Geographical scope	Global
Chronological scope	Premodern period, ca. fifth to seventeenth centuries CE
Keywords	critical editions, classroom texts, marginalized voices, world literature, comparative literature, medieval literature

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Advisory Board

Prof. Robert E. Bjork

Robert E. Bjork attended Pomona College (Claremont, California), Stockholm University, and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he received his doctorate in 1979. His teaching interests, both in the classroom at all levels and as mentor to master’s and doctoral students, range over the whole of medieval English language and literature, but his research has centred squarely in the Anglo-Saxon period. Bjork co-edited with colleagues from Wisconsin and Indiana Klaeber’s Beowulf (U Toronto Press, 2008), the 4th edition of Fr. Klaeber’s, Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburg (the most important edition of the Old English epic ever published), and he is general editor of the four-volume Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages” (Oxford University Press, 2010). Besides being Foundation Professor of English, for 24 years, he directed the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS), where he was instrumental in developing a major program of medieval and Renaissance text edition series.
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Bio available at: https://english.clas.asu.edu/content/robert-bjork

Prof. Alessandra Bucossi

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Bio available at: https://www.unive.it/data/persone/10807144

Dr. Chris Jones

Chris is a medieval historian whose research explores the history of political thought and concepts of identity, with a particular focus upon France in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. He is especially interested in the thought of medieval chroniclers, and in the way in which ideas were transmitted and received in the Middle Ages. Among his other interests are the Dominican theologian John Quidort of Paris, on whom he edited a book in 2015, and the late thirteenth-century Benedictine chronicler Geoffroi de Courlon of Sens, concerning whose thought he recently completed a series of articles published in The Medieval Chronicle and Viator. Chris is also interested in the history of the book, editing Treasures of the University of Canterbury Library (Canterbury University Press) in 2011 and guest editing a special issue of the ANZAMEMS journal Parergondevoted to items in New Zealand collections in 2015. He is Director of the Canterbury Roll Project, an innovative and ongoing student-led digital venture that in 2017 produced a new edition and translation of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most significant medieval manuscript (www.canterbury.ac.nz/canterburyroll). A wider interest in the legacies of the medieval and Early Modern world in Aotearoa led him to edit (with Stephen Winter) Magna Carta and New Zealand – History, Law and Politics in Aotearoa in 2017.
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Bio available at: https://researchprofile.canterbury.ac.nz/Researcher.aspx?Researcherid=1376330

Prof. Sharon Kinoshita

Prof. Kinoshita’s current work is primarily focused in Medieval Mediterranean Studies and the Global Middle Ages. She has co-directed several projects in Mediterranean Studies and four National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institutes. Her work in this area includes two book manuscripts in progress: Paying Tribute: Old French Literature and The Medieval Culture of Empire studies vernacular French representations of and interactions with an imperial culture, distinct from that of post-Carolingian Europe, shared by Latin Christian, Byzantine, and Muslim courts; and Medieval Mediterranean Literature explores new approaches to canonical and non-canonical medieval texts in the historical context of the high and late medieval Mediterranean, ca. 1100-1400. In the field of Old French Literature, she has co-authored books on Chretien de Troyes and Marie de France.
In 2016, Prof. Kinoshita published a new translation of Marco Polo’s Description of the World and she is currently working on a companion volume tentative entitled Marco Polo and the Global Middle Ages.
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Bio available at: https://literature.ucsc.edu/faculty/index.php?uid=sakinosh

Dr. Matthew Cheung Salisbury

Dr. Salisbury was a choral scholar and subsequently lecturer at Worcester College, Oxford, where he completed a doctoral thesis on the manuscript sources of the liturgical Office in medieval England. His current work broadly embraces the sacred music of the late Middle Ages in England, focusing particularly on the texts and chants of the Mass and Divine Office. Dr Salisbury has published on other musicological and liturgical topics as well as issues in the study of late medieval manuscripts and printed books. He maintains an interest in the digital presentation of manuscripts as well as the use of computers to facilitate large-scale study. As one of the leaders of the Fragments Project, a multi-year arts and culture outreach programme in Scotland, Dr Salisbury’s research has been employed on a wider scale to bring medieval music, and present-day artistic expressions responding to it including new commissions, to audiences in Scotland, and elsewhere via the BBC.
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Bio available at: https://www.music.ox.ac.uk/about/people/academic-staff/college-lecturers-and-directors-of-music/matthew-cheung-salisbury/