Hannah Weaver (English, Columbia), “The Medieval Philomela and Fabricated Communication”

Please join us in Royce 306 on Tuesday, February 17 at 4:00pm for Hannah Weaver’s talk, “The Medieval Philomela and Fabricated Communication.”

On the basis of manuscript evidence and a textual tradition that includes Ovid, Chrétien de Troyes, and Chaucer, this paper traces the uneven capacity of cloth to communicate.

This event is sponsored by the UCLA Department of English and CMRS Center for Early Global Studies.

Hannah Weaver is an assistant professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She is the author of articles on Latin vernacularity, genre, manuscript revisions, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, as well as the monograph Experimental Histories: Interpolation and the Medieval British Past (Cornell 2024). She is currently working on a new book about textiles and the medieval literary archive.