Assistant Professor of English Katherine H. Terrell presented a paper titled “Kyndness of blude”: Kinship, Patronage, and Politics in Gavin Douglas" at a conference on "Border Families and their Books" held April 23-24 at the University of Oxford. The paper examined the role of family in the production and circulation of the works of the late medieval Scottish poet Gavin Douglas, as well as in his subsequent political career.