Medieval Colloquium

Welcome! 

Welcome to the Harvard English Department's Medieval Colloquium! The Colloquium brings together students and faculty from Harvard and other universities to discuss current research on medieval literature and its contexts. If you have any questions or suggestions, or would like to be added to the Medieval Colloquium's email list, please contact our graduate student coordinators Anna Suh and Fernanda Garcia-Oteyza.

 Stay tuned for upcoming events!

Harvard Medieval English Colloquium - Calendar of Events - Fall 2026

Thursdays at 5:30pm (unless otherwise noted)

September 10: Ad Bibendum: Graduate Student Welcome, Widener D

September 17: *5pm* Susan Phillips, Northwestern University, “Learning to Talk Shop in Premodern England,” co-sponsored by Medieval Studies Workshop and Renaissance Colloquium, Robinson Hall Lower Library

September 24: Ad Bibendum, Widener D

October 1: Rachel J. Smith, Villanova University, “Technologies of Entanglement: Writing, Confession, and Compassion in The Life of Ida of Nivelles (d. 1231),” Kates Room (Warren House 201)

October 8: Ad Bibendum, Widener D

October 15: Paul Russell and Nicholas Watson, Harvard University, "Editing Workshop: From Manuscripts to Print; from Authors to Readers," Kates Room

October 22: Grace O'Duffy, Harvard Society of Fellows, Kates Room

October 29: Joseph Shack, University of Central Florida, “’An Untamed Race Bred in Caucasian Rocks:’ Discourses of Barbarity in Eleventh-Century England," Kates Room

November 5: Karl Steel, Brooklyn College, CUNY, "Animals, Plants, and Truth in the Seven Sages of Rome,”  Finnegan Room (Barker 403)

November 12: Ad Bibendum, Widener D

November 19: Ahmed Seif, Harvard University, Kates Room

Medieval Studies at Harvard

The Standing Committee on Medieval Studies is a great place to start for resources in interdisciplinary medieval studies at Harvard. Here, you can:

• • View current medieval studies course offerings at Harvard

  • Learn about the Secondary PhD Field in Medieval Studies

  • View a calendar of upcoming events in medieval studies in and around Boston, including meetings of the Harvard Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar, which meets on Mondays at 4:15 pm

Inter Libros offers a great overview of electronic resources available for scholars in medieval studies; for more electronic resources, see below.

Houghton Library holds a wealth of incredible medieval manuscripts and related materials. Don't miss their collection of Digital Medieval Manuscripts, and be sure to check out their Search Strategies for locating other manuscripts in the collection.