Contributors, Medieval Feminist Forum, v.53, no.1 2017

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality, Dec 2017

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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 - 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)


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