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Author Archives: Melissa Ridley Elmes
Shameless Plug ….
I got a shout-out from MLA on Twitter featuring a piece I wrote on two of my favorite subjects: Beowulf, and feasting-hall violence. It’s available for reading in its conference paper form in the CORE repository and if you’ve got … Continue reading
Posted in Research and Scholarship
Tagged academictwitter, medievaltwitter, MLA, scholarship, Twitter
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To the Introvert, on the First Day of Teaching
I have been teaching in various educational settings since 1997–that’s 21 years of face-to-face classroom experience–and one thing that never ceases to amaze me is how hard it still is for me, as an introvert, to get up in front … Continue reading
Another Call for Papers: IMC Leeds 2019
For folks who would prefer to give a paper on Arthurian animals on the other side of the pond, here’s one more CFP, this time for Leeds IMC 2019! Animals and Materiality in the Arthurian Tradition Proposed session for the … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Conferences and Professional Development Opportunities, Research and Scholarship
Tagged Arthurian animals, Arthurian studies, CFP, CFP animal studies, CFP Arthurian, CFP IMC 2019, CFP Leeds IMC, CFP materiality, CFP medieval, Leeds IMC, medieval conference, Medieval Studies
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Calls for Papers: Animal Studies sessions at the International Congress on Medieval Studies 2019!
Hello, all! I hope you are having a restful and productive summer. Below please find two CFPs for sessions on animal studies at next year’s ‘Zoo, and please share widely and/or consider submitting an abstract if you have anything that … Continue reading
Once an editor, always an editor….
Thus far in my academic career, I have edited Lenses, the literary textbook used by graduate teaching assistants at University of North Carolina Greensboro, edited Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal in Medieval Studies, and served as book reviews editor for … Continue reading
Special Journal Issue: New Feminist Voices in the Heroic Age–Call for Papers
This is a reminder that The Heroic Age special issue: “New Feminist Voices in the Heroic Age,” is still accepting submissions! We are accepting submissions from graduate students, postdoctoral, and junior or early-stage scholars (pre-tenure or equivalent NTT faculty experience) … Continue reading
Hitting My Stride: a System for Developing a Research Agenda beyond the Dissertation / Book Project
With the academic year ended and our seniors graduated and feted, many, if not most, scholars are now turning their attention to their summer writing projects. This is especially true of those of us with heavy teaching loads, who often … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Conferences and Professional Development Opportunities, Publishing, Research and Scholarship, writing
Tagged Academic Conferences, academic publishing, academic writing, balancing research and teaching, developing a research agenda, early career researcher, new professor advice, research agenda
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CFP: Celtic/ Old English Studies at MLA 2019
Greetings and salutations! Apologies for the radio-silence this month; it’s been a February, and someone forgot that two sections of Research and Argumentation means 40 students instead of 20 students to work on multiple drafts of multiple essays and hold … Continue reading
Five Easy(ish) Ways To Be More Productive In Your Scholarship With Less Time In Your Schedule
Let me lay all of my cards on the table from the start: I taught for ten years at a year-round private boarding school where I was responsible for developing and implementing the curriculum for three programs (French, English, and … Continue reading
