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Dr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social · Jul 29

Ready for @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2026? Submit an abstract to Dan Reeve and I's CFP: "BEYOND TOUCH: New Queer and Trans Temporalities" We invite submissions for 15-20 minute papers that examine queer and trans temporalities from new and unexpected angles. #IMC2026. Full CFP below 👇

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Nick Munn @medievalmunn.bsky.social · Jul 29

CfP for Leeds IMC 2026 on Premodern Masculinities. Do join 😊 #skystorians #medieval #masculinities #genderstudies #imc2026 @imc-leeds.bsky.social

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Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship @socmedfem.bsky.social · Jul 31

Proposals must be submitted to the ICMS Confex system by Sept. 15, 2025. Please address questions to Anne Le ([email protected]) and Kersti Francis ([email protected])

Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship @socmedfem.bsky.social · Jul 31

Work that engages with Mediterranean Studies and the Global Middle Ages is especially welcome. Graduate students and ECR are particularly encouraged to apply.

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Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship @socmedfem.bsky.social · Jul 31

We invite papers that (re)consider the relationship between gender and sexuality studies, feminist theory, and medieval discourses of Orientalism, colonialism, race, and intercultural encounter, engaging with some aspect of Dr. Kinoshita's extensive academic corpus.

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Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship @socmedfem.bsky.social · Jul 31

In Honor of Sharon Kinoshita II: Postcolonial Feminisms
Dr. Kinoshita’s work draws a great deal from postcolonial studies and shapes how many medievalists today incorporate it in their research and teaching.

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Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship @socmedfem.bsky.social · Jul 31

Topics might include reflections upon Medieval Boundaries' impact, case studies from that volume in light of the intervening decades, and/or depictions of cross-cultural contact in medieval literature more broadly.

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Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship @socmedfem.bsky.social · Jul 31

In Honor of Sharon Kinoshita I: Celebrating 20 Years of Medieval Boundaries

2026 marks the 20th anniversary of Dr. Kinoshita's landmark monograph Medieval Boundaries: Rethinking Difference in Old French Literature (Penn Press), and we invite papers that significantly engage with that work.

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Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship @socmedfem.bsky.social · Jul 31

The Medieval Foremothers Society invites proposals for two hybrid sessions honoring Sharon Kinoshita (UC Santa Cruz) at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI in May 2026. Full CFP below!👇✨

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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · May 16

Want to participate in the RaceB4Race Mentorship Network? Get your application in now! Deadline extended to 5/25.

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Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship @socmedfem.bsky.social · May 2

An interesting question - perhaps our followers can help?

Katie Kleinkopf @katiekleinkopf.bsky.social · May 2

Friends in English and Feminist scholarship, I would love your help! What books/articles would you recommend on the ethics of scholars re-describing on the details of violence perpetrated against a character’s body? Or the visceral description of a character’s body against their (in story) will?

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · May 1

Close to TWO THOUSAND academics and educators say TRANS RIGHTS NOW.

(Sorry if you've seen this (and the historians' letter!) too many times. The lack of an algorithm means we have to keep reposting it to catch people, and this really matters.)

Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · Apr 30

Heartened to see that close to 900 fellow academics and educators have already signed our letter in support of trans rights, trans wellbeing & trans inclusion, and against essentialist, anti-scientific, racialised & regressive views of womanhood. Please do read, share & sign! tinyurl.com/mud7va29

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Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship @socmedfem.bsky.social · May 2

At #kzoo2025? You're invited to the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship and Bonnie Wheeler Fund Joint Reception! Join us 5/9 (7pm-9pm) to toast to all things medieval and feminist on the backporch of Bell's Brewery and Eccentric Cafe! Looking forward to seeing you there! #medievalsky

Poster with flowers, which reads as follows: "Friday May 9th, 7pm-9pm, SMFS and the Bonnie Wheeler Fund proudly present... Reception! All are welcome! Join the Society for Medieval Feminsit Scholarship and friends outside on Bell's Brewery's backyard to toast to a successful Kalamazoo." (Bell's Brewery and Eccentric Cafe, Backyard, Outdoor Event, 355 E Kalamazoo Ave, Kalamazoo MI).

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Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship @socmedfem.bsky.social · Apr 14

Open to medievalists too!

TheNACBS @thenacbs.bsky.social · Apr 14

📢We are delighted to announce an increase in the award amount for the Judith R. Walkowitz Prize, awarded for the best article on issues relating to gender and sexuality in British Studies. Thanks to a generous donation, the prize now carries a cash award of $1,000.

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Walkowitz Prize Increase | NACBS

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Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship @socmedfem.bsky.social · Apr 13

#medievalsky, will you be at Kalamazoo this year? Please join us for our sponsored sessions! See the flyer below for our incredible line-up. #kzoo25

A pink poster describing the SMFS sessions at Kalamazoo 2025:

Session 8, Thursday 10 a.m., Sangren Hall 1750: "Negro Wenches, Black Venuses: Black Feminist Approaches to Matere, Form, and Flesh" (roundtable)

Session 157, Friday 10 a.m., Sangren Hall 1920: "Performing Le Roman de Silence" (co-sponsored with the Society for Queer Medieval Studies)

Session 322, Saturday 10 a.m., Sangren Hall 2720 (hybrid): "Creating Feminist Spaces in Medieval Studies" (roundtable)

Session 417, Saturday 3:30 p.m., Sangren Hall 2720 (hybrid): "Playing with Gender: A Global History of Gender-Crossing Saints" (co-sponsored with the Society for Queer Medieval Studies)

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Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship @socmedfem.bsky.social · Apr 9

The 2025 call for applications to the Foremothers' Fellowship is now open! ⭐This grant provides $2,000 for a current doctoral candidate (at the time of the proposed project) to undertake a significant project related to feminist medieval studies! See HERE: smfsweb.org/prizes/forem...

Foremothers’ Fellowship – SMFS

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Yvonne Seale @yvonneseale.bsky.social · Mar 6

SUNY Geneseo is hiring a Special Collections Librarian to oversee the SCs/archives in our recently and beautifully renovated Milne Library. I'm on the hiring committee, so happy to answer general questions about the position. #jobfairy

jobs.geneseo.edu/postings/5137

Special Collections Librarian

SUNY Geneseo is pleased to accept applications for a Special Collections Librarian. Milne Library has a well-established culture of innovation and excellence in library services. The Library is commit...

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Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social · Feb 26

Delighted to share the beautiful cover for our volume, Towards An Accessible Academy: Perspectives from Disabled Medievalists, edited by Alexandra R. A. Lee, E. R. P. Champion, and me.

Coming soon from @mip-medpub.bsky.social for the Premodern Transgressive Literatures series ✨

A pink and purple background with an image of a medieval manuscript in the centre, containing an illustration of a closed castle. A woman at the top of the castle looks down at a man outside the castle. A modern additional image of a ramp has been placed at the doors of the castle, extending out of the medieval border of the illustration.

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Alicia Spencer-Hall @aspencerhall.bsky.social · Feb 26

This is blowing up, let me formally welcome all new-comers to the Eleanor Rykener fanclub!

If you're looking for more premodern trans histories, check out Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography

📖 Paperback www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
🔗 Free pdf bit.ly/TGQS-OA

Front cover of Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography. Collage of medieval manuscript elements with modern queer imagery, include saint waving trans flag

Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography presents an interdisciplinary examination of trans and genderqueer subjects in medieval hagiography. Scholarship has productively combined analysis of medieval literary texts with modern queer theory – yet, too often, questions of gender are explored almost exclusively through a prism of sexuality, rather than gender identity. This volume moves beyond such limitations, foregrounding the richness of hagiography as a genre integrally resistant to limiting binaristic categories, including rigid gender binaries. The collection showcases scholarship by emerging trans and genderqueer authors, as well as the work of established researchers. Working at the vanguard of historical trans studies, these scholars demonstrate the vital and vitally political nature of their work as medievalists. Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography enables the re-creation of a lineage linking modern trans and genderqueer individuals to their medieval ancestors, providing models of queer identity where much scholarship has insisted there were none, and re-establishing the place of non-normative gender in history.

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Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship @socmedfem.bsky.social · Feb 19

Applications are open for the 2025 SMFS Rising Star Grant, which is awarded to an ECR BIPOC scholar in medieval studies! ⭐ More details here: tinyurl.com/RS-Details-M.... Due March 15 2025. ⭐ #medievalsky