Contributors, Medieval Feminist Forum, v.53, no.1 2017
0 Linda E. MitchELL is the Martha Jane Phillips Starr Missouri D-is tinguished Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Her most recent publications incluJdoaen de Valence: The Life and Influence of a Thirteenth-Century Noblewoman (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) andV oices of Medieval England , Scotland, Ireland, and Wales (ABC-Clio, 2016). She is completing a monograph, titledT he Marshal Consanguinity: Kinship, Affinity , and the Creation of a Socio-Political Network 1200 -1400, for Brill. She also serves as Vice President of SMFS and is the senior editor oHfi storical Reflections/ Réflexions Historiques , USA
ann OLivarius (Yale BA 1977, JD and MBA 1986, Oxford DPhil 1991) has been practicing law since 1990 and now runs McAllister Olivarius, a law firm with offices in New York and London. In 1977 she was a p-lain tiff in the first case to find that universities that failed to take effective steps against sexual harassment by professors were committing illegal discrimination, and has represented many victims of sexual assault, harassment, and discrimination at work and at universities. In 2012, the American Civil Liberties Union named her as one of the Top Forty most significant actors in the forty-year history of Title IX, the law that mandates equal treatment for women in education. JEnnifEr c. Edwards is Associate Professor of History at Man-hat tan College in Riverdale, NY. Her 2014 article “My Sister for Abbess: Fifteenth-Century Power Disputes over the Abbey of Sainte-Croix, Poitiers” in theJ ournal of Medieval History won the Society for French Historical Studies William Koren, Jr. Prize. She is currently completing
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her book, “Superior Women: Asserting and Challenging Female Aut-hor
ity in Poitiers’ Abbey of Sainte-Croix,” and beginning a new project,
“Holy Healing: Saints and Urban Leprosaria in the Middle Ages.” She
is an associate editor foMredieval Feminist Forum and serves on the
Advisory Board of the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship.
KristEn MiLLs is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of
Oslo. She works on medieval insular literatures, languages, and cultures
and has published on grief and mourning, constructions of gender, and
the cultural history of death and dying. She held a Mellon Postdoctoral
Fellowship at Haverford College 2015-17 and was a Visiting Assistant
Professor of Celtic Studies at St. Francis Xavier University 2013-14.
ELizabEth hubbLE directs the University of Montana—Missoula’s
Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, which offers a major,
minor, and graduate certificate.She received her PhD (2002) in medieval
French literature from the University of Michigan—Ann Arbor where
her dissertation analyzed representations of masculinity and male-friend
ship in medieval French romance.Her most recent articles focus o-n inte
grating violence prevention in the humanities classroom.She regularly
teaches classes and gives lectures on the impact of media representations
of gender, race, and sexuality and the history and theory of gender
and sexuality.Her latest article is are “Bringing the Bystander into the
Humanities Classroom: Reading Ancient, Patristic, and Medieval Texts
on the Continuum of Violence” appearing iTneaching Rape in the
Medieval Literature Classroom: Approaches to Difficult Texts (forthcoming).
KatE KELsEy stapLEs is Associate Professor of History at West- Vir
ginia University. Recent publications incluDdea ughters of London:
Inheriting Opportunity in Late Medieval London (Brill, 2011) and “Con-artists
or Entrepreneurs? Fripperers and Market Space in Thirteenth- and-Four
teenth-Century ParisJ,o” urnal of Medieval History 43:2 (2017): 228-54.
Lydia harris is currently ending her time as a doctoral candidate at
Durham University after successfully defending her thesis in th-e sum
mer of 2017. Her research explores fertility control in high medieval
medical texts, focusing particularly on abortive and contraceptiv-e meth
ods. This study was undertaken between the Departments of History
and English, enabling the project to examine fertility control from an
interdisciplinary perspective. Future projects will expand this study of
medieval gynaecological health to examine sterile, pre-menstrual, and
menopausal women in medieval society.
anna wayMacK is a PhD candidate in Medieval Studies and Exec-u
tive Vice Chair of the University Assembly at Cornell University. Her
dissertation work explores the social construct of old age in
fourteenthcentury English literature. She co-founded Sexual Assault Network for
Grads, the first activist organization to tackle issues of sexual assault,
sexual harassment, and Title IX as they pertain specifically to graduate
and professional students in the United States.
nahir OtañO Gracia has a PhD from the University of Massac-hu
setts, Amherst. Her research centers on Arthurian texts from th-e Atlan
tic peripheries of Europe. Her first book project is tentatively titled “ (...truncated)