Arizona
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Arizona State
University, P.O. Box 874402, Tempe, AZ 85287-4402
Phone: (480) 965-5900 Fax: (480) 965-1681
ACMRS
Arizona State University
PO Box 874402
Tempe, AZ 85287-4402
Lattie F. Coor Hall, 4th Floor
(Rooms 4426 - 4442)
Phone: 480-965-5900
Fax: 480-965-1681
Email: acmrs@asu.edu
To e-mail a staff member directly use the following format: FirstName.LastName@asu.edu
ACMRS
Staff
Director |
Assistant
Director |
Manager of Design and Production
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Managing Editor |
Editorial Assistant |
Research Coordinator
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Program Coordinator
Robert E. Bjork
Director
Email: Robert.Bjork
Robert E. Bjork, Professor of English, Arizona State University, was appointed Director of ACMRS (the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies) in 1994. His published work includes four books on Old English poetry and translations of seven modern Swedish novels. In 1998, he was appointed General Editor of The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, scheduled for publication in 2008, and he is also completing work with R. D. Fulk and John D. Niles on the 4th edition of Frederik Klaeber's Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburg (for publication by the University of Toronto Press in 2008), on a facing-page translation of the poems of Cynewulf (for publication in 2008/9), and on a history of Scandinavian scholarship on Anglo-Saxon literature. He’s past President of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, Chair of CARA (the standing committee of the Medieval Academy of America on Centers and Regional Associations), and a Corresponding Fellow of the English Association (United Kingdom).
William Gentrup
Assistant Director
Email: William.Gentrup
Bill has been Assistant Director of ACMRS since 1991. His duties include grant writing and management, assistant director of MRTS, budgets and local operations of Iter: A Medieval and Renaissance On-line Bibliography, membership secretary for the Renaissance English Text Society and production and distribution of its publications, and tutor of ACMRS paleography courses. He has a PhD in Renaissance English literature from ASU, and his teaching and research interests include Shakespeare, Milton, the Bible in literature, and literary approaches to the Bible.
Todd Halvorsen
Manager of Design and Production
Email: Todd.Halvorsen
Todd joined ACMRS in August 2005. His main responsibility at the Center is in the areas of design and production, which encompasses format and page design, monitoring all stages of the manufacturing process, along with cover/case design, and design of the domestic and international catalogues and coordinating their printing and mailing. Todd earned a BFA in Graphic Design from ASU and has spent 14 years working for commercial printers and professional publishers in various capacities ranging from graphic design to managing production.
Leslie
S. B. MacCoull
Editorial Assistant
Email: Leslie.MacCoull
Leslie's responsibilities at ACMRS's major publishing program, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies (MRTS), encompass proofreading, copyediting, fact-checking, reference verifying, troubleshooting, mistake fixing, and laughing out loud at hysterically funny typos in Latin. She has degrees from: Vassar A.B. (Classics); Yale M.A. (Classics); Catholic University Ph.D. (Coptic). She is a specialist in Byzantine and Coptic papyrology and the social and cultural history of the late antique Eastern Mediterranean, and has 275 publications to her name.
Roy Rukkila
Managing Editor
Email: Roy.Rukkila
Roy's main responsibility is with ACMRS's major publishing program, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies (MRTS). He processes manuscripts from submission to production, which includes finding readers to review manuscripts, issues contracts, oversees copy editing, and works with authors. He received a B.A. in History from ASU and recently completed his M.A. degree in the Public History Program at ASU, where his emphasis of study was in scholarly publishing.
Jennifer Michaud
Research Coordinator
Email: Jennifer.Michaud
Jennifer was appointed Research Coordinator with the Center in February 2003. She began her affiliation with the ACMRS through participating in the summer program in Cambridge and also working as a bibliographer on the Iter database project. Jennifer has a BA in English from ASU and recently completed her MA in medieval English literature. She wrote her thesis on the fourteenth-century poem Cleanness, from the Pearl manuscript, exploring the nature of the text as an apocalyptic sermon. The main projects Jennifer works on at the Center include the Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, the Cambridge Study Abroad Program, the ACMRS Certificate Program, the Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile series, the ACMRS inter-disciplinary course listing, and the AMCRS newsletter.
Audrey Walters
Program Coordinator
Email: Audrey.Walters
Audrey joined ACMRS in April 2007 and manages the Center's public programs. Among her many duties, she handles the local arrangements for the annual ACMRS Interdisciplinary Conference and other conferences hosted by ACMRS; she coordinates the Disinguished Lecture Series and Ad Hoc Lecture Series; and she produces the annual Public Symposium. She also administrates the ACMRS Distinguished Visiting Professor program, manages the annual updates to the CARA database, and serves as the webmaster for the ACMRS portions of this website.
