Saturday, November 8, 2008
Saturday, November 8, 2008
An Interdisciplinary Conference Sponsored by the Departments of English and Foreign Languages
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A. C. Spearing is William R. Kenan Professor of English at the University of Virginia. He was formerly Reader in Medieval English Literature at the University of Cambridge and remains a Fellow of Queens' College. His books include Criticism and Medieval Poetry, The Gawain-Poet, Medieval Dream-Poetry, Medieval to Renaissance in English Poetry, The Medieval Poet as Voeyeur, and, most recently, Textual Subjectivity: The Encoding of Subjectivity in Medieval Narratives and Lyrics.
Nancy Partner is a Professor of History at McGill University, specializing in Medieval History, Historiography, and Critical Theory. She is the author of Studying Medieval Women and of Writing Medieval History.
William Caferro specializes in the history of medieval and Renaissance Italy. His research has focused on the transition from the medieval to Renaissance period, on ascertaining the distinction between the two terms, particularly with regard to economic forces. He is author of Mercenary Companies and the Decline of Siena (Johns Hopkins, 1998) and John Hawkwood, English Mercenary in Fourteenth Century Italy (Johns Hopkins, 2006). John Hawkwood won the Otto Grundler Prize from the Medieval Academy as the best book on medieval studies (all fields and all languages). He is co-author of The Spinelli: Fortunes of a Renaissance Family (Penn State, 2001) and co-editor of The Unbounded Community: Papers in Christian Ecumenism in Honor of Jaroslav Pelikan (Routledge, 1996). His most recent book Contesting the Renaissance (Blackwell, 2007) traces the meaning and use of the term “Renaissance” in the major debates of the historiography. Professor Caferro’s current book project examines the economic and cultural effects of warfare on fourteenth and fifteenth-century Florence.
Marcia Colish taught at Oberlin College from which she retired as Frederick B. Artz Professor of History. Since then she have been Visiting Fellow in History at Yale and has taught as Visiting Professor of History and Religious Studies (2003) and as Lecturer in History (2004-05). Her main areas of research interest are the intellectual history of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Principal publications: The Mirror of Language: A Study in the Medieval Theory of Knowledge (1968, rev. ed. 1981); The Stoic Tradition from Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages, 2 vols. (1985, paperback ed. 1990; Italian translation forthcoming); Peter Lombard, 2 vols. (1994; winner of the Haskins Medal of the Medieval Academy of America, 1998); Medieval Foundations of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 400-1400 (1997, paperback ed. 1999; Italian translation 2001, Polish translation forthcoming); Ambrose's Patriarchs: Ethics for the Common Man (May 2005).
Maryanne Kowaleski, Dept. of History at Fordham University. Her main scholarly interests are: Economic and social history; women and family; urban and maritime history; England . Selected Publications:Medieval Towns: A Reader (2005); Local Markets and Regional Trade in Medieval Exeter (1995); ed., The Havener’s Accounts of the Earldom and Duchy of Cornwall , 1287-1356 (2001); co-editor with M. Erler, Women and Power in the Middle Ages (1988); on the editorial board of Speculum. Current Projects: an article on “Gender, Gossip, and the Economy in Late Medieval England,” and a book study, “Living from the Sea: An Ethnography of Maritime Communities in Medieval England.”
Barbara Newman is Professor of English, Religion, and Classics and John Evans Professor of Latin at Northwestern University. Her most recent book, Frauenlob’s Song of Songs: A Medieval German Poet and His Masterpiece, was published by Penn State University Press in 2006. Prof. Newman is also the author of God and the Goddesses: Vision, Poetry, and Belief in the Middle Ages (2002), From Virile Woman to WomanChrist (1995), and several books on Hildegard of Bingen. She has held fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation at Bellagio, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and is a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America. She lives in Evanston with her husband, Richard Kieckhefer, and their three cats: Felicitas, Hyperbole, and Oxymoron.
