The President and Fellows of the Institute are pleased to announce the election of new Mellon Fellows for the academic year 2009–2010, as well as Licence candidates, and research fellows. Those new to the Institute and to Toronto, may wish to consult "Orientations: A Guide for Visiting Fellows" elsewhere on this site.

Helen Birkett
(Mellon Fellow; LMS Candidate) earned her doctorate from the University of York in 2009 with a dissertation on "The Hagiographical Writings of Jocelin of Furness: Text and Context." She is an active participant in the International Medieval Congress and will present "Monks, laybrothers, and laymen: status and sanctity in the Vita S. Waldevi" at the July 2009 session. As a Mellon Fellow, Dr. Birkett will research "visionary narratives and their dissemination in the late twelfth- and early thirteenth- century British Isles."

Robert Getz
(Mellon Fellow; LMS Candidate) received his doctorate from the University of Toronto in 2008 with a dissertation on "Four Blickling Homilies." He has taught Latin for four years at the Centre for Medieval Studies and is currently a research assistant on the Becket Project a the University of Toronto. Further work on the Blickling Homilies constitutes the core of his research as a Mellon Fellow at the Institute.

Stephanie Hayes-Healy
(Mellon Fellow; LMS Candidate) earned her doctorate in 2006 from Trinity College, Dublin, with a dissertation on "The Concept and Practice of Pilgrimage in Early Medieval Ireland." From 2006-2008 she was a Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College, and is currently history tutor and occasional lecturer in history at Oxford University. Dr Hayes-Healy will explore the topic "Jerome, the Vulgate and Peregrinatio" as a Mellon Fellow at the Institute.

Aden Kumler
(Mellon Fellow; LMS Candidate) is currently an assitant professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago. She received her PhD from Harvard University in 2007 for a dissertation entitled "Visual Translation, Visible Theology: Illuminated Compendia of Spiritual Instruction in Late Medieval France and England." A paper, "Translating the Reader-Viewer: Visual appropriation and the promises of devotional literature in Paris, BnF, MS n. a. fr. 4338" read at the Translating the Middle Ages Conference held in October 2008 at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is forthcoming in the conference proceedings. As a Mellon Fellow Dr Kumler will research "the multiplication of the species: medieval Eucharistic morphologies."

Jonathan Seiling
(LMS Candidate), was awarded the PhD in Theology by the University of St Michael's College in 2008 for his dissertation "From Antinomy to Sophiology: Modern Russian Religious Consciousness and Sergei Bulgakov's Critical Appropriation of German Idealism." He is currently a post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto. His most recent publication is "The Political and Polemical Motives of Johann Fabri's Moscouitarum Religio (1525), Catholic Historical Review 94.4 (Oct 2008). As a Research Fellow of the Institute Dr Seiling will study early Scotist doctrines in the early writings of Johann Fabri von Leutkirch (1478-1541).

Kevin Vaughan
(Research Fellow), successfully defended his doctoral dissertation on 9 January 2009. The degree will be formally awarded by the University of St Michael's College at its 2009 convocation. The title is "St. Thomas Aquinas' Mystical Interpretation of the Fourth Gospel in the Lectura super Ioannem." He is a sessional lecturer in theology at the Toronto School of Theology. As a Research Fellow he proposes to explore themes generated by his dissertation including the notion of spiritual exercises in Aquinas' writings.

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