Erica Weaver (Harvard University), Anglo Saxon In/attention.

Daniel Donoghue (Harvard University), The Variant Readings of Heaney's Beowulf: The Medieval History of a Postcolonial Text.

Michelle Karnes (University of Notre Dame), The Stories that Philosophers Tell about Marvels.

Sonja Drimmer (University of Massachusetts), Illuminating Chaucer When He Was Obscure. Co-sponsored with the Medieval English Colloquium.

Nicole Rice (St. John's University), St Leonard's Hospital and Civic Performance: The Prehistory of the York Purification Pageant.

Megan Cook (Colby College), Chaucer, the Book: The Medieval Author and His Texts in Early Modern England.

Kathleen Davis (University of Rhode Island), From Periodization to the Autoimmune Secular State.

Irina Dumitrescu (University of Bonn), Boethius and Andreas: An Affair to Remember.

Nicholas Watson (Harvard University), The Lost First Draft of The Book of Margery Kempe.

Laura Ashe (Oxford University), Twelfth-Century Transformations. Co-sponsored by the 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.