In Memoriam: Brandie Siegfried Brandie Siegfried, professor and author, whose erudite scholarship won praise across several disciplines, and whose teaching inspired and changed lives of students while challenging them with her famously arduous and demanding vision of what they could accomplish, died on Wednesday, February 17, in Provo, Utah. She was 57. Her death, at home, was attended by her husband after a six-month struggle with complications of breast cancer. Dr. Siegfried published an edition of Margaret Cavendish's Poems and Fancies with the Animal Parliament which won the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender's Josephine Roberts Award for the Best Scholarly Edition of 2018. The citation praised "Siegfried's erudite and thorough contextualization of Margaret Cavendish's diverse intellectual interests and reading in the natural sciences, literature, classics, mathematics, and philosophy [for] mak[ing] the most complex aspects of Cavendish's writings—such as her 'atomic' theories—accessible to the modern reader. Siegfried's edition offers a model for future editions of early modern women writers and ensures that the work of Margaret Cavendish receives its rightful place in the history of European thought and early modern women's history." Though Dr. Siegfried had been initially skeptical about delaying her other book projects to edit Cavendish's book, she ultimately found much in Cavendish's work that had been overlooked by previous editions and that served Dr. Siegfried's ability to tell a gripping story. Dr. Siegfried produced many notable scholarly works during her 28 years as a professor of literature at Brigham Young University, including two essay collections she finalized and finished editing with her co-editors during the months of her illness. Though she did not shy away from controversy, and was famous for her courage and happy willingness to fight for causes that mattered most to her, such as women's studies, she was also known for her generosity to her opponents, her ability to listen, especially to their stories, and she befriended people everywhere. She is remembered for her infectious laugh and seemed to have friends on all sides. She will be particularly missed as a teacher, someone whose intense and detailed attention to her students' writing and her indefatigable commitment to one-on-one feedback sessions on their papers was accompanied by equally detailed criticism and high expectations for the next essay. Her students tended to rise to those expectations and often reported they discovered their best abilities in Dr. Siegfried's classes, along with life secrets of the good, the true, and the beautiful. She will also be missed as a teacher in her church where she focused on hearing from each person in attendance, and whose classes felt enriched by such thorough sharing with each other. Halfway through her teaching career Dr. Siegfried found herself surrounded by young scholar colleagues, at Brigham Young University and other colleges and universities, whom she'd mentored as undergraduates, helped to achieve acceptance to graduate school, and who, now as professors themselves, carry on after Dr. Siegfried's passing with their own earned excellence. She will be missed as a beloved sister, daughter, and daughter-in-law, who as a child and youth, eldest of six, helped guide her family through difficult times while finding laughter and joy. She will be missed as a beloved wife and partner in every activity and conversation. She always found joy in nature and in her favorite mountain adventures; she will be missed as a cycling partner in the high passes and as a skiing partner in the snowy cirques. For joy in nature, she was just as happy watching and interpreting the antics of various corvids and other birds who seemed to crowd around the windows of her atelier home office where she did her scholarship and read student papers. She is survived by her husband, Mitch Harris, by her mother, Carolyn Siegfried, by her siblings, including sisters Sherry Armstrong, Monique Stewart, Coquette Jacobsen, and Lovette Dresden, mother-in-law Claudia Harris, and step daughters Fiona and Nora Harris. Memorial Service Saturday 2-27 11:00am Mountain Standard time https://youtu.be/J6uGx__fQHE Please just copy and paste the link on YouTube