On Tuesday 2nd June at 6 pm at the Parlour, First Court, Magdalene College, Dr Megan Leitch (Cardiff University) will speak on ‘Chaucer, Hypertextuality, and the Memory of Middle English Popular Romance.

Dr Megan Leitch is Lecturer in English Literature at Cardiff University. She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2012. She is the author of Romancing Treason: The Literature of the Wars of the Roses (Oxford University Press, 2015), and has published essays in journals including Medium Aevum, The Chaucer Review, and Arthurian Literature. Her research interests include romance, Arthurian Literature, Chaucer, and the fifteenth century; she is currently working on a monograph on Sleep and its Spaces in the Pre-modern Imagination.

As usual, we will be having dinner with the speaker at a local restaurant after the talk. Please let us know if you would like to join via email to mms@magd.cam.ac.uk.