The President and Fellows of the Institute are pleased to announce the election of new Mellon Fellows for the academic year 2012–2013, as well as of other distinguished visitors and research fellows.

DISTINGUISHED VISITING SCHOLAR
Stella Panayotova, this year's Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Institute and the Centre for Medieval Studies, is Keeper of Manuscripts and Printed Books, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and also director of the Cambridge Illuminations and Miniare Research Projects. Her interests centre on medieval and early modern manuscript production and illumination, and patronage, as well as on cultural exchanges between Western Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic world, but also extend to manuscript collecting between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. She is the author, most recently, of Art, Academia, and the Trade: Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867–1962) (2010) and has edited facsimiles of The Fitzwilliam Book of Hours (2009) and The Macclesfield Psalter (2008), each with extensive commentaries. Co-editor (with Nigel Morgan) of A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges (2009, 2011) and co-author (with Patrick Zutshi and Paul Binski) of Catalogue of Western Illuminated and Decorated Manuscripts at the Cambridge University Library (2011), she has contributed to numerous catalogues and collections, and has reviewed extensively for the Times Literary Supplement, The Book Collector, and The Burlington Magazine, among other journals.

As the Distinguished Visiting Scholar for the winter term of 2013, Dr Panayotova will be pleased to meet with Institute Mellon Fellows and researchers, as well as students and faculty from the wider medieval community in Toronto. She will be conducting three master classes on the making and meaning of medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts and delivering a public lecture, "Illuminated Manuscripts: Science and Art," on Friday, 8 March. For complete details, see the poster.

MELLON FELLOWS
John Geck defended his doctoral dissertation at the University of Toronto in 2011. He is project manager for "The Fortune Theatre Records: A Prototype Digital Edition for REED (Records for Early English Drama)" at the University of Toronto. His most recent publication is "'For Goddes love, sir, mercy!': Recontextualising the Modern Critical Text of Floris and Blancheflor," in Medieval Romance, Medieval Contexts, ed. Rhiannon Purdie and Michael Cichon (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2011). His Mellon Research project is entitled "A Critical Edition of the Prose Latin Vita Sanctorum Amici et Amelii."

Bernhard Hollick wrote his doctoral dissertation at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen on the Logica vetus glosses of Luxembourg, BN, MS 9. He edited, translated, and wrote an introduction for Hermann der Lahme, Opusculum Herimanni (De octo vitiis principalibus), eine Vers- und Lebensschule (Heidelberg, 2008). He has served as research fellow and teaching assistant in the Philosophy Department at the Technische Universität Braunschweig. While a Mellon Research Fellow, he will conduct research on the topic "More mathematico: Thomas Bradwardine on Causality, Proportionality, and Space."

Adam Hoose defended his dissertation at Saint Louis University on "Orthopraxy and the formation of the early Waldensians and Franciscans, 1173–1228." He has been an adjunct instructor in history at St Louis University and Lindenwood University. His most recent publication is "Francis of Assisi's Way of Peace? His Conversion and Mission to Egypt," Catholic Historical Review 9 (2010): 435–55. His Mellon Research project is entitled "Negotiating Orthodoxy: The Early Waldensians and Franciscans, 1173–1228."

Alexander Russell earned his degree at Jesus College, University of Oxford in 2011 with a dissertation entitled "England and the General Councils, 1409–1563." He is currently an Associate Fellow at the Renaissance Centre, University of Warwick. He authored "Conciliarism and Heresy" for After Arundel: Religious Writing in Fifteenth-Century England, ed. V. Gillespie and K. Ghosh (Turnhout, 2012). As a Mellon Research Fellow, Dr Russell will explore the topic "Philosophy and Ecclesiastical Power: The Place of Metaphysics in Conciliarist Thought."

VISITING FELLOWS
Steven E. Baldner, who received his MSL from PIMS in 1979 and his PhD from the University of Toronto in 1982, is Professor of Philosophy at St Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, where he also served as Dean of Arts from 2006 to 2010. The author of numerous articles on St Albert the Great and St Thomas Aquinas, Professor Baldner will be a Research Fellow of the Institute from January to June 2013. During his time at the Institute, he will conduct research on the problem of matter and the problem of creation as addressed in writings of Albert and Aquinas.

Elza C. Tiner is an alumna of the Centre for Medieval Studies and the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, where she received her M.A., M.S.L, and Ph.D. degrees in 1980, 1985, and 1987, respectively. She has taught medieval English literature at Lynchburg College in Virginia since 1989 and Latin in its Department of Modern and Classical Languages since 2007. She has edited Teaching with the Records of Early English Drama (2007), and is the author of articles in Research Opportunities in Medieval and Renaissance Drama (2008) and Classical Outlook (2010 and 2011). A feature article on the sources for Thomas Chaundler's fifteenth-century play, Liber apologeticus de omni statu humanae naturae, was published in the Vincent of Beauvais Newsletter in 2012. Her current research focuses on the textual tradition of the fall of the angels legend, with a view to determining potential sources for late-medieval and early modern English plays dramatizing this narrative.

ARCHIVE: PAST FELLOWS
Visiting Fellows, Associates, and Guests, 2002 through 2012 (in reverse chronological order)