Graduate Seminars

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 .

Giuseppe Cuscuna (University of Catania), Every Age Has the Caesar It Deserves: The Medieval Reception of Anti-Caesarism in the Romance Tradition .

In his 1982 essay "Nonmoral Nature," the historian of science Stephen Jay Gould meditated on the role that morality should or should not play in our understanding of the natural world. Animals are neither evil nor kind, in Gould's view, and morality has...

Kersti Francis (Boston University), Contra Naturam: Magic and Sodomy in Twelfth-Century Natural Philosophy. Please RSVP here to receive a copy of Dr. Francis's paper.

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...

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, and the Medieval Studies Interdisciplinary Workshop invite you to a behind-the-scenes and up-close exploration of four rarely-displayed medieval and early modern tapestries, led...

Haruko Momma (New York University/Radcliffe Institute), Names, Emotions, and Selfhood: A Personal Approach.