Ithaca College

Today, Monday, October 24th, at 5:30 p.m. in Business 103, Joyce Coleman, Department of English, University of Oklahoma, will give a talk titled "'Withinne a Paved Parlour':  Criseyde and Domestic Reading in a City under Siege."  The phrase quoted in her title comes from the scene in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde (II.82) in which Pandarus encounters Criseyde and two other ladies listening to the story of the siege of Thebes being read aloud.

Professor Coleman is the Rudolph C. Bambas Professor of Medieval English Literature and Culture (appointed in 2005), and since 2013 she has also been the Director of the University of Oklahoma Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.  

Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Michael Twomey at twomey@ithaca.edu or (607) 274-3564. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.