"Otherness" at IMC in Leeds: An Open Letter

PhD Student, American & New England Studies Program, Boston University

Really love what you are doing

Associate Professor of English, Simon Fraser University, Canada

I support this with enthusiasm,

Associate Professor, English, Georgetown University

So happy to support this.

Culture Critic at the New Republic, New York City.

Associate Professor of English, St. Joseph's College, NY

Assistant Professor of Italian, University of North Carolina

Associate Professor, University of Connecticut

Assistant Professor of English, Marquette University

Professor, Medieval and Early Modern Literature, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras

Associate Professor of English, Providence College

PhD Student, Department of History, SUNY Stony Brook

Associate Professor, Medieval Latin, University of Bergen

Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh

Assistant Professor of History, Rhodes College

Recent controversies just show how much medieval studies need as wide a range of perspectives as possible.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Musicology, Southern Methodist University

As a scholar of the European Middle Ages, I have often been asked why I study a subject that is not "about me," the implication clearly being that I should stick to "my own kind." But surely segregation is as detrimental in academic life as it is in all other aspects of life, breeding narrow people and frustrating creativity and growth. It is in itself inherently harmful.