Modern Medieval with Alicia Spencer-Hall
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Alicia Spencer-Hall is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at University College London. Their research interests include: medieval hagiography, disability, gender, digital culture, and film and media studies. Her first monograph, Medieval Saints and Modern Screens: Divine Visions as Cinematic Experience was published by Amsterdam University Press in 2018, and is now available Open Access. Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography, a collection co-edited with Blake Gutt, was published in 2021. Shortlisted for the Transgender Non-Fiction award at the 34th Lambda Literary Awards, the volume is now also available Open Access. Their second monograph, Medieval Twitter, will be published by Arc Humanities in autumn 2024. Disability and Sanctity, a collection Alicia co-edited with Stephanie Grace-Petinos and Leah Pope Parker, will also be published around the same time by Amsterdam University Press. Alicia supports scholars’ bringing cutting-edge work into the world as Series Editor for two book series: Hagiography Beyond Tradition at Amsterdam University Press, and Premodern Transgressive Literatures at Medieval Institute Publications. Alongside their academic work, Alicia is High Priestess of Sticker Church, your online emporium for weird medieval stickers and postcards.
Alicia Contact Information:
- medievalshewrote: https://www.medievalshewrote.com/contact
- BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/aspencerhall.bsky.social
Modern Medieval:
Website: https://northwestmedieval.com/
Podcast: https://modernmedieval.podbean.com/
X: @nwmsNetwork, @medieval_modern
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