Asa Simon Mittman (Professor and Chair of Art and Art History at California State University, Chico) is author of Maps and Monsters in Medieval England(2006), coauthor with Susan Kim of Inconceivable Beasts: The Wonders of the East in the Beowulf Manuscript (2013), and writes about monstrosity and marginality in the Middle Ages. He coedited the Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous (2012), and is the founding president of MEARCSTAPA (Monsters: the Experimental Association for the Research of Cryptozoology through Scholarly Theory And Practical Application). He is co-editing a monster studies reader and Monstrosity, Disability, and the Posthuman in the Medieval and Early Modern World.
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Dr. Gabrielle M.W. Bychowski is a Anisfield-Wolf SAGES Fellow at Case Western Reserve University. She received her Ph.D from the George Washington University, in Washington DC. Her various published works concern critical theory, literature, and medieval religion, spanning Transgender Studies Quarterly to postmedieval. A few of her recent articles include, "the Necropolitics of Narcissus: Transgender Suicide in the Middle Ages," "Mad for Margery: Disability and the Imago Dei," and "The Isle of Hermaphrodites: Disorienting the Place of Intersex in the Middle Ages." She maintains Transliterature Online: A Center for the Study of Transgender and Disability, at www.ThingsTransform.com. Additionally, she currently acts as a consultant for programs through the Cleveland Foundation, Inter | Urban, as well as serves on the executive board of the UCC Mental Health Network. This work brought her to the White House in 2015 and 2016 to participate in forums advising the Obama Administration on how the Arts, media, and communication can be leveraged to provide social justice and equity for people in the LGBTQI and disability communities.
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Jennifer Speed is Research Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Dayton, where she also teaches graduate courses on medieval history and theology. Geographically, she focuses on the Crown of Aragon, and her research focuses on medieval historical writing, the intersection of religious culture and law, troublesome women, and the ways in which elements of medieval culture are reused and recycled over time. She is co-editor of a forthcoming volume on “Revolutionary Women” and is extending her research on Garsenda.
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Lucia Akard is a Dphil student in medieval history at the University of Oxford. She works on victim responses to rape and discussions of consent to sex in later medieval France. You can find her on twitter at @offic_annboleyn.
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Mariah Cooper is a PhD candidate of medieval history at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Her research focuses on the literary representations of sexual violence in Middle English romance compared to the lived experiences of contemporaneous women in fourteenth-century legal documents. Mariah received her MA from Memorial University, which examined the gendered epitaphic legacy of the Empress Matilda. Her thesis won the University Medal of Academic Excellence. Prior to that, she obtained her Bachelor of Education at Queen’s University and a Specialized Diploma in History at the University of Kent, Canterbury. Her research interests include medieval heteronormative gender constructions, medieval literature and legal practices.
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Matthew Vernon is an assistant professor of English literature at the University of California, Davis. He has just published The Black Middle Ages with Palgrave MacMillan. The book examines the influence of medieval studies on African American perspectives on race. The book’s historical sweep, from Frederick Douglass to Quentin Tarantino, inverts the expected relationship between whiteness and the Middle Ages, and instead shows a history of imaginative appropriations of medieval tropes on the part of African Americans to answer racist claims about national belonging. In addition to working in medieval and African American studies, Professor Vernon also publishes in comic book studies.
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Vanessa Corcoran is an Academic Counselor in the Office of the College Dean at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Her research interests include the medieval cult of the Virgin Mary, the intersection of gender and popular religious practices, and the textual representations of medieval women’s voices. With her dissertation, “The Voice of Mary: Later Medieval Representations of Marian Communication,” Vanessa earned her Ph.D. in medieval history in 2017 at The Catholic University of America. She is currently working on a memoir of her doctoral program entitled It's a Marathon, Not a Sprint: My Road to the Marathon and Ph.D. 
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Yvonne Seale is a historian of medieval women and the social history of religion, with a particular focus on the history of the Premonstratensian Order in France. Her writing has appeared in publications such as the Journal of Medieval Monastic History, History Today, and The Public Domain Review. She is an assistant professor of History at SUNY Geneseo in western New York, where she teaches courses on the Middle Ages and digital humanities. Find her on Twitter at @yvonneseale.

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