Medieval & Early Modern Studies

The Medieval & Early Modern Studies at the University of Maryland (MEMUM) is group of interdisciplinary graduate faculty and graduate students from Departments of Art History, Communication, English, History, Languages, and Theatre who have come together to foster the thickest and most expansive collaborative exploration in the medieval and early modern periods. This formal structure for such collaboration will provide graduate students with a better, broader education and will foster interdisciplinary thinking, a greater diversity and originality of approach, and collegiality. As dissertation projects become increasingly multi-disciplinary in scope, students’ preparation will be better served by the interconnected network of disciplines the members of MEMUM will facilitate.

Throughout the 2011-2012 academic year, MEMUM will sponsor a series of faculty-student lunchtime talks.  See the events page for more information.

The spring semester will finish with a conference with the theme of "Geographies of Desire".