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Was invited to speak at the UMass Amherst College of Education with Carmen Yulín Cruz on "Transformation through Collaboration: Two Communities Collaborate to Learn from Each Other" about the Mount Holyoke College STEM program in San Juan, Puerto Rico on March 31, 2021.
Presented research on facilitating dialogues on race in college courses at the POD Network Conference, November 13-17, 2019. Pittsburgh, PA.
Forced by the pandemic to conduct his geological fieldwork closer to campus, Mark McMenamin discovered a new Jurassic dinosaur (Amherst) and a new pterosaur (South Hadley).
Monahin, Nona & Pash, Meg. (2024, February 22). The Interdependence of Music and Dance in 16th-century Renaissance Dance Reconstruction. Early Dance Symposium 2024 - virtual conference hosted by the University of Pennsylvania and the Dance Studies Association’s Early Dance Working Group.
Monroe, A. (2025) In a review by Cleveland Classical of Les Délices' most recent performance, The Mermaid, Allison Monroe received accolades for her "nice fiddle filigree."
Medieval music ensemble Trobár, co-directed by Allison Monroe and Elena Mullins Bailey, received accolades from Early Music America for its community participation events. A recent article in EMAg highlighted Trobár's MuckAbouts, alongside similarly community-focused programs by other American medieval and Renaissance groups. https://www.earlymusicamerica.org/web-articles/fantasy-camp-for-early-music-superfans/
Monroe, A. (2024) As the Artistic Director of Trobár, Allison co-curated and co-directed performances of “I Sing a New Song” with Liza Malamut, Artistic Director of the venerated Newberry Consort, featuring a slate of some of the country’s best medieval musicians. They performed in both Cleveland and Chicago, to enthusiastic audiences, and received a glowing review.
Monroe, A. (2023) An episode of Les Délices' SalonEra featured a program that I created as Artistic Director for medieval music ensemble Trobár. Interviews with myself and another performer are interspersed with recordings of a May 2023 performance. https://salonera.org/podcast/shipwreck/
During the fall of 2025, Elliot Montague was a MacDowell fellow for Film/Video Arts and was an artist-in-residence at The Studios at MASS MoCA.
Elliot Montague was a script consultant for Ocean Vuong’s screenplay adaptation of Vuong’s acclaimed novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous.
