Simpson Program in Medieval Studies
The Grellet and Dorothy C. Simpson Program in Medieval Studies is currently being reconfigured to provide increased scholarship and faculty development support. Past events sponsored by the program are listed below.
Past Events
Spring 2020
Dr. Tracy Chapman Hamilton, now of Sweet Briar College, “Digitally Mapping Medieval Women and the Circulation of Material Culture: Crossing Boundaries and Connecting Spaces.”
Spring 2019
Michael Dirda, “Swords, Sorcery and Swashbucklers”
March 27, 2019
Jill Hamilton Clements, “EATING THE DAMNED: The Mouth of Hell in Medieval Art and Thought”
January 24, 2019
Spring 2018
Arielle Saiber, “Hell, Yes! Dante in Contemporary American Satire”
Monday, April 2, 2018
Kathryn McKinley, “Chaucer’s Boccaccian Temple of Venus in House of Fame Book I”
Monday, March 19, 2018
Fall 2017
George D. Greenia, “Travelers’ Texts: Pilgrims and Their Textual Accessories”
Monday, September 25, 2017
Combs 139
Jose Suarez Otero, “Santiago de Compostela, from Antiquity to the Middle Ages”
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Combs 139
Spring 2017
Dr. Tison Pugh, “Queer Medievalisms in the U.S. South”
Monday, April 3, 7:00 p.m.
Combs 139
Dr. Kristina Olson, “Finding the Celestial Rose in Mecca: Sandow Birk’s Divine Comedy”
Monday, April 10, 7:00 p.m.
Combs 139
Simpson Program in Medieval Studies 2014 Symposium
The Rise of Vernacular Culture in Fourteenth-Century Florence
Kenneth P. Clarke, University of York
Kristina Olson, George Mason University
David Lummos, Stanford University
Saturday, October 4, 2014
9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m
Combs 139
To view or download the complete program, please click here: Simpson symposium program 2014
2011 Simpson Symposium: Faith and Authority: The Context of the Early Modern
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Click here for the program of presentations: Simpson symposium 2011
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“Speaking of Murder: The Life and Death of Geoffrey Chaucer”
Robert F. Yeager
Professor of English
University of West Florida
Monday, March 19, 2007
For further information contact Professor Teresa Kennedy, Department of English and Linguistics: tkennedy@umw.edu or 540.654.1531