Anna Smol: A Single Leaf

Month: July 2014

  • Beyond the research essay: women’s lit & archival research in an undergraduate course

    Originally posted on MSVU English Department Blog: by Anna Smol If you’ve walked along the fifth floor of Seton or through the tunnel linking Evaristus and Rosaria, you might have noticed a series of posters called “Pieces of Activist History: Betty Peterson Protest Buttons.” Produced by students in English 2242 (Themes in Women’s Writing), these…

  • Talking about medievalisms

    While my focus here is often on Tolkien, I’ve collected some calls for papers on medievalism generally (although I do include below one conference on Tolkien specifically). The proliferation of conferences and sessions on medievalism – that is, “the reception of the Middle Ages in postmedieval times” — is a healthy indicator of the academic…