People

As president of the New Chaucer Society, Anthony Bale is interested in bringing opportunities for deeper engagement in digital methodologies to the Society’s membership.

Benjamin Albritton is the Rare Books Curator Bibliographer for Classics at Stanford University Libraries. In his work he focuses on enhancing, enlarging, and celebrating the Rare Books and Early Manuscripts collections of the Stanford University Libraries. He works with curatorial colleagues across many different departments in the library, to provide support to Stanford faculty and academic programs using Special Collections materials, and to raise awareness of the university’s collections amongst research communities around the world.

Previously a Computing Info Systems Analyst Dr. Albritton, continues to promote digital access for faculty in his current post, and new ways of teaching and learning using digital tools. Dr. Albritton oversees a number of digital manuscript projects, including Parker Library on the Web, recent collaborations with the Vatican Library, and a number of projects devoted to interoperability and improving access to manuscript images for pedagogical and research purposes. He has published on the music and poetry of Guillaume de Machaut and is co-editor of Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age published by Routledge in 2020.

Laura K. Morreale is an Independent Scholar and Cultural Historian of the thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italian peninsula, with particular interest in medieval French-language writings outside of the kingdom of France. She is the creator or project lead on over a dozen digital projects including the Oxford Outremer Map, Exploring Place in theFrench of Italy, and the Digital Documentation Process. Dr. Morreale is co-creator and co-editor of Middle Ages for Educators, an Princeton-based online resource for medievalists as they integrate digital approaches into their pedagogical practice. She is Co-PI of the Documentary Archaeology of Late Medieval Europe (DALME) project based at Harvard University. Together with Benjamin Albritton, she devised and launched the very popular La Sfera International and the Image du Monde Transcription Challenges. Dr. Morreale currently serves as the Chair of the Digital Humanities and Multimedia Studies Committee for the Medieval Academy of America (AY 2020-2021) and a member of the Digital Medievalist Executive Board.