• Departmental Lecture Series
• The Schlesinger Visiting Writer Series
• Other Events of Interest

• Medieval & Renaissance Colloquium
• 18th-19th-Century Colloquium
• 20/21 Century Colloquium
• Americanist Colloquium
• Theory & Media Studies Colloquium

• British Studies Colloquium
• Contemporary Poetry Colloquium
• Graduate Poets' Reading Series

Catherine Nicholson is assistant professor in the English Department at Yale, where she joined the faculty in Fall 2008. Professor Nicholson earned her Ph.D.
from the University of Pennsylvania, and has written essays for ELR and Spenser Studies. Her current research focuses on the role of geography in the emergence of self-consciously new theories and practices of vernacularity in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England.

David Currell is a 5th year graduate student in the English and Renaissance Studies program. His interests include Classical studies, Renaissance studies, Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, psychoanalysis. He is working on a dissertation titled “Epic Satire from Homer to Dryden” under the direction of David Quint.

Patricia Dailey is assistant professor in the English and Comparative Literature Department at Columbia University. She specializes in medieval literature and culture (English, Dutch, French, and Italian) and critical theory, focusing on women’s mystical texts, dream visions, Anglo-Saxon poetry and prose, medieval rhetoric and theology. Recent articles include, “Questions of Dwelling in Anglo-Saxon Poetry and Medieval Mysticism: Inhabiting Landscape, Body, Mind,” New Medieval Literatures (vol 8, 2006), “The Body and its Senses” and “Time and Memory” in the Cambridge Companion to Christian Mysticism (forthcoming). She is currently working on her manuscript Promised Bodies which focuses on temporality, embodiment, and inscription in medieval women’s visionary texts and Anglo-Saxon poetry. In addition to her work in medieval literature, she has translated works by Giorgio Agamben (The Time That Remains, Stanford 2005), Jean-François Lyotard, Antonio Negri, and Eric Alliez.

Rayna Kalas is Associate Professor of English at Cornell University. She is the author of Frame, Glass, Verse: the Technology of Poetic Invention in the English Renaissance (Cornell, 2007) and has written essays on early modern literature, logic, and poetic theory. Her current research interests include tragicomedy, intellectual labor, and the character of figurative prose in the early modern period.