Dear Colleagues,

I hope you are all enjoying some restful time with loved ones as 2024 draws to a close. 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 2026 to January 2031.  Only current MLA members are e…[Read more]

Medievalists of Color have issued a statement on Palestine and Medieval Studies and they call for a boycott of the Medieval Academy of America.

You can read the full statement here

Passing this on from Cathy Sanok and Elizabeth Allen:

We are delighted to announce that a festschrift honoring Karla Taylor as a scholar and teacher, Language, Linguistics and Middle English Literature, is forthcoming from Boydell and Brewer in March 2025. The essays explore and exemplify language-focused methods for studying medieval literature…[Read more]

Medieval and Renaissance Center
New York University

Call for papers: New York University’s Medieval and Renaissance Center invites proposals for ten-minute papers for its annual conference to be held May 1-2 2025.

Divergence and Interconnectivity: Global Premodernity in Five Objects

Keynote speaker
Lia Markey, Director of the Center for R…[Read more]

Dear Chaucerians and affiliated premodernists: the Chaucer LLC executive committee invites your submissions for the following sponsored sessions at MLA 2025 in New Orleans.

All best, Megan

Chaucer LLC sponsored sessions for MLA 2025 (New Orleans)

Reproducing Chaucer

This panel seeks papers that explore the nexus of sexual, material, and…[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]

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]

Care in the Age of Chaucer

Premodern care across political, ethical, religious, medical, environmental discourses. Gender, conduct, and responsibility. Consolation and therapy. Justice and reparation. (Un)caring acts and affects. Pastoral, non-Foucauldian, Lordean paradigms. Self and community. Please submit 250-word abstracts to Wan-Chuan Kao…[Read more]

What kinds of atmospheres does Chaucer’s work engage with or create? How can we understand the social, political, ecological, juridical, poetic, sensory, or media atmospheres within which his poetry circulates? To what extent is Chaucerian poetry part of our contemporary atmosphere? How can we engage with premodern and/or modern theories of a…[Read more]

What are/should be Chaucerian scholarship’s ethical commitments? What is/could be its relation to Chaucerian adaptations in various media? Gender, sexuality, race, and class; politics of Chaucer scholarship and amateur or creative Chauceriana. 250-word abstracts for roundtable presentations by March 15 to Catherine Sanok (sanok@umich.edu) and C…[Read more]

What can/should be the role of the premodern in the transhistorical history of race? Chaucer/Shakespeare’s entanglements in the history of racialization; the history of race before race. Please submit 250-word abstracts of roundtable-length papers by March 1 to Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Northwestern U (susie-phillips@northwestern.edu) and M…[Read more]

What makes a wall medieval? Chaucerian walls as physical, political, phenomenological, and psychic structures. Porosity and impenetrablity. Demarcation and enfoldment. Polity and publicity. Privacy and voyeurism. Classical echoes and contemporary resonances. 250-word abstracts by March 15 to Wan-Chuan Kao, Washington and Lee U (kaow@wlu.edu) and…[Read more]