Professor of English Heather Hill-Vasquez presented, “A Lesson of Response to U.S. Family Separation Policy: ‘Re-membering’ a Late Medieval Play of the Slaughter of the Innocents,” at the Modern Language Association’s International Symposium: in Lisbon, Portugal. Hill-Vasquez also presented her essay, “A Compliant Bride Must Always Also Be an Unruly Woman: the Clerk’s Tale and Richard II’s Reconciliation with London,” at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University.

This October, she will be at the Medieval Association of the Midwest Conference at the University of Northern Colorado where she will share her essay, “Of Cocks, Hens, and Uppity Females: Representing the Great Rising in the Vox Clamantis and the Nun’s Priest’s Tale.” She has received a publishing contract from Western Michigan University’s Medieval Institute Publications and their Premodern Transgressive Literatures series for her book A Medieval Paradigm for Deconstructing Today’s Nasty Women: Shriek, Spin, Bleed. In addition, her poem, “Ahi and Vanilla,” was published in Poetry Quarterly this spring.