It is the greatest of pleasures to announce that
Dorothy Kim, Seeta Chaganti, Monica Green, and Heidi Ardizzone are the featured speakers for "Celebrating Belle da Costa Greene: An Examination of Medievalists of Color within the Field."
Dorothy Kim, Seeta Chaganti, Monica Green, and Heidi Ardizzone are the featured speakers for "Celebrating Belle da Costa Greene: An Examination of Medievalists of Color within the Field."
Dorothy Kim
Dorothy Kim teaches Medieval Literature at Brandeis University. Her research focuses on race, gender, digital humanities, medieval women’s literary cultures, medievalism, Jewish/Christian difference, book history, digital media, and the alt-right. She was a 2013-2014 Fellow at the University of Michigan’s Frankel Institute of Advanced Judaic Studies where she drafted a monograph entitled Jewish/Christian Entanglements: Ancrene Wisse and its Material Worlds, which is forthcoming from the University of Toronto press. She also has two books, The Alt-Medieval: Digital Whiteness and Medieval Studies and Decolonize the Middle Ages, forthcoming with ArcPress. She is an SSHRC Fellow, Ford Foundation Fellow, Fulbright Fellow, and Mellon Fellow. She is the co-project director in the NEH-funded Scholarly Editions and Translations project, entitled An Archive of Early Middle English, and plans to create a 161 MSS database for medieval English manuscripts from 1100-1348 that includes all items in Early Middle English. This project is in the process of moving into the Brandeis University DH Lab. She is co-editing two collections in the Digital Humanities. The first collection, co-edited with Jesse Stommel (University of Mary Washington) entitled Disrupting the Digital Humanities (forthcoming September 2018, punctum books), discusses the marginal methodologies and critical diversities in the Digital Humanities. The second collection, co-edited with Adeline Koh entitled Alternative Histories of the Digital Humanities (forthcoming 2018, punctum books), examines the difficult histories of the digital humanities in relation to race, sexuality, gender, disability, and fascism. She is co-editing A Cultural History of Race in the Renaissance and Early Modern Age (1350-1550) with Kimberly Coles (University of Maryland, College Park) with Bloomsbury (forthcoming 2019). She is also editing a special issue of Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexualityon Medieval Trans Feminisms (forthcoming Fall 2018). She is the medieval editor for the Orlando Project 2.0 (https://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/orlando/?page_id=62) and the co-editor for Literature Compass’s pre-1800 section with Ruth Connolly (Newcastle University) and the Associate Editor for the Journal of Early Middle English (ArcPress/Amsterdam UP). She is currently an AAUW fellow working on her next book, Race, the Crusades, and the Katherine Group.
Seeta Chaganti
Seeta Chaganti joined the faculty of the UC Davis English department in 2001. She specializes in Old and Middle English poetry and its intersections with material culture. Her first book was The Medieval Poetics of the Reliquary (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). Her new book, Strange Footing (Chicago, 2018), argues that to medieval audiences, poetic form was a multimedia experience shaped by encounters with dance. In this work, she proposes a new method of reenacting medieval dance that draws upon experiences of watching contemporary dance. She has begun a third book in collaboration with Dr. Gabrielle Nevitt (Dept. of Neurobiology, UC Davis), entitled Chicken Lyric: Poetry and the Avian Sense World. Written for a general audience, this book will show how a long history of familiar Anglophone poetry -- including works by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Frost, Williams, Bishop, and Kay Ryan -- reflects in its form and content the chicken's deep influence on human perceptions of sensory environments.
Find out more about Dr. Chaganti here.
Dr. Monica Green
Monica H. Green specializes in the Global History of Health and Medieval European History, particularly the history of medicine and the history of gender. Her innovative teaching -- including stints as guest faculty at the University of Utrecht (2007) and the University of Seattle (2013) -- earned her the 2014 Hazen Education Prize from the History of Science Society. In the summer of 2009 and 2012, she directed the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Seminar for college and university teachers on "Health and Disease in the Middle Ages" at the Wellcome Library in London. In summer 2013, she was visiting fellow at the Center for Medieval Studies at Fordham University. In 2013-14, she was one of three Arizona State University faculty who were selected as members of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
Read more about Dr. Green here.
Heidi Ardizzone
Heidi Ardizzone is the Chair of the Saint Louis University American Studies Department and author of the biography of Belle da Costa Greene, An Illuminated Life: Belle da Costa Greene's Journey from Prejudice to Privilege. Ardizzone's research focuses on the study of race, the African American experience, and people of mixed — primarily black-white — ancestry in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Read more about Dr. Ardizzone here.