Publishing in Medieval Studies

Lunch will be provided. PLEASE RSVP.

This lunch talk will focus on book publishing across Medieval Studies from the editor of the ICMA | Viewpoints book series at the Pennsylvania State University Press and of The Middle Ages book series at the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Betancourt’s visit will continue with a lecture hosted by the Department of Art & Archaeology, Like the Dawn of Creation: Byzantine Fragments in the Queer Imagination, on October 2 at 4:30pm in 010 East Pyne.

Roland Betancourt is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art. He also holds the distinction of Chancellor’s Professor at the University of California, Irvine and was a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow. He is an expert on the art and culture of the Byzantine Empire, and his work also looks at the uses of the medieval past in the modern world. His book, Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages (Princeton, 2020), won the Jerome E. Singerman Prize from the Medieval Academy of America and was a finalist for the Award of Excellence in the Study of Religion: Historical Studies by the American Academy of Religion. His forthcoming book, Disneyland and the Rise of Automation, will be out with Princeton University Press in early 2026

This seminar is part of our Fall 2025 Medieval Studies Seminar Series. Additional talks in this series will be held on October 22 with Eric Goldberg (Massachusetts Institute of Technology),  November 6 with Ophelia Hostetter (Rutgers University-Camden) and December 4 with Antony Eastmond (the Courtauld).