Listen to the editors of the essay cluster on the textual cult of Richard Rolle discuss Rolle's life, works, and contemplative practices and what there is to learn from the fourteenth-century mystic. The cluster is published by Speculum this October (99.4) in honor of Vincent Gillespie, J. R. R. Tolkien Professor of English Language and Literature Emeritus at the University of Oxford.
This episode is a collaboration with Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies. It was hosted by Katherine L. Jansen and Jonathan F. Correa-Reyes in conversation with Andrew Albin and Andrew Kraebel.
Andrew Albin (he/him) is associate professor of English and Medieval Studies at Fordham University at Lincoln Center. His scholarship in the field of historical sound studies examines embodied listening practices, sound’s meaningful contexts, and the lived aural experiences of historical hearers – in a word, the sonorous past – as an object of critical inquiry. His first monograph is Richard Rolle’s Melody of Love: A Study and Translation, with Manuscript and Musical Contexts (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2018). He is currently at work on his second book, an ear-forward methodology for manuscript studies titled The Manuscript Is an Instrument and We Must Play. Albin also facilitates the Fordham Medieval Dramatists, NYC’s only dedicated medieval performance ensemble, which will be presenting pageants from the York Cycle in Summer 2025 at University of Toronto's PLS York Plays 2025 Festival.
Andrew Kraebel is Associate Professor of English at Trinity University, a liberal arts college in San Antonio, Texas. He is the author of Biblical Commentary and Translation in Later Medieval England: Experiments in Interpretation (Cambridge, 2020), which was awarded the best first book prize by the Ecclesiastical History Society and the John Nicholas Brown Prize by the Medieval Academy of America. With Ardis Butterfield and Ian Johnson, he edited the collection Literary Theory and Criticism in the Later Middle Ages: Interpretation, Invention, Imagination (Cambridge, 2023). His critical edition and translation of Richard Rolle's Glosses on the Nine Lessons of the Dead is forthcoming with the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, and he has recently been awarded a multi-year grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support his work, together with Steven Rozenski of the University of Rochester, on a new critical edition and translation of Rolle's Incendium Amoris or Fire of Love.
Katherine L. Jansen is a historian at the Catholic University of America whose work specializes in the history of medieval Italy, religious culture, and women and gender. Her most recent book is Peace and Penance in Late Medieval Italy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018). She currently serves as the Editor of Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies.
Jonathan Correa-Reyes is an Assistant Professor of English. He joined Clemson University in 2023. His research focuses on constructions of collective identity in the medieval literary archive. He is especially interested in premodern articulations of race and understandings of the Human. Although mainly working on the medieval literary traditions of the British Isles, Jonathan also studies the textual cultures of medieval Iberia and Scandinavia. His work has been supported by the Ford Foundation.
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