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A HAPPY NEW YEAR's Work in Medievalism

Dear colleagues in Medievalism Studies,

The checkered story of The Year's Work in Medievalism continues, but we are getting better at making our colleagues' scholarship on medievalism more generally accessible. As you may remember, we moved the journal to the Georgia Tech Library last year, hoping this would be a good solution. While this is generally true (the site had several thousand visitors since its inception), there were concerns about the sustainability of the journal, the complex software used by the Library, and other questions. Ed Risden and I, always ready to make things better, decided to move the journal to a no-nonsense site that we can easily handle and that provides easy open access to our scholarship.

We also promised last year that we would establish an editorial advisory board, and we are well under way toward a great board with international colleagues who will help us attract and will vet contributions from a variety of disciplines and diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. The current list of colleagues on the board is yet incomplete.

Also: We are currently seeking applications for the position of assistant editor of our journal. Prior experience in the areas of editing and publishing is definitely an asset. Candidates for this position should have a strong interest in, and hopefully some prior experience with, researching the reception of medieval culture in postmedieval times. Please send a concise "letter of interest" and CV as one single PDF to both [email protected] and [email protected]. We do not expect the average weekly workload for the assistant editor to go beyond 1 hour. The appointment will be for an initial two-year period. PLEASE share this announcement with your colleagues and graduate students. The deadline for applying is January 25, 2015.

And WHERE exactly is the journal right now? Well, RIGHT HERE. In spring, we will be moving the essays from volume 27 (2012) from the GT Library site over to this new site. And we are also in the process of attempting to collect some of the older volumes (together with permissions to re-publish) so that much of the scholarship that used to be almost inaccessible might become accessible in the near future. For now, please enjoy the brand-new essays in MEDIEVALISM NOW, a special issue (28 [2013]) edited by Ed Risden, Karl Fugelso, and yours truly. Here is the Table of Contents:

E. L. Risden: Introduction
Valerie B. Johnson: Ecomedievalism: Medievalism's Potential Futures in Ecocriticism and Ecomaterialism
Amy S. Kaufman: Lowering the Drawbridge
Elena Levy-Navarro: A Long Parenthesis Begins
Nickolas Haydock: Medievalism and Anamorphosis: Curious Perspectives on the Middle Ages
Kevin Moberly & Brent Moberly: There is No Word for Work in the Dragon Tongue
E. L. Risden: Miyazaki's Medieval World: Japanese Medievalism and the Rise of Anime
Karl Fugelso: Embracing Our Marginalism: Mitigating the Tyranny of a Central Paradigm
Carol L. Robinson: The Quest for a Deaf Lesbian Dwarf (or Anyone Else that Might Have Been Excluded) in Medievalist Video Games: A Response to Karl Fugelso?s ?Manifesto?
Jesse G. Swan: Relaxation and Amateur Medievalism for Early Modernity: Seeing Sir Henry Yelverton as a Woman in Love and a Bureaucrat Threatened in the 1621 Parliament
Helen Young: Place and Time: Medievalism and Making Race
Richard Utz: Can We Talk About Religion, Please? Medievalism?s Eschewal of Religion, and Why it Matters

Enjoy the new site and the new special issue; thanks for your patience and assistance during this transition; and Happy Holidays to all!

Richard & Ed

PS: If the above link should not work, please paste this URL into your browser: https://sites.google.com/site/theyearsworkinmedievalism/home

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