Lombard Gradual, Italy, mid 15th century Medievalists at Cornell

This section provides information on the people in the Program of Medieval Studies at Cornell, including faculty, staff, graduate students, and alumni/ae. Dissertation abstracts from previous years are available under the graduate students heading.


Graduate Student Life at Cornell

Medieval Studies at Cornell is an intensely alive program. Not all medievalists are in the Medieval Studies Program; we have a large number of students who are de facto medievalists based in other departments, such as Classics, English, German Studies, History, and Romance Studies. Most of the faculty are not only colleagues, but also friends. There is a great deal of intellectual exchange, informal reading groups, co-teaching, lunches, discussion of one another's work, supervision of student teaching, lectures, and more.

Listed below are a number of annual and semesterly events in which graduate medievalists at Cornell often participate.

Vagantes Graduate Student Conference

Vagantes is an annual, travelling conference for graduate students studying any aspect of the Middle Ages. The conference was conceived with several goals in mind, which include fostering of a sense of community among medievalists in the beginning stages of their careers, providing exposure to an interdisciplinary forum, and showcasing the resources of the host institutions, all at minimal cost to graduate students.

The conference was held at Cornell in its third year, from March 11-14, 2004. For more information, click on the link to the left or visit www.vagantes.org.

Quodlibet

Quodlibet, the undergraduate society for Medieval Studies (in which many graduates participate), organizes fall and spring guest lectures by non-Cornell medievalists. Quodlibet has a mailing list of over 100 students, professors, and staff in departments all over campus; an even broader membership of undergraduate and graduate students in a wide range of fields who attend our events; and a steering committee of a handful of students. Visit the Calendar for information on recent and upcoming Quodlibet lectures.

Kalamazoo

Each year a group of faculty accompany almost all our students to the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan. Most attending faculty and many students give papers.

Medieval Readings

Each December medievalists from across departments and programs congregate for an afternoon of food, drink, and the recitation of poetry and prose in languages current at different times and in many places throughout the medieval world. The programs for Medieval Readings from 2000 onwards, including some with pictures of Cornell medievalists, are now available on our site.

Colloquium

For the last several years, our students, on their own initiative, have organized a student colloquium in Medieval Studies, which is held in the spring semester.

Medieval Seminars

During the semester, the Medieval Studies Program runs a monthly series of Medieval Seminars on Thursday afternoons at 4:30 PM. We use this forum to help students entering the job market by providing them with an opportunity to speak before a learned, friendly audience.

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