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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!
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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.
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Calling all poets!
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…
Calling all poets!
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.
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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…
