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In this article, we reflect on and examine the experiences of three doctoral students, and their thesis advisor, in discussing how we adjusted our research methods and assumptions to the new conditions of life and society that resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic. We discuss how our understandings of the embodied presence of the researcher, the location of research and writing, and the affordances of digital technologies are becoming more prominent and often rethought as issues of stance. We approach this discussion as co-explorers in charting new conceptions of and strategies toward research, as well as the relationships and mentoring practices between graduate students and their advisor.

This article explores hospitality's utility as a conceptual framework to assist writing tutors. The study, described in the article, investigated tutors' perceptions concerning how Haswell & Haswell's elaboration of hospitality—as a disposition—might bring about more positive, generative, and encouraging outcomes in writing center work. The data collected in the form of audio-recorded tutorials, post-tutorial interviews, and a focus group suggests that hospitality offers an open but promising schema to help tutors consider what responsible and ethical use of power and authority might look like for their appointments—particularly when working outside their disciplines and with multilingual students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Simon Ditchfield, ed. Christianity and Community in the West: Essays for John Bossy. St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2001. xxx + 322 pp. [...]

Anthony Molho, Diogo Ramada Curto, and Niki Koniordos, eds. Finding Europe: Discourses on Margins, Communities, Images ca. 13th--ca. 18th Centuries. New York: Berghahn Books, 2007. x + 407 pp. index. [...]

Beyond Florence: The Contours of Medieval and Early Modern Italy, edited by Paula Findlen, Michelle M. Fontaine, and Duane J. Osheim. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2003. xviii, 324 pp. $65.00 [...]

Peter Denley. Teachers and Schools in Siena, 1357-1500. Documenti di Storia. Siena: Betti Editrice, 2007. vi + 162 pp. index. tbls. bibl. €25. ISBN: 978-88-7576-097-7. The governments of many Italian [...]