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2018 End-of-the-year review (Or, “And I thought 2017 was busy!”)

Posted on December 31, 2018 by Melissa Ridley Elmes

It’s December 31; time for another “Year In Review” post! Here’s what I managed to accomplish professionally this year: Publications Article “‘Compassion and Benignytee’: A Reassessment of the Relationship Between Canacee and the Falcon in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Squire’s Tale.” Medieval … Continue reading →

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Progress … doesn’t always look like progress (a post [mostly] on research and publication)

Posted on September 24, 2017 by Melissa Ridley Elmes

I imagine that everyone who reads this blog has at least a passing familiarity with academia–perhaps you are a student, or the parent of a student, in college or graduate school, or a fellow professor or other member of the … Continue reading →

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Why Academic Conferences Matter

Posted on May 15, 2017 by Melissa Ridley Elmes

I’ve just returned home from my annual pilgrimage to the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University (colloquially known as “the ‘Zoo”). As always, the  four-day conference was at once all-too-brief (so many people I didn’t get to … Continue reading →

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