Timothy Graham, Director, Institute for Medieval Studies, and Regents' Professor of Arts and Sciences, University of New Mexico
Professor Graham's research focuses on early medieval English manuscripts and the ways they were studied by scholars of the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries.
He will be presenting a graduate student workshop, "A Testimonie of Antiquitie and the Early Modern Origins of Anglo-Saxon Studies," on Monday, April 4, from 10 am to 12 pm in the Special Collections Classroom, Thompson Library. To enroll in the workshop, contact jones.1849@osu.edu.
On the afternoon of April 4, Professor Graham will also be delivering a public lecture, "Shakespeare and the Medieval Book of Beasts," at 4:30pm in Denney Hall 311. Bestiaries were a genre of manuscript, popular in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, that contained colorful, typically moralizing accounts of animals and birds both real and legendary. This lecture will trace the evolution of bestiaries and survey their long literary afterlife, with a particular focus on references to bestiary legends in several of Shakespeare’s plays, including Hamlet (Laertes’ allusion to “the kind life-rend’ring pelican”), Troilus and Cressida, Henry VI, Part I, and Love’s Labours Lost. The lecture will appeal to medievalists as well as early modernists and to those with backgrounds in literature, history, and art history.