Trisha Gupta (KCL), ‘The Coexistence—Or Lack Thereof—Of Courtly Love and Chivalry in Le Morte d’Arthur, The Faerie Queene, and Shrek’

Melitta Weiss Adamson, Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Western Ontario, is a specialist in classical and medieval medicine, dietetics, and cuisine.

Yale Lectures in Medieval Studies

Michelle Keefe (Yale Medieval Studies), ‘Framing Initiation within the Dura-Europos Baptistery: A Ritual Interpretation of the Painting of the ‘Woman at the Well’’

Join Early Modern and Medieval Studies for Happy Hour (with light refreshments), 4:30-6:30pm in HQ 134! 

Join Early Modern and Medieval Studies for Happy Hour (with light refreshments), 4:30-6:30pm in HQ 134! 

Estelle Guéville (Yale Medieval Studies), ‘Unknown Hands: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts and their Female Scribes’

Dr. Harriet Soper (visiting scholar), ‘Age Identity in The Book of Margery Kempe’

Dorothy Kim, Assistant Professor in the English Department at Brandeis University, works on Jewish and Christian interaction in the Middle Ages, digital humanism, and feminist discourses.

Yale Lectures in Medieval Studies

Details to come!

Tim Newfield, Assistant Professor, Departments of History and Biology at Georgetown University, is a historical epidemiologist and environmental historian currently working on climate change and food shortage in Late Antiquity.

Yale Lectures in Medieval Studies

Mike Kestemont, Full Research Professor, Department of Literature at the University of Antwerp, works in the Computational Humanities with a focus on the application of machine learning and natural language processing and statistics for the analysis historic data, including computational text analysis for premodern literature.

Volker Leppin, Horace Tracy Pitkin Professor of Historical Theology at Yale Divinity School, is a Reformation scholar and the author of a much celebrated biography of St. Francis, on whom he will be presenting.

Aileen Das, Associate Professor of Classical Studies, Middle East Studies, and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan, is a specialist in Greco-Roman and Islamicate medicine and philosophy; and science, technology, and society (STS) studies. Her first monograph was a study of the Arabic reception of Plato’s Timaeus via Galen.