#  Visiting Scholars 2016-2025 

 



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###### 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*