In this episode, MMA Podcast producers Will Beattie, Jonathan Correa-Reyes, Loren Lee, Reed O'Mara, and Logan Quigley chat about the origin of the podcast, some upcoming episodes (season four, wow!), and their own medieval inclinations.
Will Beattie is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the Nanovic Institute for European Studies. He holds a PhD in Medieval Studies from the Medieval Institute of the University of Notre Dame. Will's main interest lies in the function of eschatological literature during the medieval period, particularly in Anglo-Saxon England. He approaches this study from a sociopolitical perspective, investigating the ways in which contemporary events like the Scandinavian invasions of the 8th to 11th centuries influenced the use of religious language. He is also interested in the relationship between soul and body in Anglo-Saxon literature.
Jonathan Correa-Reyes is an Assistant Professor of English. He joined Clemson University in 2023. His research focuses on constructions of collective identity in the medieval literary archive. He is especially interested in premodern articulations of race and understandings of the Human. Although mainly working on the medieval literary traditions of the British Isles, Jonathan also studies the textual cultures of medieval Iberia and Scandinavia. His work has been supported by the Ford Foundation.
Loren Lee is a PhD candidate in the Department of French at the University of Virginia and serves as a member of the Medieval Academy of America's Graduate Student Committee. Her dissertation focuses on medieval manuscript and translation studies, digital humanities, and hagiography. Loren has received fellowships including the Chateaubriand Fellowship and the UVA–ENS Exchange Fellowship.
Reed O’Mara is a PhD candidate and Mellon Foundation Fellow in the joint art history program between Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Museum of Art. She is the 2025–27 Samuel H. Kress Institutional Fellow at the Zentralinstitute für Kunstgeschichte in Munich. Reed's research focuses on the arts of medieval Germany, and her primary research interests lie in Jewish illuminated manuscripts and Gothic architectural sculpture. Her dissertation considers the complex histories of Hebrew and Yiddish in late medieval Europe through an examination of text and image relationships in Jewish illuminated manuscripts and Christian prints from Ashkenaz and Italy, ca. 1200-1500.
Logan Quigley serves as a series producer and host for The Multicultural Middle Ages podcast. His PhD (2022, Notre Dame) explored late medieval spatiotemporal experiences and focused particularly on pilgrimage.
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