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August 24, 2006
English professor studies at Cambridge
ĂŰ˝ŰÖ±˛Ąâ€™s Rebecca Stephenson, assistant professor of English, was one of 15 people chosen from universities across the nation to attend a seminar at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, July 3 – Aug. 11.
Paul Szarmach, a noted specialist in Anglo-Saxon hagiography, led the seminar, “Holy Men and Holy Women in Anglo-Saxon England,” which was sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The group met several times a week to discuss assigned reading in Anglo-Saxon saints’ lives. During her free time, Stephenson researched her independent project, which was a homily on the “Assumption of the Virgin Mary,” written by Aelfric of Eynsham, a late tenth-century Benedictine monk.
“One of the great treats of being in Cambridge was the abundance of medieval manuscript collections,” Stephenson said. “I spent a lot of time working with one-thousand-year-old manuscripts.”
Stephenson encourages her colleagues to attend a National Endowment for Humanities seminars. “These seminars cover a wide variety of topics and are located throughout the United States and the world,” she said. “I want people at ĂŰ˝ŰÖ±˛Ą to know that going to one of these seminars is a very realistic possibility and a great opportunity.”
While in England, Stephenson also presented at two conferences: “International Medieval Congress” in Leeds and “Conceptualizing Multilingualim in England, 800-1250” in York. Officials at the conference in York selected Stephenson’s paper to appear in its proceedings.
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