The Departments of History and Classics at Queen’s University invite applications from suitably qualified candidates for the Marjorie McLean Oliver Postdoctoral Fellowship in the history of Classical Antiquity and/or Medieval Europe. The fellowship will be awarded initially for a two-year term commencing July 1, 2024, and will be up for renewal for an additional one-year term. The terms of the fellowship stipulate at the donor’s bequest that only candidates who identify as women are eligible for the position. Candidates must thus self-identify as female. A postdoctoral supervisor will be named based on the successful candidate’s field of specialization.

The successful applicant will be expected to maintain an active scholarly profile and to teach one half year course per year in their subject field, with the possibility of an additional course to be negotiated with the Chairs of History and/or Classics. The value of the fellowship in 2024-2025 will be $36,317. The teaching stipend is determined by the collective agreement and is approximately $9,334 per one-term course for a total of approximately $45,651 per year. An additional $2,000 per year has been allocated for academic travel and research. Applicants must have completed a PhD in a discipline relevant to the position’s terms prior to beginning the fellowship. Previous teaching experience and evidence of scholarly research and publication related to the terms of the position will also be considered an asset.

The university invites applications from all qualified individuals. Queen's is strongly committed to employment equity, diversity, and inclusion in the workplace and encourages applications from Black, racialized/visible minority and Indigenous/Aboriginal people, women, persons with disabilities, and 2SLGBTQ+ persons. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.

The university has policies in place to support its employees with disabilities, including an Accommodation in the Workplace Policy and a policy on the provision of job accommodations that take into account an employee's accessibility needs due to disability. The University will provide support in its recruitment processes to applicants with disabilities, including accommodation that takes into account an applicant’s accessibility needs. If you require accommodation during the interview process, please contact Jenn Lucas at jenn.lucas@queensu.ca.

Postdoctoral fellows at Queen's University are governed by two collective agreements. The terms of the overall appointment are governed by the Collective Agreement between PSAC 901, Unit 2 and Queen’s University. The candidate will also be appointed to a term adjunct teaching position, which is governed by the Collective Agreement between QUFA and Queen’s University. Information about these bargaining units, including the Collective Agreements can be found on the Faculty Relations Office’s website.

Application Instructions:

Applications should be submitted electronically in a PDF format and include the following:

1) a cover letter that outlines current or proposed research project(s) to be pursued during the fellowship and ideas for courses the candidate would propose teaching;

2) a complete and current curriculum vitae;

3) letters of reference from two referees;

4) a writing sample such as a dissertation chapter or article; 

5) any other relevant materials the candidate wishes to submit for consideration such as a teaching dossier

Please arrange to have applications and supporting letters sent electronically to: history.chair@queensu.ca.

Applications will be received until 15 November 2023. Final appointment is subject to budgetary approval.

Please visit our websites for more information about the Department of History, the Department of Classics, and Medieval Studies at Queen’s University. Please direct inquiries to the Chair of the Selection Committee, Dr. Richard Greenfield greenfie@queensu.ca.

The Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto is currently accepting applications to both the MA and PhD Programs for the 2024-2025 academic year. This year, CMS is hosting an in-person Open House for prospective applicants to learn directly from our current students, faculty, and alumni. An informational presentation will introduce the event, followed by informal Q & A sessions, student poster exhibitions, networking opportunities, and light refreshments. All are welcome to attend! 

Wednesday, October 18, 4-6 pm ET

Centre for Medieval Studies

3rd Floor, Lillian Massey Building

125 Queen’s Park, Toronto (map)

For those unable to attend in person, a virtual session will be held on November 1 from 4-6 pm. Attendees can learn more about CMS programming from a virtual presentation, followed by information from students, alumni, and faculty, with an opportunity to ask questions in smaller breakout rooms. For more information about both events, please visit https://www.medieval.utoronto.ca/events/cms-open-house.

Wednesday, November 1, 4-6 pm (virtually via Zoom)

Canadian medievalists may be interested to see how the European Middle Ages are presented in the Grade 2 (mostly) and Grade 3 portions of the proposed Alberta Social Studies curriculum. Albertans are asked to give feedback in a survey. https://www.alberta.ca/curriculum-social-studies

Here's a taste: Thanks to Magna Carta, in England "The common people (noble citizens) secured democratic rights and responsible government."

Dear All,

We have a fractional hire in Medieval Studies! Its focus is grant capture and research:

https://jobs.lincoln.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=CASH008

Please share, if you can.

Cheers,

Renée

For more details: https://apply.interfolio.com/130790

The Centre for Medieval Studies (CMS) in the Faculty of Arts and Science at the University of Toronto invites applications for a full-time tenure-stream position in Medieval Latin Studies and Culture from 1100 to 1300. The appointment will be at the rank of Assistant Professor, with an expected start date of July 1, 2024.

For details, see https://www.medieval.utoronto.ca/news/new-position-assistant-professor-medieval-latin-studies-and-culture-1100-1300

Job Posting: Professor - Late Antique Latin Literature and Thought at the University of Toronto. The appointment will be held jointly between the between the Department of Classics (75%) and the Centre for Medieval Studies (25%). Interested candidates are encouraged to read the full job posting at the link below. Applications are due in full by Sep. 13, 2023.

https://jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-Professor-Late-Antique-Latin-Literature-and-Thought-ON/572971017/

Prospective applicants are welcome to contact Professor George Boys-Stones at chair.classics@utoronto.ca. with any questions.

The Department of History at Amherst College invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in medieval and early modern European history, beginning July 1, 2024. The area of specialization is open, but we particularly seek candidates who will offer a broad range of courses, including, but not limited to, those that cross conventional chronological boundaries between the medieval and early modern periods. The teaching load is two courses per semester, in addition to advising senior theses. The successful candidate must have a Ph.D. in hand by the start of the appointment. 

https://apply.interfolio.com/126044

(her obituary, published in the Montreal Gazette):

Anne passed mildly away July 7, of esophageal cancer and its sequelae. She faced death with quiet composure. Born in Chester, England, January 4, 1943, Anne grew up in North Wales. A formative influence was her grammar school English teacher, who "taught her how to read poetry," which led to a lifetime devoted to literature. At nineteen, she entered St. Hilda's College, Oxford, in the PPE program, transferring to English, her true intellectual home, after a term. After obtaining her B.A. (and her pro forma M.A.), and a year of teacher training, she came to Canada in 1966, to teach junior high school in Prince George. A year later she moved to Vancouver, completing an M.A. (1970) and a Ph.D. (1976) at UBC. In 1974, she took a job as a sessional lecturer at the University of Alberta where she met her future husband, Dennis, whom she married in 1976. They settled in Saskatoon, holding various temporary positions in the English Department at the University of Saskatchewan. Their daughter Mary was born in 1978. Subsequently, they spent a year in Ottawa before moving to Montreal, where Dennis (having changed disciplines) was to join the law faculty at McGill. While in the academic wilderness Anne completed her scholarly edition and study The Old English Elegies, published by McGill-Queens. She also gave birth to our second daughter, Jennifer, in 1986. In 1990 Anne took a job in the English Department at UNB, specializing in Old English and History of the English Language. She moved with the two girls to Fredericton, while Dennis spent many years commuting to Montreal. After retiring from UNB, she was named professor emerita in 2009. In 2010, Dennis joined her in retirement in their much-loved Island View home. Even after retiring, Anne continued her scholarship, publishing her last book, The Voices of Medieval English Lyric, in 2019. Perhaps Anne's most notable quality, apart from her staying power, was her integrity, evident in many ways. She was a person of independent mind, chary of ephemeral intellectual fashions. She always spoke her mind forthrightly, without regard to being popular. Sometimes her candour caused her regret. But her criticisms were without rancour. Her scholarship and teaching were motivated by love of the materials and the challenge of mastering them. When an assessment committee commended her for doing an M.A. in Greek "because it enhanced her qualifications," she reacted: "I didn't do it to pad my c.v.; I did it because the poetry is wonderful and the language is hard." In her scholarship, she eschewed using translations: if she wanted to read German literature, she learned German, if Latin literature, Latin, if Greek literature, Greek, if Occitan literature, Occitan, and so on. This was part of her great respect, as an editor and a reader, for the text. Anne was a loving spouse, mother and grandmother, and a tenaciously loyal friend. Anyone who allowed themselves know her well will feel a terrible loss. She is survived by her husband of almost 47 years, by her daughters Mary (Dave Bancroft) and Jen (Debbie Friesen) and by her grandchildren Elisabeth, Raymond, Arthur, and Judith, and Debbie's daughter Charlotte-and by her beloved dog, Sally. A funeral service was held at St. Peter's Anglican Church, Fredericton, NB on Saturday, July 15, 2023 at 11 a.m. Final arrangements have been entrusted to McAdam's Funeral Home and online condolences can be made at www.mcadamsfh.com For those who wish, remembrances may be made in her name to Fredericton SPCA, or Hospice Fredericton.

The editors of The Year’s Work in Medievalism are delighted to announce the publication of volume 35.36 (2020-2021), a double issue. YWiM is the ISSM’s own peer-reviewed open access scholarly journal. The new volume volume represents work completed during the COVID-19 lockdown years, and so YWiM 35.36 contains: a pedagogy cluster; articles that discuss form, media, and medievalism; and a posthumous article by Alicia McKenzie (1976-2022), which we hope serves as a lasting memorial to her life and work.

We encourage you to visit https://ywim.net/ to read and enjoy innovative medievalism scholarship. We hope that this Table of Contents serves as a thrilling preview of the volume:

Pandemic Pedagogy: Teaching Medieval Studies with Medievalism and Baseball, M.J. Toswell, pp. 1-10

When the Digital Generation Isn’t: Pivoting Online with Traditional Campus Students, Melissa Ridley Elmes, pp. 11-26

Pedagogical Practices for Teaching through Crisis, Heather Blatt, pp. 27-33

Sister Warriors: Medievalism and Tropes of Women’s Empowerment in Netflix’s Warrior Nun, Yvonne Seale, pp. 34-49

The Disarticulation of Christendom: Dismemberment and Decapitation in Medieval Films, Caitlin G. Watt, pp. 50-58

“What Would Buffy Do?”: Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s “Storyteller” and the Hagiographic Genre, Meaghan Allen, pp. 59-70

Reading the “human braille”: Discourses of Ableism and Medievalism in the Reburial of Richard III, Rowan Wilson, pp. 71-82

“Messer Papero e il Ghibellin Fuggiasco:” Cultural Constraints on (Neo)medievalism's Adaptability, Karl Fugelso, pp. 83-94

Cynocéphales: (Ab)Uses of a Medieval Trope in Several French Texts of the Modern Era, Bryant White, pp. 95-111

Feminist Knights, Questions of Power, and Utopian Societies: Medievalism Today in Cyril Pedrosa and Roxanne Moreil’s L'Âge d’Or, Elisabeth Herbst Buzay, pp. 112-124

Rubeus Hagrid: The Resolution of Contraries, Part 1: Giant, Wild Man, and Saint, Natalie Goodison, pp. 125-135

Medievalism, Fakelore, and the Commodification of Story-Telling in the Afterlives of Harry Potter, Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand and Olga V. Trokhimenko, pp. 136-148

How (Not) to Design a Progressive Viking: “Desynchronized” Morality in Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla, In Memorium Alicia McKenzie (1976-2022), pp. 149-154

Be well,

Valerie Johnson and Renée Ward