| Title | How to Stop Being a Lonely Medievalist |
|---|---|
| Contributor | M. Wendy Hennequin (author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0205.1.18 |
| Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/the-ballad-of-the-lone-medievalist/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Hennequin, M. Wendy |
| Publisher | punctum books |
| Published on | 2018-08-23 |
| Long abstract | If you are reading this essay, chances are you are a Lone Medi-evalist. So am I. I am the only medievalist in my department (Language, Literature, and Philosophy, comprising the disci-plines of English, foreign languages, literature, linguistics, and philosophy). I teach at a historically black college, where me-dieval studies doesn’t even register on the academic radar. My historically-minded students are generally more interested in American or African history. Many students, and indeed many of my colleagues, see the Middle Ages as irrelevant to our stud-ies and disciplines.Yet my purpose here isn’t to enumerate the challenges of be-ing a Lone Medievalist. We all know what they are, and other essays in this volume examine our situation and its inherent is-sues and frustrations in detail. Instead, I intend to discuss the problem of a Lone Medievalist’s loneliness and suggest some concrete ways to deal with it. |
| Page range | pp. 199–204 |
| Print length | 6 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |