News, Publications, and Presentations
Dr. Megan Murton delivered the inaugural lecture in the School of Philosophy's lecture series commemorating the anniversaries of Aquinas, Bonaventure, and Boethius. Her talk was entitled, "Consolation, Hope, and Prayer: Reading Boethius in Late-Medieval England."
Dr. Megan Murton delivered the annual Drumwright Lecture at the Honors College of Baylor University. Her talk was entitled: "Beyond Consolation: The Virtue of Hope in Boethius and Chaucer."
Dr. Beth Newman Ooi presented a paper titled “Object-Text Connections in Inscriptions on Elite Christian Objects from Early Medieval England” at the Annual Meeting of the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS) in Denver, 16 November 24.
Dr. Lilla Kopár (co-editor) and Dr. Beth Newman Ooi (associate editor), along with two colleagues at Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (Germany), founded a new e-publication for discussion and dissemination of new discoveries and work in early medieval runology and related fields. The inaugural volume of runes:et:al is now available online.
https://edoc.ku.de/id/eprint/33410/1/runes%20et%20al_Vol1_complete_with%20DOIs_12-Jun-24.pdf
Events
Please join English Society for our Fall Book Discussions - all are welcome!
Monday, September 25th
Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
Monday, October 23rd
Everything Sad Is Untrue, Daniel Nayeri
Monday, November 20th
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, David Foster Wallace
All meetings will take place from 8-9:30 PM, PRYZ 327.
If you have questions about English Society, please email Judith Prevost (President) or Dr. Taryn Okuma (Faculty Advisor).