Congratulations to Sam Truman, PhD candidate in medieval art, who recently presented her paper “‘Straunge Sights’: The Representation and Reception of Samuel’s Ghost in the Early Modern Period” at the Ghosts in Britain and Ireland, 1500-1950 conference held at Mary Immaculate College in Limerick, Ireland. The paper considered how the reception of an image of the Raising of Samuel found in a manuscript of John Lydgate’s Fall of Princes (British Library, Harley MS 1766) changed in the wake of the Protestant Reformation.

Sam is also co-organizing and co-chairing two panels at the 2025 International Medieval Congress, which will be held in Leeds, England July 7-10. These panels, “The Living Dead and the Transmission of Otherworldly Knowledge in Medieval Texts and Images I & II,” will feature a paper by recent department graduate Angie Verduci!