“The Medieval Philomela and Fabricated Communication”

Guest Speaker: Hannah Weaver (Columbia University)

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.

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.

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