Congratulations to Margaret Finlay
Congratulations to Margaret Finlay on the publication of her first article! Margaret pursued a first-class Honours English degree at Acadia before going on to the University of York (UK) for a Master’s in Medieval Studies; Margaret is now questing after a medieval literature PhD at the University of Groningen. Her article, ‘“A noble knyght and a myghty man”: Gareth as Disruptive Presence and Absence in Malory’s Morte Darthur’, is a revised version of her 2023 Tolhurst Lecture, a plenary lecture delivered by an early career scholar at the St. Louis Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies; it appears in Arthuriana, vol. 34, no. 4, and is a compelling reassessment of Gareth’s thematic centrality to Malory’s Morte and (contrary to a good many leading scholars) the ways in which Malory’s presentation of the character of Gareth bespeaks his artistry and originality.