Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Anjela Peck has been accepted to a National Endowment for the Humanities Institute titled "The Medieval Mediterranean and the Origins of the West."" This four-week program is for college faculty who study the Middle Ages through the lens of the Mediterranean. It is limited to 24 college faculty members and will take place in July in Barcelona, Spain.
The goal of the NEH Institute is to facilitate a collaborative reconceptualization of the
""Dark Ages" (1000-1500) through study of the Mediterranean. As such, the program combines lectures, colloquia, workshops and interdisciplinary research on four thematic units: Contact and Diffusion, Mediterranean Spaces, Relations and Transmission as well as Images and Substance.
During her time in Barcelona, she will work with other professors who specialize
in the areas of Medieval Italian, French, Hebrew, Arabic and Spanish Literatures. Peck will conduct archival research and work collaboratively with leading scholars like María Rosa Menocal, Brian Catlos, David Nierenberg and Ross Brann, who study Muslim, Jewish and Christian relations in Medieval Iberia.
The goal of the NEH Institute is to facilitate a collaborative reconceptualization of the
""Dark Ages" (1000-1500) through study of the Mediterranean. As such, the program combines lectures, colloquia, workshops and interdisciplinary research on four thematic units: Contact and Diffusion, Mediterranean Spaces, Relations and Transmission as well as Images and Substance.
During her time in Barcelona, she will work with other professors who specialize
in the areas of Medieval Italian, French, Hebrew, Arabic and Spanish Literatures. Peck will conduct archival research and work collaboratively with leading scholars like María Rosa Menocal, Brian Catlos, David Nierenberg and Ross Brann, who study Muslim, Jewish and Christian relations in Medieval Iberia.
