Marjorie Curry Woods, the Sue Goldston Lebermann Endowed Professor in Liberal Arts (Emerita) at the University of Texas at Austin, died on August 9, 2025. Jorie, as she was known among friends and colleagues, was a medievalist who specialized in the reception of the Classics. Her published books combined great learning and paleographical expertise with an exceptionally accessible and appealing prose style. She had a broad range of scholarly interests, from the reception and influence of the rhetorical works of Cicero, particularly his Rhetorica ad Herennium, to the study of the classical Latin poets Virgil and Statius in the early and later Middle Ages. She was the recipient of many awards for her teaching and scholarship. At the University of Texas at Austin, she was appointed to the Academy of Distinguished Teachers in 2011, and she held many prestigious fellowships, including a fellowship at the American Academy in Rome in 2007-08. Above all, Jorie will be remembered for her great generosity as a scholar. She was always ready to share her vast learning (which she wore very lightly) with colleagues, graduate students, and the wider public.

Jorie held a Virginia Brown Fellowship at the Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies in the autumn of 2005 and she attended several of the Center's Texts and Contexts annual seminars.  Her book Classroom Commentaries: Teaching the Poetria nova across Medieval and Renaissance Europe, winner of the 2010 Rhetoric Society of America Book Award, appeared from The Ohio State University Press in the Text and Context series edited by Professor Frank T. Coulson.

 Jorie was a great friend to those of us in the Center and she will be truly missed. We extend our deepest condolences to her family, friends, and colleagues.