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.

Susie Phillips (Northwestern University), "A Very Profitable Book": Virtual Schoolmasters and their Mischievous Pedagogy.

Patricia Dailey (Columbia University), The Exeter Book's Temporalities of Transformation

James Simpson (English, Harvard University), The Cultural History of Hypocrisy: Late Medieval to Early Modern.

Ad Putter (University of Bristol; 2017–18 Morton W. Bloomfield Visiting Fellow), “Chaucer’s Rhythms” 

Daniel Donoghue (Harvard University), Book presentation on How the Anglo-Saxons Read their Poems (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018).

Anna Wilson (Harvard University),  "Fanfiction, Digital Medievalisms, and the Digital Humanities"  

Julie Orlemanski (University of Chicago), What Is Not Form, in Chaucer.

Aparna Chaudhuri (Harvard University), Ovidian Obedience in Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women.

Jonathan Hsy (George Washington University), Reimagining Medieval Deafness: Communication, Community, Deafnicity. Co-sponsored with the Race and Ethnicity Colloquium.