For information, see: https://pims.ca/article/post-doctoral-mellon-fellowships/

Please see this link for information about an essay prize for an essay on any aspect of the history of London from the time of the Romans to now:

https://universityoflondon.smapply.io/prog/ihr_curriers_prize_2026/

Dans le cadre du Projet ERC Advanced Grant AGRELITA n° 101018777, « The reception of ancient Greece in pre-modern French literature and illustrations of manuscripts and printed books (1320-1550): how invented memories shaped the identity of European communities », dirigé par Prof. Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas (Principal Investigator), des résidences de chercheurs invités sont à pourvoir.

https://agrelita.hypotheses.org/9813

Karen Jolly, Gale Owen-Crocker, Bill Schipper, and Jane Toswell are soliciting donations this season in memory of Sarah Larratt Keefer, who died earlier this year.  Many of us remember Sarah as a cheerful and engaging presence at conferences, a generous colleague who co-organized a series of conferences and publications on the cross in early medieval England, an editor and investigator of tricky liturgical questions, editor of a lovely edition of the Kentish Psalm and much more.  We talked horses and dogs with her, or about the future of the field.  Her supervisor at Toronto was Angus Cameron, founder of the Dictionary of Old English, and the project was close to her heart throughout her life.

Our stretch aim is to name one of the graduate or undergraduate studentships in Sarah's honour, which would require $100,000 (in Canadian dollars) for a permanent endowment, $50,000 for a five-year expendable studentship.

Here is the link for donating to the Dictionary of Old English; make sure you do specify your donation in honour of Sarah.  The Canadian dollar is pretty low these days, today at 0.71USD, so you should be able to specify an amount in Canadian dollars that will seem pretty easy in your own currency!

https://engage.utoronto.ca/site/SPageServer?pagename=donate#/fund/2372

Less well-known internationally is that Sarah was also an award-winning teacher both at her home, Trent University, and in OCUFA, the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations.  Some of us have encountered her enthusiastic former students, true lovers of the medieval.  If we are unable to summit that peak, we will at least give the Dictionary some funds as it continues its good work on the lexicography of Old English.

The Medieval and Early Modern Studies Research Group (MSRG) at the University of Lincoln is pleased to announce that we are currently accepting applications to our 

MA Medieval Studies Programme for 2026-2027

You can join us at the online Open House Event on 26th November 6-7pm (UK time).

Attendees will have the opportunity to learn more about our MA Medieval Studies Programme through a virtual presentation, meet some of the students and academics, and ask questions.

For more information and to sign up for the online Open House Event, please contact the Programme Leader, Dr Antonella Liuzzo Scorpo (aliuzzoscorpo@lincoln.ac.uk)

 

Congratulations to CSM Member Renée Ward on her new book, The Werewolf in Medieval Romance!  The book is published by Palgrave Macmillan and explores werewolf identities as "extensively queer, and thus disruptive", even as that identity also aligns with political power and violence.  For more information and to order the book, click here.

Smith College Special Collections (SCSC) invites applications for the Travel to Collections Fellowships for the 2026-2027 cycle.

• All topics of research using the SCSC collections may apply.
• Applicants do not need to have an institutional affiliation.
• Creative projects, subject-specific works, digital humanities projects, and more, are all welcome.

Deadline for application: Monday, January 5, 2026 by 11:59pm EST

These fellowships are intended to help offset the travel expenses of researchers whose projects will benefit from access to, including initial survey and exploration of, the holdings of Smith College Special Collections, which are the College Archives, Mortimer Rare Book Collection, and Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History. 

Smith College Special Collections offers several types of fellowships:

• Short-term fellowships with awards for $1,000 for research visits of two weeks or less.
• Extended-term fellowships with awards of $2,500 each for research visits that extend beyond two weeks.

In consideration of travel limitations, fellows may request to use funds to hire a proxy-researcher to complete a fellowship.

A new opportunity with the Chaucer Collection

This year we are pleased to offer the first Robert and Judith Raymo Chaucer Fellowship ($1,000). This is a short term fellowship intended to defray the costs of travel to and from Northampton, in order to use the books and related materials of the Robert and Judith Raymo Chaucer Collection in the Mortimer Rare Book Collection. The use of other Chaucer related materials in the Mortimer Rare Book Collection is welcome and encouraged. The Robert and Judith Raymo Chaucer Collection consists of approximately five hundred distinctive printed items related to the works of the Middle English poet Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400), including collected editions, individual editions of poems like Troilus and Crisseyde and the Canterbury Tales, as well as adaptations, translations, modern and illustrated editions, children's books, and other works inspired by Chaucer's poetry.

Key dates

Application due date for 2026 awards: Monday, January 5, 2026 by 11:59pm EST

Awards announced: March 13, 2026

Awards to be used: Monday, June 1, 2026 to Friday, June 4, 2027

To begin exploring our collections, please visit Search Special Collections. Additional questions? Please write to specialcollections@smith.edu

Announcing the call for applications for the NCS Early Career Fellowship at the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA. The call for applications for the one-month early career fellowship at the Huntington Library during the period 1 July 2026 through 30 June 2027 is now open. This is a wonderful opportunity for early career scholars to access the holdings at the Huntington Library and benefit from the collegial community of other Huntington Fellows and Readers. For further information about the fellowship and application guidelines please see the call here. The deadline for applications is 10 December 2025 (24:00 GMT). We will be notifying applicants of the outcome by March 2026.

The Centre for Medieval Studies (University of Toronto) is holding two Open Houses to discuss its MA and PhD Programming. Please feel free to forward the invitation and information attached to prospective students in your network!

• November 4 - CMS Open House
• November 6 - CMS Virtual Open House

The English Department of Hunter College, City University of New York invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor with specialization in any area of medieval literature and culture, broadly defined (c. 600-1500), including but not limited to Old English, Old Norse, Middle English, history of the English language, manuscript studies, digital humanities, medieval drama, Arthurian romance, and the literature of medieval Ireland, Scotland, or Wales, beginning in Fall 2026. Applications from scholars whose research features an interdisciplinary and/or global approach to the study of the medieval period are especially encouraged to apply. We welcome candidates whose scholarship and teaching convey the vitality and complexity of this time and its literature to our students.

 

Full details here:

 

https://cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/assistant-professor-medieval-british-literature-english-department-school-of-arts-sciences/5119F569CE44468081B2430E965EBB3C/job/