Dear Old Norse Forum members,

I’m writing as the Chair of the Old Norse forum to invite suggestions for a new member for MLA’s Old Norse forum. If you would like to self-nominate, or nominate someone else, please send me an email (heslop@berkeley.edu) by the end of this week (Friday January 26th). Executive Committee members decide on the topic…[Read more]

Dear MLA Middle English Forum members,

The Executive Committee of the Middle English Forum would like to invite members of the forum to submit nominations for a new appointee to the forum EC. The term is five years, from January 2025 to January 2030.  Only current MLA members are eligible for appointment. Candidates cannot already be serving on a…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

The Executive Committee of the Chaucer Forum would like to invite members of the forum to submit nominations for a new appointee to the forum EC. The term is five years, from January 2025 to January 2030.  Only current MLA members are eligible for appointment. Candidates cannot already be serving on another forum executive c…[Read more]

The Executive Committee of the Chaucer Forum would like to invite members of the forum to submit nominations for a new appointee to the forum EC. The term is five years, from January 2025 to January 2030.  Only current MLA members are eligible for appointment. Candidates cannot already be serving on another forum executive committee (unless t…[Read more]

Here are the CFPs for the Middle English Forum’s two sessions, along with a third that’s a collaborative session with the Chaucer Forum.

Adapting Middle English Literature

Organizers: Susan Nakley and Ruen-chuan Ma

This session invites us to consider how contemporary adaptations of Middle English literature contribute to the projects of…[Read more]

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]

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

Medieval and Renaissance Center
New York University

Annual Conference
November 3-4 2022

Leaving Home

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]

The Chaucer Forum warmly invites submissions for our MLA 2023 (San Francisco, January 5-8) sessions:

Chaucer’s Ornamentalism and Gimmickry

This roundtable session brings Anne Anlin Cheng’s concept of ornamentalism and Sianne Ngai’s work on the gimmick into conversation with Chaucer’s work. For instance, in The Squire’s Tale, Canacee’s…[Read more]

The executive committee of the Arthurian Forum would like to solicit nominations (including self-nominations) for a new member of the executive committee who will serve from Feb. 1, 2022-Jan. 31, 2027. The new member must be an MLA member (if they aren’t currently, the appointee can join or renew and then be eligible); they cannot already be s…[Read more]