Selected Talks

Invited Lectures

“Imagining Authorship in the Hours.”  Medieval English Seminar, Harvard University.  20 February 2020.

“In Conversation with Simon Armitage.”  Beinecke Library, Yale University, 14 February 2019.

“Shaping the Text-Block:  Textual Space and Visual Image in Late-Medieval Line-Fillers.”  Medieval and Renaissance Center Distinguished Lecture Series, New York University, 7 February 2019.

“Visual-Textual Encounters:  An Interdisciplinary Panel,” Yale Lectures in Medieval Studies, Program in Medieval Studies, Yale University, 7 December 2018.

“Celebrating The Construction of Vernacular History,” Program of Liberal Studies, University of Notre Dame, South Bend (IN), 8 February 2018.

“Lydgate’s Kalendare and the Forms of the Hours,” English Department and Medieval Institute at Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame, South Bend (IN), 7 February 2018.

“Visible Literacies,” Medieval Colloquium, English Department, Yale University, 30 November 2017.

“Books of Hours and Literary Forms,” Toronto Center for the Book. Program in Book History and Print Culture. University of Toronto, 2 November 2017.

“With Jessica Brantley:  Luxurious Devotion, Literary Necessity,” a panel organized by the Graduate Medievalists at Harvard for the 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo), May 2017.

“Literary History through the Book of Hours:  John Lydgate’s Practical Poetics,” Mellon Winter Visiting Speaker lecture for the McGill Medievalists. McGill University, Montreal, Canada. 20 February 2017.

“One Poem Five Ways,” University of Utah, Department of English. 24 October 2016.

“Interpreting the Forms of Medieval Manuscripts,” Faculty Workshop offered at the University of Utah, Department of English.  24 October 2016.

“Manuscripts as Case-Studies in Literary Reading,” Student Workshop offered at the University of Utah, Department of English.  24 October 2016.

“Manuscript Illumination,” Graduate Workshop on Manuscript Studies, Twentieth Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society, London (UK), 10-15 July 2016.

“Poetry and Prayer:  Wynkyn de Worde’s Literary Hours,” Fellows’ Research Colloquium, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC, 20 May 2016.

“The Book of Hours in Literary History,” Medieval Colloquium, English Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 21 April 2016.

“Medieval Mediations:  Late Medieval Parchment Rolls of Hours,” Washington Area Group for Print Culture Studies, Library of Congress, Washington DC, 8 April 2016.

“Medieval Mediations,” plenary address for Manuscript as Medium, A Conference sponsored by the Fordham Center for Medieval Studies, Fordham University, 5-6 March 2016.

“A Literary History of the Book of Hours,” 25th Annual Richard and Mary Rouse Lecture in the History of the Book, University of California, Los Angeles, 14 January 2016.

“The Provocations of Orthodoxy,” The Provocative Fifteenth Century, an invitational conference held at the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, October 16-17, 2015.

“Hours in the Archive,” Keynote Address for The Medieval Archive, A Conference sponsored by Medievalists @ Penn, University of Pennsylvania, 27 February 2015.

In Things:  The Rebus in Premodern Devotion,” Plenary Address for Medieval Materiality:  A Conference on the Life and Afterlife of Things, University of Colorado at Boulder, 23-25 October 2014.

“Books as Time-Keepers,” Time and the Book: The Yale Symposium in the History of the Book, Yale University, 12-13 September 2014.

“Macaronic Texts and Imported Images:  Mixed Forms in the Pavement Hours (York MS XVI.K.6),” Columbia Medieval Guild, Columbia University, New York, 12 February 2014.

“The Book of Hours in Literary History,” Yale Medieval Colloquium, New Haven, CT, 18 October 2013.

“Language-Mixing in the Book of Hours,” Harlaxton Medieval Symposium, Harlaxton Manor, Lincolnshire, UK, 16-18 July 2013.

“The Pavement Hours in Literary History,” Medieval Studies Institute, University of Indiana, 19 March 2013.

“Writing and Reading in Miniature,” Object Talk for By Hand: Celebrating the Manuscript Collections of Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Beinecke Library, 4 March 2013.

“Re:forming the Pavement Hours (York Minster MS XVI.K.6),” Keynote Address for Re:form, A Conference sponsored by the Graduate Medievalists at Berkeley, University of California, Berkeley, 15-16 February 2013.

“Visions of the Vernacular in John Lacy’s Book (Oxford, St. John’s College MS 94),” English Department, University of Rochester, 29 November 2012.

“Medieval Remediations:  The Vernon Pater Noster Diagram,” Medieval/Renaissance Forum, Department of the History of Art, Yale University, 3 April 2012.

“Art and Devotion:  Looking at the Word,” Cornelius Loew Lecture in Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, 15 March 2012.

“The Vernacular Hours: Literary Culture and Private Prayer,” Seminar in the History of Material Texts, University of Pennsylvania, 3 October 2011.

“Vernacular Song in Private Prayer: The Example of the Entwisle Hours,” Medieval Song Network, University College, London, 12 September 2011.

“Visual Narrative across the Manuscript Opening: The Example of the Taymouth Hours.” Yale Working Group in Book History, Beinecke Library. Yale University, 5 April 2011.

“Looking at the Word:  Text and Image in Late-Medieval Devotion,” Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Bowdoin College, 24 February 2011.

“The Vernacular Book of Hours,” Seminar in the History of the Book, University of California, Santa Barbara, 7 February 2011.

Historia: Pictorial Narrative and Textual Images in the Late-Medieval Book of Hours,” The Future of the Past: French History in Illuminated Manuscripts, University of California, Los Angeles and The Getty Center, 3-5 February 2011.

“Manuscript Illumination,” Graduate Workshop on Manuscript Studies, Seventeenth Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society, University of Siena, 15-19 July 2010.

Sir Thopas and the Devotional Reader,” Roundtable on Performance, Visuality, and Devotional Reading, CUNY Graduate Center, 13 April 2010.

“Medieval Manuscripts and Literary Forms,” Beinecke Library Lectures in the History of the Book, Yale University, 23 March 2010.

“Pictorial Narrative and Narrative Pictures in Pearl,” Medieval Doctoral Conference, Harvard University, 11 March 2010.

“Reading the Forms of Sir Thopas,” Conference on Editorial Problems: Manuscripts and the Forms of Middle English Literary Texts, University of Toronto, 6-8 November 2009.

“Forms of Reading in the Book of Brome,” Interdisciplinary Medieval Studies Colloquium, University of Virginia, 12 March 2009.

“Miscellaneous Performances in the Book of Brome,” Michigan Medieval Seminar, University of Michigan, 19 September 2008.

“Private Reading and Public Performance,” Faculty Panel of the New York City Doctoral Consortium Colloquium, Fordham University, 25 April 2008. [declined]

“Reading in the Wilderness:  The Drama of Devotion in a Fifteenth-Century Illustrated Miscellany,” Medieval Studies Program, University of Connecticut, 3 February 2006.

Mankind in a Year Without Kings” (with Thomas Fulton), Medieval and Early Modern Colloquium, Columbia University, 16 September 2005.

“Pictorial Narrative in the Eadwine Psalter,” Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame, 3 October 2002.

“The Performance of Prayer in a Late-Medieval Illustrated Miscellany,” Medieval Doctoral Conference, Harvard University, 21 March 2002.

“Public Pageantry in Private Spaces: Reading Devotional Performance in a Fifteenth- Century Illustrated Book,” Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, 2 November 2001.

“Public Pageantry in Private Spaces: Devotional Performance in a Carthusian Miscellany,” Medieval and Early Modern Colloquium, Yale University, 11 October 2001.

“The Visual Experience of Carthusian Books:  Decoration and Illustration in the Foyle Manuscript,” Middle English Manuscript Symposium, Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame, 15 September 2001.

“The Princess in the Prayerbook:  Chivalric Images in the Taymouth Hours,” Agnes Scott College, 2 March 2001.

 

Conference Presentations

“Lydgate’s Poetry in Books of Hours.” Collaborative Research Workshop in Middle English Literature.  Denver, 11-13 November 2016.

“Drama in Alabaster:  An Intermedial Comparison.” Twentieth Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society, London (UK), 10-15 July 2016.

“Devotion and the ‘Literary’.” 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies.  Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo), 11-13 May 2016.

“Genre-Words and Books of Hours.” Collaborative Research Workshop in Middle English Literature.  Denver, 24-26 April 2015.

“Object-lessons from the Pavement Hours,” Matters of the Word, Twenty-Fourth Medieval and Renaissance Conference at Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, 6 December 2014.

“Forms of the Hours in Late Medieval England.” Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America. University of California at Los Angeles, 10-12 April 2014.

“Regulated Reading:  Time and Place in the Fifteenth-Century Book of Hours.” Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, 27-29 March 2014.

“Forms of Temporality in the English Book of Hours.” Collaborative Research Workshop in Middle English Literature.  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 27-29        September 2013.

“The Franklin’s Tale and the Sister Arts.” 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo), 11-13 May 2013.

“The Book of Hours as Medieval Imagetext.” Eighteenth Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society. Portland, OR, 23-26 July 2012.

“The Book of Hours in Literary History.” Medieval Writing Workshop. Columbia University, 7-9 October 2011.

“Reading Medieval Manuscripts.” Medieval Writing Workshop. Columbia University, 14-16 September 2010.

“Late Medieval Plays for Reading:  The Book of Brome.” Sixteenth Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society. University of Wales, Swansea, 18-22 July 2008.

“Medieval Ways of Seeing.”  Medieval Writing Workshop. University of California, Davis, 14-16 September 2007.

“‘I may nevyr fulle telle it’: Image into Word in Julian of Norwich.” Lost in Translation? The Tenth Cardiff Conference on the Theory and Practice of Translation in the Middle Ages. Université de Lausanne, 17-22 July 2007.

“Anglo-Saxon Imagetext.” 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies.  Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo), 11-13 May 2007.

“Venus and Christ in Chaucer’s Complaint of Mars.” Medieval Lunchtime Talks.  Yale University, 13 February 2007.

“Medieval Imagetext.” Medieval Writing Workshop. University of California, Davis, 22- 24 September 2006.

“Roger of Waltham Imagines Himself.” International Association of Word and Image Studies:  Elective Affinities.  University of Pennsylvania, 23-27 September 2005.

“Tail-Rhyme in the Tale of Sir Thopas.” Medieval Lunchtime Talks.  Yale University, 23 March 2005.

“Dramatizing the Cell: Carthusian Readers of Deguileville.” International Medieval Congress.  University of Leeds, 10-13 July 2004.

“The Shapes of Tail-Rhyme.” Thirteenth Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society. University of Glasgow, 14-17 July 2004.

“Visual Exegesis of the Psalms: The Utrecht Psalter and Old English Poetry.” Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy.  University of Washington, 1-3 April 2004.

“Reading in the Wilderness.” Medieval Writing Workshop. Northwestern University, 15- 16 October 2003.

“The Performance of Devotional Reading:  Illustrated Playtexts in British Library MS Additional 37049.” 36th International Congress on Medieval Studies.  Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo), 5-8 May 2002.

“Performing Devotion in British Library MS Additional 37409.” Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association. New Orleans, 27-30 December 2001.

“‘In maner of a dyaloge it wente’: Devotional Performances in a Carthusian Miscellany (BL MS Add. 37049).” 35th International Congress on Medieval Studies.  Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo), 4-7 May 2001.

“Monastic Reading and the Shape of the Book: Devotional Performances in British Library MS Additional 37049.” Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America/Medieval Association of the Pacific. Arizona State University, 15-17 March 2001.

“Liturgical Performances in Vernacular Manuscripts.” E-seminar in the Twelfth Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society. University of London, 14-17 July 2000.

“Reading in the Wilderness: Empty Spaces in the Desert of Religion.” International Medieval Congress.  University of Leeds, 10-13 July 2000.

“Public Pageantry in Private Spaces: Liturgical Performance in BL MS Add. 37049.” 34th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo), 3-6 May 2000.

“Reading in the Wilderness: a Contextual Study of a Carthusian Miscellany (BL MS Additional 37049).” Unstable Strategies: Writing the History of Art Now. Getty Research Institute, 7-8 April 2000.

“‘Als wildernes is wroght this boke’: The Shape of Eremitic Reading in the Desert of Religion.” Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of the Pacific. University of Victoria, British Columbia, 25-27 February 2000.

“The Person in the Book:  Text and Image in the Miscellany of Roger of Waltham,” International Medieval Congress. University of Leeds, 12-15 July 1999.

“Chivalric Piety and Vernacular Prayer in the Taymouth Hours.” Ut pictura poesis: Verbal and Visual Images in Manuscripts and Printed Books, 1350-1550, a Conference of the Early Book Society. University of Glasgow, 8-12 July 1999.

“The Fairfax 16 Miniature and its Continental Inheritance.” Eleventh Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society. Université de la Sorbonne, 17-20 July 1998.

Pearl and the Pictures of Cotton Nero A.x.” 33rd International Congress on Medieval Studies.  Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo), 7-10 May 1998.

“Images of the Vernacular in the Taymouth Hours.” Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America/Medieval Association of the Pacific. Stanford University, 26- 28 March 1998.