Dear Middle English Forum members,

Below is the information for the three sessions that our forum is sponsoring or cosponsoring, with links to session abstracts.

We are also seeking nominations, including self-nominations, for appointment to the Middle English Forum Executive Committee. The term will be for five years, from January 2024 through…[Read more]

Medieval and Renaissance Center
New York University

Annual Conference
November 3-4 2022

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Keynote speakers
Daniel Jütte, NYU Department of History
Olenka Pevny: Cambridge University Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages

Call for papers: NYU’s Medieval and Renaissance Center invites proposals for papers for its annual conference to…[Read more]

Paul Megna’s paper for the Middle English Forum at MLA 2022 invoked a Public Books piece by Irina Dumitrescu in order to prompt contemporary medievalists to ponder the events of 1/6/2021. How might 1/6/2021 cause us to reconsider the scholarly lenses through which we have typically interpreted the events of Rising of 1381 and their literary ma…[Read more]

Medieval studies is in a moment in which it is re-examining the long-held categories that have traditionally defined its boundaries. As this reconceptualization of the field progresses, Trans Studies offers a number of scholarly methodologies and insights that are changing the way medievalists consider their field and, more specifically, Trans…[Read more]

This session seeks to build upon the growing appreciation for the complex and multifarious discursive engagements between late medieval English literary texts and Islamicate or Persianate culture, society, language, or literature. Recognizing that such engagements include much more than direct literary representations of the individual Islamicate…[Read more]