On Tuesday, March 10, the English Department is kicking off the First Annual Doug Burger Lecture in Medieval and Early Modern Literature to honor Doug Burger, a much-loved professor. Reception at 4 pm in the British Studies Room (Norlin M549), followed by a talk at 5 pm by David Aers of Duke University. Aers’s talk will explore one of the grand narratives of modernity —­ the Reformation — tracing the concerns about the church that William Langland raises in his late-fourteenth-century poem Piers Plowman forward to the work of John Milton.