Anna Wilson (Harvard University), Continuing Chaucer

Heide Estes (Monmouth University), Gender, Jews, and Disability in Old English Poetry.

Jason Crawford (Union University), What the Wolf Knows: George Herbert's Book of Wisdom.

Co-sponsored by the English Renaissance Colloquium.

Spencer Strub (Harvard University), Decision Points: Choice, Constraint, and the Ethics of Romance.

Sebastian Sobecki (University of Groningen), The Series: Hoccleve's Year of Mourning.

Kathryn Mogk (Harvard University), Listing Divine Names: A Study in Liturgical Form.

Katie Bugyis (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies; 2018–19 Radcliffe Institute Fellow), Abbess as Mother? Constructions of Authority in Benedictine Women's Communities in England during the Central Middle Ages.

Anthony Bale (Birkbeck College, University of London; 2018–19 Morton W. Bloomfield Visiting Fellow), Margery Kempe, Renaissance Woman.

Anna Kelner (Harvard University), Remedying Temptation in A Revelation of Love.

Emily Thornbury (Yale University), Surface and Depth in Beowulf.

Yun Ni (Harvard University), "Iconoclasm and Liturgy in The Croxton Play of the Sacrament" 

Reading Then, Reading Now, the 2019 Bloomfield Conference, featuring plenary addresses by Katherine O'Brien O'Keefe (University of California Berkeley), Suzanne Akbari (University of Toronto), and Amy Appleford (Boston University). Click here for a complete program. Read more about Harvard University Department of English Bloomfield Conference

Barbara Zimbalist (University of Texas at El Paso), Visionary Translation and Vernacular Theology in Late Medieval Low Countries.

Amy Appleford (Boston University), "Behold, my life is but a distraction": Ascetic Reading, Poetry, and Prayer.

Monika C. Otter (Dartmouth College), Of Psalmody and Mondegreens: Interiority and Expressivity in Sung Texts.