English Department Medieval Colloquium

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 .

Matt Aiello (Harvard Society of Fellows), Trauma, Land, and Lamentation in the Bookscapes of Early England.

Julie Orlemanski (University of Chicago; 2025-2026 Radcliffe Fellow), Partial Persons and the Economy of Voice in the Prioress's Tale .

The Bibendum Coven calls all medievalist (and medieval-adjacent) graduate students to join them in practicing the Dark Arts. There will be snacks. There will be drinks. There will be visions of your past, present, and future. Costumes are strongly...

Calling all medievalist (and medieval-adjacent) graduate students! Join the Medieval Studies Interdisciplinary Workshop and the Medieval English Colloquium for libation, nutrition, and conversation in the cozy confines of the Medieval Studies Library...