New co-editors-in-chief
We are delighted to announce the newest Editors of postmedieval! Rebecca De Souza and Jason Jacobs have begun a three-year term in January of 2024; they will be joined by Charlotte Eubanks and Alani Hicks-Bartlett in 2025. Shazia Jagot and Sara Ritchey will continue as Editors in 2024. Julie Orlemanski has joined postmedieval’s editorial board after having served a three-year team as co-Editor-in-Chief and, prior to that, a four-year term as Book-Reviews Editor. The journal continues to be supported by Managing Editor, Beatrice Bottomley, and by our editorial board.
Our new Editors bring to the journal a range of fresh perspectives informed by the global Hispanophone, queer and sexuality studies, Japanese and Buddhist literatures, translations studies, neomedievalism, and disability, race, and gender in the pre- and early modern world. The new Editors seek to sustain the journal’s commitment to conceptual adventure, political urgency, and inclusive dialogue, and to extend its readership and levels of access by building on-line and in-person scholarly communities and workshop opportunities. In particular, they aim to expand the journal’s global community of authors and readers by extending editorial support to scholars whose first language is not English and to scholars working outside the framework of full-time academic employment.
Jason Jacobs is Associate Professor of Literature at Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island, specializing in medieval French and Italian literature, literary criticism and theory, and gender and sexuality studies. Jacobs has published on medieval literature in journals such as Exemplaria, California Italian Studies, and postmedieval, and on contemporary queer culture in GLQ and QED. After eight years in academic administration, he is returning to full time teaching in the Spring of 2024 and will be teaching courses on literary analysis, pre- and early-modern European literature, and modern queer literature and media.
Rebecca De Souza (she/her) is Lecturer in Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of Stirling, UK. Rebecca’s current research interests include the appropriation of nonmodern European cultural production in the global Hispanophone, from the Mediterranean to Latin America and the Philippines, as well as unorthodox or popular religiosity in nonmodern Iberia. Her forthcoming monograph, Memories of Colonisation in Medieval and Modern Castile: Rereading and Refashioning al-Andalus, examines counter-narratives to Castilian colonial hegemony from the thirteenth to the nineteenth century.
Charlotte Eubanks is Professor of Comparative Literature, Japanese, and Asian Studies at Penn State. They are author of two monographs Miracles of Book and Body: Buddhist Textual Culture and Medieval Japan and The Art of Persistence: Akamatsu Toshiko and the Visual Cultures of Transwar Japan. In addition to their work with postmedieval, they are Associate Editor for Verge: Studies in Global Asias and a member of the editorial collective for CLS: Comparative Literary Studies. They coedit a book series 'Global Asias: Methods| Architecture| Praxis' and co-chair the Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies. Their next book is probably going to be a microhistory of four or five sermons preached by the 13th century Zen master Dōgen.
Alani Hicks-Bartlett is Affiliated Faculty of Italian Studies, and Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, French and Francophone Studies, and Hispanic Studies at Brown University. Her primary research interests are critical theory and translation, as well as disability, race, and gender in medieval, early modern, and classical literature. She has recently published in European History Quarterly, I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance, L’Esprit Créateur, Hispanic Review, Rivista di Studi Italiani, and MLN, and is currently working on two main projects: the first studies premodern autobiographical discussions of health and disability; the second, materiality and ekphrastic failure in medieval and early modern critiques of art.
