MLA Commons | Robert J. Meyer-Lee | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/meyerlee/activity/ Activity feed for Robert J. Meyer-Lee. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 23:42:46 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 c65953aed23ae08144852197c4a289c6 Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic Middle English Sessions at MLA 2025 in the forum LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/middle-english-sessions-at-mla-2025/ Thu, 09 Jan 2025 17:00:41 -0500 Here are the two Middle English Forum sessions at this year’s MLA Convention:

167 – Unauthoring Middle English (LLC Middle English)

Thursday, 9 January 2025

7:00 PM – 8:15 PM

Hilton New Orleans Riverside – Port (Riverside Complex)

https://mla.confex.com/mla/2025/meetingapp.cgi/Session/20689

 

571 – Recovery and Cultures of Care in Middle…[Read more]

]]> 0 32adba8324f016087fa23fc548007dba Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic Nominations for Middle English Forum Executive Committee -- send them today! in the forum LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/nominations-for-middle-english-forum-executive-committee-send-them-today/ Thu, 09 Jan 2025 16:49:14 -0500 <span style=”font-family: ‘Times New Roman’,serif;”>The Executive Committee of the Middle English Forum would like to invite members of this 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 eligible for appointment. Candidates cannot already be…[Read more]

]]> 0 df53f202662622bd32d4256ed930d961 Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic Join the tabula gratulatoria for a festschrift for Karla Taylor! in the forum LLC Chaucer https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/chaucer/forum/topic/join-the-tabula-gratulatoria-for-a-festschrift-for-karla-taylor-2/ Thu, 24 Oct 2024 20:30:24 -0400 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]

]]> 0 37536d2920b85a686807eaecedf4dd2c Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic Join the tabula gratulatoria for a festschrift for Karla Taylor! in the forum LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/join-the-tabula-gratulatoria-for-a-festschrift-for-karla-taylor/ Thu, 24 Oct 2024 20:26:39 -0400 Passing this along 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…[Read more]

]]> 0 5d543e2fb9d8fece20061fe121d214d3 Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic Info for MLA 2025 Middle English Forum Session "Unauthoring Middle English" in the discussion LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/info-for-mla-2025-middle-english-forum-session-unauthoring-middle-english/ Sat, 29 Jun 2024 17:22:11 -0400 This session addresses the following questions: What new perspectives and interpretive possibilities emerge if we embrace the anonymity of most Middle English manuscripts? What might be the critical utility of deferring recourse to an author? Panelists consider drama, lyric, narrative poetry, manuscript compilations, and their critical receptions.…[Read more]

]]> 0 65bb001ef913e15a3e8e7567305d37ff Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic CFPs for MLA 2025 Middle English Forum sessions in the discussion LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/cfps-for-mla-2025-middle-english-forum-sessions/ Fri, 23 Feb 2024 04:53:49 -0500 The Middle English LLC executive committee invites your submissions for the following two sponsored sessions at MLA 2025 in New Orleans:

Session 1: Recovery and Cultures of Care in Middle English Literature

This paper panel proposes to examine connections between ideas of recovery in Middle English literature, broadly speaking, and our current…[Read more]

]]> 0 df89fb2bcbddb3aa298e40c449ec93f5 Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic Call For Nominations for Middle English Forum Executive Committee, 2025-2030 in the discussion LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/call-for-nominations-for-middle-english-forum-executive-committee-2025-2030/ Mon, 18 Dec 2023 23:55:14 -0500 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]

]]> 0 cd1c024b36befbcc0ad5f6c2b6dc4a01 Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic CFPs for MLA 2024 Middle English Forum sessions in the discussion LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/cfps-for-mla-2024-middle-english-forum-sessions/ Sat, 04 Feb 2023 22:34:33 -0500 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]

]]> 0 d382ebff75f06c07d7d8f88be9c712c4 Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic MLA 2023 Middle English Forum Convention Sessions and Call for Nominations in the discussion LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/mla-2023-middle-english-forum-convention-sessions-and-call-for-nominations/ Mon, 12 Dec 2022 02:46:40 -0500 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]

]]> 0 b78a06c344dea0bffe7038574992d01b Robert J. Meyer-Lee edited the doc Abstracts for 2023 MLA Session on Old English, Middle English, and Contemporary Trans Studies in the group LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1787806/ Tue, 19 Jul 2022 17:38:59 -0400 0 bf3e457d24983c73b2401cabc02979f8 Robert J. Meyer-Lee edited the doc Abstracts for 2023 MLA Session on Old English, Middle English, and Contemporary Trans Studies in the group LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1787591/ Mon, 18 Jul 2022 15:47:10 -0400 0 efcc78af451e73c0416e51f58a2469bd Robert J. Meyer-Lee edited the doc Abstracts for 2023 MLA Session on Middle English Encounters with Islamicate and Persianate Culture in the group LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1787576/ Mon, 18 Jul 2022 15:21:16 -0400 0 54abaf88720a0864e6eed0e2e74242c2 Robert J. Meyer-Lee edited the doc Abstracts for 2023 MLA Session on Medieval Rebellion and Modern Insurrectionism in the group LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1776663/ Fri, 01 Apr 2022 16:55:44 -0400 0 bdd2d78b7676036b3fb60cacf39166f0 Robert J. Meyer-Lee created the doc Abstracts for 2023 MLA Session on Old English, Middle English, and Contemporary Trans Studies in the group LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1776621/ Fri, 01 Apr 2022 05:51:47 -0400 0 e5677239164402ce029683da6a234a58 Robert J. Meyer-Lee created the doc Abstracts for 2023 MLA Session on Medieval Rebellion and Modern Insurrectionism in the group LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1776618/ Fri, 01 Apr 2022 04:57:48 -0400 0 593dc15f442040772ed6012b8a4dbf1a Robert J. Meyer-Lee created the doc Abstracts for 2023 MLA Session on Middle English Encounters with Islamicate and Persianate Culture in the group LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1776440/ Thu, 31 Mar 2022 03:22:58 -0400 0 dcad5fef41fd57d42eb97877d5660c12 Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic CFP MLA 2023: Medieval Rebellion and Modern Insurrectionism in the discussion LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2023-medieval-rebellion-and-modern-insurrectionism/ Mon, 07 Mar 2022 18:18:32 -0500 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]

]]> 0 c43eb62bd58a8c5be0897094480b8e0b Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic CFP MLA 2023: Old English, Middle English, and Contemporary Trans Studies in the discussion LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2023-old-english-middle-english-and-contemporary-trans-studies/ Mon, 07 Mar 2022 18:11:55 -0500 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]

]]> 0 a1bd50a16c2c3b869b279e9ce119dee6 Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic CFP MLA 2023: Middle English Encounters with Islamicate and Persianate Cultures in the discussion LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2023-middle-english-encounters-with-islamicate-and-persianate-cultures/ Mon, 07 Mar 2022 18:07:19 -0500 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]

]]> 0 f41352d51d18b44875d2a1795647fc0f Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic Bodleian Library Research Fellowships in the discussion LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/bodleian-library-research-fellowships/ Fri, 12 Nov 2021 02:42:01 -0500 In collaboration with the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford, the New Chaucer Society will support one or two one month (30 day) research visits by an early career scholar who is a member of the New Chaucer Society to the Special Collections of the Bodleian Library in the University of Oxford. Details here:…[Read more]

]]> 0 84d82b3f5fc1da441ee6ee1e4e49423b Robert J. Meyer-Lee's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1748486/ Thu, 05 Aug 2021 03:30:05 -0400 0 47d15d52d2c235e94f21b9d1e60bd3cd Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic MLA 2022 CFP: Remote Middle English 2: Present Negotiations with the Past in the discussion LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/mla-2022-cfp-remote-middle-english-2-present-negotiations-with-the-past/ Fri, 19 Feb 2021 15:49:44 -0500 Sequestered away from our institutions, colleagues, and students, and yet continuing to seek connections with them, many medievalists have no doubt registered the uncanny resemblance between the newly remote experiences of our work and the already pervasive perceptions of that work as remote, both within and without academe. On the one hand, we…[Read more]

]]> 0 6adcc2d051346a23f553af6ff8034de9 Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic New Chaucer Society: Call for Future Forward Session for summer Expo 2021 in the discussion LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/new-chaucer-society-call-for-future-forward-session-for-summer-expo-2021/ Thu, 21 Jan 2021 02:57:08 -0500 NCS Expo, Future Forward Call for Nominees, #NCSExpo2021

Organisers: Seeta Chaganti; Bobby Meyer-Lee; Emily Steiner.

Whether in the context of long-term social justice commitments or in response to shifts in global politics over the last few years, medievalists have found themselves facing questions about the relation – or lack thereof – betw…[Read more]

]]> 0 3dc1419717c34d75af69164ba1e615c1 Robert J. Meyer-Lee posted an update in the group LLC Middle English: New Chaucer Society 2018 Congress CFP is live: […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1562018/ Sat, 11 Feb 2017 05:13:41 -0500 New Chaucer Society 2018 Congress CFP is live: http://newchaucersociety.org/pages/entry/2018-congress

]]> 0 56e696f81334997114d33427e9421e60 Robert J. Meyer-Lee posted an update in the group LLC Chaucer: New Chaucer Society 2018 Congress Call for Papers is live: […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1562017/ Sat, 11 Feb 2017 05:12:43 -0500 New Chaucer Society 2018 Congress Call for Papers is live: http://newchaucersociety.org/pages/entry/2018-congress

]]> 0 423dc6bfe116d95b9b36ab851ff17fd0 Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic Medieval Academy Meeting 2015 in the forum Chaucer http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/chaucer/forum/topic/medieval-academy-meeting-2015-2/ Thu, 12 Jun 2014 04:45:48 -0400 Hi all,
The deadline for Medieval Academy 2015 submissions is just around the corner–June 15.  The full CFP is here:
http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.medievalacademy.org/resource/resmgr/pdfs/maa2015_cfp_final.pdf
Among the threads is one on manuscript studies, consisting of the following sessions:
o English Manuscript Studies
o Women in the Sc…[Read more]

]]> 0 64c2aa1475039e168ef8da3e05cb2702 Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic Medieval Academy Meeting 2015 in the forum Comparative Studies in Medieval Literature http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/comparative-studies-in-medieval-literature/forum/topic/medieval-academy-meeting-2015/ Thu, 12 Jun 2014 04:41:27 -0400 Hi all,

The deadline for Medieval Academy 2015 submissions is just around the corner–June 15.  The full CFP is here:

http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.medievalacademy.org/resource/resmgr/pdfs/maa2015_cfp_final.pdf

Among the threads is one on manuscript studies, consisting of the following sessions:

o English Manuscript Studies
o Women in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 c0d9abfcda8aa85742f1d5e1d82cf5fb Robert J. Meyer-Lee uploaded the file: Call for Manuscripts: Boydell and Brewer's Chaucer Studies series to Chaucer https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/33037/ Wed, 15 May 2013 19:28:52 -0400 Boydell and Brewer is seeking book proposals for its venerable Chaucer Studies series. Monographs are particularly encouraged but volumes of essays will be included when appropriate. Send proposals and inquiries to Caroline Palmer, Editorial Director, PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3DF, UK cpalmer@boydell.co.uk.

]]> 0 f019019807731c53f4558bcb53adfe65 Robert J. Meyer-Lee changed their profile picture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/21658/ Fri, 01 Mar 2013 21:02:36 -0500 0