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Education

2022 – Ph.D. in English Literature (In Progress)
2018 – M.A. in English Literature
University of Pennsylvania

2016 – M.A. in English Literature
Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization in Medieval Studies
The Ohio State University

2014 – Bachelor of Arts and Science in Honours Environment (First Class)
Minor in English Literature
McGill University

Publications and Digital Projects

Refereed Web Publications

• Malcolm, Aylin. Curations for “Universal Dissolution” (Poem 6). The Pulter Project: Poet in the Making, gen. eds. Leah Knight and Wendy Wall, Feb 2019. pulterproject.northwestern.edu/poems/ee/universal-dissolution.

Non-Refereed

• Malcolm, Aylin. “In the Orbit of the Sphere: Sacrobosco’s De Sphaera Mundi in UPenn MS Codex 1881.” Manuscript Studies 5.1 (Apr 2020).

Digital Projects

• Malcolm, Aylin. An Astronomical Anthology: Digital Edition of UPenn LJS 445. Sep 2019. aylinmalcolm.com/ljs445.
• Malcolm, Aylin. The World of the Sphere: Diagrams from De Sphaera Mundi. Aug 2019. aylinmalcolm.com/sacrobosco.
• Malcolm, Aylin. Scanning the Skies: A Virtual Exhibit of Astronomy Manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania. Mar 2019. aylinmalcolm.com/astro.

Awards and Honours

Fellowships

• Benjamin Franklin Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania (2016-21).
• Graduate Research Fellowship, Penn Program in Environmental Humanities (2019-20).
• Graduate Research Fellowship, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (2019).
• Distinguished University Fellowship, Ohio State University (2014-15).

Awards and Grants

• GAPSA Research Student Travel Grant, University of Pennsylvania (2019).
• Digital Humanities Summer Institute Scholarship (2019).
• Grant-In-Aid for “Creating Nature” Conference, Folger Institute (2019).
• GAPSA Event Funding for Medievalists @ Penn Conference (2019; 2018).
• SASgov Event Funding for Medievalists @ Penn Conference (2019; 2018).
• Working Group Grant for Trans Literacy Project, Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, Sexuality, and Women (2018-19).
• Grant-In-Aid for “Digging the Past” Seminar, Folger Institute (2018).
• SASgov Travel Grant, University of Pennsylvania (Fall 2018; Spring 2018).
• Delmas Foundation Scholarship, California Rare Book School (2018).
• Marco Manuscript Workshop Travel Grant, University of Tennessee (2015).

Conference Participation

Papers Presented

• Deforestation and Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale (Roundtable). New Chaucer Society Biennial Congress, Durham University (Jul 12-16, 2020).
• Like a Sturgeon: Fishy Business in the Late Middle Ages (Roundtable). International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo (May 7-10, 2020).
• Around the World in Eighty Ways: Diagramming the Cosmos in UPenn MS Codex 1881. Schoenberg Symposium, University of Pennsylvania (Nov 21-23, 2019).
• Medieval Ecology and Dorigen’s Grisly Black Box. International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds (Jul 1-4, 2019).
• Clean Living: Ecology, Apocalypse, and the Middle English Cleanness. Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, University of of California, Davis (June 26-30, 2019).
• Cetacean Relations: Whales in Medieval Romance and Science. International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo (May 9-12, 2019).
• “Sa nature peot hum guenchir”: Interspecies Kinship in Marie de France’s Fables (Roundtable). International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo (May 9-12, 2019).
• Glossing Astronomy in the Late Middle Ages. Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, Princeton (Apr 26-27, 2019)
• Fish: Friends, or Food? Medieval Perspectives on Aquatic Animals. Global Prehumanisms, University of Illinois (Oct 18-20, 2018).
• Planh and Plants: The Vegetal Contexts of Troubadour Laments. South Central Modern Language Association Convention, San Antonio (Oct 11-13, 2018).
• “For They Kan Nat the Craft”: Art(ifice) and Chaucer’s Robotic Horse. Animals: Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference, University of Oxford (Jun 28, 2018).
• “Le diable qui parle par ta bouche”: Vulgar Language from Mankind to Michel Tremblay’s Les Belles-Soeurs. International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo (May 10-13, 2018).
• Swearing in Church: Medieval Profanity and Québécois Sacres (Roundtable). International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo (May 10-13, 2018).
• “English Latin” and the Vulgarity Effect: Linguistic Discord in Middle English and Québécois Drama. Vagantes, University of Minnesota (Mar 22-24, 2018).
• Snips, Snails, and Paper Trails: The Secrets of Penn Ms. Codex 627. Reading the Natural World: ACMRS Conference, Arizona State University (Feb 8-10, 2018).
• A Horsly Gyn: Chaucer’s Squire as Poetic Engineer. Auctoritas: Medievalists @ Penn Conference, University of Pennsylvania (Mar 17, 2017).
• “Verdiers d’amor”: Nature and Culture in the Troubadour Albas. Vagantes, Rice University (Feb 18-20, 2016).
• Eden and the East: Medieval Travellers on the Edge. Midwest Modern Language Association Convention (Nov 12-15, 2015).
• Velum Scissum Est: Unveiling the Contents and Contexts of a Liturgical Fragment. Texts and Contexts, Ohio State University (Oct 30-31, 2015).
• “No Gret Mervayle”: Truth and Nature in The Book of John Mandeville. Vagantes, University of Florida (Feb 19-21, 2015).
• Origins, Functions, and Transformations of an Italian Musical Palimpsest (Poster). Marco Manuscript Workshop, University of Tennessee (Feb 6-7, 2015).