Through department meetings and a focused summer retreat, the Research Services team at Reed College Library concentrated intentional efforts on making space: space in our jobs to do this work, space for the students to be present in the library, and space to gather user feed-back. Secondly, Research Services librarians sought to engage students:…[Read more]

Educational podcasts have gained momentum in recent years. Closure of live performance venues and widespread lockdowns as part of public hygiene measures during the global COVID-19 pandemic further increased interest in at-home consumption of digitally delivered content for entertainment and education. Supported by the Globe Theatre’s education d…[Read more]

Recent scholarship has been preoccupied with questions of rape and consent in late medieval literature, partly influenced by the MeToo movement while we continue to grapple with Geoffrey Chaucer’s allegation of raptus. In such a climate, medieval texts that likewise challenge the normalization of rape in literature and society require renewed a…[Read more]

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