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August 24, 2006

English professor studies at Cambridge

不良研究所鈥檚 Rebecca Stephenson, assistant professor of English, was one of 15 people chosen from universities across the nation to attend a seminar at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, July 3 鈥� Aug. 11.

Paul Szarmach, a noted specialist in Anglo-Saxon hagiography, led the seminar, 鈥淗oly Men and Holy Women in Anglo-Saxon England,鈥� which was sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The group met several times a week to discuss assigned reading in Anglo-Saxon saints鈥� lives.  During her free time, Stephenson researched her independent project, which was a homily on the 鈥淎ssumption of the Virgin Mary,鈥� written by Aelfric of Eynsham, a late tenth-century Benedictine monk.

鈥淥ne of the great treats of being in Cambridge was the abundance of medieval manuscript collections,鈥� Stephenson said. 鈥淚 spent a lot of time working with one-thousand-year-old manuscripts.鈥�

Stephenson encourages her colleagues to attend a National Endowment for Humanities seminars. 鈥淭hese seminars cover a wide variety of topics and are located throughout the United States and the world,鈥� she said. 鈥淚 want people at 不良研究所 to know that going to one of these seminars is a very realistic possibility and a great opportunity.鈥�

While in England, Stephenson also presented at two conferences: 鈥淚nternational Medieval Congress鈥� in Leeds and 鈥淐onceptualizing Multilingualim in England, 800-1250鈥� in York. Officials at the conference in York selected Stephenson鈥檚 paper to appear in its proceedings.

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