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Actor Peter Weller is coming to Columbus for two community events, hosted by the Humanities Institute and Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

Dr. Peter Weller is…

CMRS Film Series: Magic and Witchcraft

The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies has released its schedule for the autumn 2026 film series. This semester, CMRS is focusing on themes of magic…

Thursday, September 10, 5 - 7 pm Crane Cafe, Hagerty Hall 👑 Feast Like It’s 1499: Call for Cooks!

Hear ye, hear ye! Calling all campus foodies,…

Calling all poets!

Lord Denney’s Players, the Department of English and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies are excited to announce the 2026 Lord Denney’s Players Sonnet Contest!

Call for Papers Star Gazing: Astrology and Astronomy in the Medieval and Renaissance Imagination Popular Culture and the Deep Past 2026…

The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies is sad to announce the recent passing of Professor Emerita Anne Morganstern, CMRS affiliate faculty from the Department of the History of Art…

The CMRS anticipates funding to support 25% and 50% appointments for the Autumn 2025 and Spring 2026 terms. Duties: General administrative support for programs and events Designing, copywriting, &…

Professor Highley’s project creates map overlays to provide viewers a more comprehensive view of what Shakespearean London looked like, compared to different eras in the modern city.

Lord Denney’s Players, the Department of English and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies are excited to announce the 2025 Lord Denney’s Players Sonnet…

Though he is largely unknown to audiences today, John Fletcher was one of the most popular and successful playwrights of the English Renaissance. He took over from Shakespeare as the principal…

Warmest congratulations to our award winners from the College of Arts and Sciences!

CMRS affiliate faculty Karen Winstead (English) was awarded the “Ronald and Deborah Ratner Distinguished…

At the April 22 end-of-year celebration, the Humanities Institute's center directors announced their award winners for the academic year. Undergraduate and graduate students were present to…

Lord Denney’s Players, the Department of English and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies are excited to announce the winners of the spring 2024 Lord Denney’s Players Sonnet Contest.

The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies is hiring!

Graduate Research Associate Open Position AY 2024-2025

The CMRS anticipates funding…

Lord Denney’s Players, the Department of English and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies are excited to announce the Spring 2024 Lord Denney’s Players Sonnet…

Each semester, the Humanities Institute hosts a rotating mini-exhibition of material culture curated by our center leaders and students. This semester features "'What stuff 'tis made of': The…

Eric J. Johnson has accepted the position of Head of Thompson Special Collections and began his duties September 1. He will continue as the Lead Curator of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library…

Professor Chris Highley of the Department of English and Director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies is part of a team of scholars who have been awarded an NEH collaborative…

Lord Denney's Players' Fall 2023 production is A Midsummer Night's Dream, which is LDP's TENTH production since 2014. The show will run October 26, 27, 28, and…

The CMRS anticipates funding to support a 50% Graduate Associate appointment for the Autumn 2023 and Spring 2024 terms.

In addition to providing some general administrative support for…

Calling all poets!

Lord Denney’s Players, the Department of English and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies are excited to announce the Lord Denney’s Players Sonnet Contest…

Thanks to the generosity of donors to the Nicholas G. Howe Memorial Fund, CMRS is offering funding for graduate students working on any aspect of the Middle Ages or Renaissance. First preference…

Application deadline: Friday, April 1, 2022

Lord Denney’s Players, the Department of English, and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies are excited to announce the…

Kristina Sessa, a professor in the Department of History, was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant, which recognizes and supports humanities initiatives,…

The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies would like to congratulate Professor Emeritus Richard Firth Green on being elected a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America.

Please consider applying to the forthcoming National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers on "Printing and the Book During the Reformation: 1450-1650."…

On Wednesday, 8 December 2021, the Universität Würzburg, Germany, conferred upon Charles M. Atkinson (professor emeritus, musicology) the degree…

The Ohio State University Board of Trustees has unanimously approved the awarding of the Joseph Sullivant Medal to Geoffrey Parker, Distinguished University Professor and Andreas Dorpalen…

CMRS affiliate and advisory committee member Naomi Fukumori, associate professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, has been appointed director of the Institute for…

**Please note: Due to ongoing travel restrictions surrounding the pandemic, the NEH summer seminar will be postponed to 2022.**

The Center for Medieval and Renaissance…

It is with great sadness that we report the death of Distinguished University Professor Emeritus John N. King on June 13, 2020. During his over twenty years at Ohio State, John was a strong…

Ohio State is launching the Together As Buckeyes emergency grants program. Using both university funds and support from the federal CARES Act, this program will assist students who are having…

The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies will hold its annual awards ceremony virtually through Zoom this year. The event is scheduled for Friday, April 24th from 4-5pm. You may early…

Graduate Administrative Associate Open Positions AY 2020-2021

The CMRS will have one open 25% GAA position and another 50% GAA position for the 2020-2021 academic year (Autumn 2020 —…

Hearty congratulations to Professor Emeritus and former CMRS Director Richard Firth Green, who has been awarded the Haskins Medal of the Medieval Academy of America for his book Elf Queens and…

The Medieval Latin Reading Group meets Tuesdays, 2:30-3:30, in Hagerty 455.

No preparation or prior experience is required, but if you'd like to receive a copy of the readings in advance,…

Reading: Wednesday, February 5, 4:00 p.m., Thompson Library room 165

Please RSVP to Lemming.5@osu.edu by Jan. 31 if you plan to attend.

This event is free and light refreshments will…

Joshua Jay is coming on October 11th to the US Bank Conference Theater: more details here. Check him out on James Corden!

CMRS Major Sheridon Ward is making headlines for her research on early modern London:

http://curartsandhumanities.org/2019/08/19/london-metropolitan-archive-project/

Congratulations,…

Graduate Administrative Associate

Open Position—AY 2019-2020

Center for…

Congratulations to our Spring 2019 Award Winners!
CMRS Essay Awards

Barbara A. Hanawalt Graduate Essay Award: Clint Morrison, English, "Peripheral Vision:…

Information for the annual competition can be found on the Lord Denney's Players Sonnet Contest page.

Lord Denney’s Players, the Department of English, and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance…

Lord Denney's Players are holding auditions for their fifth production, the 1597 text of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, during the second week of the spring term. Audition dates and times…

Chris Woodyard (BA, medieval and renaissance studies, 1976) has made a living out of her fascination with the dead. Her love of history led her to Ohio State and eventually to a degree in medieval…

The Ohio State University Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies is pleased to announce that the online video archive of our lectures has been updated. The 2016-17 and 2017-18 series are now…

David Neal Miller z"l (1946-2018)

We honor the life of David Neal Miller. He grew up in Crown Heights within earshot of Ebbets Field. His New York roots were everything to him. ''I'm a…

William Shakespeare’s Sir John Falstaff and the Merry Wives of Windsor will be running at the Columbus Performing Arts Center (549 Franklin Ave, Columbus) from April 4th-7th, performances…

Lord Denney’s Players, the Department of English, and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies are excited to announce the Lord Denney’s Players Sonnet Contest! Submissions of individual…

On Sephora.com, you can find the eau de parfum, Book, for $105—an exclusive fragrance designed by Commodity to meet the needs of those fat-pocketed readers who just don’t have time for real books…

Thanks to the generosity of donors to the Nicholas G. Howe Memorial Fund, the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies will once again offer competitive funding for graduate students working on…

The exhibit “Here I Stand: Life and Work of the German Reformer Martin Luther,” celebrates the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. The majority of the…

Former director and Professor Emeritus of English Richard Firth Green has given an interview about his new book Elf Queens and Holy Friars (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016) on the…

"Publish or Perish" has been featured on the Arts and Sciences Event page.

The exhibit highlights the role of printing and publishing during the Protestant Reformation. Curator Eric J…

The CMRS invites applications for one, possibly two, open GAA positions for the 2017-2018 academic year (Autumn 2017-Summer 2018).

Duties

In addition to providing general…

Five Arts and Humanities faculty members in the College of Arts and Sciences, including Interim Associate Director Karl Whittington, have received 2016 Ronald and Deborah Ratner…

Professor John F. “Joe” Guilmartin Jr., Lieutenant Colonel, United States Air Force (Ret.), a prominent member of the History Department at The Ohio State University for nearly three decades, passed…

It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of our colleague and friend Charles Edward Gribble, Professor Emeritus of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures, on June 3, 2016…

The Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) is a competition in which doctoral students attempt to effectively explain their research to a non-specialist audience in only three minutes and using only one…

The Paul W. Brown Excellence in Teaching Award was established through the generosity of Susan E. Brown (BA, History, 1968) in memory of her father, Paul W. Brown (BA, English, 1937). Arts and…

The Honors Faculty Service Award recognizes excellence in honors advising, honors instruction, honors committee work, and other honors initiatives and responsibilities which have enhanced the…

*The application process is now closed**

Leslie Lockett received a residency fellowship at Notre Dame’s…

In 1973, Joann McNamara and Suzanne Fonay Wemple wrote “The Power of Women through the Family” which established the paradigm for understanding elite women’s access to power in the early medieval…

Our congratulations to CMRS affiliate and English graduate student, Jonathan Holmes, who is a recipient of the university-wide Presidential Fellowship in the Spring 2015 competition. The…

Our congratulations to CMRS affiliate and History graduate student, Ayse Baltacioglu-Brammer, who is a recipient of the university-wide Presidential Fellowship in the Spring 2015 competition. The…

The Medieval and Renaissance Graduate Association at OSU would like to invite abstracts from any area of medieval and early modern studies for their annual conference, to be held on

Congratulations to Charles Atkinson (OSU), the 2015 winner of The Medieval Academy of America's Haskins Medal!

The Haskins Medal is awarded annually by the Medieval Academy of America for a…

Congratulations to Leslie Lockett (OSU), the 2015 winner of The Medieval Academy of America's John Nicholas Brown Prize!

The John Nicholas Brown Prize, established by The Medieval Academy of…

Lisa Voigt, associate professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright Scholar Grant. Voigt will be affiliated with the Universidade Nova de Lisboa…

Chris Highley, professor of English, has been awarded a prestigious Long-Term Folger Shakespeare Library Fellowship for the 2015-16 academic year to support his book project, “Blackfriars:…

The CMRS would like to recognize and congratulate Jonathan Holmes (English) and Victoria Terry, née Muñoz (English) for being accepted into the year-long dissertation fellowship at the Folger…

"Flaumpens, Chewitts and Bakemetes: Pastry as a Sculptural Medium in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe" Ivan Day, Food Historian, Museums and Country House Consultant

The Center for Medieval…

Friday, February 28, 2014 - 9:00am - 5:00pm
Ohio Union, Barbie Tootle Room Co-sponsored by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the School of Music, The Lawrence and…

On Tuesday, January 14th, at 7:30pm in Hagerty 455B the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies will be hosting the first in our Spring Film series featuring Game of Thrones. This…

Nominations for the 2013-2014 Barbara A. Hanawalt Award for Outstanding Graduate Essay and the Stanley J. Kahrl Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Essay will be due by

Consuelo Dutschke, Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at Columbia University, will be giving a talk entitled "Cataloging Medieval Manuscripts: Why Do We Do It This Way?" on Monday,…

The English Graduate Organization (EGO) Steering Committee would like to invite all CMRS members and affiliates to the Autumn 2013 EGO Colloquium. The EGO Colloquium features ongoing research by…

Timothy Tomasik, Associate Professor of French, Valparaiso University

COMITATUS: A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES, published annually under the auspices of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, invites the…

Newberry Library Renaissance Graduate Programs Thursday, January 23, 2014 to Saturday, January 25, 2014 CFP deadline: October 15, 2013

The Newberry Library's Center for Renaissance Studies’ annual…

"Getting it Wrong"

Fri, 09/20/2013 - 2:00pm - 4:00pm, 311 Denney Hall

This talk is concerned with a number of historically vexing Shakespearean cruxes and with the way criticism…

Ger 8600: Medieval German, Seminar in Linguistics/Applied Linguistics

Spring 2014,…

The Department of Anthropology and the University of Pisa have established the Field School in Medieval Archaeology and Bioarchaeology at Badia Pozzeveri (Lucca, Italy). Students will be trained…

Professor of History Emeritus John Rule passed away on Saturday, 12 January at 2:05 pm. Prof. Rule requested cremation with no calling hours, viewing, or service of any kind. His remains will be…