Christopher Lakey, a lecturer in the Department of Art History at Fordham University as of fall 2023, gave a lecture to the medievalist community on Thursday April 11. Dr. Lakey holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and a MA from the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. Dr. Lakey’s […]
On Mar. 2, 2024, the Center for Medieval Studies hosted its annual conference, with the theme this year being Courtly Literature: The Next Generation. This year’s conference was co-sponsored with the International Courtly Literature Society, with Dr. Susanne Hafner, Assistant Professor of German and President of the International Courtly Literature Society – North American Branch. […]
Studying in a city such as New York provides for some very interesting and out-of-the-box learning experiences for us medievalists. Mary Gets Hers, a production by the Playwrights Realm and staged at the MCC Theater Space, is a perfect example. Written by Emma Horwitz, it is an adaptation of a work by the first named […]
Matthew Carey Salyer and Anne Halloin, students in Dr. Susanne Hafner’s summer 2023 graduate class MVST 5311: Arthurian Literature, weigh in on this year’s Broadway revival of Lerner & Lowe’s beloved musical Camelot: The odds were on Aaron Sorkin’s revival of Lerner and Loewe’s classic musical, Camelot, being a long-running success. It boasted a new script, […]
