Andrew Albin is Assistant Professor of English and Medieval Studies at Fordham University. His scholarship in the field of historical sound studies examines embodied listening practices, sound's meaningful contexts, and the lived aural experiences of historical hearers -- in a word, the sonorous past -- as an object of critical inquiry. His work has been recognized with grants and fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Medieval Academy of America, the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music.
"Sonorous, intimate, adoring, self-congratulatory, and profuse, jubilantly playing on the edge of chaos without ever quite toppling in, Richard Rolle's Melos amoris is one of the most astonishing works of prose to survive from medieval England, making strange the ways of Christian devotion with all the abandon and passion for singularity that enthrall modern readers of The Book of Margery Kempe. Now at last, after centuries of puzzlement and neglect, it finds a worthy interpreter in Andrew Albin. His wonderful -- and wondering -- translation does not render Rolle's weird masterpiece so much as performs it, ushering us into an unfamiliar but strikingly personal world of sound, colour, gesture, and shifting register with unflagging energy and a confident ear. Reading and teaching the medieval English religious tradition will never be quite the same again."?-- Nicholas Watson, Harvard University
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