Simon Forde is a publisher and medievalist, noted as the former editor of the ''

International Medieval Bibliography The International Medieval Bibliography (IMB) is a multidisciplinary bibliographic database covering Europe, North Africa and the Middle East for the entire period from AD 300 to 1500. It aims to provide a comprehensive, current bibliography of a ...

'' and founder of the

International Medieval Congress The International Medieval Congress (IMC) is an annual academic conference held for scholars specializing in, or with an interest in, the study of the European Middle Ages (c. 300–1500). It is organised and administered by the Institute for Med ...

Education

Forde completed a BA at the

University of Birmingham The University of Birmingham (informally Birmingham University) is a Public university, public research university in Birmingham, England. It received its royal charter in 1900 as a successor to Queen's College, Birmingham (founded in 1825 as ...

in 1980, an MA in 1982, and a

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in 1985, all with dissertations on late medieval English sermons.

Career

Following postdoctoral research positions at the

Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies The Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (PIMS) is a research institute in the University of Toronto that is dedicated to advanced studies in the culture of the Middle Ages. Governance The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Toronto, currently F ...

at the

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and

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at the

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, Forde succeeded Catherine R. E. Coutts as the editor of the ''International Medieval Bibliography'' at the

University of Leeds The University of Leeds is a public research university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It was established in 1874 as the Yorkshire College of Science. In 1884, it merged with the Leeds School of Medicine (established 1831) and was renamed Y ...

in 1988, becoming assistant director of the Leeds Centre for Medieval Studies the next year. In 1994 he founded the

and Leeds's International Medieval Institute (which in 2003 became the Leeds Institute for Medieval Studies), appearing in the 1995–7 ''University of Leeds Calendars'' as Director of the Institute (being succeeded as editor of the ''Bibliography'' by Alan V. Murray and Marian R. Lefferts). He oversaw much of the digitisation of the formerly print-only ''Bibliography''. In 1996, Forde left Leeds to work in publishing at

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, the publisher of the ''Bibliography'',Robert Hall and Ian N. Wood, ‘International Medieval Institute Newsletter’, ''Bulletin of International Medieval Research'', 2–3 (1996–97), 50–51. and in 2006 was a founder of the Co-operative for the Advancement of Research through a Medieval European Network (CARMEN). In 2013 he moved to

Amsterdam University Press Amsterdam University Press (AUP) is a university press that was founded in 1992 by the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. It is based on the university press model and operates on a not-for-profit basis. AUP publishes scholarly and trade ...

, becoming head of acquisitions, and in 2014 established Arc-Humanities Press as a publishing arm for CARMEN,Mark Schwerin,
WMU Medieval Institute names new publications director
, ''WMU News'' (26 March 2016). an organisation for which, as of 2021, he remained director and editor-in-chief. In 2015–17, he worked at Medieval Institute Publications at the Institute for Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University, succeeding Patricia Hollahan, as managing editor and then director and editor-in-chief.History
(Medieval Institute).

References

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