Stephanie Grace-Petinos Editor

Stephanie Grace-Petinos is Assistant Editor of the Film and Media list at Bloomsbury Academic Publishing. She received her PhD in 2016 from the City University of New York Graduate Center and is the former Outreach Chair for the Hagiography Society. Her research interests include medieval hagiography, medieval spirituality, disability, dismemberment, and materiality. Leah Pope Parker is Assistant Professor of English and English Undergraduate Coordinator at the University of Southern Mississippi. Parker’s research explores disability and religion in medieval English literature and has been published in the Journal of English and Germanic Philology and Early Middle English. Her monograph, Light of the Everlasting Life: Disability and Crip Eschatology in Old English Literature, is forthcoming in 2025 from University of Michigan Press. Alicia Spencer-Hall is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at University College London. Their research interests include: medieval hagiography, disability, gender, digital culture, and film and media studies. Her first monograph, Medieval Saints and Modern Screens: Divine Visions as Cinematic Experience was published by Amsterdam University Press in 2018, and is now available Open Access. Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography, a collection co-edited with Blake Gutt, was published in 2021. Shortlisted for the Transgender Non-Fiction award at the 34th Lambda Literary Awards, the volume is now also available Open Access. Their second monograph, Medieval Twitter, was published by Arc Humanities Press in 2024. Alicia Spencer-Hall is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at University College London. Their research interests include: medieval hagiography, disability, gender, digital culture, and film and media studies. Her first monograph, Medieval Saints and Modern Screens: Divine Visions as Cinematic Experience was published by Amsterdam University Press in 2018, and is now available Open Access. Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography, a collection co-edited with Blake Gutt, was published in 2021. Shortlisted for the Transgender Non-Fiction award at the 34th Lambda Literary Awards, the volume is now also available Open Access. Their second monograph, Medieval Twitter, was published by Arc Humanities Press in 2024.