Humanities

As a local expert on Moravians in the 18th century, Scott Paul Gordon is working on a new book about enslavement in Bethlehem.

As the world marks the 250th anniversary of Austen's birth, Michael Kramp shows why her accessible, versatile stories offer more than just happily-ever-afters.

Scholar of Chinese literature and gastronomic writing, Wandi Wang researches a 13th century Chinese cookbook.

The Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship (SMFS) has announced the creation of a new biennial honor, the Suzanne Edwards Mentorship Award, recognizing extraordinary mentorship of early-career feminist scholars. The award debuts this year with its namesake, English professor Suzanne Edwards, as the inaugural recipient.

Michael Raposa hails Spring 2025 as his most productive period in more than four decades of academic work.

Unearthing French colonial massacres through contemporary Francophone art.

Doctoral student Olivia Mathers uncovers medieval history’s surprising connections to contemporary culture through literature, gaming, and fantasy.

Jordan Ho ‘27 analyzes the proliferation of Chaucer’s form in the Canterbury Tales with the utopian possibilities in Patience Agbabi’s Telling Tales

Katherine Crassons, associate professor of English, has been named the recipient of the 2025 Bonnie Wheeler Fellowship, one of the most prestigious grants for medievalists. The fellowship, which includes a $25,000 stipend and mentorship from a distinguished scholar, will support Crassons as she completes her book, Signs of Wonder: Faith, Ethics, and Epistemology in Medieval and Early Modern England.

Poetry scholar Victoria Bergstrom explores how a group of 1980s French poets rejected metaphor and symbolism to critique media culture, reshaping poetic tradition in an era of image saturation.