2025-09-01 - We are delighted that Kalani Craig has joined us as a faculty affiliate in Medieval Studies! Professor Craig's research and teaching specialties converge at the intersection of digital methodologies and medieval history. She uses digital methods like text mining, spatial...
2025-05-14 - Xin Wen (文欣) is an historian of medieval China and Inner Asia (PhD Harvard University) and an associate professor in the Departments of East Asian Studies and History at Princeton University. His first book, the prizewinning The King’s Road: Diplomacy and the...
2024-12-17 - The newest issue of Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies *Volume 100, Number 1* (January 2025), marks the Medieval Academy of America's Centennial with a spotlight on "Medieval Studies and Its Institutions." The lead article is a collaboration among three scholars representing the...
2024-10-15 - This fall, we are thrilled to have added thirteen new faculty to the Program in Medieval Studies: scholars from...
2024-04-12 - The Program in Medieval Studies is delighted to congratulate Prof. Hermann von Hesse, whose recent fellowship award will support the research and writing on his book project: Love of Stone Houses: Urban Merchants, Ancestral Spaces and Sacred Objects on Africa’s Gold Coast, 1700-1890.
2024-04-10 - Prof. Padraic Rohan -- Transforming Empire: The Genoese from the Crusades to Columbus
2024-04-05 - Medieval Black London: The Before Lives of the Archive of Transatlantic Slavery
2024-03-13 - Prof. Gian Piero Persiani: Readers, Recipients, and Fans of Poetry in Tenth-Century, Courtly Japan
2023-10-31 - On August 15, 2023, Brepols released a new book: Sources of Knowledge in Old English and Anglo-Latin Literature: Studies in Honor of Charles D. Wright. For 32 years, Professor Charlie Wright taught in the English department at the University of Illinois, serving as Associate Head of...
2023-04-21 - On April 21, 2023, Medieval Studies partnered with the Spurlock Museum for a film screening and falconry demonstration, and attendees flocked to the event! Local falconry enthusiasts joined the Medieval Studies community for a screening of the 2020 documentary film...
2023-01-19 - The Program in Medieval Studies is excited to partner with the Program in Jewish Culture & Society and the Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory to welcome Professor Geraldine Heng (University of Texas at Austin) to the University of Illinois on January 26. Professor Heng will deliver...
2022-10-26 - "The Saint and the Emir: Christian-Muslim Encounters in Early Medieval Italy" Within the incredibly diverse political, cultural, and linguistic landscape of early medieval southern Italy, Muslims lived and worked alongside Christians (both Latin and Greek) and Jews. While most of...
2022-10-04 - This summer I conducted archaeological excavations at the Carson site near Clarksdale, Mississippi. This is a mound center used and occupied by Mississippian peoples beginning around the year A.D. 1000 until the time of European contact. My research explores the connections between this...
2022-09-05 - Join us on Wednesday, September 21, for the first meeting of this year's Medieval Studies Colloquium. This talk asks the question of how, as scholars mainly of written works, we can restore to the story of Englishness the lively material interactions between words, bodies, plants, stones, metals,...
2022-04-19 - On April 8th, 2022, members and guests of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Program in Medieval Studies gathered in the Architecture Building to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the program. The event was attended by current and past students, faculty members, and other friends of the...