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MEANWHILE IN ITALY... WR4 RT THOU? The City of Verona has a problem: thousands of handwritten notes, pasted by lovelorn tourists on the wall beneath the balcony where Shakespeare's star-crossed sweethearts Romeo and Juliet purportedly pledged their love. The city wants to restore the facade of the medieval...
McKenna will bring her expertise in Medieval Welsh and Irish literature to the department, which offers advanced training in six Celtic languages.
McKenna’s best known work deals with the court poets of 12th and 13th century Wales. Her translations and interpretations in The Medieval Welsh Religious Lyric have garnered much acclaim for granting English-speaking medievalists access to previously overlooked works.
“Catherine McKenna is a medieval scholar of great distinction, and the momentum evident in her work shows the promise of even greater things to come,” said Dean of FAS William C. Kirby in a press release.
In addition to teaching advanced classes in medieval Welsh languages to Ph.D. students, McKenna looks forward to teaching the department’s Core courses because she is “anxious to do undergraduate courses as well.”