Colloquium on Premodern Literature and Culture | Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies

The UNC Colloquium on Premodern Literature and Culture is an interdisciplinary speaker series dedicated to the study of premodern writing in all of its forms. The Colloquium meets Thursdays at 5:15 PM, roughly five to seven times per semester; it is convened by H. M. Cushman (hcush@email.unc.edu) and Krista Telford (ktelford@unc.edu). It was founded in 2018 by Taylor Cowdery, H. M. Cushman, and Jessica Wolfe.

Fall 2025 Schedule

8/28 Ingrid Nelson (Amherst College)
- “Medieval Media: Technologies of Romance”
9/25 Everett Lang (UNC Chapel Hill)
- “Textbook Tyrants: Casaubon’s Suetonius and History as Polemic”
10/2 Christopher Cannon (Johns Hopkins University)
- “The Oral Transmission of Piers Plowman”
10/9 Daniel Davies (University of Houston)
- “Frames of War in The Canterbury Tales”
11/6 Hudson Vincent (Davidson College)
- “The English Baroque”
11/13 Alison Beringer (Montclair State University)
- “In Cahoots with the Devil or in the Image of God? The Sculptor in Medieval German Literature”

The Med-Ren Colloquium acknowledges the generous support of the School of Arts and Sciences and MEMS @ UNC.