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...chair of the awards committee. SAC received about 300 nominations for the award, and about 200 teachers and undergraduates chose to come to the event, according to Rosier. The students who nominated Smail noted that he had created an informal “Harvard Medievalist Club” that meets for monthly dinners at Grendel’s Den, the Harvard Square basement pub, according to Greenfield. One student who nominated Liu said that he had helped her in a course where the actual professor had been unhelpful and inaccessible, Greenfield said during the ceremony. Judith F. Chapman, an anthropology...
...Loker Professor of English W. James Simpson thinks he’s awesome. Simpson admits that he’s not much of a hip-hop enthusiast, but Brinkman’s brand of rap—literary hip-hop, or lit-hop—is relevant to the medievalist; Brinkman translates “The Canterbury Tales” into the language of contemporary youth culture. “He preserves the kind of brilliance and surprise, the kind of linguistic pyrotechnics one finds in Chaucer,” says Simpson, who had publicized Brinkman’s originally...
...gained new meaning.One visit to a prestigious and well-guarded institute hardly constitutes a new form of travel, and in fact the Academy was not my only coup. More prosaically, in the manuscripts division of the French National Library, I enjoyed peeking at the illuminated pages of my medievalist neighbors. Even better, I applied to enter the French National Assembly, which boasts a small but gloriously frescoed library. After being allowed permission to enter while France’s legislative body was in session, I wandered past well-tended flower beds. As passionate French politicians were broadcast live on myriad...
...affair with the divorced mother of a friend who died in the war. The relationship would last until the end of her life, decades later. After the war, Lewis went to Oxford and stayed there for nearly the rest of his life. In time, Lewis became the large, loud, Medievalist who laughed deeply and held late-night meetings for friends and intellectuals. He developed close companionships with fellow academics, most notably J.R.R. Tolkien. On a walk one evening with Tolkien and another friend, Tolkien convinced Lewis that his lifelong yearning for a feeling which he called Joy was, in fact...
...interesting," says Alan Jacobs, author of The Narnian (HarperSanFrancisco), a new Lewis biography, "that 60 years later, nobody has really turned up." Lewis, whose day job was Oxford medievalist, did eventually get around to other work, including seven children's books about a place called Narnia. Ninety-five million Narnia books have been sold since then, and as Disney begins test screenings for its December release of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, based on the series' first volume, the septet is back near the top of the children's best-seller lists...