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The Department is pleased to welcome from the University of Pennsylvania to take part in its fortnightly seminar series for staff focussing on literary research projects. This week's seminar is being hosted jointly with the Medieval Seminar Series.

Rita Copeland is one of the most renowned and influential medievalists of her generation. Her work covers literary theory from ancient to modern, the history of rhetoric, the reception of classical tradition in medieval and early modern Europe, and representations of the intellectual in pre-modern Europe. Her first seminal work, Rhetoric, Hermeneutics and Translation in the Middle Ages (Cambridge 1991/1995), remains obligatory reading for medieval scholars in these fields. More recent books include Pedagogy, Intellectuals and Dissent in the later Middle Ages (2001), Medieval Grammar and Rhetoric: Language Arts and Literary Theory AD 300-1475 (co-authored, 2009), The Cambridge Companion to Allegory (co-ed., 2010), together with the co-foundation of the important journal New Medieval Literatures. Rita is currently working on The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature, Vol. 1 The Middle Ages.

Wine and nibbles will be available beforehand for attendees.