People, Papers and Presentations

Jane Chance, the Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Chair and professor in English, has received the 2008 South Central Modern Language Association Prize for her book “The Literary Subversions of Medieval Women.” It is Chance’s second SCMLA book award. She received the 1995 prize for “Medieval Mythography: From Roman North America to the School of Chartres, 433-1177 AD.” Chance also has been asked to join the editorial board for the new cross-disciplinary journal babel: a new journal in medieval cultural studies. She also is editing a new series of books, the Praeger Series on the Middle Ages. The first book in the series was released last spring, Theodore Steinberg’s “Jews and Judaism in the Middle Ages.” Chance delivered the keynote lecture at the Postgraduate Workshop on Continuity and Confrontation: Antique Traditions in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period at the University of Muenster in Germany and recently presented a paper on Marguerite Porete and Julian of Norwich at the Third International Anchoritic Society Conference at Hiroshima Shudo University in Japan.

Meagan Crawford, a graduate student in management at the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management, received a $10,000 scholarship from the Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation.
The Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation honors members of the state’s business community whose visions and careers have helped to place Texas at the forefront of the 21st-century economy. Crawford was among 16 students working toward their degrees at Texas colleges and universities who were honored with the scholarship this year.

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