When I teach poetry, I urge students to recall the definition of the word lyric: OED: “A. adj. Of or pertaining to […]

Late in the Fall semester, among the piles of coffee-stained drafts, student papers, folders of articles, and dog-eared primary sources […]

This is perhaps something that should be prefaced by saying that I aspire to be a medieval Mediterranean historian, so […]

Here is a link to the Spring 2012 Marco newsletter, which features some of our editors and contributors, as well […]

Including my MA and PhD programs, I’ve been an English lit graduate student—an early modernist—for going on five years, and […]

For those of us going on the job market in the near future, revising and updating our teaching portfolios, refining […]

Thomas Meyer’s Beowulf, like the eponymous hero (and the monstrous villain too, I suppose), is an unrelenting force of nature. The […]

Books of Hours, or Horae, couple image and text and provide a window into the devotional life of the laity, […]

I quite clearly remember studying for my Medieval Comprehensive exam with a keen awareness that I would inevitably have to […]

It’s hard to imagine Marsilio Ficino, Thomas Wyatt, Christopher Marlowe or George Chapman with a Facebook profile page. In fact […]