Vol. XXXII, No. 1 ­ Spring 2010 http://chaucer.wustl.eduNewsletter

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Election of President and 3 Trustees . . . . 1 Conferences and Calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5­7Tribute to Charles Muscatine . . . . . . . 2­3 Publication Announcements . . . . . . . . . . . 7Siena Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Other News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7­8

IMPORTANT NOTICE: ELECTION OF PRESIDENT AND 3 TRUSTEESThe election for President and three Trustees of theNew Chaucer Society will be held online andorganized by Arts and Sciences Computing atWashington University. You will be sent by email aunique password to enable you to vote on a secure site.Should you experience any difficulty, please emailJessica Rezunyk (chaucer@artsci.wustl.edu). Ouremail will be sent to the one you supplied with yourmembership information. If this has changed, please letus know at once on chaucer@artsci.wustl.edu.Online voting will be open from Monday, May 3 toSunday, May 23. This is the preferred mode of voting,and we urge all members who can do so to use it.Online voting should materially increase the level ofparticipation.We are aware, however, that a few members may beunable to access an electronic process. The ExecutiveDirector will therefore accept votes by email(dalawton@wustl.edu) or letter sent to:

If you are intending to vote by mail or email, you willneed to identify yourself in order for your onlinepassword to be canceled. If you wish your postal ballotto be strictly confidential, please enclose it inside a

second envelope. Letters or emails will need to bereceived by Sunday, May 23.The election for President is by preferential voting.You will be asked to rank the candidates in order ofpreference, with 1 as your first preference. If yourfirst preference candidate receives fewest votes, hervotes will be distributed according to preferencesbetween the other two candidates.Candidates for President (in alphabetical order) are

Ardis ButterfieldCarolyn DinshawStephanie Trigg

The election for Trustees will be by simplemajority. You will be asked to vote by placing an Xbeside the names of your three preferredcandidates. The three with the highest number ofprimary votes will be declared elected.Candidates for Trustee (in alphabetical order) are

Alcuin BlamiresMishtooni BoseGlenn BurgerMarilynn DesmondFrank GradyLarry Scanlon

David LawtonExecutive Director and Returning Officer

David Lawtonc/o Faculty of English

Language and LiteratureUniversity of OxfordSt Cross BuildingManor RoadOxfordOX1 3UQUK

The New Chaucer SocietyWashington University

in Saint LouisDepartment of EnglishCampus Box 1122One Brookings DriveSaint Louis, MO 63130USA

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Charles Muscatine died in his ninetiethyear on March 12 in Oakland California, not farfrom the campus of the University of California atBerkeley, which he served so long and so well.Charles also had a long association with the NewChaucer Society: he was one of its FoundingTrustees and served as its second President from1980­82. Charles’s fame in the wider world, asemphasized in the many obituaries that appearedthroughout the country, derived from a signal actof bravery in 1950 when, as a new AssistantProfessor with a growing family and a mortgage,he with some thirty other colleagues refused tosign the anti­Communist loyalty oath thenrequired by the UC Regents. He was fired,unemployed for a year, taught at Wesleyan for twoyears, joined in a legal suit that succeeded, andreturned happily to Berkeley. With his usualmodesty, he rarely talked about this moment ofcourage (he always insisted he wasn’t a verypolitical person). His stand for academic freedom,prompted by the sense of decency that was one ofhis core qualities, took place just a few years afterhe participated in naval landings on the coasts ofNorth Africa and Sicily, at Salerno, and on OmahaBeach on D­Day (for which he was officiallyrecognized for bravery). It was followed a fewyears later by the publication of his first book,Chaucer and the French Tradition.

These are just a few incidents in aremarkably rich and full life. For example, hewas an avid golfer and skier (into his eighties),he learned to pilot a small plane (at the UCFlying Club), which he sometimes flew toacademic conferences, and he co­owned avineyard whose grapes were used to produce,among other wines, a superb Ridge Zinfandel.His wife Doris, who was his childhoodsweetheart in New Jersey, was a well­knownwriter on food and wine, and the dinner partiesheld at their striking house high in the BerkeleyHills (at one time such scenic plots could beafforded by Assistant Professors) will beremembered by the many who attended them asoccasions of great food (and wine), goodconversation, and easy laughter, where one mightmeet a young pastry chef, a writer on time andcreativity, an opera coach, a Classics scholar, aformer student, and even the Muscatines’ elusiveSiamese cats.

Although celebrated as a critic of literarystyle, Charles made early contributions tosituating Middle English poetry in its widercultural contexts, specifically Continental writing(French and Italian in particular), and incontemporary politics (Poetry and Crisis in theAge of Chaucer [1972]). It was as an exceptionalreader of poetry that his genius lay. He wroterelatively little about Piers Plowman, yet hisunderstanding of that difficult poem has beenwidely influential, including his comments onthe poem’s narrative disintegration, its"surrealistic" spaces, and the sense it gives that“anything” might happen. Although he alsopublished a book on the French fabliaux (1986)and his collected essays appeared in 1999,Charles is best known among Chaucerians for hisfirst book, Chaucer and the French Tradition(1957). After more than fifty years it remains inprint and continues to be one of the best andmost useful books on the poet. Althoughsometimes grouped with New Criticism,Chaucer and the French Tradition has perhapsmore in common with the sparkling prose, widelearning, and original yet utterly convincing

Charles Muscatine1920­2010

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PAGE 3NEWSLETTERVOL. XXXII, NO. 1 ­ SPRING 2010readings of Erich Auerbach’s Mimesis. Chaucerand the French Tradition offered a bracing newapproach to the poet: the emphasis is not onChaucer the man, still less Chaucer theEnglishman, or even Chaucer the creator of greatcharacters, but on Chaucer the endlesslyinventive artist, who drew on two traditions ofContinental literature (the courtly and thenaturalistic) to produce works of great varietyand subtlety. Charles showed Chaucerians newways to understand tales often neglected ormisapprehended (such as the Knight’s Tale or theClerk’s Tale, not to mention the fabliaux), and heblazed critical trails that are still being exploredby those of us who limp after. His interpretationsare always generous: concerned with meaning,they do not proscribe or compel, but open up thepossibilities and delights of the text, which iswhy the book is still so often read and rereadtoday.

Over the years Chaucer and the FrenchTradition has helped many to read and teachChaucer. And that must have especially pleasedCharles because he was a teacher above all. In asymposium on the loyalty oath fifty years later,he explained that decision in terms of hisstudents: how could he ask them “to tell it like itis, if I had signed something that went so muchagainst my conscience.” Believing in a literateand thoughtful public as the basis of democracy,he was perhaps unique among full professors atBerkeley in teaching Freshman English yearlyuntil he retired in 1991. In response to thetroubles at Berkeley during the mid­1960s, theuniversity senate set up a committee chaired byCharles to suggest how things might be fixed. Itsfindings, known as the “Muscatine Report,”recommended, among other changes, morepersonal and individualized teaching forundergraduates. Charles then followed his ownadvice by leading an educational experiment atBerkeley known as “Strawberry Creek College”(officially, the Collegiate Seminar Program), inwhich faculty and graduate students createdinnovative courses for small groups ofundergraduates emphasizing interdisciplinarytopics and critical thinking. Charles directed

Strawberry Creek for six years until 1980, whenthe university declined to continue funding it, notbecause it had not been a success, but because ofinstitutional inertia and stinginess. By that timeCharles was enjoying what he called “a secondcareer” as a proponent of higher­educationreform. He visited colleges throughout thecountry, learning from successful experimentsand advising others to create their own. Thisresulted in his last book, published in the finalyear of his life, Fixing College Education: A NewCurriculum for the Twenty­First Century.

Anyone who ever took a class fromCharles knows what a gifted teacher he was.Indeed, at the very end of his life he was still at it,tutoring weekly a man trying to improve his lifeand advising a Cal undergraduate on writing andreading. Charles had a way of discovering thebest in others’ work and showing them how todevelop it. I saw this during an NEH SummerInstitute for College Teachers on the CanterburyTales held at the University of Connecticut in1987. Charles agreed to visit Storrs for a weekand the participants were eager to hear what thisdistinguished Chaucerian had to say. When hearrived, they were pleasantly surprised at howfriendly and unassuming he was and thenastonished that he spent most of his time simplylistening to them, keen to hear their ideas andinspiring them by his appreciation. He also wonthe group’s afternoon croquet game with a casualshot of rare daring and precision. Charlesencouraged others in and out of the classroom,especially the young. He always sparkled whenhe talked about his own son and daughter and hissix grandchildren, all of whom remember him astheir biggest cheerleader, and he treated theminor children of his friends with unfeignedrespect.

It is hard to lament such a long life livedso well, but those who met Charles over the yearsand benefited from his original mind, his skilland dedication as a teacher, and his unfailingdecency and good humor, will recall him withfondness and long regret our loss.

C. David Benson

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News of – and from – SienaCongress planning is now in full swing. Thecongress website(http://chaucer.wustl.edu/Congress2010/) has beenup and running since January, and we are pleased tosee that it has received many hits so far. The websitecontains all information relevant to the program,congress events, details on how to reach Siena,accommodation and other helpful informationregarding both the congress and its location this year.It will be updated regularly as we approach July, soplease check for updates.Please register as soon as possible: failure to do soseriously impedes our NCS planning and cash flow.Congress hotel discounts have now run out, andhotels in the vicinity of the congress site are mostlybooked, but many of the hotels a bit further from theuniversity still have availability. This is high seasonin Siena and the city is a popular tourist attraction, soyou may find it difficult to find accommodation lateron.We hope to have an update soon on the congressevents, but we are pleased to announce that the localcommittee has managed to secure the magnificentPalazzo Pubblico, Cortile del Podestà, for a civicreception. There is a dinner included in theregistration fee for Saturday night, and the congressdinner on Monday will take place in a superb Tuscansetting, Tenuta di Monaciano(http://www.monaciano.com). The events will alsoinclude two optional excursions. A choice of half­day excursions will take place in the afternoon onSunday, July 18. Delegates can choose betweeneither a visit to the well­known and picturesquemedieval hilltop towns of San Gimignano and ColleVal D’Elsa or the stunning remains of a thirteenth­century abbey at San Galgano and the Montesiepe

chapel. The San Gimignano excursion already hasover 100 participants registered, so we againencourage delegates to register for those as soon aspossible. The second all­day excursion will take placeafter the congress on Tuesday, July 20. Informationon both can be found on the website.The NCS has awarded travel grants to over 30graduate students this year, an unprecedented number.The grant this year includes participation in thegraduate workshop, which will take place onWednesday, July 14. This is limited to graduatestudents only, but is turning out to be a welcomeaddition to the congress and has attracted muchinterest. We are grateful to all those offering theirtime and knowledge to assist in training the nextgeneration of Chaucerians.We still have a few rooms available for graduatestudents, the unsalaried or retired so please contactSif Rikhardsdottir, Assistant ED for the Sienacongress, sifr@hi.is, in order to request universityaccommodation. We are receiving reports of changesto airline schedules, for example from Leeds, soplease check your flight information regularly.Information on how to reach Siena and bus transportfrom Pisa and Florence can be found on the website(under Venue, Transport Connections).For questions about Siena and local arrangementsplease email the chair of the local arrangementscommittee, Stefania D’Agata D’Ottavi,agata.ottavi@gmail.com. For questions about theprogram please email the chair of the programcommittee, Thomas Hahn,thomas.hahn@rochester.edu. For questions aboutNCS or about the congress in general please email theExecutive Director, David Lawton,dalawton@wustl.edu.

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Conferences and CallsNEW YORK UNIVERSITY

MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE CENTERSPRING 2010 CONFERENCEMedieval Nature and its Others

Organized byChristopher Cannon and Carolyn Dinshaw

Friday, April 23, 201013­19 University Place, room 102

1:30 ­ 6:00 pmDame Nature descends from heaven, regal butperturbed with her creations. A green man ridesinto Camelot on a green horse. Birds speak. Desertsare provocatively crowded. What can the styles,preoccupations, and categories of analysis openedup by environmental studies, ecocriticism, animalstudies, and post­humanism tell usabout suchoccurrences in medieval literature and culture? Andwhat can medieval literature and culture tell usabout these latter­day styles, preoccupations, andcategories? This workshop will bring a variety ofvoices, medieval and non­, into conversation aboutthe potentials of a critical practice in which thehuman is de­centered. We will touch on (amongother things) interrelations between human andnon­human nature; the mind­body­environmentcircuit; subject­object relationships and the refusalofthe subject­object divide; the "prehistory of theposthuman" (to quote Joanna Picciotto). FollowingDonna J. Haraway, herself following Bruno Latour,we may ask, have we ever been human?Featuring: N. Katherine Hayles (Duke University),Bruce Holsinger (University of Virginia), EileenJoy (Southern Illinois University), Mark Miller(University of Chicago), Kellie Robertson(University of Wisconsin)NYU graduate student respondents: Liza Blake(English), Maile Hutterer (IFA), DanRemein(English), and Gerald Song (English)Moderated by Susan Crane (Columbia University)

Paper proposals are invited forNATIO SCOTICA

The Thirteenth International Conference onMedieval and Renaissance Scottish Language and

LiteratureTo be hosted by the Università degli Studi di Padova

Italy ­ 22­26 July 2011The definition of a literary canon in medieval and earlymodern Scotland is closely connected with the definition ofthe Scottish nation. Attempting an assessment of medievaland early modern Scottish literature means above all dealingwith a definition of this literature within a strongly definednational context: literature and nation grow together, andeach contributes to the other’s definition. Following thesesuggestions, we welcome papers addressing (but notnecessarily restricted to) the following topics:­ Redefining the canonical in early Scottish literature­ One nation, many languages: issues of language and timerange­ New canons of neo­Latin and Gaelic poetry­ Defining Older Scots­ The ongoing circulation and adaptation of Older Scotsliterature­ A tale of two nations: Scotland and England­ Scottish­Italian relations­ Local cultural centres: the influence of religious,educational, and legal institutions­ The invention of literary tradition in seventeenth­centuryScotland­ Literary and linguistic theories and practices inseventeenth­century Scotland­ Building a national epic­ Poetry deriving from strands of Protestantism­ Personal and political satire­ The poetry of quietism­ Medieval universities and the progress of learning

Papers should be twenty minutes long. Please send a 500­word abstract and brief curriculum vitae by 31 August 2010to:Alessandra PetrinaDipartimento di Lingue e Lett. Anglo­Germaniche e SlaveVia Beato Pellegrino, 2635100 Padova ­ ItalyOr as an email attachment to alessandra.petrina@unipd.it

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Medieval Translator Conference(Padua, 23­27 July 2010)

Registration is now open. All information and theregistration link can be found at the conferencewebsite:http://www.maldura.unipd.it/mt2010/index.html

The Third London Chaucer ConferenceChaucer and Celebrity

7th­8th April 2011With keynote lectures from Alexandra Gillespie(Universityof Toronto) and Thomas Prendergast

(College of Wooster)Our current obsession with celebrity has had a profound,even distorting effect on the contemporary literary marketand cultures of reading. A new reliance on ghost­writingand a fascination with fame and scandal, for example,have disrupted post­enlightenment fixations on the author­category and literary merit, bringing us to an interestingpoint of contact with earlier cultures of literacy. As thereputation of Geoffrey Chaucer himself demonstrates, thesimultaneously repellent and fascinating nature of moderncelebrity culture presents clear parallels with that of thelate medieval world. From the seemingly reverentimitations of his contemporaries and followers – like Usk,Hoccleve and Lydgate – through the popularity ofChauceriana in early modern print, to the countlessappropriations and adaptations of his work in our owntimes, Chaucer has been a more or less constant starwithin the English literary canon. And Chaucer was deeplyinterested in questions of celebrity: in the relationshipbetween fame and authority, in the fame of literarycreations such as the Wife of Bath, in legends and lives.

Chaucer and Celebrity, the third London ChaucerConference, invites paper submissions on any aspect ofcelebrity in late Middle English literature.

Please email 250 word abstracts by 1st September 2010 to:Isabel Davis ati.davis@bbk.ac.uk, Institute for EnglishStudies, Senate House, London, WC1E 7HUhttp://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/events/conferences/2011/Chaucer/index.htmJointly organized by Isabel Davis (Birkbeck), CatherineNall (Royal Holloway) and Alfred Hiatt (Queen Mary).

Call for AbstractsTheorizing the Law of God and the Law of Man

in Late Medieval LiteratureWe are inviting interdisciplinary contributions onlaw and literature for a collection of essays thattheorize the law of God and the law of man in latemedieval literature (English and continental). Wehope to receive submissions that explore variousaspects of law: common, canon, civil, or customarylaw. We welcome theoretical angles that are inthemselves interdisciplinary, such as culturalanthropology, social/cultural history, orcriticaltheory.We see this volume as a contribution toward whatAnthony Musson calls “the new legal history” – anexciting emerging field that values the intersectionof law, literary texts, and culture. Interestedcontributors might consider the following topics,though these are guidelines and in no waylimitations: Questions of Gender, Identity, andSubjectivity Construction of the Self (legal,social, philosophical, anthropological) LegalSpaces (geographical, urban, liminal) LegalPerformances and Legal Language Discourses ofTruth and “Truthiness” Crimes as Sins and Sinsas Crimes Limits of the Law (precedents,conflicts of jurisdiction)Brill has agreed to consider publishing the volume,and the paperwork will be finalized once abstractshave been selected. The deadline for 150­200 wordessay abstracts is September 15, 2010. Initialpublication decision will be made based on theabstracts and contributors will be notified byNovember 15; however final selections will bemade following receipt of complete essays. Finalsubmissions of complete essays will be due March1, 2011, should follow The Chicago Manual ofStyle (15th edition), and should be about 9000words.Please email abstracts to Andreea Boboc,aboboc@pacific.edu, and Kathleen E. Kennedy,kek16@psu.edu.

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PUBLICATION ANNOUNCEMENTS

medievally speaking: medievalism in reviewmedievally speaking: medievalism in review, invitescolleagues to contribute to the critical negotiation ofthe quickly growing subject of Medievalism. As thereview arm of Studies in Medievalism, the leadingjournal in the study of medievalism worldwide, andThe Year’s Work in Medievalism, the conferenceproceedings from the Annual InternationalConference on Medievalism, this new review journalis interested discussing all substantial contributions tothe study of the ongoing reception of medievalculture in postmedieval times.For more information, please go to:http://web.mac.com/ricutz/iWeb/medievally%20speaking/medievally%20speaking.html, or contact theeditor, Richard Utz, at richard.utz@wmich.edu.

OTHER NEWS

Chaucer and PetrarchWilliam T. Rossiter

(DS Brewer, ISBN: 978­1843842156)Despite the fact that Chaucer introduced Petrarch's workinto England in the late fourteenth century, Petrarch'sinfluence has been very little studied. This book, the firstfull­length study of Chaucer's reading and translation ofPetrarch, examines Chaucer's translations of Petrarch'sLatin prose and Italian poetry against the backdrop of hisexperience of Italy, gained through his travels there in the1370s, his interaction with Italians in London, and hisreading of the other two great Italian medieval poets,Boccaccio and Dante. The book also considers Chaucer'sengagement with early Italian humanism and the nature oftranslation in the fourteenth century, including apreliminary examination of adaptations of Chaucer'spronouncements upon translation and literary production.Chaucer's adaptations of Petrarch's Latin tale of Griseldaand the sonnet 'S'amor nonè', as the Clerk's Tale and theCanticus Troili from Troilus and Criseyde respectively,illustrate his various translative strategies. Furthermore,Chaucer's references to Petrarch in his prologue to theClerk'sTale and in the Monk's Tale provide a means ofgauging the intellectual relationship between two of themost important poets of the time. William T. Rossiterteaches at Liverpool Hope University.

2010 Haskins Medal RecipientNCS member Kathryn Kerby­Fulton has beenawarded the Charles Homer Haskins Gold Medal bythe Medieval Academy of America for her recentbook, Books under Suspicion: Censorship andToleration of Revelatory Writing in Late MedievalEngland (Notre Dame: U. of Notre Dame Press,2006).The Haskins Medal is awarded annually by theMedieval Academy of America for a distinguishedbook in the field of medieval studies. First presentedin 1940, the award honors Charles Homer Haskins,the noted medieval historian, who was a founder ofthe Medieval Academy and its second President. Theaward is announced at the annual meeting of theAcademy each spring.

Disseminal Chaucer to receive2009 Warren­Brooks Award

The Robert Penn Warren Center at Western KentuckyUniversity announces that the award jury has chosenDisseminal Chaucer: Rereading The Nun’s Priest’s Taleby Peter W. Travis of Dartmouth College for the 2009Warren­Brooks Award for Outstanding LiteraryCriticism.

Among 42 books submitted for this year’s contest,Travis’s book, published by the University of Notre DamePress, was chosen for the breadth and depth of Dr.Travis’s scholarship, and the wit and originality of hiswriting, according to the jury.

The award is given in honor of Warren and CleanthBrooks. It was established in 1994 by the Center forRobert Penn Warren Studies. Each year it goes to anoutstanding work of literary scholarship or criticism thatexemplifies in the broadest sense the spirit, scope, andstandards represented by the critical tradition establishedby Warren and Brooks. It is intended to recognize andhonor work that employs in a significant way the methodsassociated with a close reading of texts.

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The New Chaucer SocietyPresident: Richard Firth GreenExecutive Director: David Lawton2006­2010 Trustees: Susanna Fein, Rosalind

Field, Laura Kendrick2008­2012 Trustees: Christopher Cannon, Juliette

Dor, Ruth Evans and Stephanie TriggEditor, Studies in the Age of Chaucer: David

MatthewsBook Review Editor, Studies in the Age of

Chaucer: Alfred HiattGraduate Assistant: Jessica Rezunyk

Email: chaucer@artsci.wustl.eduThe New Chaucer Society

One Brookings DriveWashington University, Campus Box 1122

Saint Louis, MO 63130USA

Chaucer in TranslationThe New Chaucer Society would like to recognizeAlireza Mahdipour for his efforts in the translation ofChaucer's works in Iran:Alireza Mahdipour's translation of some parts ofChaucer's Canterbury Tales into Persian is poetic, andhas occurred for the first time in Iran. He hastranslated the General Prologue, the Nun's Priest'sTale, and the Pardoner's Tale (first volume, 416pages), and the Wife of Bath's Tale, the Friar's Tale,and the Summoner's Tale (second volume, 458 pages).These translations are published by CheshmehPublishers (in 2008) in two volumes of side by sidebilingual editions, and are annotated. For the MiddleEnglish text, Larry D. Benson's edition of theRiverside Chaucer is used, along with the modernizedEnglish text, for the convenience of non­nativereaders. Three other tales are also translated recently,and are ready to be submitted to the same publisher:the Knight's Tale, the Miller's Tale, and the Reeve'sTale.For the Persian verse form, Mathnavi is used, which isthe nearest to Chaucer's heroic couplet, and the mostconvenient for narrative poetry. In fact, Mathnavi hasbeen a long traditional form for Persian narrativepoetry, used by great poets such as Firdowsi, Nizami,Moulavi (Rumi), and others. The naturalness and easeof the translated lines are so alluring that some criticshad taken them as original Persian poetry until theymatched them with the source language. For thisreason, and in order to indicate the translator's loyaltyto the source language, Alireza Mahdipour insisted onthe side by side bilingual edition of his work.The Canterbury Tales translation project, if carried outcompletely, will probably end in seven or eightvolumes. It will also enjoy some pedagogical merits inteaching comparative literature for Farsi speakingstudents, including Iran, Afganistan, Pakistan,Tajikestan (if they use Arabic alphabet, of course),India, and Persian diaspora all over the world,especially in USA and UK.

The International Piers Plowman SocietyMembers of NCS are invited to join theInternational Piers Plowman Society. Benefits ofmembership include receiving The Yearbook ofLangland Studies, access to a searchable onlinebibliography on the Society's website, and emailednewsletters and announcements of interest toscholars in the field.Annual dues are $35 and maybe paid online atwww.piersplowman.org; upon joining please sendyour preferred mailing address, institutionalaffiliation, and preferred email contact address topiersplowmansociety@gmail.com. This is also theemail contact address for any queries, changes ofaddress, etc.