Harriusfigulus

I am a medievalist and an adjunct college instructor at Union College. My research includes medieval theologies of history, text/image relationships in medieval visionary and mystical texts, and the writings of Hildegard of Bingen, a twelfth-century German visionary abbess. I am also engaged as a translator of medieval Latin and German texts, especially those related to my research interests. I completed a Master's in Medieval Studies at the University of Notre Dame in 2010, a Fulbright Fellowship in Germany in 2008, and a B.A. in Classics and German at Boston College in 2007. In my free time I enjoy listening to Baroque and Classical music, photography, and reading--and yes, I am a fan of J.K. Rowling.

For more information about me, please visit my profile at Academia.edu, my blog, Fides Quaerens Intellectum, or my Library at LibrayThing.

As a result of Wikipedia's shameful treatment of valiant editors who tried to preserve NPOV in articles about gender-related topics from the slanted edits of gamers involved in Gamergate, I have chosen to cease contributing as an editor. I had long hoped to improve the article on Hildegard of Bingen (whose final masterpiece, the Liber Divinorum Operum, I am preparing to publish in English translation with the Catholic University of America Press in 2016, in their Fathers of the Church, Medieval Continuation series), but this betrayal of any concept of NPOV based simply on the fact that the arbitration board was filled with men sympathetic to the misogyny of gamers is too much.

In so doing, I am following the exodus of serious academics who had long labored to make Wikipedia a legitimate rather than laughable encyclopedia, as encouraged by User:MarkBernstein, and his off-site commentary at markbernstein.org. We had high hopes for this platform to disseminate knowledge responsibly in the digital era; Wikipedia has demonstrated this month that they have abdicated that responsibility and dashed those hopes.