M. Michèle Mulchahey

M. Michèle Mulchahey holds the Leonard E. Boyle Chair in Manuscript Studies at the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies and directs PIMS’s Diploma Programme in Manuscript Studies, established at the American Academy in Rome in 2011. She is a Fellow of both the American Academy in Rome and Harvard’s Villa I Tatti in Florence.

• Research focuses: medieval Dominican order, its educational systems, and manuscript communication techniques
• Grants: National Endowment for the Humanities, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Carnegie Trust (UK)
• Notable publication: “First the bow is bent in study…” Dominican Education Before 1350
• Current projects: Dante’s teacher Remigio de’ Girolami (via manuscripts); Jacopo Passavanti (Dominican preacher and art patron in Florence)
• Courses: M-20. Seminar in Western Codicology