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:

Kristin Canzano Pinyan (2010)
Rutgers University, GSC Committee Chair
Email: kcpinyan@eden.rutgers.edu
Interests: Late Medieval England, women and gender history, social history, lay religious practice, books of hours, hagiography.

Thomas Devaney (2010)
Brown University
Email: Thomas_Devaney@brown.edu
Dissertation topic: "An 'Amiable Enmity': Frontier Spectacle and Intercultural Relations in Castile and Cyprus"
Interests: Mediterranean cultural and social history, popular religion, the Crusades, urban public ritual, sacred space, architecture.

Kathleen Neal (2011)
Monash University, Australia; GSC Committee Chair
Email: kbneal1@gmail.com
Dissertation topic: "Ancient Correspondence and English Government: Henry III and Edward I"
Interests: Literacy, rhetoric, communication, English legal & administrative practice, the role of queens, computing in the humanities.

Karrie Fuller (2011)
University of Notre Dame
Email: kfuller2@nd.edu
Interests: Manuscript studies, medieval travel, hagiography, Old and Middle English poetry.

Andrew Kraebel (2011)
Yale University
Email: Andrew.Kraebel@Yale.EDU
Dissertation topic: "The study of the Bible in fourteenth-century England"
Interests: Biblical exegesis from the Carolingian period to the later Middle Ages; grammar, rhetoric, and hermeneutics; paleography and codicology; textual editing.

Sarah C. Parker (2012)
University of Texas at Austin
Email: scelentano@mail.utexas.edu
Interests: Christian-Jewish dynamics and religious identity, women and the book, spatial theory.

Michelle Urberg (2012)
University of Chicago
Email: urberg@uchicago.edu
Dissertation topic: "Liturgical traditions of medieval Scandinavia, with an emphasis on Brigittine practice in Sweden"
Interests: Medieval music and music theory, medieval Scandinavia, Christology and Mariology in the late middle ages, Latin paleography, Edvard Grieg and Norwegian nationalism, Ingmar Bergman, film music.

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