Thrilled to announce the dates for my first ever storytelling tour! I am excited to perform ‘Yde and Olive’ at so many lovely venues and festivals. The remarkable thirteenth-century tale of Yde, who dresses herself as a knight and cuts her own paths to freedom – until one day she […]
Conferences
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This post comes out of a roundtable discussion held at the 2019 Gender and Medieval Studies Conference. The teacher as problem Like all white men and women, I have benefitted throughout my education from a system which has privileged me and valued my work over others. Any authority I […]
He koude songes make, and wel endite, Juste, and eek daunce, and weel purtreye and write. Description of the Squire in Geoffrey Chaucer’s General Prologue, ll. 95-6. Last month a colleague wrote to the Gender and Medieval Studies steering committee asking for guidance for conferences to appropriately handle instances of […]