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 | Managing Editor | Editorial
Assistant | Research Coordinator | Program Coordinator
Robert E. Bjork
Director
Foundation Professor of English
Email: Robert.Bjork
Robert E. Bjork, Foundation 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 five books on Old English poetry and translations of seven modern Swedish novels. His and R. D. Fulk’s and John D. Niles’s Klaeber’s Beowulf (the 4th edition of Frederick Klaeber's Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburg) was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2008. He is General Editor of The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, scheduled for publication in March, 2010, and he is currently working on facing-page translations of the poems of Cynewulf and of Old English sapiential and lyric poems for Harvard University Press as well as 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). He also serves on the editorial boards of Anglo-Saxon England (Cambridge University Press) and Mediaevistik: Internationale Zeitschrift für Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterforschung, (Peter Lang Verlag) as well as on the International Advisory Boards of National Sun Yat-sen University Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Taiwan, and of the Medieval Centre, National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan.
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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.
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.
Research Coordinator
Email:
The Research Coordinator manages the Center's academic and awards programs, including coordinating the annual ACMRS
Cambridge Summer Study Abroad Program (in conjunction with the ASU Study Abroad Office) and managing the undergraduate and graduate Medieval and Renaissance certificate programs. The Research Coordinator produces the ACMRS Newsletter each Fall and Spring semester, and assists with event planning and support, ACMRS communications, and other special projects.