The 51st volume of Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, published this October, contains book reviews by Claire Kilgore (PhD Student) and Tania Kolarik (PhD Candidate). Kilgore reviewed Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis’ book The Care of Nuns: The Ministries of …
Graduate Students
Student Spotlight: Ph.D. Student Özlem Eren Publishes Case Study in “The Encyclopedia of the Global Middle Ages”
Ph.D. Student Özlem Eren has published a case study about the Russian triptych with the Mandylion (1637), currently located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, in the Bloomsbury Medieval Studies’ The …
Student Spotlight: Fernanda Villarroel (Ph.D. Candidate) Awarded AAUW Grant
Ph.D. Candidate Fernanda Villarroel has been awarded a highly competitive American Association of University Women (AAUW) dissertation fellowship. Though she must decline the fellowship as she is already finishing her dissertation “Figurations of the Feminine in Contemporary …
Student Spotlight: Ph.D. Student Drew Narayanan’s Middle French Translation
Ph.D. Student Tirumular (Drew) Narayanan has recently translated a section from Guillaume de Nangis’ Life of St. Louis. Pre-dating Louis’ more famous biography by Jean de Joinville, the chronicle celebrates the life, accomplishments and sometimes miraculous abilities …
Faculty & Student News: Pre-Modern and Contemporary Race and Racism in Five Objects
Art History Professor Thomas Dale and Ph.D. Student Drew Naryanan will be taking part in the “Pre-Modern and Contemporary Race and Racism in Five Objects” Panel Discussion on Monday, September 28th, 7:00–8:30pm CST. Zoom: Click here …
Student Spotlight: Jessica Cooley’s “Indisposable” at the Ford Foundation
We are excited to announce the opening of the year-long collaboration “Indisposable: Structures of Support after the Americans with Disabilities Act” curated by PhD candidate Jessica Cooley and her co-curator Ann Fox, for the Ford …
Alumni News: Anna Betz (MA, 2020) Hired as Design Consultant
Anna Betz (MA, 2020) recently started working as the Design Consultant for a home remodeling company in Minneapolis called, Affordable Granite & Cabinetry. She designs and sells remodeling concepts and solutions for residential and commercial …
Lindsay Wells (PhD Candidate) Awarded 2020 VanArsdel Prize
Congratulations to Ph.D. Candidate Lindsay Wells for winning the 2020 VanArsdel Prize, awarded by The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP). Her essay “Vegetal Bedfellows: Houseplant Superstitions and Environmental Thought in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals,” will be published in an upcoming issue …