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:

Jennifer M. Feltman (2009)
Florida State University, GSC Committee Chair
Email: jfeltman@fsu.edu
Dissertation topic: "Judgment in the City: The Urban Context of Last Judgment Architectural Sculpture in Thirteenth-Century France"
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, Medieval Legal 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.

Thomas Devaney (2010)
Brown University
Email: Thomas_Devaney@brown.edu
Dissertation topic: "Public Ritual and the Frontier Experience in Castile and the Latin East, 1085-1492"
Interests: Mediterranean cultural and social history, popular religion, the Crusades, urban public ritual, sacred space, architecture.

Kristen Canzano Pinyan (2010)
Rutgers University
Email: kcpinyan@eden.rutgers.edu
Interests: Late Medieval England, Women and Gender History, Social History, Lay Religious Practice, Books of Hours, Hagiography

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