The board of the Northern/Early Medieval Interdisciplinary Conference Series network currently consists of three founding members:

Dr Michael D. J. Bintley MA PhD FRHistS SFHEA
Mike Bintley studied his BA, MA, and PhD (in literature and archaeology) at University College London, and taught there and at Oxford University before joining Canterbury Christ Church University in 2012 as Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature. In 2018 Mike was appointed Lecturer in Early Medieval Literature and Culture at Birkbeck, University of London. Mike’s published work includes his monograph, Trees in the Religions of Early Medieval England (Boydell, 2015), and Andreas: an Edition (Liverpool University Press, 2016), co-authored with Richard North. He has co-edited Trees and Timber in the Anglo-Saxon World (OUP, 2013); Representing Beasts in Early Medieval England and Scandinavia (Boydell, 2015); Sensory Perception in the Medieval West (Brepols, 2016); and Stasis in the Medieval West? Questioning Change and Continuity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). He is series editor of ‘Nature and Environment in the Middle Ages’ for Boydell and Brewer.

Meg Boulton gained a BA (hons) in Art and Design at the University of Leeds, before studying for her MA and PhD in Art History at the University of York. Since graduating in 2013, she has worked as a freelance lecturer in Art and Architectural History and Visual Culture at various institutions, most recently Oxford University’s Department for Continuing Education. Meg’s publications include the co-edited volumes The Art, Literature and Material Culture of the Medieval World (Fourcourts, 2015); Place and Space in the Medieval World (Routledge Research in Art History, 2018) and a forthcoming volume on the Codex Amiatinus. She is currently working on her monograph, titled Visualising Jerusalem in Anglo-Saxon England.

Heidi Stoner studied for her BA at Southern Oregon University and her MA and PhD (History of Art) at the University of York. She has taught at the University of York and York St Johns University. She has co-edited Place and Space in the Medieval World (Routledge Research in Art History, 2018). Her current research project is a three-year Early Career Fellowship sponsored by the Leverhulme Trust at Durham University, entitled Sculpture in the Early Medieval Irish Sea c. 800-c.1000: Interlacing Traditions. This project explores the cultural significance of the early medieval stone sculptures produced in the Irish Sea Regions of Britain and Ireland in the ninth and tenth centuries. She is also responsible for maintaining the N/EMICS website and social media.
