Professor Sonja Drimmer is presenting a paper, "Beyond Dullness: Varieties of Lydgatean Experience," at the Colby College symposium Varieties of Textual Experience: a Symposium on the Material Text Across the Disciplines on April 1, 2016. This one-day symposium will bring together scholars from across the humanities to discuss the role of the material text in their research and scholarly practice. The bibliographic scholar D.F. McKenzie famously asserted that the form of a text inevitably shapes its meaning; from contemporary internet cultures to medieval manuscripts, how do we account for this in the specific archives, media, and disciplinary contexts in which we conduct our work?

Professor Drimmer has also recently won a grant from the Neil Ker Memorial Fund at the British Academy, which promotes the study of Western medieval manuscripts, in particular those of British interest. Professor Drimmer is using it to fund her research in London as she finishes up her book Image and Allusion: Illuminators and the Making of Middle English Literature, 1403-1476.