parthenon: Classicism and Pilgrimage in Byzantine Athens (2009).

Karma Lochrie, Ruth Halls Professor of English and Chair of the Department of Gender Studies at Indiana University

Education: B.A., DePauw University, M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University

Interests: Middle English

Publications: Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh (1991); Covert Operations: The Medieval Uses of Secrecy (1999); Heterosyncrasies: Female Sexuality When Normal Wasn't (2005); "Provincializing Medieval Europe: Mandeville's Cosmopolitanism," PMLA Special Issue, Medieval Studies in the Twenty-First Century (2009), 592–99.

Mark D. Meyerson, Professor, Department of History and Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto

Education: B.A., University of Florida; M.A., Ph.D., University of Toronto

Interests: Spanish history, Mediterranean history, Christian-Muslim-Jewish relations, history of violence

Publications: The Muslims of Valencia in the Age of Fernando and Isabel: Between Coexistence and Crusade (1991); Jews in An Iberian Frontier Kingdom: Politics, Society, and Economy in Morvedre, 1248–1391 (2004); A Jewish Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Spain (2004); "A Great Effusion of Blood"? Interpreting Medieval Violence (2004).

Nancy Wu, Museum Educator, Department of Medieval Art at the Metropolitan Museum and The Cloisters

Education: Ph.D., Columbia University

Interests: Romanesque and Gothic architecture

Publications: "Ad quadratum": The Practical Application of Geometry in Medieval Architecture (2002); The Cloisters: Medieval Art and Architecture (2005, with Peter Barnet); "Le chevet de la cathédrale de Reims et le plan du début du XIIIe siècle," in Nouveaux regards sur la Cathédrale de Reims, ed. Bruno Decrock and Patrick Demouy (2008); "Teaching Medieval Architecture at The Cloisters," in Perspectives on Medieval Art: Learning through Looking (forthcoming).

Nominating Committee (two-year term)

Thomas Forrest Kelly, Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music at Harvard University

Education: B.A., University of North Carolina, Diplôme de virtuosité, Schola Cantorum, Paris, M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University

Interests: music, liturgy, codicology

Publications: The Beneventan Chant (1989), "Le chant bénéventain," in Paléographie musicale (1992); First Nights at the Opera (2004); "The Ordinal of Montecassino and Benevento: Breviarium sive ordo officiorum, 11th Century," in Spicilegium Friburgense (2008).

Sabine G. MacCormack, Professor, Departments of Classics and History, University of Notre Dame

Education: B.A., D.Phil., University of Oxford, Diploma in Archives, University of Liverpool

Interests: late antiquity, classical tradition, early modern Latin America

Publications: Grammar and Virtue: The Formulation of a Cultural and Missionary Program by the Jesuits in Early Colonial Peru, in The Jesuits II, ed. John O'Malley, S.J., Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Stephen J. Harris, and Frank Kennedy, S.J. (2006); "Gods, Demons and Idols in the Andes," Journal of the History of Ideas (2006); On the Wings of Time: Rome, the Incas, Spain and Peru (2007); Augustine Reads Genesis. The Saint Augustine Lecture, 2007, Augustinian Studies (2008).

Bissera Pencheva, Assistant Professor of Medieval Art at Stanford University

Education: B.A., Dartmouth College, M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University

Interests: cult of the Virgin, icons, phenomenology and aesthetics, image theory

Publications: Icons and Power: The Mother of God in Byzantium (2006); "The Performative Icon," in Art Bulletin (2006); The Sensual Icon: Space, Ritual, and the Senses in Byzantium (2009).

Richard Rouse, Professor of History, emeritus, at UCLA

Education: B.A., University of Iowa, M.A. University of Chicago, Ph.D., Cornell University

Interests: Manuscript production, literary history

Publications: Authentic Witnesses: Approaches to Medieval Texts and Manuscripts (1991, with M. A. Rouse); Manuscripts and Their Makers: Commercial Book Producers in Medieval Paris 1200–1500, 2 vols. (2000, with M. A. Rouse); "Prudence, Mother of Virtues: The Chapelet des vertus and Christine de Pizan," Viator 39 (2008, with M. A. Rouse), 185–228; "Two Carolingian Bifolia: Haimo of Auxerre and Carolingian Liturgical Texts," Revue d'histoire des textes (2009).

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