Leah Pope Parker
Dr. Leah Pope Parker is an Assistant Professor of English in the School of Humanities at the University of Southern Mississippi. She completed her PhD in English at UW-Madison in 2019 under the direction of Martin Foys, and is now adapting her dissertation into a book provisionally titled Light of the Everlasting Life: Disability and Salvation in Old English Literature. At USM, she teaches general education courses on world literature, surveys of British literature to 1800, as well as upper-level and graduate courses on Old and Middle English literature, medievalism, and history of the English language. Her research explores themes of disability, neurodiversity, histories of the body, and phenomenologies of religion.
Daniel C. Cochran
Daniel received his Ph.D. in 2018, completing a dissertation on late antique Christian art and architecture under the supervision of Thomas E.A. Dale. He previously received a B.A. in religion and classics from the University of Rochester, NY, and an M.Div. from Harvard University. While at UW, Daniel served as a teaching fellow in Art History and lectured in the Religious Studies Program. He was awarded a University Fellowship, Chancellor's Fellowship, two consecutive years of FLAS Fellowships (in Turkish), and completed his dissertation as a Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellow with the Woodrow Wilson Institute. His first book, Building the Body of Christ: Christian Art, Identity, and Community in Late Antique Italy, is due out in early 2021 (Fortress Press Academic). Daniel is an ordained minister in the United Methodist Church and currently serves congregations in the suburbs of Chicago where he lives with his wife, two children, and their scruffy dog Luna.
Jay Paul Gates
Jay Paul Gates (PhD 2007) is Associate Professor and chair of the English Department at John Jay College, CUNY. He works on early medieval England, particularly the ninth through eleventh centuries, with an emphasis on law and legal culture. He co-edited with Brian O’Camb Remembering the Medieval Present: Generative Uses of England’s Pre-Conquest Past, 10th to 15th Centuries (Brill, 2019), which includes his chapter of Aelred of Rievaulx’s Genealogia regum Anglorum. He co-edited with Nicole Marafioti Capital and Corporal Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England (Boydell, 2014), including his chapter on the historical revisionism at Worcester surrounding Eadric streona. He has also published a number of chapters on articles on Eadric streona in historical writing, on Archbishop Wulfstan of York, on Beowulf and the St Brice’s Day massacre, and he produced a student edition and translation of the prologue to Alfred the Great’s lawcode (http://www.heroicage.org/issues/18/gates.php).
Sara Schliep
Sara Schliep has a hybrid position as an Archivist and Cataloger at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. Sara received an MA in Literary Studies in 2014 from the UW-Madison and an MLIS in Library and Information Science in 2017 from St. Catherine University. At UW-Madison, Sara studied early British, Norse, and early modern literature and at St. Catherine University she specialized in special collections librarianship and archives. Her work at the Folger on the Collection Description and Imaging Team applies a variety of skills including paleography and transcription, codicology, historical research, bibliographical analysis, rare materials cataloging, archival processing and description, archival administration, and customer service (in the form of working with researchers and responding to reference questions).
Anna Betz
Since obtaining her MA in May 2020, Anna Betz has started working as a Design Consultant for a home and building remodeling company in Minneapolis, MN. She helps provide design solutions for residential and commercial remodeling projects. Her years studying for her Master’s in Art History have cultivated an eye for design and material that assist her in this position. Additionally, the rigor of the Master’s Program and the Medieval Studies Program has given her the tools she needed to have confidence in communicating and designing in her new position.
Max Gray
Maxwell Gray is a digital scholarship librarian in RaynorMemorial Libraries at Marquette University. He has received an MA in comparative literature in 2016, an MA in English literature in 2018 and an MA in library and information studies in 2021.For three years Maxwell was a research assistant at the digital humanities platform projectDigital Mappaat the Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture. Maxwell's ongoing creative research project is a digital documentary poetry project calledMOUNDS. The project also includes public digital scholarship atThe SundialandEdge Effects. The project deals with medieval studies and white settler colonialism. You can find Maxwell online athttps://maxgray20.com, and on Twitter at@maxgray20.
Todd Michelson-Ambelang
Dr. Todd Michelson-Ambelang was hired as Academic Librarian in 2013 and graduated with a PhD in Scandinavian Philology in December 2015. His dissertation was an examination of terminology for disability and impairment in Old Norse-Icelandic and the treatment of characters with disabilities and impairments in the Sagas and Þættir of Icelanders. He is currently a member of the International and Area Studies Librarians at Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he covers Scandinavian Humanities and South Asian Studies. He also is the ADA Accessibility Liaison for the General Library System, where he works with library users with disabilities and impairments with accessibility needs and finds equitable access to services, items, and spaces in the libraries. Todd continues to publish, albeit not just in Medieval Studies. He has published recently on library collections, colonialism in libraries, as well as Old Norse-Icelandic Literature. Todd also co-teaches a course in Scandinavian Studies on Scandinavian Languages, taking the section of the class involving historical linguistics. His interests continue to be in disability studies as well as investigating other outsiders in Medieval Nordic society.