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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:
Lisa Lynn Chen (2008)
University of Toronto, GSC Committee Co-Chair
Email:
lisa.chen@utoronto.ca
Dissertation topic:
Early Medieval Illustrated Computus Manuscripts
Interests:
Manuscript Studies, Latin Palaeography, Codicology, Book History and Print Culture, Carolingian Monastic Book Production.
Daniel J. DiCenso (2008)
Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, GSC Committee Co-Chair
Email:
dd301(NO@SPAM)cam.ac.uk
Dissertation topic:
"Charlemagne's Song: The 'Romanization' of Chant and Liturgy during the Carolingian Era"
Interests:
Interests: Chant, chant (and other musical medievalisms) as used (quoted, borrowed, sampled, etc.) in later musical repertories, Palestrina and the musical changes associated with the Council of Trent, 17th-century mythological opera, "form" in music of the 18th and 19th centuries, historiography, gender studies, cultural and literary theory.
Jennifer M. Feltman (2009)
Florida State University
Email:
jfeltman@fsu.edu
Dissertation topic:
"Between Death and Judgment: Rethinking the Iconography of Last Things in the Thirteenth Century"
Interests:
Medieval Architecture and Sculpture, Manuscript Studies, Visual Exegesis and Medieval Pedagogy,
Eschatology, Computus, Science and Religion in the Middle Ages, Scholasticism, The Body in Medieval Art, Word and Image Studies.
Jennifer A. Smith (2009)
Univiversity of California, Los Angeles
Email:
jatsmith@ucla.edu
Interests:
Middle English Literature, Old English Literature, Rhetoric, Metrics, Paleography.
James Wade (2009)
Magdalene College, University of Cambridge
Email:
jpw49@cam.ac.uk
Dissertation topic:
"Fairies in Medieval Romance"
Interests:
Medieval France and England, romance, Chaucer, the Gawain-Poet, Malory, Spenser,
Shakespeare, early printed romances, the English and Scottish ballads,
cultural and literary theory, historiography, narratology, 19th and 20th
century medievalism.
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