Helen Ann Mins Robbins Lecture Series

Helen Ann Mins Robbins endowed a series of annual lectures on medieval topics.

Speakers are chosen by Richard Kaeuper of the History Department, Thomas Hahn and Russell Peck
of the English Department, and Alan Lupack, Director of the Robbins Library.

Helen Ann Robbins Lecture Series Speakers:

1993/94	Kathleen Ashley (Southern Maine) "Sponsorship, Reflexivity, and Resistance: A Cultural Reading of the York Cycle" and Pamela Sheingorn (Baruch College) "The Bodily Embrace, or Embracing the Body: Gesture in Medieval Drama"
1994/95	Susan Crane (Rutgers) "Knights in Disguise: Identity and Incognito in Fourteenth-Century Chivalry"
1995/96	Stephen Knight (University of Wales, Cardiff) "Which Way to the Forest?: Directions in Robin Hood Studies"
1996/97	Peggy Knapp (Carnegie Mellon University) "Words and their Work: Providence in Early Modern England"
1997/98	R. B. Dobson (Cambridge University) "Robin Hood: The Genesis of a Popular Hero"
1998/99	Jill Mann (University of Notre Dame) "The Canterbury Tales and the Myth of the Ellesmere Editor"
1999/00	Caroline Walker Bynum (Columbia University) "Miracles and Marvels: How 'Other' was the Middle Ages?"
2000/01	P. J. C. Field (University of Wales, Bangor) "Malory and his Audience"
2001/02	Joan M. Ferrante (Columbia University) "Women in the Shadows of the Divine Comedy and the Spotlight of Medieval History" (A revised version of this lecture is printed in Reading Medieval Culture: Essays in Honor of Robert W. Hanning. Ed. Robert M. Stein and Sandra Pierson Prior. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005.)
2002/03	Richard Firth Green (Ohio State University) "The Medieval Witch"
2003/04	Anna-Marie Ferguson "Dancing with a Giant: Illustrating Malory's Morte d'Arthur"
2004/05	Michael Murrin (University of Chicago) "A Paradise for Killers: Marco Polo and the Garden of the Assassins"
2005/06	Geraldine Heng (University of Texas at Austin) "The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages"
2006/07	Theresa Coletti (University of Maryland) "Mary Magdalene: Medieval Saint / Pop-Culture Icon"
2007/08	Bonnie Wheeler (Southern Methodist University) "Absorbing Rumors: Malory's Sir Lancelot"
2008/09	Norris Lacy (Pennsylvania State University) "Parallax and Paradox in Arthurian Romance"
2009/10	Helen Phillips (Cardiff University, Wales) "Robin Hood Tales and the Church, 13700-1630"
2010/11	Corinne Saunders (Durham University) "The Imagination of Their Hearts": Mind, Body and Affect in Medieval English Romance"
2011/12	Dorsey Armstrong (Purdue University) "Malory's Questing Beast and the Geography of the Arthurian World"