Keynote Speakers
Dr. Jonathan Hsy
Assistant Professor of English, George Washington University
Jonathan Hsy is an Assistant Professor of English at The George Washington University, and his current interests span translation studies and disability theory. His first book, Trading Tongues: Merchants, Multilingualism, and Medieval Literature (Ohio State University Press, July 2013) investigates writing by polyglot urban writers across the late medieval and early Tudor eras. His current book project, Transforming Disability: Authorship and Advocacy in the Middle Ages, turns to authors who self-identify as blind or deaf. He blogs at In The Middle, serves on the Editorial Board of the Online Medieval Disability Glossary, and is collaborating with Candace Barrington on Global Chaucers, an emergent online archive of modern adaptations of Chaucer in non-Anglophone settings.
Dr. Hsy's faculty website at GWU.
Dr. Amy Landau
Associate Curator of Islamic Art and Manuscripts, Walters Art Museum
Landau received her PhD from the Department of Islamic Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford, in 2007, with a thesis entitled "Farangi-sazi at Isfahan: the Court Painter Muhammad Zaman, the Armenians of New Julfa and Shah Sulayman (1666-1694)". Landau's work explores shifts in the visual culture of early modern Iran, with particular emphasis on interaction between Safavid Persia and Europe and the Armenian merchant community of New Julfa. Currently she is working on an international loan exhibition of Islamic art, Pearls on a String: Artist and Patron in the Islamic World. Landau’s other exhibitions include Poetry and Prayer; The Art of the Writing Instrument from Paris to Persia (2011); The Ben Ezra Synagogue and the Walters-Yeshiva University Ark Door (2013); and Views of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul (2014).
Dr. Landau's full biography at the Walters.
Assistant Professor of English, George Washington University
Jonathan Hsy is an Assistant Professor of English at The George Washington University, and his current interests span translation studies and disability theory. His first book, Trading Tongues: Merchants, Multilingualism, and Medieval Literature (Ohio State University Press, July 2013) investigates writing by polyglot urban writers across the late medieval and early Tudor eras. His current book project, Transforming Disability: Authorship and Advocacy in the Middle Ages, turns to authors who self-identify as blind or deaf. He blogs at In The Middle, serves on the Editorial Board of the Online Medieval Disability Glossary, and is collaborating with Candace Barrington on Global Chaucers, an emergent online archive of modern adaptations of Chaucer in non-Anglophone settings.
Dr. Hsy's faculty website at GWU.
Dr. Amy Landau
Associate Curator of Islamic Art and Manuscripts, Walters Art Museum
Landau received her PhD from the Department of Islamic Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford, in 2007, with a thesis entitled "Farangi-sazi at Isfahan: the Court Painter Muhammad Zaman, the Armenians of New Julfa and Shah Sulayman (1666-1694)". Landau's work explores shifts in the visual culture of early modern Iran, with particular emphasis on interaction between Safavid Persia and Europe and the Armenian merchant community of New Julfa. Currently she is working on an international loan exhibition of Islamic art, Pearls on a String: Artist and Patron in the Islamic World. Landau’s other exhibitions include Poetry and Prayer; The Art of the Writing Instrument from Paris to Persia (2011); The Ben Ezra Synagogue and the Walters-Yeshiva University Ark Door (2013); and Views of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul (2014).
Dr. Landau's full biography at the Walters.