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The 6th Middle Ages in the Modern World conference (MAMO). Lincoln College Oxford, 22-24 June 2027. themamo.org

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MAMO Conference 2027@themamoconf· Jul 1

❗It's here! The Call For Papers for MAMO 2027❗ - Seeking a broad range of proposals for papers and events, focusing on aspects of medievalism in the modern world. - Featuring some very special events and keynotes... - You can find a plaintext version of this CFP at shorturl.at/0FJjY.

CFP for MAMO 2027. You can find a plaintext version of this CFP at <https://shorturl.at/0FJjY>

MAMO Conference 2027@themamoconf· Jun 24

Today's the day - MAMO 2025 kicks off at King's College London, Strand Campus! Look out for our student helpers or conference organisers: Josh Davies, Rebecca Menmuir, and Sarah Salih. Ask us anything; or our inbox will be monitored: <themamoconference@gmail.com>.

MAMO Conference 2027@themamoconf· Jun 23

Taking Margery to Lynn! Find out more about @mirabelledomine.bsky.social and @lukeewalker.bsky.social's film project on Thursday's 'Modern Mysticism' panel at MAMO.

Hanseatic festival in King’s Lynn. Image: Mirabelle Dominé-Walley.

MAMO Conference 2027@themamoconf· Jun 23

Continuing with our MAMO thread of reflecting on practices of medievalism, we look forward to our Thursday panel on 'Pedagogy and Practice'! With Kirsty Bolton (@lusignanmermaid.bsky.social, Oxford), Karen A. Winstead (Ohio), and Brendan O'Connell (Trinity Dublin). #MAMOmonth

Session 3C: Pedagogy and Practice [Room K020]
Chair: Laura Varnam
Kirsty Bolton (University of Oxford): Medieval and Modern Experiences of Migration
Karen A. Winstead (The Ohio State University): Medievalism as Pedagogy: Creating “Wicked Students”
Brendan O’Connell (Trinity College Dublin): Teaching Medieval Complaint through Sara Ahmed

MAMO Conference 2027@themamoconf· Jun 23

'New Theoretical Approaches' at MAMO will explore just that - new ways of approaching medievalism! A panel with Usha Vishnuvajjala (SUNY-New Paltz), Sophia Philomena Wolf (@philouw.bsky.social, Freiburg), and Caroline Banerjee (City London). #MAMOmonth

Session 2D: New Theoretical Approaches [Room K020]
Chair: Karen Winstead
Usha Vishnuvajjala (SUNY-New Paltz): Medieval(ist) Mothers and Daughters: One Avenue for Reconciling Medieval Studies and Medievalism Studies
Sophia Philomena Wolf (University of Freiburg): Experiments with Blank Spaces: Condensation and Expansion in Contemporary Retellings
Caroline Banerjee (City, University of London): Liveable Cities and Liveable Bodies: Stepping into Power in Caroline Bergvall’s Alisoun Sings

MAMO Conference 2027@themamoconf· Jun 22

Next up for #MAMOmonth is our Thursday panel, 'Visibility, Connectivity, Creativity: Honouring Medieval Women’s Stories in the Modern World'! With Laura Varnam (@drlauravarnam.bsky.social, Oxford), Sheila Passey (Wolverhampton), and Daisy Black (@daisyeblack.bsky.social, Wolverhampton).

Session 2C: Visibility, Connectivity, Creativity: Honouring Medieval Women’s Stories in the Modern World [Room K019]
Chair: Fran Allfrey
Laura Varnam (University College, Oxford): Wealhtheow on the Whale-Road and Beyond: Poems for Heorot’s Queen and Reflections on Writing Her Story / Herstory
Sheila Passey (University of Wolverhampton): Reclaiming Aethelflaed: Feminist Storytelling and the Challenges of Adapting Early Medieval Herstories into Modern Historical Fiction
Daisy Black (University of Wolverhampton): A Many-Woman Show: Yde and Olive, Women’s Work and Storytelling as Medievalist Feminist Praxis

MAMO Conference 2027@themamoconf· Jun 22

MAMO's second 'Christianity and Medievalism' panel is on Thursday 26th, 3-4:30pm, and ranges across Ireland, Japan, England and France! With Emmet Taylor (@emmettaylor.bsky.social, Cork), Allie Richardson (Tennessee Knoxville), and Lucie Herbreteau! #MAMOmonth

Session 3B: Christianity and Medievalism (II) [Room K018]
Chair: Michelle Sauer
Emmet Taylor (University College Cork): Mythconceptions: ‘Paganized’ Retellings of Lebor Gabála Érenn
Allie Richardson (University of Tennessee Knoxville): Exploring Japanese Demonology: The Red Book of Appin in Anime and Manga
Lucie Herbreteau: Who will kill the dragon? Rewriting the legend of Saint George and the dragon for children in the 20th and 21st century

MAMO Conference 2027@themamoconf· Jun 22

Two panels at MAMO will focus on Christianity and Medievalism! First on Thursday 26th, 1-2:30pm: Helen Young (@heyouonline.bsky.social, Deakin) and Sarah Schnödewind (Hamburg). 👇 #MAMOmonth

Session 2B: Christianity and Medievalism (I) [Room K018]
Chair: Eleanor Janega
Helen Young (Deakin University): “The New Middle Ages” and Twenty-First Century Christian Nationalism
Sarah Schnödewind (University of Hamburg): Between Popular Culture and New Age. The Modern Reinterpretation of the Cathars in “The Cathar Tarot: The Secret Wisdom of the Cathars”

MAMO Conference 2027@themamoconf· Jun 21

The second of our MAMO Landscapes and Medievalisms panel features papers by Fran Allfrey (York), Kathryn Maude (@krmaude.bsky.social‬, The National Archives) and Emily Robinson (@emilyrobinson.bsky.social, Sussex), and Bathsheba Lockwood Brook (UCL). 👇 #MAMOmonth

Session 3A: Landscapes and Medievalisms (II) [Room K016]
Chair: Eduardo De Oliveira Correia
Fran Allfrey (University of York): Medieval stories in a neolithic landscape
Kathryn Maude (The National Archives) and Emily Robinson (University of Sussex): Curating the Medieval: Telling the ‘Lost’ History of a Sunken Island
Bathsheba Lockwood Brook (University College London): Moving Encounters: Towards an Affective Practice of Walking in Refugee Tales

MAMO Conference 2027@themamoconf· Jun 21

There will be two panels at MAMO dedicated to Landscapes and Medievalisms! Our first panel (Thursday, 1-2:30pm) includes papers by Emma Nuding (@eknuding.bsky.social, York), Maia Blumberg (@maiablumberg.bsky.social, Queen Mary), and Linsey Hunter (@linseyhunter.bsky.social, UHI). #MAMOmonth

Session 2A: Landscapes and Medievalisms (I) [Room K016]
Chair: Simon Trafford
Emma Nuding (University of York): More Foreign than ‘Fellow’: Finding the Early Medieval with Charles Kingsley and St Guthlac of Crowland
Maia Blumberg (Queen Mary University of London): Local Medievalisms and ‘Nostalgia for the Ordinary’: The Case of Malmesbury
Linsey Hunter (UHI): Why here? Why now? An analysis of Identity and Place in retellings of the legend of Finella, Lady of the Mearns, c. 1900-c.1960

MAMO Conference 2027@themamoconf· Jun 20

MAMO will feature a panel on ‘Medievalism and Scholarship Today’, part of a broader thread throughout the conference about the history and current state of medievalism studies. With Camille Campos Fragoso (EHESS, Paris) and Peter Jones (Plymouth). Thursday 26th, 10:30-12:00. #MAMOmonth

Session 1D: Medievalism and Scholarship Today [Room K020]
Chair: Kathryn Maude
Camille Campos Fragoso (EHESS, Paris): Searching for Oneself in the Medieval Past: Trans Erasures, Cis Gestalts, and the Limits of Historiography
Peter Jones (University of Plymouth): MORRÍSLAND Glöggt er gests augað (William Morris & Iceland)

MAMO Conference 2027@themamoconf· Jun 20

Next up for #MAMOmonth is our Thursday panel on 'Modern Mysticism', with a strong focus on films! With papers by Michelle M. Sauer (North Dakota), Mirabelle Dominé-Walley and Luke Walker, and Eduardo De Oliveira Correia (KCL). 👇

Session 1C: Modern Mysticism [Room K019]
Chair: Sarah Salih
Michelle M. Sauer (University of North Dakota): Modern Adaptations of the Medieval Anchoritic Lifestyle
Mirabelle Dominé-Walley and Luke Walker: Into the Mystic
Eduardo De Oliveira Correia (King’s College London): ‘To Give Rise to a True Image’: Andrei Tarkovsky’s Andrei Rublev and Julian of Norwich’s Revelations of Divine Love

MAMO Conference 2027@themamoconf· Jun 19

Next up for #MAMOmonth: 'Crusade Imagery in the 21st Century: Symbol, Image, and Action'. With papers from Eleanor Janega (@goingmedieval.bsky.social), Matthew Gabriele (@profgabriele.com‬, Virginia Tech), Mike Horswell (@mjhorswell.bsky.social), and a response by Brett Whalen (UNC-Chapel Hill).

Session 1B: Crusade Imagery in the 21st Century: Symbol, Image, and Action [Room K018]
Chair: Daisy Black
Eleanor Janega: Nostalgia, Easy Answers and the Battle for the Public Imagination
Matthew Gabriele (Virginia Tech): Crusade Studies Haunted by the So-Called Clash of Civilizations
Mike Horswell: Back to the Crusades: Reflecting on Crusader Medievalism after 9/11 in Comics
Brett Whalen (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill): Response

MAMO Conference 2027@themamoconf· Jun 19

Thursday 26th at MAMO kicks off with MedievalWiki – A Wikipedia citation-a-thon for MAMO 2025! Led by Fran Allfrey (York), Lucy Hinnie (@yclepit.bsky.social, Leeds and Wikimedia), Lucy Moore (York), and Richard Nevell (@richardnevell.bsky.social, Exeter and Wikimedia). #MAMOmonth

Session 1A: Workshop [Room K016]
MedievalWiki – A Wikipedia citation-a-thon for MAMO 2025
Organised by Fran Allfrey (University of York), Lucy Hinnie (University of Leeds and Wikimedia UK), Lucy Moore (University of York), and Richard Nevell (University of Exeter and Wikimedia UK).
With billions of page-views every month, and its content scraped to power artificial intelligence, digital assistants, and search engines, there’s a case to be made that Wikipedia is one of the most effective ways to get the Middle Ages out into the modern world.
However, Wikipedia tends to reproduce biases and exclusions that exist in the real world. Work by women, BIPOC, and queer scholars is under-represented on medieval historical topic pages, which often rely on a limited number of cited sources.
In this hands-on workshop, we will introduce participants to key concepts and practical tools for Wikipedia editing. Participants will be split into folks who have edited before and first-time editors. Experienced editors will be invited to select existing Wikipedia pages to audit and improve, and to gather research to cite. First time editors will learn the basics of editing before moving to live editing to improve articles together.

MAMO Conference 2027@themamoconf· Jun 18

Rounding off our Chaucerian thread at MAMO is the hybrid session 'Chaucer: Scholars and Theories'! With Yasmin Ibrahim (KCL) and Wan-Chuan Kao (@wanchuankao.bsky.social, Washington and Lee University). #MAMOmonth

Session 3D: Chaucer: Scholars and Theories [Room K020 – hybrid session]
Chair: Mary Boyle
Yasmin Ibrahim (King’s College London): Eleanor Hammond (1866-1933): A Scribe of Chaucer
Wan-Chuan Kao (Washington and Lee University): Anaracialism and Its Situatedness

MAMO Conference 2027@themamoconf· Jun 17

At MAMO, Rachel Moss (@menysnoweballes.bsky.social) will run the workshop 'Radicalisation: Medievalism and the Extreme Right'. What role does medievalism play in radicalising people into extreme right spaces? What role can we play in the vital work of combatting rising extremism? #MAMOmonth Details👇

Session 3A: Workshop [Room K016]
Radicalisation: Medievalism and the Extreme Right
Dr Rachel Moss, medievalist and Co-Investigator of the University of Northampton’s Extreme Right Research Network (ERRN), will lead an interactive workshop that asks what role medievalism plays in radicalising people into extreme right spaces, and what role we – as educators and experts in the Middle Ages – can play in the vital work of combatting rising extremism. Rachel will introduce the work ERRN has been doing with practitioners in the charitable and law enforcement sectors to identify and address radicalisation, particularly of young people and online spaces, and we will then use the session to collectively brainstorm strategies and resources for developing our activist potential within our fields of interest.

MAMO Conference 2027@themamoconf· Jun 16

Our Chaucer focus at MAMO continues with the hybrid panel 'Chaucer: At Home and Abroad (II)'! With papers from Mary Boyle (@maryrboyle.bsky.social, Cambridge), Hugo Lacoue-Labarthe (Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle), and Candace Barrington (@candacebarrington.bsky.social, Connecticut). 👇 #MAMOmonth

Session 2D: Chaucer: At Home and Abroad (II) [Room K020 – hybrid session]
Chair: Helen Brookman
Mary Boyle (St Edmund’s College, Cambridge): Dirty Great Literature: The Canterbury Tales in German
Hugo Lacoue-Labarthe (Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle): Impersonating Chaucer: Pier Paolo Pasolini and J.R.R. Tolkien, aspiring medieval poets in the 20th century?
Candace Barrington (Central Connecticut State University): “This false traytour Deeth”: Chaucer in Iran

MAMO Conference 2027@themamoconf· Jun 16

Medievalism meets Epic in our next MAMO panel for #MAMOmonth! 'Medievalism and the Epic', with Daniel Sawyer (@danielsawyer.bsky.social‬, Oxford), Julio San Román Cazorla (Madrid), and Josephine Spelsberg (KCL). Wednesday 25th June, 1-2:30pm.

Session 2C: Medievalism and the Epic [Room K019]
Chair: Ben Parsons
Daniel Sawyer (University of Oxford): Early Forms and Modes for Unusual Readerships: A Case Study
Julio San Román Cazorla (Complutense University of Madrid): ‘You’re a Girl Dragon!’: The Evolution of Epic Identity in Beowulf from the Anglo-Saxon Poem to Maria Dahvana Headley’s Feminist Adaptation
Josephine Spelsberg (King’s College London): Sexist or feminist? A comparison between the fifteenth-century epic Salman und Morolf and the twenty-first-century motion picture Jennifer’s Body

MAMO Conference 2027@themamoconf· Jun 15

Our final panel in the Middle Ages in Modern Games thread at MAMO is Wednesday's 'Education and Exploration'! Feat. Josip Mihaljević (Old Church Slavonic Institute), James Worth (@worthjrw.bsky.social, UCL), and Thom Gobbit (@booksoflaw.bsky.social, Graz). 👇 #MAMOmonth

Session 2B: The Middle Ages in Modern Games (IV): Education and Exploration [Room K018]
Josip Mihaljević (Old Church Slavonic Institute): Web Games for Learning and Promoting the Glagolitic Script
James Worth (University College London): Creating the Age of Apocalypse: Game Mechanics as Pedagogical Tools for imparting a Historiographical Periodisation of West Roman Collapse in Total War: Attila
Thom Gobbitt (Karl Franzens Universitat, Graz): Rules Lawyers’ Time: Early Medieval Laws, Plot, and Gamification

MAMO Conference 2027@themamoconf· Jun 15

MAMO features several panels on uses and misuses of the medieval, including Wednesday’s ‘Institutional Use and Misuse’. With Gwen Seabourne (@gwenseabourne.bsky.social, Bristol), Eleanor McDonald-Dick (UCL), Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand (Appalachian State), & Michael Makin (Michigan). #MAMOmonth

Session 2A: Institutional Use and Misuse [Room K016]
Chair: Andrew Elliott
Gwen Seabourne (University of Bristol): Legal Medievalisms: appeals to the ‘medieval’ in modern common law sources
Eleanor McDonald-Dick (University College London): Anti-Normanism by Omission: Discussions of the Origins of Kyivan Rus’ in English-language news and popular history media following the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand (Appalachian State University): Working off the Past? Monuments and the Medieval Imaginary in Austria and the American South
Michael Makin (University of Michigan) First as Farce, then as Tragedy? The Death, Rebirth, and Subsequent Weaponization of East-Slavic Medievalism in Russia and Ukraine

MAMO Conference 2027@themamoconf· Jun 13

Wednesday 25th June at MAMO is our Chaucer Day, as the conference this year incorporates the London Chaucer Conference! First up: 'Chaucer at Home and Abroad (I)', with Helen Brookman (@helenbrookman.bsky.social, KCL), Nancy Warren (Texas A&M), and Ben Parsons (Leicester). 👇 #MAMOmonth #Chaucer

Session 1D: Chaucer: At Home and Abroad (I) [Room K020]
Chair: Daniel Sawyer
Helen Brookman (King’s College London): At home with the medieval: reading Chaucer with Mary Eliza Haweis and the National Home Reading Union
Nancy Warren (Texas A&M University): Chaucer’s Wife of Bath in Colonial Virginia: Aphra Behn’s The Widow Ranter
Ben Parsons (University of Leicester): Unmilitary and Perverted: Chaucer in Zululand in the 1870s and 80s

MAMO Conference 2027@themamoconf· Jun 13

Time for Norse at MAMO! 'Death, Burial, and Strange Survivals: The Norse-Gothic Response and Literary Receptions in Britain'. Sharon Choe (@sharonchoe.bsky.social, Copenhagen), Maggie Pavleszek (@maggiepavleszek.bsky.social, York) and Hannah Armstrong @hjparmstrong.bsky.social‬, York). 👇 #MAMOmonth

Session 1C: Death, Burial, and Strange Survivals: The Norse-Gothic Response and Literary Receptions in Britain [Room K019]
Chair: Josephine Spelsberg
Sharon Choe (University of Copenhagen): Loðbrók, Lodbrach, Lodbrog: Revisiting Norse Death in Eighteenth-century Britain
Maggie Pavleszek (University of York): “Lost in the wind and the night”: Ship Funerals and Imperial Anxiety in H. Rider Haggard’s Eric Brighteyes (1891)
Hannah Armstrong (University of York): Strange Survivals: Sabine Baring-Gould and the Norse-Gothic

MAMO Conference 2027@themamoconf· Jun 12

Wednesday 25th continues our Middle Ages in Modern Games thread: the focus in this hybrid session is 'Periodisation Beyond the West'. With Muhammad Abdul Karim, Kristina Wittkamp (Passau), and Hirohito Tsuji @tsujihirohito.bsky.social, UEA)! 👇 #MAMOmonth

Session 1B: The Middle Ages in Modern Games (III): Periodisation Beyond the West [Room K018 – hybrid session]
Chair: James Worth
Muhammad Abdul Karim: No Middle Ages in Timor: Understanding the concept of Middle Ages in Temukung: Cultivation in Drylands
Kristina Wittkamp (University of Passau): Medievalisms in Russian-language computer games – depictions of Rus’ between fantasy and historical simulation
Hirohito Tsuji (University of East Anglia): Japanese Stereotypes in Medievalist Games: The Onimusha series

MAMO Conference 2027@themamoconf· Jun 12

Kicking off our Wednesday roundup for #MAMOmonth is our morning panel on medievalism and ‘Online Use and Misuse’. With Kenna L. Olsen (Mount Royal), Andrew B. R. Elliott (Independent), and Rachel Moss (@menysnoweballes.bsky.social‬, Northampton). 👇

Session 1A: Online Use and Misuse [Room K016]
Chair: Gwen Seabourne
Kenna L. Olsen (Mount Royal University): Beyond Medieval Mimicry to Chaucer’s Wicker House: Evoking Medieval English Experientialiality via Immersive Performances of Medieval English Texts
Andrew B.R. Elliott (Independent Researcher): Amusing, Awful, and Artificial: AI & Medievalism
Rachel Moss (University of Northampton): Medieval chivalry, social media and the emotional drivers of radicalisation into extreme right online cultures

MAMO Conference 2027@themamoconf· Jun 11

Next up in our #MAMOmonth is our Tuesday panel on Spanish and Portuguese Medievalisms! Feat. Pedro Martins (NOVA Lisbon), Ana Maria Machado (Coimbra), and Claudia Fernández Estrada (@claudiafdzestrada.bsky.social). Details below 👇 and in our conference programme.

Session 3B: Spanish and Portuguese Medievalisms [Room K018]
Pedro Martins (NOVA University Lisbon): “The Cradle of the Nation”? The Medievalist Construction of Guimarães in Modern Portugal (1887-1940)
Ana Maria Machado (University of Coimbra): Portuguese Studies in Medievalism. The Humildade gloriosa, by Aquilino Ribeiro
Claudia Fernández Estrada: Contemporary Arthurianism: Negotiating the Global and the Local through Exclusion and Identity.

MAMO Conference 2027@themamoconf· Jun 10

And you can find the full keynote details at the website, including a bio for Prof. Caroline Bergvall. #MAMOmonth themamo.org/keynote-spea...

Caroline Bergvall is Global Professorial Fellow, Queen Mary University, London, and a Henry Moore Artist Fellow 2025. Award-winning writer and interdisciplinary artist who works across languages, media, and artforms. Her work includes books, performances, installations, soundworks, drawings. She often works collaboratively, and explores materials from both contemporary and historical contexts. Her research frequently involves transhistoric approaches to languages. The recipient of many international commissions and fellowships, noted works include the book trilogy Meddle English (2011), Drift (2015), awarded a Cholmondeley Award, and Alisoun Sings (2019). With Dr. Joshua Davies co-edited the collection of essays, Caroline Bergvall’s Medievalist Poetics: Migratory Texts and Transhistorical Methods (2023, Arc Humanities Press). Currrent performances include Nattsong, and the conversational Conference of the Birds. Of French-Norwegian heritage, based in London.

MAMO Conference 2027@themamoconf· Jun 10

Tuesday 24th at MAMO will feature the second of our 'Screen and Stage' panels, with a focus on 'Mid-Century Theatre'! With Beatrice Wilford, Victoria Turner (St Andrews) and Sara Torres (@svtorres.bsky.social, New Mexico) 👇 #MAMOmonth

Session 3A: Screen and Stage (II): Mid-Century Theatre
Beatrice Wilford: Desire Against the Will in I Know Where I’m Going!: Medievalism in Powell and Pressburger
Victoria Turner (University of St Andrews): Performing Aucassin and Nicolette: amateur theatre and local medievalism in twentieth-century England
Sara Torres (University of New Mexico): Magic to Do: Musicals and Medievalism on the Mid-Century Stage

MAMO Conference 2027@themamoconf· Jun 9

We have been hard at work updating the #MAMO programme, and are especially pleased to present plenary information for our 'Contested Medievalisms' lecture (Tuesday 24 June) and 'Public Chaucer' roundtable (Wednesday 25 June)! #MAMOmonth

17:00-18:00 Plenary: Angela Weisl (Seton Hall University) and Robert Squillace (New York University) [Safra Room]
Contested Spaces: Medievalisms in a Global Context

Contested Spaces: Medievalisms in a Global Context, considers how Global Medievalisms engage with space—real, cartographic, imagined—through a variety of forms of contestation, whether literal (battles, wars, the displacement of peoples, etc.) or figurative. In so doing, we wish to continue a conversation about what “Global Medieval” might mean and how we might usefully understand these terms and their value. Through a series of exempla ranging from the Tsui Hark’s Detective Dee films and the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus in Mumbai, to Historical Medieval Combat leagues and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, we hope to offer a taxonomy of spatial contestation: temporarily medievalized spces, structurally medievalized spaces, fictions set in historical medieval spaces, and fictions set in invented medievalized spaces in order to map the global contestations of the spaces of medievalism itself.

Wednesday 25 June
16:45-18:00 Plenary Roundtable: Public Chaucer [Safra Room]
Chair: Rebecca Menmuir
• Mary Flannery (University of Bern)
• Euan Roger (The National Archives)
• Caroline Bergvall (Queen Mary University of London)

Public Chaucer brings together experts on Chaucer who work in various ways on Chaucer outside of the academy, whether by engaging with Chaucer creatively, working with the media, or bringing Chaucer to new audiences. Their work often sits at the intersection between academic scholarship, public engagement, and creative-critical response. How does scholarly work and public-facing work interact? What are the benefits and dangers of public-facing Chaucerianism? And what is the future of ‘public Chaucer’?

Mary Flannery is a Swiss National Science Foundation Eccellenza Professorial Fellow in English at the University of Bern, where she is leading a project on ‘Canonicity, Obscenity, and the Making of Modern Chaucer, 1700–2020’ (COMMode). Her most recent book is a biography of Geoffrey Chaucer for the general public: Geoffrey Chaucer: Unveiling the Merry Bard, published with Reaktion in 2024. She also writes short humour about the Middle Ages and other topics for publications such as McSweeney’s, The Belladonna Comedy, Defenestration, and Points In Case.

Dr Euan Roger is a Principal Medieval Specialist at The National Archives (UK), specialising in the records of late medieval and early Tudor English government, the central law courts, and the secular clergy. He has published on a wide variety of subjects, including a 2022 special edition of Chaucer Review, which introduced newly discovered life-records for the poet Geoffrey Chaucer and made headlines around the world. Other research includes medieval labour disputes, Tudor quarantine measures, Windsor Castle, and the history of treason in the UK, his work featured in publications including TIME Magazine, The Guardian, and The Times.

MAMO Conference 2027@themamoconf· Jun 9

Also on Tuesday 24th in our 1-2:30pm session is the hybrid panel, ‘Paston Letters, Lives and Legacies’. Join us for all things Paston with Diane Watt (@dianewatt.bsky.social, Surrey), Holly Maples (Essex), and Karen Smyth (@karensmyth.bsky.social, UEA). 👇 #MAMOmonth

Session 2C: Paston Letters, Lives and Legacies [Room K020 – hybrid session]
Diane Watt (University of Surrey): God’s Own Gentlewoman: Writing a Biography of Margaret Paston
Holly Maples (University of Essex and College of William and Mary): Margaret Paston’s Women of the Roses
Karen Smyth (University of East Anglia): Walking in Paston Footprints

MAMO Conference 2027@themamoconf· Jun 9

Our second Middle Ages in Modern Games (MAMG) panel is on the topic of 'Cycles and Breaks'! With Graham Culbertson (North Carolina), Maria Vrij (Birmingham), Robert Houghton (@robehoughton.bsky.social‬, Winchester), and Vinicius Marino Carvalho (@vinicius-marino.bsky.social‬, Campinas). 👇 #MAMOmonth