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]

Hello everyone!

We look forward to seeing you this winter at MLA 2023, in San Francisco, CA!

Our panel, “The Ecology of the Community College Classroom,” will have presentations by Swan Kim, Nayah Boucaud, and Amanda Christie. We have an incredibly diverse group of topics under the panel’s theme, and the MLA has seen fit to place our panel under…[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]

New England Medieval Consortium 2022: Medieval Ecologies
October 8, 2022
Colby College
Waterville, ME

This conference will provide an opportunity for medievalists working across a range of disciplines and geographic areas to join in conversation about premodern ecologies and their literary historical representations, as well as their material…[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]

We are currently looking for presenters for next year’s HEP Community Colleges Executive Committee Forum. This is a guaranteed session set for the convention in San Francisco, on January 5-8, 2023. If you are interested, please see the detailed call description below and the shortened call posted on the MLA site below it.

CFP for MLA 2023: The…[Read more]