Shamma Boyarin is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Victoria. He is also the director of the Religion, Culture and Society Program. His research and teaching interests span medieval literature (with a specific focus on Hebrew and Arabic literature), religion, and pop culture. He joined us recently to discuss what he’s been reading during the pandemic, and joins us once again to talk about Petrus Alfonsi’s Disciplina Clericalis, as well as teaching such a text in the context of the history of literature from England.