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:

Michelle Urberg (2012)
University of Chicago; GSC Committee Chair
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.

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.

Elizaveta Strakhov (2013)
University of Pennsylvania
Email: strakhov@sas.upenn.edu
Dissertation topic: "uses of history in French and English 14th-century courtly love literature"
Interests: 14th and 15th-century Italian, French and English courtly love literature; medieval literary theory; medieval historiography; multilingualism in England and France.

Ethan Zadoff (2013)
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Email: Ezadoff@gc.cuny.edu
Dissertation topic: "Jewish and Christian Marriage Law in Twelfth and Thirteenth Century France and Germany"
Interests: Medieval legal history, the relationship between medieval law and culture and the cultural analysis of law, Jewish-Christian relations in the high and late middle ages.

Sebastian J. Langdell (2013)
University of Oxford
Email: sebastian.langdell@seh.ox.ac.uk
Dissertation topic: "Thomas Hoccleve and the Poetics of Ecclesiastical Reform in Early Fifteenth-Century England"
Interests: Late medieval English poetry and religious writing; international political and poetic exchange in the medieval period; concepts of poetic identity; representations of reading and readerships.

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