Murton Appointed IBS Secretary
On behalf of the Officers, Trustees, and membership of the International Boethius Society (IBS), I am pleased to announce the appointment of Megan Murton as IBS Secretary, effective immediately. A longtime, active member of the Society, Murton is an associate professor of English and the Director of Graduate Studies for English and Medieval Studies at the Catholic University of America, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on Middle English literature, especially Chaucer. Her research focuses on Chaucer’s engagement with religious and philosophical concerns, with particular attention to the decisive role of Boethius in Chaucer’s early reputation as a “noble philosophical poete.” In addition to several articles on Boethian influence in Chaucer’s poetry, including ones published in Carmina Philosophiae, she has written on the Middle English translation tradition of the Consolation of Philosophy. Her first book is Chaucer’s Prayers: Writing Christian and Pagan Devotion (D.S. Brewer, 2020), and she is currently preparing a second book on Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde as a narrative reinvention of the Consolation. We are grateful to her for accepting this important officer position and dedicating herself to the advancement of Boethian studies worldwide.
Philip Edward Phillips
Executive Director
International Boethius Society
