Faculty Accomplishments

Forced by the pandemic to conduct his geological fieldwork closer to campus, Mark McMenamin discovered a new Jurassic dinosaur (Amherst) and a new pterosaur (South Hadley).

Monahin, Nona & Pash, Meg. (2024, February 22). The Interdependence of Music and Dance in 16th-century Renaissance Dance Reconstruction. Early Dance Symposium 2024 - virtual conference hosted by the University of Pennsylvania and the Dance Studies Association’s Early Dance Working Group.

Medieval music ensemble Trobár, co-directed by Allison Monroe and Elena Mullins Bailey, received accolades from Early Music America for its community participation events. A recent article in EMAg highlighted Trobár's MuckAbouts, alongside similarly community-focused programs by other American medieval and Renaissance groups. https://www.earlymusicamerica.org/web-articles/fantasy-camp-for-early-music-superfans/

Monroe, A. (2024) As the Artistic Director of Trobár, Allison co-curated and co-directed performances of “I Sing a New Song” with Liza Malamut, Artistic Director of the venerated Newberry Consort, featuring a slate of some of the country’s best medieval musicians. They performed in both Cleveland and Chicago, to enthusiastic audiences, and received a glowing review.

Monroe, A. (2023) An episode of Les Délices' SalonEra featured a program that I created as Artistic Director for medieval music ensemble Trobár. Interviews with myself and another performer are interspersed with recordings of a May 2023 performance. https://salonera.org/podcast/shipwreck/

Elliot Montague has been invited to be an artist-in-residence at The Studios at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts during the fall of 2025, where he will continue work on his current film project, "The Birthing Series". 

Elliot Montague was a script consultant for the screenplay adaptation of Ocean Vuong’s award-winning novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, which is being produced by A24 Films.

Elliot Montague presented his recent film, Light on a Path, Follow, as part of the Trans*Revolutions Virtual Symposium, presented by Barnard Center for Research on Women. This virtual symposium featured artist-activists whose work is inspired by and engaged in imagining trans* and genderqueer histories, performances, identities, and aesthetics.

Moskowitz, A. (2024) Invited Speaker, "Literature and the Senses." Amherst College, Center for Humanistic Inquiry, October 2024.

Moskowitz, A. (2023) Invited Speaker, “Imperception,” Political Concepts: The Literature Edition, The Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Brown University. March 2023.