Talking Chaucerian Obscenity and Adaptation with Kim Zarins
[The following is a guest post by Dr AE (Az) Brown, our former postdoctoral researcher at COMMode.] Way back in 2017, when COMMode was but a twinkle in Mary’s eye, she and a colleague...
[The following is a guest post by Dr AE (Az) Brown, our former postdoctoral researcher at COMMode.] Way back in 2017, when COMMode was but a twinkle in Mary’s eye, she and a colleague...
This past February I was privileged to spend about three weeks in Oxford, hosted by Daniel Sawyer and Merton College, pursuing COMMode research. Both the trip and this delayed update suffered a little under...
In March of 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic brought a wave of unexpected change with it. Many of us suddenly found ourselves homeschooling children and baking Dutch Babies in between anxious bouts of fearing for...
One thing I (Amy) often do with teaching texts is record myself reading them aloud, for students to use as a reading aide. The one text I never do this with is the Canterbury...
Guest Post by Lucy Fleming, University of Oxford Content warning: This post contains discussion of sexual violence. When I tell people that I work on children’s Chaucer, I tend to get one of...
In her book A Theory of Adaptation, Linda Hutcheon writes that “adaptation is an act of appropriating or salvaging, and this is always a double process of interpreting and then creating something new” (20)....