English Department Medieval Colloquium

John Parker (University of Virginia), Secularization and the Carmina Burana.

Spencer Strub (University of California, Berkeley), Hard Truths: Speech and Violence in Mum and the Sothsegger.

Cord Whitaker (Wellesley College), Shimmering Philological Mirage: Chaucer's Miller's Tale and the Spiritual Side of Race. Co-sponsored by the Race and Ethnicity Colloquium.

Daniel Remein (University of Massachusetts Boston), Kinetic Beowulf.

Elizabeth Tyler (University of York), Lay Vernacular Piety in the Court of Edward the Confessor: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle C and the Vision of Leofric.

Virginie Greene (Harvard University), Hélinand de Froidmont, Jean Bodel, and J. L. Austin, or, The Power of Medieval Poetry.

Taylor Cowdery (Harvard University), Copy and Copia in the Poetry of John Skelton.

Ruth Nisse (Wesleyan University), A Fox Among the Fishes: Berechiah ha-Naqdan and the Twelfth-Century Fable.

A.C. Spearing (University of Virginia), How to Read the Physician's Tale?

Carolyn Dinshaw (New York University), Green is the New Black: Medieval Foliate Heads, Racial Trauma, and Queer Worldmaking.