Laura studies the literature and culture of early modern England with research interests in travel writing, the history of transportation, cultural geography, women’s travel, and the history of reading. Her published work includes essays on travel and religious displacement in the early modern world, women’s mobility, communication networks in Shakespeare’s plays, and local travel writing. She teaches and supervises undergraduate research projects in ancient, medieval, and early modern literature seminars as well as introductory courses in life writing. Additionally, she serves as the coordinator for both the public humanities Christian Culture Lecture series (past speakers include Tracy K. Smith, Margaret Atwood, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Martha Nussbaum, etc.).

Jessalyn has published numerous articles on the practical and ideological aspects of religious and intellectual life, pilgrimage, hospitals, and crusade travel in the medieval period. She has considerable experience in coordinating or working with groups of international scholars on diverse research projects (leading to the production of three co-edited volumes) and multimodal teaching resources (printed sourcebooks, a CD-ROM on pilgrimage, web-based bibliographies). She has also taught multiple surveys and upper-level courses in ancient, medieval, and modern periods that incorporated literature and documents dealing with the themes of displacement and migration to first-generation college students (some of them undocumented, many first-generation college students) at Dominican, Purdue-Calumet, and Saint Mary’s College.

Sarah is the author of essays on manuscript studies, medieval reading practices, devotional literature, and pedagogical practice. She is currently working on a digitization project entitled “Peripheral Manuscripts” that seeks to assist non-R1, manuscript-holding institutions in digitizing and displaying their respective holdings. As her teaching has expanded into the Digital Humanities, she has participated in several NEH-funded summer seminars on the Digital Humanities methodologies and has received grant funding from Indiana Humanities to host a Digital Humanities Research Institute in May of 2019 in collaboration with the University of Notre Dame.

Mary is a Saint Mary's College student, class of 2020. She studies Humanistic Studies and Political Science. Her research interests include German medieval romance and its pictorial representations in Castle Runkelstein (Bolzano, Italy), the end of the Cold War and the peaceful dissolution of the Soviet Union. She has also worked on a separate grant funded project, writing case studies on national-state development. In the fall of 2020, she will be attending Notre Dame Law School

Kailtin is a current Saint Mary's student of the Class of 2020. She is studying English literature and writing, and has a particular interest in the Digital Humanities. She wrote her senior thesis project on the purpose of refugee writing based on a contemporary novel with a narrative which highlights the current refugee crisis. She has recently accepted a role as a 2020 Teach for America Corps Member and will be teaching English in a sixth grade classroom.

Eric is the current College Archivist for Saint Mary's College. As the Archivist, he collects, describes, and makes available historical resources pertaining to the College's history and the identity/mission of its community. Maintaining the permanent records of the college for accountability and as an important research tool is the core of Eric's responsibilities. His involvement in the CIC grant project has been primarily a support role. The College Archive contributed scanning tools for the researchers as well as provided advice for digitization standards and metadata creation.

Judith came to Saint Mary's in 1988, after serving in parish ministry, to work in the department of Campus Ministry. During her time at Saint Mary's, Judy has been instrumental in developing leadership and pastoral programs for the college women, worked closely with the Sisters of the Holy Cross, and is a lecturer in the Religious Studies department. She holds a master's degree in theology from the University of Notre Dame and a bachelor's degree from the University of Pittsburgh. She has served as a spiritual director and as Director of Campus Ministry prior to being appointed to the position of Vice President for Mission.