The Screening features a high-quality concert video that includes close-ups of the performers, subtitles, and spoken renditions of moderns interpretations of the texts.

The Roundtable conversation will be moderated by Andrew Albin, PhD, co-editor of Whose Middle Ages – a book of essays that rebuts popular misconceptions & deliberate misrepresentations about the Middle Ages to counter far right ideological assaults on human rights.

ROUNDTABLE PARTICIPANTS:

Boyda Johnstone, PhD, who received her PhD from Fordham University and is now an Assistant Professor of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College, part of the CUNY (City University of New York) system. Her articles and ongoing scholarly work address late-medieval dream interpretation and feminist dream visions, and she is on the Advisory Board of the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship. She is also a dedicated labor activist and organizer within her union at CUNY.

Ellis Light, PhD candidate, who is a scholar, editor, and organizer researching medieval literature and the history of queer and trans spirituality; their dissertation focuses on bodily fluids & forms of community in medieval devotional literature. Ellis also works on grassroots, trans-affirming mutual aid with the Trans Closet Hudson Valley.

Natalie Reynoso, PhD, whose research on ancient martyrdom narratives uses critical theory—particularly queer and gender theory—to reconfigure the relationship between two related conceptual constellations:  body, identity, and self hood on the one hand, and sex, gender, and sexuality on the other. She is also interested in Afro-pessimist thought, the temporal dimension of incarceration, and the history of animals in antiquity. 

Patrick DeBrosse, PhD candidate, whose work involves the construction of medieval narrative history and the adoption & critique of the language of empire by twelfth-century troubadours in the Limousin protesting Angevin royal policies.