Ballot Archive

05 Dec 2019

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Kathryn Kerby-Fulton

Academic degrees, honours etc.

Hon. B.A., B.Ed., York University, Toronto; M.Phil.Oxford University.; D.Phil., University of York, U.K

Profession or occupation

University Professor Emerita (Endowed Chair)

Grounds for election

Kerby-Fulton, an endowed chair (emerita) at University of Notre Dame and Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, is an internationally-recognized expert in Medieval literature, intellectual history, and manuscript studies in England and Anglo-Ireland, especially reading practices and text-image relations. Reformist Apocalypticism and Piers Plowman (Cambridge, 1990), tracing Insular manuscript transmission of radical European Latin exegesis, won the John Nicholas Brown Prize from Medieval Academy; Iconography and the Professional Reader with Denise Despres (Minnesota, 1999) examined scribe-illustrators; Books Under Suspicion: Censorship and Tolerance of Revelatory Writing in Late Medieval England (Notre Dame, 2006), on suppressed Latin manuscripts, won the Haskins Gold Medal from the Medieval Academy; and Opening Up Medieval English Manuscripts: Literary and Visual Approaches, with M. Hilmo and L. Olson (Cornell, 2012), won the 2013 Choice Award from the American Library Association.

Signatories

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