The Medieval-Renaissance Colloquium was founded by the Graduate English Department at Rutgers to bring together an intellectual community of students and scholars working within the Medieval period, the Renaissance, and the Reformation. We offer various events throughout the year: from coordinating dissertation and article workshops, to hosting critically acclaimed speakers, to organizing reading groups on contemporary scholarship. We aim to create events that will generate lively discussions about the literary, historical, and cultural works from the Medieval and Early Modern periods and to offer a congenial environment in which scholars can exchange ideas. This year we seek to highlight to all of the scholarly and professional resources that Rutgers has to offer, in a time of unprecedented institutional challenges.
Upcoming Events:
October 23 @ 5:30, AB 6051 (CCA)
(Hosted by RBSC) Rachel Weil (Cornell, IAS) will be talking on "The Murder of Thomas Brown: Complaint and Conflict in a Seventeenth-Century Debtor's Prison".
November 7 @ 3:30 pm, AB 6051 (CCA):
Amanda Eubanks Winkler (Rutgers’ Mason Gross School of the Arts) will present her work on “Sonic Violence in Webster’s Duchess of Malfi”. She is currently writing a book that situates Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musicals from the ’70s and ’80s within a social and political context.
November 21 @ 2:00 pm, AB 6051 (CCA):
In association with AMESALL, MedRen has invited Miriam Jacobson (University of Georgia). Spanning the disciplines of history, literature, and comparative literature, her work focuses on Anglo-Ottoman trade and the role of antiquity in the Early Modern Period. More on the title of her talk soon!
First Week of December (More details soon!)
Javiera Barrientos, a 5th year Phd Student in the Department of Literatures in English, will hold a workshop on archival research for graduate students.Javiera’s work is situated along the routes of bibliographic circulation in the early modern colonial transatlantic with special emphases on the materiality of texts. This workshop will be of interest to students across department lines.