The President and Fellows of the Institute are pleased to announce the election of new Mellon Fellows for the academic year 2011–2012, as well as of other distinguished visitors and research fellows.

DISTINGUISHED VISITING SCHOLAR
Henrietta Leyser
(Distinguished Visiting Scholar) is Emeritus Fellow at St Peter's College, Oxford and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Hermits and the New Monasticism: A Study of Religious Communities in Western Europe (1984), her first book, was an original account of a much studied subject; her second, Medieval Women: A Social History of Women in England 450–1500, which appeared in 1995 and has been reprinted several times, has proved seminal to subsequent scholarship. With Samuel Fanous, she co-edited The Life of Christina of Markyate for Oxford World Classics. The author of wide-ranging and influential essays on medieval piety and religion, and on Anglo-Norman historiography and Arthurian romance, among other topics, she is currently at work on two projects, provisionally entitled "A Journey Through the Seven Kingdoms in the Time of Bede" and "The Doors of Heaven: English Piety, 1000–1300." Motherhood, Religion, and Society in Medieval Europe, 400–1400, a volume of essays edited by Conrad Leyser and Lesley Smith, was presented to her in 2011. As the Distinguished Fellow for the winter term of 2012, she will be pleased to meet with Institute Mellon Fellows and researchers, as well as students and faculty from the wider medieval community at Toronto.

MELLON FELLOWS
Andrew Albin
(Mellon Fellow; LMS Candidate) received his PhD in English from Brandeis University in February 2011 with a dissertation entitled "Auralities: Sound Cultures and the Experience of Hearing in Late Medieval England." His most recent publication is "The presence of 'ow'': Reconstructing Auralities in the Chester Shepherds' Play," in Focus on Old and Middle English Studies, ed. Ana Laura Rodríguez Redondo and Eugenio Contreras Domingo (Madrid, 2011). In addition to his academic work, Dr. Albin has composed three one-act operas, a song cycle and published a chapbook, "this now is that then (a membrane) (a notebook)." His project at the Institute has the title "Richard Rolle's Melos amoris: Translation and Critical Edition."

Elma Brenner
(Mellon Fellow; LMS Candidate) earned her doctorate in History from Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, in 2008 with a dissertation entitled "Charity in Rouen in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries (with special reference to Mont-aux-Malades)." She has seven articles forthcoming and four published, the most recent being "Outside the City Walls: Leprosy, Exclusion, and Social Identity in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-century Rouen," in Difference and Identity in Francia and Medieval France, ed. Meredith Cohen and Justine Firnhaber-Baker (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010). She is the co-organizer of an interdisciplinary workshop on Leprosy, language and identity in the medieval world, to take place in April 2011 at King's College, Cambridge. At the Institute she will continue her focus on medical issues with a project entitled "Leprosy, Charity and Mental Health in Northern France, c. 1100 – c. 1500."

Savvas Neocleous
(Mellon Fellow; LMS Candidate) studied at the University of Cyprus and received his doctorate in Medieval and Byzantine History in 2009 from Trinity College Dublin with a dissertation entitled "Imaging the Byzantines: Latin Perceptions, Representations, and Memory, c. 1095 – c. 1230." He has been a Teaching Fellow at Trinity College Dublin and is currently a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Cyprus. He has published six articles, the most recent being "Byzantine-Muslim Conspiracies against the Crusades: History and Myth," Journal of Medieval History 36 (2010): 253–274. During his Fellowship at the Institute, he will build on his dissertation research and explore the diversion of the Fourth Crusade from the perspective of Latin attitudes towards the Byzantines: "Misorromaioi? Perceptions and Attitudes of the Latins towards the Byzantines, c. 1095 – c. 1230."

Fortunato Trione
(Mellon Fellow; LMS Candidate), earned his PhD in Italian Studies in February 2011 at the University of Toronto with a dissertation "Paura e Desiderio in Dante." Previously he studied at La Sapienza in Rome and the University of Western Ontario. He has had extensive teaching experience as a Lecturer in Italian Studies. He has published two books, Passagio e assenza (Rome, 2011) for which he was awarded second prize, and L'Amore al primo binocolo (Brescia, 2000), for which he was co-translator of poems from Mostar, Bosnia. At the Institute he will study the affective spirituality championed by Bernard of Clairvaux, Hugh and Richard of St Victor, Bonaventure, and Thomas Aquinas and its impact on Dante's Divine Comedy: "The Poetics of affectus: Mysticism in Dante's Divine Comedy."

RESEARCH FELLOWS
Linda Safran
(Research Fellow), earned her PhD from Yale and has taught at the Catholic University of America, where she chaired the Department of Greek and Latin, and at the University of Toronto. She is completing the final chapters of Art and Identity in the Medieval Salento while simultaneously working on several smaller projects, including a paper on Orthodox baptismal imagery (to be delivered at Yale in November and at the Malcove Collection in Toronto in February) and an article on cultural complexity in southern Italy (commissioned by Common Knowledge for a multi-volume symposium on "Fuzzy Studies"). She will hold a one-month visiting fellowship at Dumbarton Oaks in March 2012.

Alain J. Stoclet
(Research Fellow), was educated at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Licence, Agrégation) and received his doctorate from the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto. He is currently Maître de Conférences on leave from the Université Lyon 2 - Lumière, where he has been teaching since 1992. He was appointed Research Associate at the Institute and at the Centre for Medieval Studies in 2009. His interest in the interrelations of political, cultural, and religious history of the early middle ages is best typified by “From Baghdad to Beowulf : Eulogising ‘Imperial’ Capitals East and West in the Mid-Eighth Century,” his 2005 article in the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. He is also the author of books on the nature of the early Carolingians’ eastward expansion (1993) and on aspects of public administration in the Frankish, Anglo-Saxon and Byzantine worlds (1999). He is preparing a full-length study of Pippin ‘the Short’ (c. 714–768) and is also starting a large international research project on the Letters of Boniface and Lul, which will produce a new edition, new translations, and a full commentary.

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