In this episode, Will Beattie speaks with the co-editors of a special issue of Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies (100.1) that coincides with the centenniel of the Medieval Academy of America. Together, Roland Betancourt, Karla Mallette, and Will reflect on one hundred years of medieval studies and what the future may hold for the field.
Will Beattie is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the Nanovic Institute for European Studies. He holds a PhD in Medieval Studies from the Medieval Institute of the University of Notre Dame. Will's main interest lies in the function of eschatological literature during the medieval period, particularly in Anglo-Saxon England. He approaches this study from a sociopolitical perspective, investigating the ways in which contemporary events like the Scandinavian invasions of the 8th to 11th centuries influenced the use of religious language. He is also interested in the relationship between soul and body in Anglo-Saxon literature.
Roland Betancourt is Chancellor’s Professor of Art History at the School of Humanities and affiliate faculty with Religious Studies and Classics at UC Irvine. Betancourt is a scholar of Byzantium and modern popular culture with research that lies firmly at the intersection of histories of science and technology, intellectual history, and the history of art. His research has explored theories of sensation and perception, the transmission of ancient knowledge, technical illustrations and diagrams, musicological analyses of texts and their recitation, and the premodern histories of queerness, gender variance, and racialization.
Karla Mallette is Professor of Mediterranean Studies in the Department of Middle East Studies and Professor of Italian in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan. Mallette works on communications between languages and literary traditions in the medieval Mediterranean—especially Arabic, Latin and the Romance vernaculars—and the way that we remember that history today. Mallette was trained as a literary historian in an interdisciplinary program (the University of Toronto’s Centre for Medieval Studies), so the historical context in which people wrote literature is very important to her work. Mallette is interested especially in things that travel from one shore of the Mediterranean to another—people, books, ideas, and material objects—how they are transformed in the process, and the transformative cultural impact they have in a new land.
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