Kathleen L. Scott
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Kathleen L. Scott | |
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| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Codicology |
| Institutions | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
Kathleen L. Scott is a codicologist specialising in 15th-century English manuscripts. An independent scholar, she is associated with the University of Massachusetts.[1]
Scott holds an AB from Colorado College, and an MA and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.[1] From 1990–92 she was adjunct professor at the Center for Integrative Studies, Michigan State University.[1] Although an independent scholar, she is associated with the University of Massachusetts,[1][2] and played an instrumental role in the founding the Massachusetts Center for the Book[3] which was established “under the auspices of the Library of Congress … to support the state’s writers and publishers, and sponsor activities to promote literacy and the love of books and reading”.[1] In 2004, Scott delivered the prestigious Lyell Lectures at the University of Oxford; a revised version of her address was subsequently published as Tradition and Innovation in Later Medieval English Manuscripts.[4]
Awards
A National Endowment for the Humanities award recipient, Scott has won fellowships from the Fulbright, Woodrow Wilson, and Getty Grant Programmes, as well as the Guggenheim Foundation. In 1997, she was named a recipient of the British Academy’s Neil Ker Memorial Fund, which promotes the study of western, and especially British, medieval manuscripts. The following year, the Modern Language Association awarded her their inaugural Prize for Distinguished Bibliography (for Later Gothic Manuscripts, 1390–1490).[1] In 2009, a volume of scholarly essays was published in her honour.[5]
