'Toward a Speculative Expansion of Pearl, Line 735,' with Arthur Bahr, MIT

Five College Medieval Studies Seminar with Arthur Bahr, Associate Professor, Department of English, MIT

Arthur Bahr blends formalist and materialist approaches in order to find literary resonance in the physical particularities of medieval manuscripts. He is the author of Chasing the Pearl-Manuscript: Speculation, Shapes, Delight (University of Chicago Press, 2024); Fragments and Assemblages: Forming Compilations of Medieval London (University of Chicago Press, 2013); and co-editor of Medieval English Manuscripts: Form, Aesthetics, and the Literary Text, a special volume of The Chaucer Review (47.4, April 2013). His essays have appeared in ELH, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Studies in Philology, and The Chaucer Review, among others.