![]() ![]() Since its publication, it has catalyzed the field of premodern media studies and contributed to a new understanding of performance practices and their chancy relationship to writing. Her first book, A Common Stage: Theater and Public Life in Medieval Arras (Cornell, 2007), has been awarded the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize of the American Historical Association and the John Nicholas Brown Prize of the Medieval Academy of America, among other honors. in Humanities from Yale and an M.Litt in History from Oxford, and received her professional training as an actor at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She is also a public-facing theatre scholar and practitioner who has produced and performed in numerous actor-friendly verse translations of medieval plays.Ĭarol received the Ph.D in History from Harvard and became a member of Actors’ Equity in the same year. She has published widely on the medieval reception and preservation of ancient dramatic texts the role of medievalism in modern cultural trends, intellectual projects, and nationalist historiographies and, most importantly, on the material, embodied, performative, and negotiated processes of writing across an array of medieval genres. Carol Symes studies the mediation of knowledge in, and about, the medieval world: the history of premodern media as well as the processes by which products and perceptions of the medieval past are transmitted to future generations. ![]()
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