Just wrote my course description for my Spring 2021 seminar at the CUNY Grad Center (English Department). It’s down there. Are graduate programs in NYC…
Because of my work on medieval oysters, people have sent me, for years now, the same image of an angry medieval oyster. There it is,…
William Dunbar’s “My ladye with the mekle lippis,” is a parodic insult poem, possibly directed at Elen More or the other Black woman at the…
The copy of the King of Tars in the Auchinleck manuscript opens with a rare illustration, rare in that it’s in the manuscript at all…
There are many earlier versions of the King of Tars story, and to my knowledge, none have yet been translated into modern English (or any other…
Fredric Jameson’s chapter “On Interpretation: Literature as a Socially Symbolic Act” from his The Political Unconscious returns often, and surprisingly, to the Middle Ages. As he argues…
Here is sample presentation. Note that I quickly summarize Orlemanski’s argument, provide a key quote, and then connect her work to my own research interests,…
For English 7800, Fall 2020. Caleb Smith’s “Disciplines of Attention in a Secular Age” is, in part, about what we do as literary scholars. Should…
The Bibliothèque royale de Belgique in Brussels has newly posted many digitized manuscripts. This link might work. I poked at a manuscript of Jean Miélot’s…
