Comparative Literature Program Annual Zantop Lecture
Intended Audience(s): Public Registration required. Her research interests lie in the psychological, socio-cultural, and textual aspects of medieval rhetoric in the Latin traditions, in reading practices deriving from monastic meditation and prayer, and in questions of literacy and orality in various medieval literary cultures, clerical and courtly. Her influence over the field of medieval studies can be measured by the large number of books and conferences over the past decade devoted to 'memory' and 'commemoration'. Her work on verbal and non-verbal rhetoric (memory, performance, inventio...