The Round Table: News from the North American Branch

NAB Officers 2011–2014 (for full addresses, see Bibliography of the International Arthurian Society [BIAS])

President: Joan Tasker Grimbert (Catholic University of America)

Immediate Past President: Kevin J. Harty (La Salle University)

Vice President: Kevin Whetter (Acadia University)

Secretary-Treasurer: Joseph M. Sullivan (University of Oklahoma) to August 2013, Evelyn Meyer (Saint Louis University) as of September 2013

Bibliographer: Anne Berthelot (University of Connecticut)

Graduate Student/New Member of the Profession: Brandy H. Brown (Pennsylvania State University)

Arthuriana Editor: Dorsey Armstrong (Purdue University)

Advisory Committee:

• Romance Languages: Carol Dover (Georgetown University)

• Canadian Representative: Ann Howey (Brock University)

• Celtic: Matthieu Boyd (Fairleigh Dickinson University)

• English: Michael Twomey (Ithaca College)

• Germanic: David F. Johnson (Florida State University)

• Post-Medieval: Susan Aronstein (University of Wyoming)

Past issues of BBIAS and Arthuriana:

For back issues of the BBIAS, contact Secretary-Treasurer Evelyn Meyer, (emeyer16@slu.edu). Back issues for most years from 1979 to the present are available and cost $45.00 each. For back issues of Arthuriana, contact editor Dorsey Armstrong (sarmstr@purdue.edu).

The New BIAS and JIAS:

In the Fall, the publisher deGruyter took over the publication of what used to be the BBIAS and divided this into two separate publications: the BIAS and the JIAS which are accessible to current members through the membership section on the International Arthurian Society website: http://www.internationalarthuriansociety.com. If you do not have access, contact Secretary-Treasurer Evelyn Meyer (emeyer16@slu.edu). Members also receive a print copy of the JIAS.

Your BIAS Abstracts:

Members are reminded that for inclusion in the society’s annual bibliography, they should send bibliographic entries and abstracts for articles or books published in 2013 to Anne Berthelot (anne_berthelot@hotmail.com).

Minutes of the International Arthurian Society–North American Branch Business Meeting, held at the 48^th Annual International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 10, 2013 at 12:00 p.m.:

The meeting was called to order at 12:10 p.m. by Joan T. Grimbert, presiding.

President’s Report: J. Grimbert introduced herself, Kevin Whetter, and Joseph Sullivan respectively as branch president, vice president, and secretary-treasurer. The meeting agenda was adopted, and the minutes from the May 2012 meeting were approved. She began her report by announcing that in the EAC meeting of 9 May 2013, the EAC discussed the motion the membership approved during the 2012 Kalamazoo business meeting that some of the branch’s surplus revenue be applied to travel grants for graduate students for the summer 2014 IAS triennial congress in Bucharest. The EAC decided that the NAB would try to cover the cost of registration for graduate student members. J. Grimbert then reminded the membership of the newly created ‘Fair Unknown’ award. The NAB created the award in 2012 on the suggestion of Graduate Student/New Member of the Profession Representative Brandy Brown. The award is intended to encourage young Arthurian scholars and was instituted to serve also as a recruitment tool for the NAB. It is awarded for the best paper on an Arthurian topic presented by a graduate student at the preceding International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo. President Grimbert urged graduate student members to submit their papers from the 2013 ICMS to Dorsey Armstrong or Brandy Brown. J. Grimbert then reminded the members that in 2012 the international membership accepted the recommendation on the future of the BBIAS made by the committee elected at the Bristol congress in 2011 (and which was headed by Keith Busby), namely, to transform the bibliography into a searchable, digital publication. The next volume of the bibliography, that is, volume 64 of the BIAS, will be the first volume to appear in the new electronic format. Additionally, the first issue of the associated journal, that is, the Journal of the International Arthurian Society (JIAS), is likely to appear in the next several months. President Grimbert then encouraged members to attend the upcoming 2014 IAS triennial congress in Bucharest. Michael Twomey announced that he would enquire on behalf of the branch about the possibility of chartering a group flight to Bucharest through studentuniverse...