Daily Archives: 14 May 2025

Middle English Texts Series (METS), Support Needed

Since 1989, METS has expanded the boundaries of our understanding of medieval literary traditions and cultures through its ever-growing collection of open access and affordable texts. The new website and digital reader, launched in November 2024, has enhanced long-standing goals to support groundbreaking scholarship, ensure access, and enable teaching and learning.

This work has been enabled through the generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities, whose grants were the source of funding for METS staff salaries. However, METS has experience a recent and sudden funding loss due to NEH grant terminations and, as such, its work is in jeopardy.

METS is now seeking donations to support their continued work. If every person who used its website site donated just $10, METS would be well on its way to being fully self-supported. Every dollar will go directly toward staff salaries, and will help METS ensure that these texts remain accessible to readers around the world.

Forrest Postdoctoral Fellowships, University of Notre Dame Australia (Perth)

The Centre for the History of Philosophy (CHOP) at the University of Notre Dame Australia invites expressions of interest from prospective applicants to the Forrest Postdoctoral Fellowship program: 

https://mailchi.mp/ca09c9dcfdb7/welcome-to-our-first-fnf-newsletter-10356248

CHOP welcomes projects in any area of the history of philosophy. We especially welcome projects aligned with the research expertise of CHOP faculty: history of philosophy in the Abrahamic faith traditions, ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, medieval philosophy, early modern philosophy, history of philosophy of nature, history of philosophy of science, history of ethics, the intersection of science and religion.

For more information about CHOP see: 

https://www.notredame.edu.au/research/institutes-and-initiatives/centre-for-the-history-of-philosophy

Key information:

Applications open 15 May and close 30 June (AWST). To submit an expression of interest, email chop@nd.edu.au with (1) a 100-500 word project description and (2) a current CV.