Knowledge Commons | Mary Dockray-Miller | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/mdockraymiller/activity/ Activity feed for Mary Dockray-Miller. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:31:12 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 a7df8c0fdcd18c15550d1a08121c0824 Mary Dockray-Miller's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1861550/ Thu, 12 Oct 2023 17:24:04 -0400 0 30e5d033ba1a36a4abd6252e93b8264f Mary Dockray-Miller created the doc Pitch deck, Judith of Flanders https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1849674/ Sat, 17 Jun 2023 21:45:45 -0400 97336b27bf8035abc06b9bdf9d0e1197 Mary Dockray-Miller commented on the post, Redesigning Commons Groups: User Experience, on the site Building the Commons https://building.hcommons.org/2022/12/16/redesigning-commons-groups-user-experience/#comment-19 Mon, 19 Dec 2022 17:11:23 -0500 thanks for this post! It articulated for me many of the frustrations I've had wit HC groups- looking forward to the changes!

]]> 328cbfbee8d3955cad95a3d1d76d34ab Mary Dockray-Miller's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1824462/ Wed, 30 Nov 2022 16:38:32 -0500 0 0d3141b2551d5018f9ca80f5890bce71 Mary Dockray-Miller changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1785750/ Wed, 06 Jul 2022 17:40:01 -0400 0 e57145815c86390f88218739ade34688 Mary Dockray-Miller commented on the post, On Prior Publication, on the site Platypus https://team.hcommons.org/2022/07/05/on-prior-publication/#comment-9925 Wed, 06 Jul 2022 17:39:05 -0400 I agree with Steve and Kendra - I think the journal was overreaching in their control of the material. As they point out, a conference paper is often more of a report of a work I progress, looking for feedback and […]

]]> 96ec6e286820ddcdd4c68a72508e76ed Mary Dockray-Miller deposited Potential illustration images, Judith of Flanders https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1772185/ Thu, 17 Feb 2022 13:30:42 -0500 Sample suggested illustration opportunities, biography of Judith of Flanders

]]> 0 fea8a429a049f826ca7cba8c024898c5 Mary Dockray-Miller posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1677488/#acomment-1739346 Tue, 25 May 2021 00:38:20 -0400 Love this micro-dialect info! Thanks!

In reply to - Mary Dockray-Miller wrote a new post, The Massachusetts Medievalist on stepmothers and hangnails, on the site The Massachusetts Medievalist Like many New Englanders, the Massachusetts medievalist struggles with […] ]]> c9f15b5fa943f38ad6795224cdcc4d37 Mary Dockray-Miller posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1724331/#acomment-1724480 Fri, 22 Jan 2021 18:56:17 -0500 So sorry that you/we now have to deal with this, but I think it's inevitable, alas. I very much you like your idea above about need to verify account to use some features, as long as some features remain completely open-access. For instance, I think that all the syllabi and uploaded scholarship/PDFs should remain OA with no need for the…[Read more]

In reply to - Kathleen Fitzpatrick wrote a new post, Community, Safety, and Trust, on the site Platypus Earlier this month, the Modern Language Association held its annual convention, and our team hoped that we would be able to […] ]]> 28a73b7b6446639c92899cf4cf9650ea Mary Dockray-Miller posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1677488/#acomment-1720794 Fri, 25 Dec 2020 13:48:51 -0500 My mother grew up in Philadelphia! So its American usage is probably concentrated there? Thanks for the comment!

In reply to - Mary Dockray-Miller wrote a new post, The Massachusetts Medievalist on stepmothers and hangnails, on the site The Massachusetts Medievalist Like many New Englanders, the Massachusetts medievalist struggles with […] ]]> da25be3c07cccc54c7fa21b0d25f0fd9 Mary Dockray-Miller wrote a new post, The Massachusetts Medievalist has moved to Substack, on the site The Massachusetts Medievalist https://mdockraymiller.hcommons.org/?p=233 Thu, 21 May 2020 12:32:24 -0400 Move on over to Substack to stay up to date on musings on medieval studies, higher ed, and Massachusetts art and culture! Please subscribe to the blog on the new site, and stay tuned for information about summer […]

]]> 926ada9ed1e55cd9efcd14d3d7ad3309 Mary Dockray-Miller wrote a new post, The Massachusetts Medievalist on Atwood's Handmaid's Tale (Lesley University edition), on the site The Massachusetts Medievalist https://mdockraymiller.hcommons.org/?p=218 Mon, 27 Apr 2020 14:14:05 -0400 Like most university faculty in the world of the #CovidCampus, the Massachusetts Medievalist has been scrapping together the end of the semester in the virtual world, flustered and headachy and anxious.  Also […]

]]> b1ab5530c8f3905203a17ba259ab599a Mary Dockray-Miller wrote a new post, The Massachusetts Medievalist on citation, scholarly erasure, and Signe Marie Carlson, on the site The Massachusetts Medievalist https://mdockraymiller.hcommons.org/?p=212 Tue, 11 Feb 2020 21:02:39 -0500 Much recent discussion on #MedievalTwitter and in academia at large has focused on formal citation practice and more general acknowledgement of the ideas of others, especially less privileged groups. I've […]

]]> cc12bb4722d0fdf777bec177c633471c Mary Dockray-Miller wrote a new post, The Massachusetts Medievalist on stepmothers and hangnails, on the site The Massachusetts Medievalist https://mdockraymiller.hcommons.org/?p=209 Tue, 04 Feb 2020 22:10:46 -0500 Like many New Englanders, the Massachusetts medievalist struggles with dry skin as winter drags on, and with dry skin comes hangnails.  As I was emptying yet another tube of hand cream, I remembered that my […]

]]> 505a995ff4dd057bb7dd898810314ad0 Mary Dockray-Miller wrote a new post, The Massachusetts Medievalist on Dating Beowulf and dating Beowulf, on the site The Massachusetts Medievalist https://mdockraymiller.hcommons.org/?p=202 Fri, 17 Jan 2020 16:26:33 -0500 For the past three weeks #MedievalTwitter has largely criticized the new Dating Beowulf volume, released 26 December on the open-access portal of Manchester University Press and edited by Erica Weaver and Dan […]

]]> 4ffb7cec3411fae9b2aaa2ced63f5ca6 Mary Dockray-Miller wrote a new post, The Massachusetts Medievalist thinks about the power dynamics of "Anglo-Saxon", on the site The Massachusetts Medievalist https://mdockraymiller.hcommons.org/?p=197 Tue, 17 Dec 2019 21:01:13 -0500 Like all medievalists who work in English studies, the Massachusetts Medievalist has been thinking a lot about the term "Anglo-Saxon" and its current usages in academic medieval studies and in culture more broadly […]

]]> 4fefe5272a72f5794975204555fd622b Mary Dockray-Miller wrote a new post, The Massachusetts Medievalist on adjunct faculty and home renovation, on the site The Massachusetts Medievalist https://mdockraymiller.hcommons.org/?p=192 Sun, 08 Dec 2019 19:52:19 -0500 The Massachusetts Medievalist has been thinking a lot about the vicious relationship between university reliance on adjunct faculty and the abysmal academic job market in this anxiety-producing season: the always […]

]]> 87652a7986ad81f63c9bb40b9f844069 Mary Dockray-Miller deposited Syllabus for English Lit II (Romantics>Present), English major core lit survey for sophomores in the group Open Educational Resources https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1606276/ Sat, 14 Apr 2018 04:12:27 -0400 This syllabus for a very standard course (lit survey of British literature from the Romantic period to the present) is unusual only because its assigned texts are all available open-access. I worked with one of the reference librarians and a work-study student at Lesley's Sherrill Library to get academically sound editions that were also open…[Read more]

]]> 0 fb9a690333ff55ca9041a2bb54cf0842 Mary Dockray-Miller deposited Syllabus for English Lit II (Romantics>Present), English major core lit survey for sophomores in the group Education and Pedagogy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1606275/ Sat, 14 Apr 2018 04:12:25 -0400 This syllabus for a very standard course (lit survey of British literature from the Romantic period to the present) is unusual only because its assigned texts are all available open-access. I worked with one of the reference librarians and a work-study student at Lesley's Sherrill Library to get academically sound editions that were also open…[Read more]

]]> 0 ad59e140cc0bc19f96c8a2ffbfbb1993 Mary Dockray-Miller deposited Syllabus for English Lit II (Romantics>Present), English major core lit survey for sophomores https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1606253/ Fri, 13 Apr 2018 15:40:32 -0400 This syllabus for a very standard course (lit survey of British literature from the Romantic period to the present) is unusual only because its assigned texts are all available open-access. I worked with one of the reference librarians and a work-study student at Lesley's Sherrill Library to get academically sound editions that were also open…[Read more]

]]> 0 fb5e81f1ff96780c9f4c8dfecaeed9bb Mary Dockray-Miller wrote a new post, The Massachusetts Medievalist on the Medieval Echoes of Jesus Christ Superstar, on the site The Massachusetts Medievalist http://mdockraymiller.hcommons.org/?p=93 Mon, 02 Apr 2018 17:38:24 -0400 If my twitter feed is any indication, much of the United States watched Jesus Christ Superstar on NBC last night and loved every minute of it.  I loved it as well, and I spent a lot time thinking about the […]

]]> d6dfa8930edca99c23d1bfc3e96563f8 Mary Dockray-Miller wrote a new post, The Massachusetts Medievalist praises the small, local art show, on the site The Massachusetts Medievalist http://mdockraymiller.hcommons.org/?p=87 Tue, 20 Mar 2018 17:54:50 -0400 Small, local art shows have become an inadvertant theme for the Massachusetts Medievalist this month.  I've always inclined toward larger, established institutions when seeking out art; I get to the MFA and the […]

]]> 4097d3c57552bebf71c5f123b5f762b7 Mary Dockray-Miller wrote a new post, The Massachusetts Medievalist prepares for Kalamazoo, on the site The Massachusetts Medievalist http://mdockraymiller.hcommons.org/?p=83 Wed, 14 Feb 2018 13:54:14 -0500 The program for the 2018 International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo (10-13 May 2018) is now available, and the Feminist Renaissance in Anglo-Saxon Studies sessions are slotted into the dreaded 8:30 […]

]]> 4eec784b253ec3991ad987e8292deb18 Mary Dockray-Miller commented on the post, The Massachusetts Medievalist thinks about labor pain and a medieval manuscript, on the site The Massachusetts Medievalist http://mdockraymiller.hcommons.org/2017/12/01/the-massachusetts-medievalist-thinks-about-labor-pain-and-a-medieval-manuscript/#comment-32 Sat, 10 Feb 2018 23:44:50 -0500 Thanks for the link! This is great!

]]> be1fdc691d0659d110d1a1795e2c5c6b Mary Dockray-Miller wrote a new post, The Massachusetts Medievalist thinks about contemporary (and ancient) poetry, on the site The Massachusetts Medievalist http://mdockraymiller.hcommons.org/?p=78 Wed, 31 Jan 2018 14:10:45 -0500 The Massachusetts Medievalist spent part of January immersed in two very different poets, creating an interesting dialogue to start the spring semester. A chance sighting of a Twitter notice led me to Ocean […]

]]> 5911d5c513cc52790c68e5034fcbd338 Mary Dockray-Miller posted an update: @mridleyelmes Thanks for uploading your MLA remarks! Sounds […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1595877/ Tue, 09 Jan 2018 11:39:16 -0500 @mridleyelmes Thanks for uploading your MLA remarks! Sounds like it was an interesting session -

]]> 0 633a720b17a7347ff714fa2cd54104f1 Mary Dockray-Miller wrote a new post, The Massachusetts Medievalist on A World Without "Whom" and the Undergraduate History of the English Language class, on the site The Massachusetts Medievalist http://mdockraymiller.hcommons.org/?p=73 Wed, 20 Dec 2017 19:06:04 -0500 Yes, the Massachusetts Medievalist is at that point of the semester when reading a book about language usage feels like a guilty pleasure -- but this is a very funny, very informative book about contemporary […]

]]> b25cd0dea47b936b061a89f0900b3c44 Mary Dockray-Miller wrote a new post, The Massachusetts Medievalist thinks about labor pain and a medieval manuscript, on the site The Massachusetts Medievalist http://mdockraymiller.hcommons.org/?p=68 Fri, 01 Dec 2017 01:50:25 -0500 This week, the Massachusetts Medievalist road tripped to Yale's Beinecke Library to see "Making the Medieval English Manuscript: The Takamiya Collection in the Beinecke Library." (Nota bene: the exhibit closes on […]

]]> 094e13106c592994aa9651bd2bc3b678 Mary Dockray-Miller wrote a new post, The Massachusetts Medievalist DOES NOT LIVE in a "Shining City on a Hill", on the site The Massachusetts Medievalist http://mdockraymiller.hcommons.org/?p=65 Mon, 16 Oct 2017 00:03:12 -0400 Last week, my university hosted former British prime minister David Cameron as part of the Boston Speakers Series, and he closed his remarks with that shop-worn reference to Boston and the United States as a […]

]]> 6137b9be82ecbff2c300b13f1b90926b Mary Dockray-Miller wrote a new post, The Massachusetts Medievalist on (approximate) historical parallels, on the site The Massachusetts Medievalist http://mdockraymiller.hcommons.org/?p=61 Fri, 29 Sep 2017 12:05:46 -0400 These past two weeks have featured turmoil in the world of medieval studies as University of Chicago history professor Rachel Fulton Brown has cyber-bullied Vassar English professor Dorothy Kim via a variety of […]

]]> a758705ee514f730ba650b43ec4336bf Mary Dockray-Miller wrote a new post, The Massachusetts Medievalist begins fall term, on the site The Massachusetts Medievalist http://mdockraymiller.hcommons.org/?p=53 Fri, 15 Sep 2017 12:40:04 -0400 Note, evening 16 Sept: this post went up before the 15 Sept e-incident of Chicago medievalist Rachel Fulton Brown engaging in ad hominem insults of Vassar medievalist Dorothy Kim; the post's spirit is most […]

]]> 4a18008c704bf8b06f997f27ab139c05 Mary Dockray-Miller replied to the topic Conference Opportunities in the discussion The Lone Medievalist https://hcommons.org/groups/the-lone-medievalist/forum/topic/conference-opportunities/#post-8038 Mon, 11 Sep 2017 23:46:19 -0400 Looking for participants in the feminist/Anglo-Saxonist round table at KZoo in 2018 (see details via link below). Thanks! Mary

CFP: A Feminist Renaissance in Anglo-Saxon Studies

 

]]> c6b4f6b985ad76eda4e842e427b265fa Mary Dockray-Miller posted an update in the group The Lone Medievalist: Hi Lone Medievalists! Anyone interested in participating in […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1581137/ Mon, 11 Sep 2017 23:43:29 -0400 Hi Lone Medievalists! Anyone interested in participating in this roundtable at KZoo in May:

CFP: A Feminist Renaissance in Anglo-Saxon Studies

Seems like (as lone medievalists) we all should be extra-good about thinking about why and how our work is relevant outside of our immediate disciplinary…[Read more]

]]> 0 cdac30054197c3d54c17731736f93361 Mary Dockray-Miller posted an update in the group LLC Old English: Overview of conversations about race and inclusion in the […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1578450/ Thu, 10 Aug 2017 20:54:07 -0400 Overview of conversations about race and inclusion in the discipline, with links to lots of thought-provoking blogs:

The past couple of months in medieval studies: a reading list pulled from my phone

]]> 0 8d2e4f241e71196bb58b02c871c94583 Mary Dockray-Miller posted an update in the group Old English / Early Medieval England: A nice overview of the conversations about race and […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1578449/ Thu, 10 Aug 2017 20:50:37 -0400 A nice overview of the conversations about race and inclusivity in the discipline, complete with links to a lot of thought-provoking blog posts:

The past couple of months in medieval studies: a reading list pulled from my phone

]]> 0 00d914641c20accad4b6e41872b59e85 Mary Dockray-Miller posted an update in the group Early Medieval: Hi All -- please check out my latest blog post on Melissa […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1577238/ Thu, 03 Aug 2017 01:21:04 -0400 Hi All -- please check out my latest blog post on Melissa Range's Scriptorium collection, a super read for this end of summer before fall craziness kicks in: https://mdockraymiller.hcommons.org/2017/08/03/the-massachusetts-medievalist-reads-melissa-ranges-scriptorium/

]]> 0 572e4945a04da4d4989976198ee3dc00 Mary Dockray-Miller wrote a new post, The Massachusetts Medievalist Reads Melissa Range’s Scriptorium, on the site The Massachusetts Medievalist http://mdockraymiller.hcommons.org/?p=47 Thu, 03 Aug 2017 01:07:59 -0400 The Massachusetts Medievalist has been on something of a hiatus, eating blueberries and corn and lobster, visiting Crane’s beach and Walden pond, following on Twitter the revelations at #ISAS2017 (more on that i […]

]]> 9c60ee5f4104874534885a2673e5a61b Mary Dockray-Miller wrote a new post, CFP: A Feminist Renaissance in Anglo-Saxon Studies, on the site The Massachusetts Medievalist http://mdockraymiller.hcommons.org/?p=41 Fri, 14 Jul 2017 12:55:42 -0400 CFP: A Feminist Renaissance in Anglo-Saxon Studies
Special Sessions at the 2018 International Congress on Medieval Studies
10-13 May 2018
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MI

A Feminist Renaissance in […]

]]> 1d86f4b25805aa85a4aa20cc019a8665 Mary Dockray-Miller replied to the topic Welcome! in the discussion Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/groups/early-medieval/forum/topic/welcome-2/#post-6706 Wed, 05 Jul 2017 21:19:25 -0400 Hi Nicola and Colin -- just wanted to say that I loved Hild and eagerly await the sequel. (Am I right that there will be a sequel?) All of my work focuses on women's connections with literary production in pre-1100 England, so I'm a huge Hild fan.
Cheers, Mary

]]> 2d219f786e2455d6ccf011c231eb433d Mary Dockray-Miller wrote a new post, The Massachusetts Medievalist Visits City Life: The Quest for Progressive Medievalist Imagery, on the site The Massachusetts Medievalist http://mdockraymiller.hcommons.org/?p=28 Fri, 16 Jun 2017 14:41:24 -0400 This past Tuesday I had the good fortune to attend the weekly meeting of City Life/Vida Urbana , a Boston community organization that advocates for residents on a variety of issues, primarily around housing. C […]

]]> 0262b92bb2c1946cbe7a64b52f8d2a97 Mary Dockray-Miller wrote a new post, The Massachusetts Medievalist on Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me, on the site The Massachusetts Medievalist http://mdockraymiller.hcommons.org/?p=22 Fri, 02 Jun 2017 18:23:27 -0400 This coming week I’ll be attending Lesley University’s Cultural Literacy Curriculum Institute and l’ve spent the past few days doing the assigned reading to prepare for the workshop.  One key text is Coates […]

]]> 52f11f62d23c906df5193e40b2cbf987 Mary Dockray-Miller wrote a new post, The Massachusetts Medievalist Goes to the Schlesinger, on the site Massachusetts Medievalist http://mdockraymiller.hcommons.org/?p=12 Mon, 22 May 2017 21:15:31 -0400 Last Friday, I visited the Radcliffe Institute’s Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America. What business, you might ask, did the Massachusetts Medievalist have at an institution dedicated to A […]

]]> 72d0563ed6b5bd6b215c2e66311155f3 Mary Dockray-Miller deposited The St. Edith Cycle in the Salisbury Breviary in the group TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1571083/ Sat, 20 May 2017 01:03:50 -0400 The manuscript now called the Salisbury Breviary (Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale de France, MS lat. 17294) contains the only extant illustrated cycle of of the Life of St Edith of Wilton; the fifteen miniatures accompany the readings for the feast of St Edith. These images emphasize the connections among Edith's holiness, royal genealogy, and…[Read more]

]]> 0 4635a06107e8fd3cec60a8319d7dc875 Mary Dockray-Miller deposited The eadgiþ Erasure: A Gloss on the Old English Andreas in the group LLC Old English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1571082/ Sat, 20 May 2017 01:02:34 -0400 A half-erased woman's name is partially legible at the bottom of folio 41 verso of the Anglo-Saxon manuscript we now call the Vercelli Book. Edith - eadgiþ - provides mystery as highly unusual marginalia, an individual name added to and then erased from the manuscript. I argue here that the erased name eadgiþ is direct reference to St. Edith o…[Read more]

]]> 0 fa5d0c326b917c51ef11a8cffb5b7da6 Mary Dockray-Miller deposited The eadgiþ Erasure: A Gloss on the Old English Andreas in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1571081/ Sat, 20 May 2017 01:02:21 -0400 A half-erased woman's name is partially legible at the bottom of folio 41 verso of the Anglo-Saxon manuscript we now call the Vercelli Book. Edith - eadgiþ - provides mystery as highly unusual marginalia, an individual name added to and then erased from the manuscript. I argue here that the erased name eadgiþ is direct reference to St. Edith o…[Read more]

]]> 0 fa5d0c326b917c51ef11a8cffb5b7da6 Mary Dockray-Miller deposited The eadgiþ Erasure: A Gloss on the Old English Andreas in the group Anglo-Saxon / Old English https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1571080/ Sat, 20 May 2017 01:02:21 -0400 A half-erased woman's name is partially legible at the bottom of folio 41 verso of the Anglo-Saxon manuscript we now call the Vercelli Book. Edith - eadgiþ - provides mystery as highly unusual marginalia, an individual name added to and then erased from the manuscript. I argue here that the erased name eadgiþ is direct reference to St. Edith o…[Read more]

]]> 0 530afe172298861a3975848aa4cc0fee Mary Dockray-Miller deposited Beowulf's Tears of Fatherhood in the group LLC Old English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1571074/ Sat, 20 May 2017 01:00:16 -0400 The figure of Hrothgar, aging king of the Danes, forces an analysis of the relationships among age, maleness, and masculinity in Beowulf. Masculine characters, while enacting the poem's complex reciprocities and social transactions in the hall and on the battlefield, accrue status and power through assertions of control and dominance, through…[Read more]

]]> 0 8173cd100393fc943467bfc2805b61d9 Mary Dockray-Miller deposited Beowulf's Tears of Fatherhood in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1571073/ Sat, 20 May 2017 01:00:02 -0400 The figure of Hrothgar, aging king of the Danes, forces an analysis of the relationships among age, maleness, and masculinity in Beowulf. Masculine characters, while enacting the poem's complex reciprocities and social transactions in the hall and on the battlefield, accrue status and power through assertions of control and dominance, through…[Read more]

]]> 0 8173cd100393fc943467bfc2805b61d9 Mary Dockray-Miller deposited Beowulf's Tears of Fatherhood in the group Anglo-Saxon / Old English https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1571072/ Sat, 20 May 2017 01:00:02 -0400 The figure of Hrothgar, aging king of the Danes, forces an analysis of the relationships among age, maleness, and masculinity in Beowulf. Masculine characters, while enacting the poem's complex reciprocities and social transactions in the hall and on the battlefield, accrue status and power through assertions of control and dominance, through…[Read more]

]]> 0 7a24e91a8815c9ac9d3ae6d746a969f2 Mary Dockray-Miller deposited The Feminized Cross of the Dream of the Rood in the group TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1570918/ Fri, 19 May 2017 01:19:14 -0400 The performances of Christ in the text of The Dream of the Rood construct a masculinity for Christ that is majestic, martial, and specifically heterosexual and that relies on a fragile opposition with a femininity defined as dominated Other in the figure of the Cross. His particularly constructed masculinity, explored rather than merely assumed or…[Read more]

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