Visiting Scholars 2016-2025

Spring 2026

Cristina Maria Cervone (University of Memphis), Vernacular Poetics of Metaphor: Middle English and the Corporate Subject

Fall 2025

Denis Searby (Classics, Stockholm University), Demetrios Kydones Defending Thomas Aquinas

Spring 2025

Anthony Harris (Medieval Studies, Cambridge University), Early Manuscripts of Science in the Libraries of Harvard University

Fall 2024

Kersti Francis (Society of Fellows, Boston University), Queer Magic: Fiction and Identity in Medieval Literature

Spring 2024

Adrienne Williams Boyarin (English, University of Victoria), Anglo-Jewish Women and English Jews in Houghton Manuscripts

Tobias Daniels (History, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich), High Medieval Systems of Knowledge in Transition

Anita Savo (Spanish, Boston University), Algarabía: Language Anxiety in Medieval Castile

Fall 2023

Laura Morreale (Independent Scholar), Translatio Studii and the Antiquarian Moment

Miriam Goldstein (Arabic Language and Literature, Hebrew University), A Shared Scripture, in Arabic: Christian and Jewish Exegetes on Genesis

Spring 2023

Kathleen Tonry (English, University of Connecticut), The Time of the Book: Temporality, Labor, and Technology in Early English Book Production

Samantha Seal (English, University of New Hampshire), Before They Were White: Making Race Supremacies in Late Medieval England

Fall 2022

Veerle Fraeters (Religion, University of Antwerp), Hadewijch's Complete Works II: Visions

Elena Shabliy (Independent Scholar), European Christian Writers and the Medieval World

Spring 2022

Lauro Olmo-Enciso (Archeology, University of Alcalá), From Visigoths to Arabs: Dynamics of Transculturation in the Formative Process of al-Andalus (appointment declined)

Fall 2021

Lilia Campana (History, Texas A&M University), Byzantine Ship Design and Its Legacy in the West

Rachel Teubner (Medieval Studies, Australian Catholic University), The Bible and Marguerite: Poetic Genre and Theology in the Early Évangelisme

Fall 2020-Spring 2021: no Visiting Scholars due to COVID-19 campus closure

Spring 2020

David Ganz (Palaeography, Kings College London emeritus), Latin Palaeography and Early Medieval History

Dirceu Marchini Neto (History, Federal University of Tocantins), The Relic of Christ's Cross and the Transposition of This Christian Ideal to the Iberian Peninsula during the Battle of Salado (1340)

Fall 2019

Aleksandra Buncic (Independent Scholar), Written in the Stars: Jewish Science in Medieval Catalonia

Deeana Klepper (History and Religion, Boston University), Albert of Diessen's "Priest's Mirror": Defining Religion in Late Medieval Germany

Spring 2019

Mary-Jo Arn† (Independent Scholar), The Life and Work of a Captive Prince: Charles d'Orléans's Life in England and His English Poetry

Riccardo Rao (History, University of Bergamo), Environmental and Material History of Medieval Europe

Fall 2018

Anthony Adams (Independent Scholar), A Translation and Commentary on Frithegod of Canturbury's Breviloquium vitae Wilfridi (appointment declined)

John Niles (English, University of Wisconsin emeritus), Medicine in Pre-Conquest England

Spring 2018

David Woodman (History, Cambridge University), A History of John of Worcester's Chronicle (c. 1140)

Katherine Zieman (English, Oxford University), A History of Attention in the Premodern Era

Fall 2017

Omer Michaelis (Jewish Studies, Tel Aviv University), The Birth of the Author in Medieval Judaism (10th-12th Centuries)

Stijn Praet (Romance Languages and Classics, Stockholm University), Multi-Narrative Organization in High Medieval Latin Tale Compilations: The Eastern Connection

Spring 2017

Jesse Izzo (Independent Scholar), Between Babylon and Tartary: The Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem in its Near Eastern Context, c. 1240-1291

Alex Mueller (English, University of Massachusetts Boston), Dictamen and Literary Form in Late Medieval England

Fall 2016

Megan Cook (English, Colby College), The Poet and the Antiquaries: Chaucerian Scholarship and the Rise of Literary History, 1532-1635

E.M. Rose (Independent Scholar), Thirteenth Century Blood Libels: The Case of Margaret of Pforzheim