English Department Medieval Colloquium

Grace O'Duffy (Harvard Society of Fellows), Legible Bodies: Towards a Vocabulary of Sexual Violence in Old Norse Literature.

Rachel Smith (Villanova University), Technologies of Entanglement: Writing, Confession, and Compassion in the Life of Ida of Nivelles (c. 1231).

... a bi-weekly festive gathering, in which those pursuing graduate studies of things medieval join together in commensural union. And drink. Proudly presented by the Medieval Studies Interdisciplinary Workshop and the English Medieval Colloquium.

Join us for the inaugural Bibendum/Gebeorscip, a chance to meet other graduate medievalists (and fellow travelers) for snacks, libations, and sparkling repartée! Co-sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Medieval Studies Workshop and the English Department...

Susan Phillips (Northwestern University) discusses her new book Learning to Talk Shop: Mercantile Mischief and Popular Pedagogy in Premodern England (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025). Co-sponsored by the English Medieval Colloquium, the Medieval...

A graduate work-in-progress conference in celebration of Daniel Donoghue's thirty-nine years (and counting!) as a Harvard faculty member, followed by a lunch and a cake. All are welcome! For a full program and schedule, please click here .

Medievalist (and medieval-curious) grad students: put on your top hat, put on your ball gown, put on your tails! The Medieval Studies Interdisciplinary Workshop and Medieval English Colloquium proudly present the final Bibendum of the year, prom edition...

Graduate Student Work-In-Progress Conference

Amy Appleford (Boston University), Peter Damian, Richard Rolle, and Julian of Norwich: Asceticism and the Impaired Chri st . Co-sponsored by the English Renaissance Graduate Colloquium.

Kersti Francis (Boston University Society of Fellows), Fear of a Queer Magic: Venereal Fiction in De Planctu Naturae .