Fall 2012
2012-13 Speakers Series
The Columbia University Medieval Guild is pleased to announce the inaugural event of the 2012-13 Speakers Series. We hope to see many of you there.
“Ordinary Beauty in the Middle Ages”
Mary Carruthers
Remarque Professor of Literature, emerita
New York University
Wednesday, September 26th 2012
Butler Library 523
7.30 pm
Lecture co-sponsored by the Medieval Guild and the Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Spring 2012
Tuesday, 24 January, 1pm: Prof. Susan Boynton, Columbia University (co-sponsored with Quadrivium, Columbia’s undergraduate medieval studies society), discussion of her new book, Silent Music: Medieval Song and the Construction of History in Eighteenth-Century Spain. Location: Philosophy Hall 602.
Wednesday, 15 February, 4pm: Prof. David Wallace, University of Pennsylvania, “Conceptualizing Literary History: Where Europe Begins and Ends, 1348-1418.” The talk will take place in Butler 523, with a reception to follow.
Friday, 2 March, 10am: workshop, “Rethinking Community in the Middle Ages,” with Prof. Catherine Sanok, University of Michigan, and Prof. Patricia Dailey, Columbia University (co-sponsored with Anglo Saxon Studies Colloquium). Location: Philosophy Hall 602.
Tuesday, 3 April, 6pm: A panel discussion on The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation, a bilingual anthology of 123 Old English poems published in 2011, and readings of selected poems from the anthology. The panel will feature the volume’s editors, Profs. Greg Delanty (artist-in-residence, Saint Michael’s College) and Michael Matto (Adelphi University, formerly taught at Columbia), and two of its contributors, Prof. Tom Sleigh (poet and Director of Creative Writing MFA, Hunter College) and Irish poet Gerry Murphy.
Butler Library 522/523, with a reception to follow. This is the final event of in the 2011-12 speakers’ series and is co-sponsored with Poet’s House.
The Speakers:
Greg Delanty’s most recent book is The Word Exchange, Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation. Other books include The Ship of Birth (Carcanet Press, Louisiana State University Press 2006), The Blind Stitch (Carcanet Press, LSU Press, 2003) and The Hellbox (Oxford University Press 1998). His Collected Poems 1986-2006 is out from the Oxford Poet’s series of Carcanet Press. The National Library of Ireland has acquired his papers up to the end of 2012. He has received many awards, most recently a Guggenheim for poetry. He is the Immediate Past President of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics and Writers. He is a US citizen and an Irish Citizen and teaches at Saint Michael’s College, Vermont, where he has lived since 1986.
Michael Matto is Associate Professor of English at Adelphi University, where he teaches medieval literature, the History of the English Language, and writing. He is co-editor (with Greg Delanty) of The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation (Norton, 2010) and co-editor (with Haruko Momma) of the Blackwell Companion the History of the English Language (Wiley-Balckwell, 2008). He has also been guest editor for three issues ofStudies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching. His research is on cognition in Old English poetry and culture.
Tom Sleigh is the author of eight highly acclaimed books of poetry, including Army Cats (Graywolf Press, 2011), and Space Walk (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007), which won the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Award. He has also published a translation of Euripides’ Herakles (Oxford University Press, 2007), and a book of essays, Interview With a Ghost (Graywolf Press, 2006). He has received the Shelley Prize from the Poetry Society of America, a Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin, the John Updike Award and an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim grant, and two National Endowment for the Arts grants, among many others. He teaches in the MFA Program at Hunter College and lives in Brooklyn.