IMC Leeds 2025

I will present a paper on “Disability Epistemologies in Fortunes of Mortals” at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds on Tuesday, July 8 on one of two panels on “Tactility and the Early Medieval English Text.” The full program is available here (link to IMC Leeds program).

Access copies of my handout and talk, as well as the flyer for my forthcoming book, are available through July 11: Link to access copies.

Medieval Academy of America Webinar: Medieval Crip Theory

On April 12, I will join Richard H. Godden and Tory V. Pearman for a panel discussion on “Medieval Crip Theory: New Approaches and Provocations,” hosted by the Medieval Academy of America’s Inclusivity and Diversity Committee.

Details on the webinar are available here: Link to MAA webinar details.

For accessibility purposes, copies of my talk and slides are available here through April 13:

MAA Webinar Talk

MAA Webinar Slides

Mississippi Humanities Council Teacher of the Year Lecture

On Thursday, March 9, 2023, I will present a talk titled “Disability and the Medieval Apocalypse: Body and Soul” at USM.

For more background on this talk and the teaching award that occasions it, please see: https://www.usm.edu/news/2023/release/mhc-teacher-year.php

You can find access copies of my talk’s text and slides (available through 3/9) here:

MHC Lecture

MHC Slides

MLA 2023

I am presenting two papers at the Modern Languages Association in January 2023. Access copies of the text and my slides are available here (through January 10):

“Decay and Doomsday: The Disabled Corpse in Soul and Body” (Thursday, 5 January, 5:15-6:30 pm in Moscone West 3003)

Paper

Slides

“Disability and Distant Lands in the Beowulf Manuscript” (Saturday, 7 January, 12-1:15 pm, Virtual)

Paper

Slides

MAA 2022: Cynewulf's Wounds

At the Medieval Academy of America (MAA) Annual Convention 2022 I am giving a talk titled “Cynewulf’s Wounds: Disability and Eschatological Anxiety.” This paper is based on a chapter from my book project.

Session: “Medieval Medicine and Marvel,” Friday, March 11 at 8:30 am Eastern time. (I will be presenting remotely.)

Access copy of my paper is available here through March 15.

And my slides are available here.

ICMS Kalamazoo 2021

Access copies of my papers for the International Congress on Medieval Studies 2021 are available here through May 20, as well as the PowerPoint slide deck that covers both presentations.

Friday, May 14 at 3 pm Eastern time: “St Margaret and Natal Disability” Paper

Friday, May 14 at 7 pm Eastern time: “Sight and Salvation: Disability Metaphors in Early Medieval Eschatology” Paper

ICMS 2021 Slides (both papers)

SSDMA CFP for ICMS Kalamazoo 2019

The Society for the Study of Disability in the Middle Ages
Invites Proposals for the International Congress on Medieval Studies
May 9-12 2019, Kalamazoo, MI

[An individual with a bandaged leg with amputated foot on a small crutch, using a larger crutch with the opposing arm, and holding a sword in preparation to attack.]

[An individual with a bandaged leg with amputated foot on a small crutch, using a larger crutch with the opposing arm, and holding a sword in preparation to attack.]

Medieval Disability and Pedagogy (a roundtable)

Contributors will discuss the ways in which disability has informed approaches to instruction, how to unite disability pedagogy and scholarship, possible texts for inclusion in the classroom, and selected assignments and activities that involve the medieval disability perspective. Participants will share practical ideas for effective activities, assignments, and readings.

Intersections of Race and Disability in the Global Middle Ages (a session of papers)

In this session, contributors will offer papers that explore the intersections between race and disability in the Middle Ages. We particularly seek approaches that consider non-Western, inter-disciplinary perspectives.

Disability and Public Scholarship (a session of papers)

In this session, participants will discuss the responsibilities of medieval disability studies to engage in public scholarship, how we can share our own public scholarship, and the ways that we as medieval disability studies scholars can be more active in public scholarship in order to support the value of our research.

Please send 250-word abstracts along with completed Participant Information Form to Tory Pearman at pearmatv@miamioh.edu by September 15.

Because medieval disability studies should pursue inclusive and intersectional scholarship, the SSDMA is committed to including perspectives representative of the diversity of the field and to amplifying voices that are too often marginalized by systemic discrimination in academic employment, publishing, funding, and conference programming.

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UW-Madison English Department Teaching Awards

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I'm honored to be one of several TAs in the English Department to receive teaching awards this year! Along with Neil Simpkins, I was chosen as one of a dozen College of Letters & Science Teaching Fellows. In this role, Teaching Fellows design and lead the training for L&S TAs at UW-Madison each August. The English Department web site has the full list of English TAs who received awards here.

 
From left to right, some of the English Department TA Awardees: Thatcher Spero, Neil Simpkins (kneeling), Tori Thompson Peters, Scott Harman, Leah Parker, Annika Konrad, Erica Kanesaka Kalnay, Addie Hopes, Jennie Seidewand, Lindsey Wells.

From left to right, some of the English Department TA Awardees: Thatcher Spero, Neil Simpkins (kneeling), Tori Thompson Peters, Scott Harman, Leah Parker, Annika Konrad, Erica Kanesaka Kalnay, Addie Hopes, Jennie Seidewand, Lindsey Wells.