New Mythlore Now Available

The Mythopoeic Society has just published a new issue of their journal Mythlore: A Journal of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature. Details on Mythlore 28.3-4 (Spring/Summer 2010) are as follows. The issue can be purchased from the Mythopoeic Society for $15.

Table of Contents

J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Leaf by Niggle”: An Allegory in Transformation
—Marie Nelson

Phantastical Regress: The Return of Desire and Deed in Phantastes and The Pilgrim’s Regress
—Jeffrey Bilbro

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell? Philip Pullman, C.S. Lewis, and the Fantasy Tradition
—Marek Oziewicz and Daniel Hade

C.S. Lewis’s “The Meteorite” and the Importance of Context
—Joe R. Christopher

Fairy and Elves in Tolkien and Traditional Literature
—Helios de Rosario Martínez

“Dwarves are Not Heroes”: Antisemitism and the Dwarves in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Writing
—Rebecca Brackmann

Rethinking Shylock’s Tragedy: Radford’s Critique of Anti-Semitism in The Merchant of Venice
—Frank P. Riga

Totemic Reflexes in Tolkien’s Middle-earth
—Yvette Kisor

The Voice of Saruman: Wizards and Rhetoric in The Two Towers
—Jay Ruud

The Shire Quest: The ‘Scouring of the Shire’ as the Narrative and Thematic Focus of The Lord of the Rings
—David M. Waito

Reviews

This issue we feature reviews of Where the Shadows Lie: A Jungian Interpretation of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, by Pia Skogemann; Finding Oz: How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story, by Evan I. Schwartz; Out of My Bone: The Letters of Joy Davidman, edited by Don W. King; Collected Poems, by Mervyn Peake; C.S. Lewis on the Final Frontier: Science and the Supernatural in the Space Trilogy, by Sanford Schwartz; Death and Fantasy: Essays on Philip Pullman, C.S. Lewis, George MacDonald, and R.L. Stevenson, by William Gray; Stephen R. Donaldson and the Modern Epic Vision by Christine Barkley, and The Fantastic Horizon: Essays and Reviews, by Darrell Schweitzer.

Kalamazoo Sessions 2011

The Society has just completed the paperwork for our sponsored sessions for next year's International Congress on Medieval Studies. Proposals will be accepted later this year pending approval by the conference organizing committee.


Twenty-first Century Medievalisms: Re-envisioning the Medieval in the Contemporary World (Roundtable)

Despite our temporal distance from the Middle Ages, the medieval continues to fascinate us both as scholars and consumers, and, as part of our ongoing mission to explore the representation of the medieval in post-medieval culture, the Virtual Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages (formerly the Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages) proposes a set of two roundtables on the topic of Twenty-first Century Medievalisms: Re-envisioning the Medieval in the Contemporary World. We are especially interested in investigating why medieval subjects remain relevant in the modern world and how they have been appropriated and transformed by creative artists, politicians, and special interest groups since the turn of the second millennium. Specific topics to be addressed include the following: recent representations of mythic material like the Matter of Britain (e.g. Fate/stay night [2005-], King Arthur [2004], Merlin [2008-], and Shrek the Third [2007]) and the legends of Robin Hood (e.g. Robin Hood [2006-2009] and Robin Hood [2010]) in global multimedia and their relationship with prior traditions; the BBC’s role as creator of medieval-themed entertainment, notably Robin Hood (2006-2009) and Merlin (2008-), for international audiences; the increased role of cable television (e.g. The Discovery Channel, The History Channel, History Channel International, The Travel Channel), both in the United States and abroad, as disseminator of information about the Middle Ages and/or, specifically with the Syfy (formerly Sci-Fi) Channel, medieval-themed entertainment; Crusade rhetoric in the wake of events of 11 September 2001; the popularity of J. R. R. Tolkien, his works, and Tolkienesque fantasy following the success of Peter Jackson’s film trilogy; and the impact of new media, particularly online games and other virtual entertainment, on the furtherance of medievalism.


Arthurian Villains on Film: Studies in Commemoration of the Thirtieth Anniversary of John Boorman’s Excalibur

In furtherance of our respective missions, the Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Villains of the Matter of Britain and the Virtual Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages (formerly the Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages) are proposing a set of two sessions devoted to the theme of Arthurian Villains on Film: Studies in Commemoration of the Thirtieth Anniversary of John Boorman’s Excalibur. Papers included in these sessions will explore the representations of the villains of the Matter of Britain, both traditional ones (e.g. Cerdic, Lot of Orkney, Mark of Cornwall, Mordred, Morgan le Fay, Morgause, and Vortigern) as well as those (e.g. Brack, Cynric, Mab, Mad Madame Mim, Palamides, Ruber, and, even sometimes, Merlin) unique to specific productions, as represented in films, television programming, and other visual electronic multimedia, such as electronic games and Internet videos.

The Arthurian legend has been represented in films since at least the late 1890s and in television programming since the 1950s, and the villains of these productions serve important, though often overlooked, roles as the initiators of dramatic action and as the counteragents to their respective heroes. Despite these vital narrative functions, study of the filmic villains of the Matter of Britain remains in its infancy with few studies engaged with their role in specific productions and with only a handful of overviews of their careers as investigated (in chronological order) by Elizabeth S. Sklar, Jacqueline de Weever, Maureen Fries, and Michael A. Torregrossa.

Since its introduction in the 1980s, Arthurian film and television studies has matured into a legitimate field of investigation, and the thirtieth anniversary of John Boorman’s Excalibur (1981), a key text for the study of Arthurian villains on film, marks an appropriate time to reflect upon the role that the villains play in the Arthurian story. Boorman’s Excalibur has become a seminal text for scholars of Arthurian-themed films and part of the modern canon of popular Arthuriana. Moreover, it is especially important for its presentation of the villains Morgana and Mordred and their relationship to King Arthur, as Boorman is the first filmmaker (as Torregrossa has explored) to fully depict the incest of King Arthur (here with Morgana), an act that results in the conception of Mordred, and its consequences. In addition, Boorman’s versions of both Morgan le Fay and Mordred have shaped countless later representations of these characters in popular Arthuriana throughout the globe.

MMSM: Medievalisms at Plymouth State

The following medievalism-themed papers were presented last month at the Plymouth State Medieval & Renaissance Forum at Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH, from 16-17 April 2010. The complete schedule can be accessed at http://www.plymouth.edu/medieval/2010/Schedule.html.


FRIDAY, 16 APRIL

9:30-10:50 AM
Time in Medieval and Early Modern Drama Rounds 304
Moderator: Lisa LeBlanc, Anna Maria College
PAPER 2 OF 3: Rise and Fade: Soothsaying and Sacred Time in Cymbeline, Kreg Segall, Regis College
PAPER 3 OF 3: The Treatment of Time in Two Elizabethan Plays about King John, Charles Forker, Indiana University


11:05 AM-12:25 PM
Representing Islam Rounds 204
Moderator: Whitney Howarth, Plymouth State University
PAPER 3 OF 3: Robbing the Saracen to Create the Englishman: Islam and Muslims in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves , Meriem Pagès, Keene State College


2:25-3:45 PM
Early Modern England: Literature and Politics Rounds 204
Moderator: David Beronä, Plymouth State University
PAPER 2 OF 3: Experiments in Every Kind: The Place of The History of King Richard III in the Literary Biography of Thomas More, William Marx, Michigan State University


4:00-5:20 PM
Moderns Read Medievals Rounds 203
Moderator: Meriem Pagès, Keene State College
* In Defense of Guinevere: Our Distorted Modern Reading, Brittany Wilson, Keene State College
* Time Travel to the Middle Ages in Contemporary Film, Carl Grindley, Eugenio María de Hostos Community College/CUNY
* The Medieval Muslim Hero in Film, Ann Brant, Keene State College



SATURDAY, 17 APRIL

9:00-10:20 AM

Pedagogy Roundtable: Skills, Content, and Medieval and Renaissance Literature Rounds 203
Moderator and Respondent: Ann McClellan, Plymouth State University
* Arthurian Legends in General Education, Karolyn Kinane, Plymouth State University
* “I can’t read that!” Using Manuscripts in the Chaucer Classroom, Meredith Clermont-Ferrand, Eastern Connecticut University
* “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” Early Modern Literature and General Education, Robert Kellerman, University of Maine, Augusta
* Stripping Duessa / Dressing Up Eve: Gender and Allegory in the Early Modern Classroom, Thomas Festa, SUNY New Paltz


Conversations across Time Periods Rounds 204
Moderator: Barbara Lopez-Mayhew, Plymouth State University
PAPER 1 OF 3: Medieval to Modern Colloquialisms: An Inside Look at our Language’s Origins, Alicia Tague, Keene State College


Medieval Art and Architecture Rounds 303
Moderator: Meriem Pagès, Keene State College
PAPER 2 OF 3: Structuring the Gothic Past: The Abbey Church of Saint-Denis in Nineteenth-Century Architectural Scholarship, Sarah Thompson, Rochester Institute of Technology


10:35-11:55 AM
Time and Arthuriana Rounds 203
Moderator: Flo Keyes, Castleton State College
PAPER 3 OF 3: Influences of the Late-Medieval on the American Gothic Tradition: Poe’s Perspective on the Maimed King, Forrest Helvie, The Forman School

Our Kalamazoo Sessions 2010

Here are the details on our sessions for this year's International Congress on Medieval Studies. According to panel presider Mikee Delony, the roundtable on Thursday was again well attended and offered both informative presentations and much discussion. Please join Mikee at our business meeting/reception on Saturday and share your ideas for the future of our group.


THURSDAY, 13 MAY
1:30-3:00 PM
SESSION 68: VALLEY I 105
Why Arthur? Reflections on the International Appeal of the Matter of Britain in the Post-medieval World (A Roundtable)
Sponsor: Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Villains of the Matter of Britain and the Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages
Organizer: Michael A. Torregrossa, Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Villains of the Matter of Britain/Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages
Presider: Mikee Delony, Abilene Christian Univ.

Glorious Gods: The Eschatology of Camelot
Joshua Fullman, Southern Illinois Univ.–Carbondale

Joshua Fullman is a first-year PhD student at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He currently holds an MA in English from California State University Fullerton and an MSc in Medieval Studies from the University of Edinburgh. His MSc thesis was on visions of medieval kingship and the Wars of the Roses in Malory's Morte Darthur. And he plans to write his dissertation on apocalyptic literature of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

Arthur’s Popularity: Legacy, Hybridity, and Salvation
Matthew T. Hanson, Cornell Univ.

Matthew Hanson graduated from Brown University where he concentrated in Classics and Late Antique Cultures. After stints, though not terribly short, as an Egyptologist and then a Germanic philologist, he has turned his attention to Middle English romance in the guise of a close-reading literary critic. He is currently a PhD candidate at Cornell University in the Medieval Studies program. His dissertation examines the three alliterative treatments of the Alexander Romance through a post-colonial lens.

Crafting the Witch: The Transformation of Morgan le Fay
Heidi J. Breuer, California State Univ.–San Marcos

Heidi got her Ph.D. from the University of Arizona and now teaches at Cal State University, San Marcos. She published her first monograph, titled CRAFTING THE WITCH: GENDERING MAGIC IN MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN ENGLAND, with Routledge in April 2009. Her book offers an answer to the question, "How did the witch become wicked?"--especially in the Arthurian literary tradition. You'll hear more about her book today in her talk for this round table. Heidi's research interests include medieval and contemporary Arthurian literature, representations of magic and the occult, feminist theory, gender studies, and LGBT studies, and she has recently published a dialogue on the pedagogy of canonical medieval texts in the undergraduate survey course.

Perception and Joy: Political Commentary in Dryden’s King Arthur and Milton’s Paradise Lost
Kara Larson Maloney, Binghamton Univ.

Kara Larson Maloney is a first year English PhD student at Binghamton University in upstate New York. Her academic interests include Arthurian studies, the concept of nation and identity in the Medieval world, and Viking sagas. She plans to write her dissertation on the concept of national identity within King Arthur's court. Current articles in progress include studies of the role of Statius in Dante's Commedia, and Terence's influence on gender within Hrotsvitha's Pelagius. She received her MA in English, specializing in the medieval literature of the British Isles, from Cal State University Long Beach. When not immersed in dead languages and thousand-year-old texts, she pursues her goal of reaching all seven continents. This summer, she hopes to combine both interests by exploring some of the Viking saga sites of Iceland.

Arthur and Merlin go to France: Arthurian Fantasy in French [WITHDRAWN]
Anne Berthelot, Univ. of Connecticut



SATURDAY, 15 MAY
12:00 PM
VALLEY II GARNEAU LOUNGE
Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages and the Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Villains of the Matter of Britain
Business Meeting and Reception

MMSM: Kalamazoo 2010 Sessions 4 of 4 (Sunday)

The following represent the medieval-popular-culture and medievalism-themed sessions for this year's International Congress on Medieval Studies currently in progress (from Wednesday, 12 May, through Sunday, 16 May) at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The complete program and corrigenda can be accessed at http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/sessions.html.



SUNDAY, 16 MAY

8:30-10:00 AM

SESSION 533: VALLEY II 202
Tolkien Un-bodied
Sponsor: Tolkien at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Robin Anne Reid, Texas A&M Univ.–Commerce
Presider: Benjamin S. W. Barootes, McGill Univ.
To Be or Not to Be? The Enigma of the Balrog in Tolkien’s Mythology
Bradford Lee Eden, Univ. of California–Santa Barbara
Tolkien’s Ramblin’ Men
Peter Grybauskas, Univ. of Maryland
“It is enough to make the dead rise out of their graves!”: Tolkien, Oliphant, and Gendered Conventions of the Supernatural
Sharin Schroeder, Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities


SESSION 544: FETZER 2040
The Ballad: Medieval and Modern
Sponsor: Kommission für Volksdichtung
Organizer: Larry Syndergaard, Western Michigan Univ.
Presider: Richard Firth Green, Ohio State Univ.
Ballad Performance and the Question of Improvisation: The Repertoire of Anna
Gordon Brown
James Moreira, Univ. of Maine–Machias
Bevis of Hampton and the Hispanic Ballad of Celinos
Samuel G. Armistead, Univ. of California–Davis
The First Portuguese Religious Ballads from the Modern Oral Tradition: An Unknown Collection
Sandra Boto, Instituto de Estudos de Literatura Tradicional, Univ. Nova de Lisboa


SESSION 550: SCHNEIDER 1225
History of the English Language in a Literature Curriculum: Friends with Benefits or Unholy Bedfellows?
Sponsor: Society for the Study of the History of the English Language (SSHEL)
Organizer: Matthew Giancarlo, Univ. of Kentucky
Presider: Matthew Giancarlo
HEL Yes! The Centrality of History of the English Language Classes to Any English Curriculum
Meg Worley, Pomona College
Reconcilable Differences? HEL and the Literature Curriculum on the Rocks
Jennifer L. Sisk, Univ. of Vermont
A People’s History of the English Language
Matthew Sergi, Univ. of California–Berkeley
Reinventing HEL for Twenty-First-Century Literary Studies
Tara Williams, Oregon State Univ.


SESSION 559: SCHNEIDER 1360
Time for Romance? Teaching Medieval Romance in a Modern World
Sponsor: Medieval Romance Society
Organizer: Rebecca A. Wilcox, West Texas A&M Univ.
Presider: Amy Burge, Univ. of York
Malory’s Launcelot and Gwenyver in the Twenty-First-Century Classroom
Molly Martin, McNeese State Univ.
“Was King Arthur Real?”: Teaching Romance with History
Rebecca A. Wilcox
Burning Books Now and Then: Don Quixote’s Library, Dangerous Books of the Spanish Middle Ages, and Reading Lolita in Tehran
Barbara D. Miller, Buffalo State College


SESSION 563: BERNHARD 204
Introducing Medieval Studies to Non-majors
Sponsor: Medieval Association of the Midwest (MAM)
Organizer: Gael Grossman, Jamestown Community College
Presider: Gael Grossman
Telling the Learned from the Lewd, or, What Do Non-majors Know about the Middle Ages and How Do They Know It?
Dwayne C. Coleman, Univ. of Central Arkansas
Margery and “the Juice”: Teaching The Book of Margery Kempe Using OJ Simpson’s If I Did It
Gina Brandolino, Univ. of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Capturing Curiosity: Attracting Non-majors with a 3D Immersive Medieval Environment
Dauna M. Kiser, Univ. of Iowa
“And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche”: A Transformational Pedagogy for Introducing Non-majors to Medieval Studies
Richard F. Johnson, William Rainey Harper College, and Keith Jensen, William Rainey Harper College



10:30 AM-12:00 PM

SESSION 570: VALLEY II 202
Teaching Tolkien (A Roundtable)
Sponsor: Tolkien at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Robin Anne Reid, Texas A&M Univ.–Commerce
Presider: Judy Ann Ford, Texas A&M Univ.–Commerce
A roundtable discussion with Victoria Wodzak, Viterbo Univ.; Michael Foster, Independent Scholar; Jon Porter, Butler Univ.; Kristine Larsen, Central Connecticut State Univ.; Corey Olsen, Washington College; and Benjamin S. W. Barootes, McGill Univ.


SESSION 574: VALLEY II LE FEVRE LOUNGE
Spenser and the World around Him
Presider: Elizabeth Bradburn, Western Michigan Univ.
Pierced Tongues: Spenser’s Satiric Trial in The Faerie Queene V, ix
Erin Ashworth-King, Angelo State Univ.
Spenser’s Textual Reproduction of Elizabeth in The Faerie Queene
Annelise Duerden, Brigham Young Univ.
No Trees Felled in The Faerie Queene: A Look at the Ghost of Environmental Thinking Past
Brady J. Spangenberg, Purdue Univ.
Winner of the Thomas H. Olgren Award for Best Graduate Student Essay in Medieval and Renaissance Studies


SESSION 586: SCHNEIDER 1140
Susanna on Trial: Medieval and Early Modern Versions of the Susanna and the Elders Story
Organizer: J. Terry Wade, Independent Scholar, and Jamie Taylor, Bryn Mawr College
Presider: Jamie Taylor
Susanna in the Tabloids: Early Modern Ballad and Broadside Versions of the Story
J. Terry Wade
The Model of Susanna and the Elders in Spanish Medieval Texts
Bobby Nixon, Univ. of California–Davis
Virtuous and Godly Susanna: Who Was to Blame?
Meg Twycross, Lancaster Univ.
The Susannah Play in France
Robert L. A. Clark, Kansas State Univ.


SESSION 588: SCHNEIDER 1220
Ciphers, Codes, and Mysterious Symbols II: Objects of Power
Sponsor: Societas Magica
Organizer: Amelia Carr, Allegheny College
Presider: Richard Kieckhefer, Northwestern Univ.
PAPER 3 OF 3: The Hooked X, a Grail Code, and a New Translation of the Kensington Runestone
James L. Frankki, Sam Houston State Univ.


SESSION 589: SCHNEIDER 1235
Standardization and De-standardization in the History of the English Language
Sponsor: Society for the Study of the History of the English Language (SSHEL)
Organizer: Matthew Giancarlo, Univ. of Kentucky
Presider: Emily Runde, Univ. of California–Los Angeles
“Non Vulgaris Eloquentiae Vestigia”: Standard Old English according to Francis Junius (1590–1677)
Kees Dekker, Rijksuniv. Groningen
The Relationship between Spoken and Written Forms of (T)HEM in the Sixteenth Century: Evidence from the Paston Letters
Elise E. Morse-Gagne, Tougaloo College
Old English and New Spelling: William Lambarde’s Annotations in Sir Thomas
Smith’s De recta et emendata linguae anglicae scriptione
Rebecca J. Brackmann, Lincoln Memorial Univ.


SESSION 593: SCHNEIDER 1340
Thinking Small: Scale and Meaning in Medieval Art II
Sponsor: Walters Art Museum
Organizer: Benjamin C. Tilghman, Independent Scholar
Presider: Benjamin C. Tilghman
PAPER 3 OF 3: Kissing the Fire: The Medieval Influence on Nicholas Hilliard and His Man among Flames
Lori Witzel, St. Edward’s Univ.


SESSION 594: SCHNEIDER 1350
Multiple Medieval Vocalities: Changing Approaches to Medieval Archaeology and
Artifacts II
Sponsor: Dept. of Archaeology, Durham Univ.
Organizer: Sarah Semple, Durham Univ.
Presider: Christopher Gerrard, Durham Univ.
“ . . . Untouched by human hand, embowered and shut in by self grown trees”: Changing Approaches to Temples and Religious Sites in Early Medieval Europe
Sarah Semple
In the Beginning Was the Word: Changing Approaches to the Study of Christian Origins in Britain
David Petts, Durham Univ.
Material Beliefs: Antiquarian Narratives of Anglo-Saxon Christianization
Sira Dooley Fairchild, Durham Univ.
Tashjian Travel Award Winner


SESSION 595: SCHNEIDER 1360
Temporal Touching: Medieval Romance and Popular Culture
Sponsor: Medieval Romance Society
Organizer: Amy Burge, Univ. of York, and Nicola McDonald, Univ. of York
Presider: Rebecca A. Wilcox, West Texas A&M Univ.
“I couldn’t help but wonder . . .”: Sex and the City a Medieval Romance?
Julie Nelson Couch, Texas Tech Univ.
Medieval Chick-Lit? Mills and Boon Romance
Amy Burge
The Promise of Romance
Thomas Prendergast, College of Wooster
Rohmer’s Revisionisms: Theory and Implication
Lynn Tarte Ramey, Vanderbilt Univ.
To Bevois or Not to Be
Gela Jenssen, Southampton Solent Univ.
A Dark Black Knight’s Tale
Myra J. Seaman, College of Charleston


SESSION 596: BERNHARD 105
Clothing and Textiles in the Arthurian Tradition
Sponsor: International Arthurian Society, North American Branch (IAS/NAB)
Organizer: Jennifer Boulanger, Southern Methodist Univ.
Presider: Jennifer Boulanger
PAPER 1 OF 3: From the Bliaut to the Leather Bikini, or How (and Why) to Undress a Legend
Monica L. Wright, Univ. of Louisiana–Lafayette


SESSION 599: BERNHARD 204
Text, Image, and Manuscript Culture in Christine de Pizan
Sponsor: Christine de Pizan Society
Organizer: Benjamin M. Semple, Gonzaga Univ.
Presider: Benjamin M. Semple
PAPER 3 OF 3: Dinner in the City: Christine de Pizan as Seen by Marsha Pippenger
Julia A. Nephew, Independent Scholar

MMSM: Kalamazoo 2010 Sessions 3 of 4 (Saturday)

The following represent the medieval-popular-culture and medievalism-themed sessions for this year's International Congress on Medieval Studies currently in progress (from Wednesday, 12 May, through Sunday, 16 May) at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The complete program and corrigenda can be accessed at http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/sessions.html.

Society sponsored events are colored red in the list below.


SATURDAY, 15 MAY

10:00-11:30 AM

SESSION 386: VALLEY I 100
Medieval Literature and Celtic Studies: Parallels, Exchanges, Points of Contact
Sponsor: Charrette Project 2
Organizer: Matthieu Boyd, Harvard Univ.
Presider: Matthieu Boyd
PAPER 5 OF 5: Medieval Literature and Modern Celtic Culture: The High Road and the Low Road
William Calin, Univ. of Florida


SESSION 391: VALLEY I SHILLING LOUNGE
Reading Aloud Old French and Middle French (A Workshop)
Organizer: Shira Schwam-Baird, Univ. of North Florida
Presider: Shira Schwam-Baird
A workshop with Keith Busby, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison; Nathaniel E. Dubin, St. John’s Univ.; and Kirsten A. Fudeman, Univ. of Pittsburgh.


SESSION 392: FETZER 1005
Women and Chivalry in Richard Donner’s Ladyhawke (A Roundtable)
Sponsor: Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship (SMFS)
Organizer: Ilan Mitchell-Smith, California State Univ.–Long Beach
Presider: Ilan Mitchell-Smith
A roundtable discussion with Amy S. Kaufman, Wesleyan College; Megan Moore, Univ. of Illinois–Chicago; Lynn Tarte Ramey, Vanderbilt Univ.; and Lynn Shutters, Idaho State Univ./Univ. of Michigan–Ann Arbor.


SESSION 394: FETZER 1035
The Hobbit (A Roundtable)
Sponsor: Tolkien at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Robin Anne Reid, Texas A&M Univ.
Presider: Douglas A. Anderson, Independent Scholar
A roundtable discussion with Jennifer Culver, Univ. of Texas–Dallas; Deborah Sabo, Univ. of Arkansas–Fayetteville; John D. Rateliff, Independent Scholar; Corey Olsen, Washington College; Janice M. Bogstad, Univ. of Wisconsin–Eau Claire; and Merlin DeTardo, Independent Scholar.


SESSION 396: FETZER 1055
Derek Brewer: The Mentor, the Scholar, the Poet, the Man (A Roundtable)
Organizer: D. Thomas Hanks, Jr., Baylor Univ.
Presider: D. Thomas Hanks, Jr.
The Derek Brewer Fellowship, Univ. of Cambridge
Mickey Sweeney, Dominican Univ.
Derek Brewer as Poet
Elaine M. Treharne, Florida State Univ.
Derek Brewer as Mentor, Teacher, Friend
Toshiyuki Takamiya, Keio Univ.
Professor Brewer’s Non-Chaucerian Scholarship and Criticism
Derek A. Pearsall, Harvard Univ.
Professor Brewer’s Chaucer
A. J. Minnis, Yale Univ.


SESSION 397: FETZER 1060
The Medieval Reception of Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Sponsor: Societas Ovidiana
Organizer: Susanne Hafner, Fordham Univ.
Presider: Lucy C. Barnhouse, Fordham Univ.
PAPER 2 OF 4: The Metamorphosis of a Teaching Tradition: Ovid’s Metamorphoses from the Twelfth Century to Humanism
David T. Gura, Ohio State Univ.


SESSION 398: FETZER 2016
Technology, New Media, and Medieval Art History: A Graduate Student Perspective
Sponsor: International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) Student Committee
Organizer: Lynley Ann Herbert, Univ. of Delaware, and Julia A. Finch, Univ. of Pittsburgh
Presider: Jennifer Lyons, Emory Univ.
Eddie Izzard as Guest Speaker: YouTube’s Place in the Classroom
Nadia Pawelchak, Florida State Univ.
There’s an App for That! Using Citation Management Software to Organize Research and Facilitate Publication
Jennifer M. Feltman, Florida State Univ.
Digital Reconstructions and the Energetics of Medieval Architecture
Jordan Pickett, Univ. of Pennsylvania
Image Cataloging and Teaching Medieval Art History
Samuel L. Sadow, Graduate Center, CUNY


SESSION 403: SCHNEIDER 1135
Saints of the Heroic Age and Today
Sponsor: Heroic Age: A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe
Organizer: Michel Aaij, Auburn Univ.–Montgomery
Presider: Larry J. Swain, Univ. of Illinois–Chicago
PAPER 2 OF 3: Saint Æthelthryth and the Virgin Mary through the Ages
Michelle Ziegler, Independent Scholar
PAPER 3 OF 3: Three German Saints, Three Different Careers: The Afterlives of Rabanus Maurus, Boniface, and Elisabeth of Thuringia
Michel Aaij


SESSION 405: SCHNEIDNER 1160
Sociology and Medieval Studies
Presider: Alexander L. Kaufman, Auburn Univ.–Montgomery
What Common Areas of Social Sciences and Medievalism Studies Are Yet Undiscovered or Underrepresented?
Piotr Toczyski, Polska Akademia Nauk
Exploring the Public Understanding of the Medieval Past Using Sociological Methods
Paul Sturtevant, Univ. of Leeds
What Can Social Sciences Do for Medieval Studies but Perhaps Should Not?
Kathryn M. Karrer, Independent Scholar


SESSION 413: SCHNEIDNER 1330
Dante V: Illustrating Dante: Medieval and Modern
Sponsor: Dante Society of America
Organizer: Christopher Kleinhenz, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison
Presider: Fabian Alfie, Univ. of Arizona
Visual Contrapasso: Illustrating Inferno 28
Vincent Pollina, Tufts Univ.
Dante’s Urban American Vernacular: Sandow Birk’s Divine Comedy
Kristina M. Olson, George Mason Univ.
Mussolini, Monsters, and Mayhem: Modern Depictions of Dante’s Inferno in Popular Media
Teresa Gualtieri-Clark, Independent Scholar


SESSION 423: BERNHARD 210
Devotional Printed Books in England, 1476–1526
Sponsor: Early Book Society
Organizer: Martha W. Driver, Pace Univ.
Presider: Janetta Rebold Benton, Pace Univ./The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Wynkyn de Worde’s Devout Readers
Agnes Ecsedy, Univ. of Toronto
Piety, Print, and Pardon: Devotional Literacy and Indulgences in Early English Printing
R. N. Swanson, Univ. of Birmingham
The Childbirth Cult of SS. Quiricus and Julitta in Early English Print
Mary Morse, Rider Univ., and Joseph J. Gwara, United States Naval Academy


SESSION 424: BERNHARD 211
Selling Chaucer
Sponsor: Chaucer Review
Organizer: David Raybin, Eastern Illinois Univ., and Susanna Fein, Kent State Univ.
Presider: Susanna Fein
Selling Chaucer in Contemporary Mystery Fiction: Genre, Medievalism, and the Pleasure of Degenerate Forms
Tison Pugh, Univ. of Central Florida
Un-queering Chaucer: “Heterosexual Melancholy” and “Gay Misogyny” in The
Book of the Duchess
Christopher Lozensky, Independent Scholar
“Go Little Book”: Geoffrey Chaucer and Modern Cover Art
Natasha Luepke, Kaplan Univ./Univ. of Phoenix


SESSION 428: KINLEY CHAPEL
Alfonso El Sabio’s Cantigas de santa Maria (A Performance and a Roundtable Discussion)
Sponsor: Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society (MRDS)
Organizer: Clifford Davidson, Western Michigan Univ., and Christopher Swift, Graduate Center, CUNY
Presider: Christopher Swift
A performance by Early Music Michigan, directed by Eric Strand, and the Western Michigan University Collegium Musicum, directed by Matthew Steel, and a roundtable discussion with Bruce R. Burningham, Illinois State Univ.; Peter V. Loewen, Rice Univ.; Matthew Steel; Eric Strand; and Elizabeth Randell Upton, Univ. of California–Los Angeles.



12:00 PM
VALLEY II GARNEAU LOUNGE
Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages and the Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Villains of the Matter of Britain
Business Meeting and Reception



12:30 PM
BERNHARD 158
Tolkien at Kalamazoo
Business Meeting



1:30-3:00 PM

SESSION 435: VALLEY I 100
“The Age of Miracles Has Passed” (?): Miracles in “Secular” Plays
Organizer: Joe Ricke, Taylor Univ.
Presider: David Bevington, Univ. of Chicago
Secular Miracles on Shakespeare’s Stage
Grace Tiffany, Western Michigan Univ.
Hermoine Discovered: Staging the “Miracle” in The Winter’s Tale
Bob Jones, Mary Baldwin College
Grace and “Nature’s Miracle” in Shakespeare
John D. Cox, Hope College


SESSION 440: VALLEY I 107
“Teccheles termes of talkyng noble”: Vows, Courtesy, and Social Interactions in the Pearl-Poems
Sponsor: Pearl-Poet Society
Organizer: Adrienne J. Odasso, Univ. of York
Presider: Kimberly Jack, Auburn Univ.
PAPER 1 OF 3: Lying Liars and the Lies They Tell: Sir Gawain, Saint Augustine, and Real Simple Magazine
Florence Newman, Towson Univ.


SESSION 441: VALLEY I 109
Teaching off the Grid: The Promise and Perils of Using Non-canonical Texts in the Classroom
Organizer: Nathanial B. Smith, Central Michigan Univ.
Presider: Gina Brandolino, Univ. of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Loading Jewry into the Medieval Canon
Theodore L. Steinberg, SUNY–Fredonia
Teaching off the Religious Grid with Hildegard von Bingen’s Physica
Andreea D. Boboc, Univ. of the Pacific–Stockton
Canon Fodder: Positioning the Essential Texts of a Non-canonical Discipline
Matthieu Boyd, Harvard Univ.
Don’t Discount This Dynamo: Cultural, Historical, and Literary Approaches to Teaching Judith
Suanna H. Davis, Houston Baptist Univ./Lone Star College
Teaching Emblems
Chad Engbers, Calvin College
The Eve Debates: Teaching Milton alongside Anti-misogyny Literature
Nathanial B. Smith


SESSION 442: VALLEY I 110
Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Literature
Sponsor: Medieval and Early Modern English Studies Association of Korea (MEMESAK)
Organizer: Minwoo Yoon, Yonsei Univ.
Presider: Richard Scott Nokes, Troy Univ.
PAPER 3 OF 4: The Use of Fabliau and Romance in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline
Megan E. Woosley, Univ. of Missouri–Columbia


SESSION 445: FETZER 1010
“Can these bones come to life?”: Insights from Reconstruction, Re-enactment, and Re-creation
Sponsor: Higgins Armory Museum
Organizer: Kenneth C. Mondschein, Fordham Univ./Higgins Armory Museum
Presider: Michael A. Cramer, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
“Thawing Frozen Minds”: The Possibilities of Using Re-enactment and Recreation as a Way to Teach Students Research Skills
Karen Kaiser Lee, Purdue Univ.
Patterns of Remedy in Fiore Dei Liberi’s Fior di Battaglia: How Treatise Organization Can Inform Interpretation
Robert Charrette, Belle Compagnie
Did She or Didn’t She? Women, Judicial Combats, and the Walpurgis Figure in Royal Armories MS I.33
Valerie Eads, School of Visual Arts
The Medieval Experience of Time: Aristotle, Universals, and Technologies
Kenneth C. Mondschein


SESSION 449: FETZER 1060
Ovid in the Modern Classroom
Sponsor: Societas Ovidiana
Organizer: Susanne Hafner, Fordham Univ.
Presider: David T. Gura, Ohio State Univ.
Teaching the Ovide Moralisé: Resuscitating Allegory
Raymond J. Cormier, Longwood Univ.
Manuscripts of Ovid for Undergraduates: Re-integrating Visual, Oral, Aural,
and Manual Praxis
Diane Warne Anderson, St. John’s Univ.
Breaking Down A Perpetuum Carmen: A Textual Approach to Teaching Ovid’s
Metamorphoses
Joseph M. Romero, Univ. of Mary Washington
Amores Book 1: Introducing Latin Poetry, Its Topoi, and Its Charm
Patrick Rory Callahan, Fordham Univ.


SESSION 450: FETZER 2016
In Honor of Carol V. Kaske II: Spenser and Early Modern Authors
Organizer: Karen Cherewatuk, St. Olaf College
Presider: Nicole Clifton, Northern Illinois Univ.
Tasso, Ficino, and the Dilemma of the Philosopher
Walter Stephens, Johns Hopkins Univ.
Spenser and Biblical Typology: Arthurian Allegories and the Elizabethan Court
Donald Stump, St. Louis Univ.
Reassessing Spenser’s Biblical and Classical Allusions
Richard J. DuRocher, St. Olaf College
The Politics of Edmund Spenser’s Poetics in Neoclassical Literary Criticism
David Alvarez, DePauw Univ.


SESSION 453: FETZER 2040
Teaching with TEAMS Texts
Sponsor: TEAMS (The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages)
Organizer: Anita Obermeier, Univ. of New Mexico
Presider: Marisa Sikes, Univ. of New Mexico
Teaching the Medieval Robin Hood to American Students
Dana M. Symons, Buffalo State College
How Many Leaps Did Christ Actually Take? Problems of Text Selection and Translation of Middle High German Legends
Jef Jacobs, Univ. Leiden
TEAMS and Mythology: Teaching Medieval Orpheus
Michael Livingston, The Citadel


SESSION 456: SCHNEIDER 1140
Then and Now: Contextualizing the Voir Dit (A Roundtable)
Sponsor: International Machaut Society
Organizer: Jennifer Bain, Dalhousie Univ.
Presider: R. Barton Palmer, Clemson Univ.
PAPER 3 OF 3: The Context of the Reception of Machaut ca. 1950: Boulez and Barthes
Lawrence M. Earp, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison


SESSION 458: SCHNEIDER 1220
Marie de France in the Classroom (A Roundtable Discussion)
Sponsor: International Marie de France Society
Organizer: Elizabeth W. Poe, Tulane Univ.
Presider: Elizabeth W. Poe
A roundtable discussion with Logan E. Whalen, Univ. of Oklahoma; Catherine M. Jones, Univ. of Georgia; K. Sarah-Jane Murray, Baylor Univ.; Mary Jane Schenck, Univ. of Tampa; and Evelyn Birge Vitz, New York Univ.


SESSION 460: SCHNEIDER 1235
Remembering the Middle Ages: Medievalism and Memory
Sponsor: Studies in Medievalism
Organizer: Richard Utz, Western Michigan Univ.
Presider: Clare A. Simmons, Ohio State Univ.
“1066 and All That”: Selective Memory and Creative Medievalism
Veronica Ortenberg West-Harling, Univ. of Oxford
The Memory of Sheherezade in Works by Modern Arab Women
Lynne Dahmen, Purdue Univ.
Istanbul’s Medieval Memories
Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler, Western Michigan Univ.


SESSION 461: SCHNEIDER 1275
In Memory of Derek S. Brewer I: Symbolic Stories
Sponsor: Boydell & Brewer, Ltd.
Organizer: Caroline Palmer, Boydell & Brewer
Presider: A. C. Spearing, Univ. of Virginia
PAPER 1 OF 3: Medieval Meanings and Modern Interpretations: The Case of “Eger and Grime”
Helen Cooper, Univ. of Cambridge


SESSION 464: SCHNEIDER 1325
The State of the Arts in Medieval Studies: Where Have We Come From, Where Are We Today, Where Are We Going from Here? I
Organizer: Albrecht Classen, Univ. of Arizona
Presider: Albrecht Classen
The State of Arts in the Historiography of Medieval Political Thought
Vasileios Syros, Univ. of Chicago
Past, Present, and Future: A Hexagonal Perspective
Wendy Pfeffer, Univ. of Louisville
The State of the Study of Western Medieval Mysticism
Debra L. Stoudt, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ.
What Are We Teaching?
Marilyn Sandidge, Westfield State College
Beyond Periodization: Revitalizing Medieval Studies within the Curriculum
Stephen Mark Carey, Georgia State Univ.


SESSION 467: SCHNEIDER 1340
New Work by Young Celtic Studies Scholars
Sponsor: Celtic Studies Association of North America
Organizer: Frederick Suppe, Ball State Univ.
Presider: Frederick Suppe
PAPER 3 OF 3: A Modern Woman in Medieval Dress? Deirdre in The Exile of the Sons of Uisliu
and Twentieth-Century Works by Synge, Yeats, and Stephens
Cori L. Gabbard, Graduate Center, CUNY


SESSION 478: BERNHARD 211
Translating the Medieval
Sponsor: History of Books and Texts Special Interest Group, The English Association
Organizer: Elaine M. Treharne, Florida State Univ.
Presider: Catherine E. Karkov, Univ. of Leeds
Radical Medieval/Translation without Concepts
Daniel Remein, New York Univ.
New Medieval Poetry
Chris Jones, St. Andrews Univ.
The Transliteracies of Beowulf
Martin K. Foys, Drew Univ.



3:30-5:00 PM

SESSION 486: VALLEY I 100
Sights, Sounds, and Species: Performance, Performativity, and Alfonso X’s Cantigas de santa Maria
Sponsor: Medieval Studies Certificate Program, Graduate Center, CUNY
Organizer: Anne Stone, Graduate Center, CUNY, and Christopher Swift, Graduate Center, CUNY
Presider: Pamela Sheingorn, Graduate Center, CUNY
PAPER 2 OF 3: Stringed Instrument Combinations at the Court of Alfonso X: Implications for the Performance of the Cantigas de santa Maria
Alice Margerum, London Metropolitan Univ.


SESSION 489: VALLEY I 106
Sidney III: Philip Sidney and Medieval and Early Modern Ways of Love
Sponsor: International Sidney Society
Organizer: Helen Vincent, National Library of Scotland, and Joel B. Davis, Stetson
Univ.
Presider: Linda Shenk, Iowa State Univ.
Chaucerian Melancholy in Astrophil and Stella: Sidney’s Petrarchan Self and the Poetics of Medieval Love Complaint
Danila Sokolov, Univ. of Waterloo
What Happens to Pictures in the New Arcadia?
Boyd Brogan, Merton College, Univ. of Oxford
Guilty Pleasures: Eros and Poetry in the New Arcadia
William A. Oram, Smith Univ.
Respondent: Andrew Strycharski, Florida International Univ.


SESSION 491: VALLEY I 109
The Nun’s Priest’s Tale: A Readers’ Theater Performance and Recording
Sponsor: Chaucer Studio
Organizer: Warren Edminster, Murray State Univ.
Presider: Joe Ricke, Taylor Univ.
A readers’ theater performance with Susan Yager, Iowa State Univ.; Alan T. Gaylord, Dartmouth College/Princeton Univ.; and David N. Klausner, Univ. of Toronto.


SESSION 493: VALLEY I SHILLING LOUNGE
Paying Forward, Looking Back: Fostering Medieval Studies in the Twenty-First Century: In Honor of Cynthia Z. Valk (A Roundtable)
Sponsor: Medieval Association of the Midwest (MAM)
Organizer: Harriet E. Hudson, Indiana State Univ.
Presider: Alison L. Ganze, Western Kentucky Univ.
A roundtable discussion with Peter H. Goodrich, Northern Michigan Univ.; Carlos Hawley, North Dakota State Univ.; Nickolas Haydock, Univ. de Puerto Rico–Mayagüez; Aubri McVey Leung, Wabash College; and Edward L. Risden, St. Norbert College.


SESSION 496: FETZER 1035
Old and New Approaches to Teaching Spanish Medieval Literature to Undergraduates
Sponsor: Ibero-Medieval Association of North America (IMANA)
Organizer: Nancy F. Marino, Michigan State Univ.
Presider: Nancy F. Marino
Saving the Index: Teaching Medieval Literature and Culture with Cinema
Michael Solomon, Univ. of Pennsylvania
Bawdy Short Stories from the Spanish Middle Ages: Un Seminario sobre el Exemplum
Eloísa Palafox, Washington Univ. in St. Louis


SESSION 500: FETZER 2016
In Honor of Carol V. Kaske III (A Roundtable)
Organizer: Karen Cherewatuk, St. Olaf College
Presider: Michael W. Twomey, Ithaca College
PAPER 7 OF 7: Our Faerie Queene: Spenserian Stanzas for Carol V. Kaske
Joe Fassler, Univ. of Iowa


SESSION 503: FETZER 2040
Teaching the Crusades: Multidisciplinary and Multiethnic Perspectives
Sponsor: TEAMS (The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages)
Organizer: Anita Obermeier, Univ. of New Mexico
Presider: Dorsey Armstrong, Purdue Univ.
Teaching Crusader Art
Jens T. Wollesen, Univ. of Toronto
The Crusades as Tool: To Discuss the Relationship between Islam and the West in Medieval Europe
Meriem Pagès, Keene State College
Teaching the Crusades for Arab Students: Jordan: A Case Study
Mona Hammad Jahama, Univ. of Jordan/Hollins Univ.
A Land War in Asia: Teaching the Crusades during the “War on Terror”
Michael R. Evans, Central Michigan Univ.


SESSION 510: SCHNEIDER 1225
Bisclavret: Twenty-First Century Interpretations of a Twelfth-Century Lay
Sponsor: International Marie de France Society
Organizer: Elizabeth W. Poe, Tulane Univ.
Presider: Monica L. Wright, Univ. of Louisiana–Lafayette
Bisclavret: A Reconstruction of the Performance of a Twelfth-Century Lai
Ronald Cook, Independent Scholar
Bisclavret: A Double Perspective on a Double Life
Simonetta Cochis, Transylvania Univ., and Tamara Bentley-Caudill, Independent
Scholar
Bisclavret: Nudity and Noselessness: A Rhymed Translation
Walter A. Blue, Hamline Univ.


SESSION 516: SCHNEIDER 1330
The State of the Arts in Medieval Studies: Where Have We Come From, Where Are We Today, Where Are We Going from Here? II
Organizer: Albrecht Classen, Univ. of Arizona
Presider: Francis B. Brévart, Univ. of Pennsylvania
Medieval Studies and Interdisciplinarity: Developments, Achievements, and Obstacles
Gerhard Jaritz, Central European Univ.
Ad Fontes, or, Why Editing Is Still Crucial for Medieval Studies
Andreas Meyer, Philipps-Univ. Marburg
New Perspectives on Medieval Islamic Studies I
Glen M. Cooper, Brigham Young Univ.
New Perspectives on Medieval Islamic Studies II
Mark David Luce, Center for Middle East Studies, Univ. of Chicago
Variance and Stabilization: Questions Regarding the Scope of the Concept of Mouvance
Moritz Wedell, Deutsches Seminar, Univ. Zürich


SESSION 518: SCHNEIDER 1340
Holy Women in Performance
Sponsor: Magistra: A Journal of Women’s Spirituality in History
Organizer: Judith Sutera, OSB, Magistra Publications
Presider: Mary Suydam, Kenyon College
Ritual and Performance at Barking Abbey
Kay Slocum, Capital Univ.
What Did It Mean to Act in the Middle Ages? Mulieres Religiosae and the
Language of Performance
Jesse A. Njus, Northwestern Univ.
The “Liederbuch” of Anna of Cologne (ca. 1500): Song, Dance, and the Divine
Monika M. Bartelen, Univ. of Calgary
The Physical Actions of Medieval Women’s Sacred Performances: A Paper/Demonstration
Jessica Van Oort, Independent Scholar


SESSION 521: SCHNEIDER 1360
Medievalism in Music and the Fine Arts
Sponsor: Studies in Medievalism
Organizer: Richard Utz, Western Michigan Univ.
Presider: Kirsten Yri, Wilfrid Laurier Univ.
Staging Olivier Messiaen’s Medievalism: Between Adorno and Saint Francis of Assisi
John Pitcher, Univ. of the Fraser Valley
Historicizing Neumatic Notation: Medieval Neumes as Cultural Artifacts of the Early Modern Times
Eduardo Henrik Aubert, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Historicizing Medieval Liturgical Chant: Medieval Chant as Cultural Artifact in the Eighteenth Century
Nils Holger Petersen, Københavns Univ.
Jeff Smith’s “Bone”: Revising Tolkien and Lewis’s Antimodernist Fantasies
Andrew Taylor, Western Michigan Univ.


SESSION 525: BERNHARD 159
Medieval Studies at Minority-Serving Colleges and Universities (A Roundtable)
Sponsor: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Journal of
Medieval Iberian Studies (JMIS)
Organizer: James M. Palmer, Prairie View A&M Univ.
Presider: Pearl Ratunil, Harper College
Ageless Issues: Engaging HBCU Students in the Middle Ages
Elise E. Morse-Gagne, Tougaloo College
Thanne Longen Morehouse Men to Goon on Pilgrimages
Mary Behrman, Morehouse College
Chaucer’s Chicano Connection
Sarah M. Owens, Adams State College
Medieval and Modern Borders: Making the Middles Ages Relevant to Hispanic Students in El Paso
Matthew V. Desing, Univ. of Texas–El Paso
Dispelling the Myths: Medieval Studies at a Predominantly Hispanic University
Ken A. Grant, Univ. of Texas–Pan American
Risk and Reward: Teaching the Middle Ages in California’s San Joaquin Valley
Mark Arvanigian, California State Univ.–Fresno
Does Religion Trump Race? Teaching the Middle Ages at a Catholic-Majority, Hispanic-Serving Public University
Scott Wells, California State Univ.–Los Angeles



6:30
VALLEY II STINSON LOUNGE
Performing Malory: Arthur and Accolon
(A Readers’ Theater Performance)
Organizer: Leila K. Norako, Univ. of Rochester, and Michael W. Twomey, Ithaca College
Presider: Leila K. Norako and Michael W. Twomey
A readers’ theater performance with Stephen Atkinson, Park Univ.; Alison A. Baker, California State Polytechnic Univ.; Kristi J. Castleberry, Univ. of Rochester; Mica
Dawn Gould, Grambling State Univ.; Emily Rebekah Huber, Duke Univ.; Kimberly Jack, Auburn Univ.; Janet Jesmok, Univ. of Wisconsin–Milwaukee; Timothy
R. Jordan, Kent State Univ.; John Leland, Salem International Univ.; Maud Burnett McInerney, Haverford College; Kara L. McShane, Univ. of Rochester; Corey
Olsen, Washington College; Katie Lyn Peebles, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington; Meredith Reynolds, Francis Marion Univ.; Rebecca L. Reynolds, Clermont College, Univ. of Cincinnati; Kendra O’Neal Smith, Univ. of California–
Davis; and Paul R. Thomas, Brigham Young Univ./Chaucer Studio/Chaucer Studio Press.



8:00 PM
ST LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH 247 W. LOVELL ST
Glories of Ancient Spain: From the Cantigas to the Golden Age
Early Music Michigan
Eric Strand, Director
Western Michigan Univ. Collegium Musicum
Matthew Steel, Director
General admission tickets at the door: $15.00 ($5.00 students)
Three blocks from the Radisson, Congress shuttle service to the Radisson

MMSM: Kalamazoo 2010 Sessions 2 of 4 (Friday)

The following represent the medieval-popular-culture and medievalism-themed sessions for this year's International Congress on Medieval Studies currently in progress (from Wednesday, 12 May, through Sunday, 16 May) at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The complete program and corrigenda can be accessed at http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/sessions.html.

Society sponsored events are colored red in the list below.


FRIDAY, 14 MAY 2010

10:00-11:30 AM

SESSION 200: VALLEY I 105
John Heywood: Influences and Influence
Organizer: Maura Giles-Watson, Univ. of Nebraska–Lincoln
Presider: Derek A. Pearsall, Harvard Univ.
John Heywood as Poet: Chaucer’s Influence
Mary C. E. Shaner, Univ. of Massachusetts–Boston
Talking about the Weather in John Heywood’s Play of the Weather
Ginger Jurecka Blake, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison
Text and Antitext: Script and Improvisation in Heywood’s Comedies
Maura Giles-Watson


SESSION 206: FETZER 1005
The Young(er) King Arthur
Sponsor: International Arthurian Society, North American Branch (IAS/NAB)
Organizer: Roberta Davidson, Whitman College
Presider: Kevin J. Harty, La Salle Univ.
Knight Terror: King Arthur and America’s “Boy Problem”
Laurie A. Finke, Kenyon College, and Martin B. Shichtman, Eastern Michigan Univ.
When Good King Arthur Ruled This High School: Meg Cabot’s Avalon High
Ann F. Howey, Brock Univ.
Arthur and Galahad as Models for Youth
Alan Lupack, Univ. of Rochester
Not Your Boys’ King Arthur
Janina P. Traxler, Manchester College


SESSION 213: FETZER 2020
Teaching and Touching the Heart: What Draws Us to the Pearl-Poet? (A Roundtable)
Sponsor: Pearl-Poet Society
Organizer: Adrienne J. Odasso, Univ. of York
Presider: Adrienne J. Odasso
PAPER 3 OF 3: Piecing Together the Puzzle: Teaching Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Lisa Lettau, Hood College


SESSION 218: SCHNEIDER 1160
Medieval Board Games: A Workshop on Board Games as a Medium in the Medieval Studies Classroom
Organizer: Valerie Dawn Hampton, Univ. of Florida/Western Michigan Univ.
Presider: Valerie Dawn Hampton
The purpose of this interactive workshop is to introduce (or reintroduce) medievalists to the use of board games as a medium to the culture of the past and to illustrate the wealth of material for incorporation into classroom teaching. Pre-registration is preferred, but not required: contact valerie.d.hampton@wmich.edu.


SESSION 219: SCHNEIDER 1220
The Online Froissart: Encoding the Chronicles (Project Launch) (A Roundtable)
Sponsor: Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN)
Organizer: Peter F. Ainsworth, Humanities Research Institute, Univ. of Sheffield
Presider: Anne D. Hedeman, Univ. of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign
A roundtable discussion with Peter F. Ainsworth; Godfried Croenon, Univ. of Liverpool; and Andrew Taylor, Univ. of Ottawa


SESSION 225: SCHNEIDER 1330
Dante II: Dante’s Works: Editorial and Visual Contexts
Sponsor: Dante Society of America
Organizer: Christopher Kleinhenz, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison
Presider: Christopher Kleinhenz
An Electronic Edition of Dante’s Commedia
Prue Shaw, Univ. College, Univ. of London
Dante’s Vita nova in Its First Printed Edition
Jelena Todorovic, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison
Dante’s Words in Commedia Miniatures: Pictorial Textuality as Commentary on the Poet’s Authority
Karl William Fugelso, Towson Univ.


SESSION 227: SCHNEIDER 1350
Medieval (Mis)conduct Literature
Organizer: Laura Dull, Delta College
Presider: Laura Dull
PAPER 3 OF 3: The Wildly Hilarious Tale of the Shoemaker, His Wife, the Monk, and the Doorman: A Medieval French Farce in Translation
Michelle M. Volz, Boston College


SESSION 240: BERNHARD BROWN AND GOLD ROOM
The History of Medieval Art: Where Do We Go from Here?
Organizer: Gerry Guest, John Carroll Univ.
Presider: Nina A. Rowe, Fordham Univ.
“The Historiographical Turn”: Trends in the Historiography of Medieval Art History
Matthew M. Reeve, Queen’s Univ. Kingston
In Praise of Idiosyncrasy: Originality in Art History Writing
Gerry Guest
The “New Formalism”: The Death of the Future of Medieval Art History
Domenic Leo, Youngstown State Univ.


SESSION 247: SANGREN 2301
What Do We Mean by “Engaging Undergraduates in Research”? (A Roundtable)
Sponsor: CARA (Committee on Centers and Regional Associations, Medieval Academy of America)
Organizer: Thomas Goodmann, Univ. of Miami
Presider: Pamela Clements, Siena College
Undergraduate Research and the Undergraduate Conference
Mary L. Dudy Bjork, Arizona State Univ.–West Campus
Creating a Supportive Environment for Undergraduate Research
Christopher Corley, Minnesota State Univ.–Mankato
Teaching Medieval Archaeology in the Field: The Experience of an Archaeological Summer School Program
Florin Curta, Univ. of Florida


SESSION 248: SANGREN 2302
Medieval Fantasy, Alchemy, and Modern Science in Tolkien’s Legendarium
Sponsor: Tolkien at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Robin Anne Reid, Texas A&M Univ.–Commerce
Presider: Robin Anne Reid
Elvencentrism: “Elven Nature Preserves” in the Works of J. R. R. Tolkien
Ann Martinez, Univ. of Kansas
“Worlds on Worlds”: Tolkien, Lewis, and the Medieval and Modern Theological Implications of Extraterrestrial Life
Kristine Larsen, Central Connecticut State Univ.
Inside Literature: Tolkien’s Explorations of Medieval Genres
John D. Rateliff, Independent Scholar
J. R. R. Tolkien and The Battle of Maldon: An Example of “Freer” Verse?
Stuart D. Lee, Univ. of Oxford


SESSION 249: SANGREN 2303
Medieval Translation Theory and Practice I
Organizer: Jeanette Beer, St. Hilda’s College, Univ. of Oxford
Presider: Jeanette Beer
Translating Chronicle Poetry in Twelfth-Century Latin Histories
Kenneth J. Tiller, Univ. of Virginia’s College at Wise
Translating Pilgrimages for Nuns: The Latin and German Travel Accounts of Friar Felix Fabri
Kathryne Beebe, St. Hilda’s College, Univ. of Oxford
“My position has been struck by lightning”: William Wey’s Itineraries, Wynkyn de Worde’s Information for Pilgrims unto the Holy Land, and the “Tourist” Phrase List
Christine F. Cooper-Rompato, Utah State Univ.


SESSION 250: SANGREN 2304
New Directions in European Castle Research
Sponsor: Society for Medieval Archaeology
Organizer: Oliver Creighton, Univ. of Exeter
Presider: Terry Barry, Trinity College, Univ. of Dublin
Castles as “Top Predators” Re-visited: The Ecological Impact of Constructing and Maintaining Castles in Medieval Prussia and Livonia
Aleks Pluskowski, Univ. of Reading
Norman Imposition: The Medieval Castle and the Urban Space, 1050–1150
Michael Fradley, Univ. of Exeter
Debating Lordly Landscapes: The Deerpark of Earlspark, Loughrea, Co. Galway
Kieran D. O’Conor, National Univ. of Ireland–Galway, and Fiona Beglane, National Univ. of Ireland–Galway


1:30-3:00 PM

SESSION 262: VALLEY I 105
Medieval Translation Theory and Practice II: Translations (Good and Bad!) of Masterworks (A Practicum)
Organizer: Jeanette Beer, St. Hilda’s College, Univ. of Oxford
Presider: Jeanette Beer
Chrétien de Troyes
Katherine A. Brown, Colgate Univ.
The Modern Translations of Andreas Capellanus’s De amore
Don A. Monson, College of William and Mary/Kenyon College
Textual Inadequacy: Modernization as Rectification in Heaney and Henryson
Anna McHugh, Harris Manchester College, Univ. of Oxford
Divina Commedia: Teaching in Translation
Robert M. Stein, Purchase College/Columbia Univ.


SESSION 263: VALLEY I 106
Ec(h)o Chambers
Sponsor: Spenser at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Beth Quitslund, Ohio Univ.; Theodore L. Steinberg, SUNY–Fredonia; and David Scott Wilson-Okamura, East Carolina Univ.
Presider: Dan Mills, Georgia State Univ.
Guyon as a Response to Launcelot
Kenneth Hodges, Univ. of Oklahoma
“Wise wordes taught in numbers for to runne”: Sir Philip Sidney and Christological Numerology in Spenser’s Astrophel and Complaints
Thomas Herron, East Carolina Univ.
Annoying Noises in the Faerie Queene
Charles Ross, Purdue Univ.


SESSION 264: VALLEY I 107
Tolkien and the Bible
Sponsor: Tolkien at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Robin Anne Reid, Texas A&M Univ.–Commerce
Presider: Christopher T. Vaccaro, Univ. of Vermont
Neues Testament und Märchen: Tolkien, Fairy Stories, and the Gospels
John William Houghton, Hill School
“Justice is not healing”: J. R. R. Tolkien’s Pauline Constructs in “Finwë and
Míriel”
Amelia A. Rutledge, George Mason Univ.
Tolkien on the Old English Pater Noster: Digging Niggling Calligraphy
John R. Holmes, Franciscan Univ. of Steubenville
The Lord of the Fish: Tolkien and the Book of Jonah
Michael Foster, Independent Scholar


SESSION 274: FETZER 2020
The Post-medieval Pearl-Poet: Contexts and Continuities of Cleanness, Patience, Pearl, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Sponsor: Pearl-Poet Society
Organizer: Adrienne J. Odasso, Univ. of York
Presider: Jane Beal, Independent Scholar
From Low Tech to Big Budget: Stephen Weeks’s Films Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Twice)
Lorraine Kochanske Stock, Univ. of Houston
“Me lyste to se þe broke byȝonde”: A Cognitive Approach to Water Imagery
Hoyt S. Greeson, Laurentian Univ.
Consolation and the Common Man: Reading Pearl in The Shack
Lesley Allen, Greenville College
Sir Gawain, the Green Knight: An Ecocritical Reading of a Medieval Poem
Aaron M. Long, American Univ.


SESSION 287: SCHNEIDER 1330
Dante III: Dante and Nationalism
Sponsor: Dante Society of America
Organizer: Aida Audeh, Hamline Univ.
Presider: Aida Audeh
The Italian National Icon: Dante between Catholicism, Laicism, and Communism
Stefano Jossa, Royal Holloway, Univ. of London
The Reception and Function of Dante in Occitan Literature, 1800–1860
James Thomas, Independent Scholar
Emerson, Dante, and American Nationalism
Kathleen Verduin, Hope College
“Altissimo Poeta” and “Pacifica Oriafiamma”: The 1911 Milano Films Inferno and Italian Nationalism
Nick Havely, Univ. of York


SESSION 289: SCHNEIDER 1340
Chant and Liturgy
Sponsor: Musicology at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Cathy Ann Elias, DePaul Univ.; Julia Wingo Shinnick, Univ. of Louisville, and Mary E. Wolinski, Western Kentucky Univ.
Presider: Daniel J. DiCenso, College of the Holy Cross
PAPER 2 OF 3: New Perspectives on Restoring Tenth-Century Chant Melodies
Geert Maessen, Univ. van Tilburg
PAPER 3 OF 3: The Global Chant Database Project (www.globalchant.org)
Jan Kolacek, Univ. Karlova v Praze


SESSION 292: SCHNEIDER 1355
Sensuous Performance: How Did Medieval Plays Engage the Five Senses?
Sponsor: Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society (MRDS)
Organizer: Jill Stevenson, Marymount Manhattan College
Presider: Jill Stevenson
Resonance, Presence, Parlance: Reconstructing Aurality in the Chester Shepherds Play
Andrew Albin, Brandeis Univ.
Speaking Subtleties: Ephemeral Nourishment in Medieval Feast
Anne Brannen, Duquesne Univ.
Touching Royalty: How Touch Was Used in Early Tudor Revelry
Denise Cole, Central Michigan Univ.
The City out of Breath: Built Environment and the Odors of Restraint on the Jacobean Stage (1604–1607)
Hristomir A. Stanev, Washington Univ. in St. Louis


SESSION 299: BERNHARD 209
Medieval Lacan
Sponsor: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, St. Louis Univ.
Organizer: Antony J. Hasler, St. Louis Univ.
Presider: Antony J. Hasler
Love/Charity
Ruth Evans, St. Louis Univ.
Resistances of Courtly Love
Elizabeth B. Edwards, Univ. of King’s College, Halifax
Being Given and Recognition: Lacan’s Reading of Caravaggio and the Sacrificial Encounter
Erin Felicia Labbie, Bowling Green State Univ.


SESSION 304: BERNHARD BROWN & GOLD ROOM
Key Concepts in Medieval Art History I (A Roundtable)
Organizer: Nina A. Rowe, Fordham Univ.
Presider: Nina A. Rowe
Feminism
Martha Easton, Bryn Mawr College
Gender
Sherry C. M. Lindquist, Knox College
Post-Colonial
Karen Eileen Overbey, Tufts Univ.
Theatrical/Theatricality
Laura Weigert, Rutgers Univ.
Reception
David S. Areford, Univ. of Massachusetts–Boston


SESSION 310: SANGREN 2301
When Not in Rome: Microform and Digital Manuscript Archives
Sponsor: CARA (Committee on Centers and Regional Associations, Medieval Academy of America)
Organizer: Thomas Goodmann, Univ. of Miami
Presider: Thomas Goodmann
“You want metadata with that?”: Bringing Medieval Manuscripts to Scholars through the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library
Wayne Torborg, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library
Hilandar Research Library: Preserving and Accessing the Slavic Cyrillic Past
Predrag Matejic, Ohio State Univ.
Vatican Manuscripts on Film at the Knights of Columbus Vatican Film Library
Gregory A. Pass, St. Louis Univ.
Finding Virtue among Scattered Leaves: How Digital Archiving Can Aid in Preserving and Understanding Fragmented Manuscripts
Greta Smith, Miami Univ. of Ohio


SESSION 314: SANGREN 2502
Santiago and the Holy Compostelan Years
Sponsor: S. A. de Xestión do Plan Xacobeo, Diputación de Pontevedra, Museo
de Pontevedra, Museo das Peregrinacións, and the Xunta de Galicia
(Santiago de Compostela)
Organizer: Xosé Suárez Otero, S.A. de Xestión do Plan Xacobeo
Presider: Xosé Suárez Otero
Pilgrimage and Holy Years in Santiago de Compostela
Fernando López Alsina, Univ. de Santiago de Compostela
Holy Years: “More romano”? Rome and Saint James in a Comparative View
Klaus Herbers, Univ. Erlangen-Nürnberg
About “suffragia pro defunctis” and “indulgentiarum bullae” from the Late Middle Ages to the Early Renaissance: A Problem Revisited
José Manuel Díaz de Bustamante, Univ. de Santiago de Compostela


SESSION 315: KANLEY CHAPEL
The Liturgical Office of Saint Thomas Becket I: Chant Selections (A Performance)
Sponsor: Gregorian Institute of Canada/L’Institut Grégorien du Canada
Organizer: William Oates, Gregorian Institute of Canada/L’Institut Grégorien du
Canada
Presider: William Oates
A performance with Robin Ehlert, Gregorian Institute of Canada/L’Institut Grégorien du Canada; Sarah Carleton Latta, Univ. of Toronto; Pascale Duhamel, Gregorian Institute of Canada/L’Institut Grégorien du Canada; Jennifer Bain, Gregorian Institute of Canada/L’Institut Grégorien du Canada; Martin Quesnel, Gregorian Institute of Canada/L’Institut Grégorien du Canada; William Renwick, McMaster Univ.; William Oates; and David Hall, Gregorian Institute of Canada/L’Institut Grégorien du Canada.



3:30-5:00 PM

SESSION 330: VALLEY I 106
The Kathleen Williams Lecture
Sponsor: Spenser at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Clare R. Kinney, Univ. of Virginia; Theodore L. Steinberg, SUNY–Fredonia; and Jennifer C. Vaught, Univ. of Louisiana–Lafayette
Presider: Anne Lake Prescott, Barnard College
Pluralism in Spenser and Malory: Taking Up Arms in a Wrongful Quarrel
Carol V. Kaske, Cornell Univ.
Closing Remarks: David Scott Wilson-Okamura, East Carolina Univ.


SESSION 331: VALLEY I 107
Tolkien as Scholar, Translator, Academic
Sponsor: Tolkien at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Robin Anne Reid, Texas A&M Univ.–Commerce
Presider: Bradford Lee Eden, Univ. of California–Santa Barbara
Tolkien as Pearl Maiden: Exhortation as Parable
David Thomson, Baylor Univ.
Casting Away Treasures: Tolkien’s Use of The Pearl in The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings
Leigh Smith, East Stroudsburg Univ.
The Pearl and The Jewels: Beren and Luthien and The Pearl
Janice M. Bogstad, Univ. of Wisconsin–Eau Claire


SESSION 332: VALLEY I 109
In Honor of R. Allen and Judy Shoaf: Theories of Medieval Literature II
Sponsor: Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Organizer: Tison Pugh, Univ. of Central Florida
Presider: James J. Paxson, Univ. of Florida
PAPER 2 OF 2: Docta Spes: Hope for and in Medieval Utopian Studies
Jacob Lewis, Univ. of Arkansas–Fayetteville
PAPER 3 OF 3: The Handmaid’s Tale: Editing Women out of Medieval Scholarship
Elizabeth B. Scala, Univ. of Texas–Austin


SESSION 341: FETZER 2020
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Arthurian Tradition
Sponsor: Pearl-Poet Society
Organizer: Adrienne J. Odasso, Univ. of York
Presider: Jamie Friedman, Cornell Univ.
PAPER 1 OF 4: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Green World
Alan T. Gaylord, Dartmouth College/Princeton Univ.
PAPER 4 OF 4: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Problems within Mythological and Folkloric Criticism
Jeff Stoyanoff, Duquesne Univ.


SESSION 355: SCHNEIDER 1340
Medievalisms and Music: Yesterday and Today
Sponsor: Musicology at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Cathy Ann Elias, DePaul Univ.; Julia Wingo Shinnick, Univ. of Louisville; and Mary E. Wolinski, Western Kentucky Univ.
Presider: Cathy Ann Elias
PAPER 1 OF 3: Medieval Covers for the Twenty-First Century
Ronald W. Fisher, Independent Scholar
PAPER 2 OF 3: Complexity and Appeal of Codex Chantilly Six Hundred Years Hence
Aleksandra Vojcic, Univ. of Michigan–Ann Arbor


SESSION 361: BERNHARD 159
Scottish Readings of Chaucerian Poetry in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
Organizer: Nicola Royan, Univ. of Nottingham
Presider: Deanna Delmar Evans, Bemidji State Univ.
Fortune’s Quill: Tracing the Poet’s Development in The Kingis Quair
Benjamin S. W. Barootes, McGill Univ.
The Presentation of Women in Some Older Scots Poems: The Influence of Chaucer and Gower Reconsidered
Joanna Martin, Univ. of Nottingham
“Thy ryms ar resonles and ruid”: Self-Deprecation, Poetic License, Geoffrey Chaucer, and John Stewart of Baldynneis
Katherine McClune, Merton College, Univ. of Oxford
The Palice of Honoure: A Noble Response to the House of Fame
Nicola Royan


SESSION 364: BERNHARD 210
Medieval Myths in Modern Culture in (Central) Europe
Sponsor: Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Mittelalter-Studien (IZMS), Univ. Salzburg
Organizer: Ursula Bieber, Univ. Salzburg
Presider: Siegrid Schmidt, Univ. of Salzburg
Neue Lieder? Nibelungisches im Werk Helmut Kraussers
Ingrid Bennewitz, Otto-Friedrich-Univ. Bamberg
Von der Baba Jaga zu den “Hexen von Kiew”: Rezeptionsformen des Hexen-Mythos in der ostslawischen Folklore und Literatur
Ursula Bieber
Geographical Space and Corporeality: From Melusine to La Vouivre
Vilay Lyxuchouky, Univ. of Georgia


SESSION 368: BERNHARD BROWN & GOLD ROOM
Key Concepts in Medieval Art History II (A Roundtable)
Organizer: Nina A. Rowe, Fordham Univ.
Presider: Nina A. Rowe
Influence
Kirk Ambrose, Univ. of Colorado–Boulder
Space
Gerry Guest, John Carroll Univ.
Gothic
Matthew M. Reeve, Queen’s Univ. Kingston
Medievalism
William Diebold, Reed College


SESSION 370: SANGREN 2209
Asia in Medieval Europe and Europe in Medieval Asia II
Organizer: Sufen Sophia Lai, Grand Valley State Univ.
Presider: Sherry J. Mou, DePauw Univ.
PAPER 2 OF 3: Castles in the Sky: China in Robinet Testard’s Preservation Fantasy
Mark Bradshaw Busbee, Florida Gulf Coast Univ.



5:45 PM
FETZER 1010
Hildegard of Bingen and the Living Light (A One Woman Play)
Organizer: Linn Maxwell, Alto Productions
Presider: Erv Raible, Alto Productions
This play, written and performed by Linn Maxwell and directed by Erv Raible, is a portrayal of the twelfth-century German abbess. Hildegard returns to share her
message of hope, healing, and viriditas, along with anecdotes and intrigues from her life. Maxwell performs seven of Hildegard’s songs, accompanying herself on the
psaltery, medieval harp, and organistrum.


7:00 PM
FETZER 1045
Gaming Neomedievally: A Festive Video Game
Workshop and Poster Session
Sponsor: Medieval Electronic Multimedia
Organization (MEMO)
Organizer: N. M. Heckel, Univ. of Rochester
Presider: N. M. Heckel
Dungeon Siege and World of Warcraft: Apple-Friendly Neomedieval Video Games
Carol L. Robinson, Kent State Univ.–Trumbull
Vampire Wars: Networking Nobles and Bloodsucker Battles
Vanessa M. Bosley, Xavier Univ./Cincinnati State Technical and Community College
The World of Camelot after Arthur: The Presence and Absence of the Knights of the Round Table in Dark Age of Camelot
Keith Russo, Western Michigan Univ.
Fiscal Physics: Representations of Medieval Cavalry in Mount and Blade
Jason Pitruzzello, Univ. of Houston
Eruptions of History: Monsters and Ruins in the Landscapes of Lord of the Rings Online
Ryan T. Harper, Univ. of Rochester
A Festive Assortment of Neomedieval Video Games
Brent Addison Moberly, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington, and Kevin A. Moberly, Old Dominion Univ.
Bridging the Past and the Present: Medieval Anachronism in Vampire: The Masquerade—Redemption
Robin Michelle Blanchard, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan Univ.


7:30 PM
FETZER 1005
Film Screening: Ladyhawke (Wikipedia entry)


7:30 PM
FETZER 1010
Tolkien Unbound: Readers’ Theater Performance
Sponsor: Tolkien at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Robin Anne Reid, Texas A&M Univ.–Commerce
Presider: Merlin DeTardo, Independent Scholar
Readings from Sigurd and Gudrun
Yvette Kisor, Ramapo College: Jennifer Culver, Univ. of Texas–Dallas; and Bradford Lee Eden, Univ. of California–Santa Barbara
“The Road Goes Ever On” by Donald Swann
Eileen Marie Moore, Cleveland State Univ.
The Lord of the Ringos
Michael Foster, Independent Scholar, and Amy Amendt-Raduege, Whatcom Community College



7:30 PM
FETZER 2020
“But One True Art of the Sword”: Italian and German Longsword Techniques Compared (A Demonstration)
Sponsor: Higgins Armory Museum
Organizer: Amy West, Higgins Armory Museum
Presider: Annamaria Kovacs-Mitchell, Independent Scholar
A demonstration with Keith F. Alderson, Oakeshott Institute/Univ. of Chicago, and Gregory Mele, Chicago Swordplay Guild


7:30 PM
FETZER 2030
Travel in Choirstalls: Slide Show, Music, and Roundtable
Sponsor: Misericordia International
Organizer: Paul Hardwick, Leeds Trinity Univ. College
Presider: Frédéric Billiet, Univ. de Paris IV–Sorbonne
A roundtable discussion with Paul Hardwick and Luuk Houwen, Ruhr-Univ. Bochum.


8:00 PM
ST LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH 247 LOVELL ST
Chanterai pour mon courage: Spiritual Renewal in the Time of the Crusades
Anne Azéma and Shira Kammen
General admission tickets: $20.00
Buses leave Congress registration beginning at 7:15 p.m.

MMSM: Kalamazoo 2010 Sessions 1 of 4 (Thursday)

The following represent the medieval-popular-culture and medievalism-themed sessions for this year's International Congress on Medieval Studies currently in progress (from Wednesday, 12 May, through Sunday, 16 May) at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The complete program and corrigenda can be accessed at http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/sessions.html.

Society sponsored events are colored red in the list below.



THURS., 13 MAY

10:00-11:30 AM

SESSION 11: VALLEY I, ROOM 100
The Body in Early Modern Drama
Organizer: Anna Riehl, Auburn Univ.
Presider: Craig E. Bertolet, Auburn Univ.
Le roi ne meurt jamais: How the Structure of Revenge Affects the King’s Body in Elizabethan Revenge Tragedies
Emily King, Tufts Univ.
“Why this is when men are ruled by women”: Subverting and Usurping Women’s Roles in Richard III
Christie-Anne Putnam, Auburn Univ.
“The Symbol and Mirror of Rome”: Lavinia’s Body and the Rome in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus
JeriLynn Rosenberger, Auburn Univ.
“The Soul of Your Complexion”: Heart/Mind Balance in Measure for Measure
Mary Mechler, Auburn Univ.


SESSION 15: VALLEY I, ROOM 106
The Other, the Outsider, and the Outlaw in Medieval Romance
Organizer: Michael Wenthe, American Univ.
Presider: Michael Wenthe
PAPER 4 OF 4: Feste and the Bare Life: Twelfth Night’s Translation of the Romance Other
Craig Dionne, Eastern Michigan Univ.


SESSION 16: VALLEY I, ROOM 107
Papers in Honor of Alan T. Gaylord I: Performance
Organizer: Elise E. Morse-Gagne, Tougaloo College, and Susan Yager, Iowa State Univ.
Presider: Alan Baragona, Virginia Military Institute
PAPER 3 OF 3: Performance in Class, in Gaylord’s Workshops, in the Chaucer Studio: Fun, Folly, and Serious Business
Mary Hamel, Mount St. Mary’s Univ.


SESSION 18: VALLEY I, ROOM 110
Beowulf, Bakhtin, and Beyond: Literary Theory and Old English Texts
Organizer: Mary Kate Hurley, Columbia Univ.
Presider: Mary Kate Hurley
PAPER 3 OF 3: Beowulf, Bakhtin, and the Theory of Epic
Bruce Gilchrist, Bishop’s Univ.


SESSION 22: FETZER 1035
Continuity and Difference: What Distinguishes Medievalism from Neomedievalism? (A Roundtable)
Sponsor: Medieval Electronic Multimedia Organization (MEMO)
Organizer: N. M. Heckel, Univ. of Rochester
Presider: Karl William Fugelso, Towson Univ.
A roundtable discussion with Carol L. Robinson, Kent State Univ.–Trumbull; Amy S. Kaufman, Wesleyan College; Harry Brown, DePauw Univ.; Brent Addison Moberly, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington; Kevin A. Moberly, Old Dominion Univ.; Cory Lowell Grewell, Thiel College; and Nils Holger Petersen, Københavns Univ.


SESSION 25: FETZER 1060
Papers in Memory of Karl Heinz Göller
Organizer: Richard Utz, Western Michigan Univ.
Presider: Richard Utz
PAPER 2 OF 3: Postcolonialism and Cosmopolitanism in King Arthur (2004)
Christoph Houswitschka, Otto-Friedrich-Univ. Bamberg
PAPER 3 OF 3: Queen Elizabeth I and Her Translation of Boethius’s Consolatio philosophiae
Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr., Troy Univ.


SESSION 26: FETZER 2016
El Cid: The National Hero of Spain
Sponsor: Texas Medieval Association (TEMA)
Organizer: Paul E. Larson, Baylor Univ.
Presider: Paul E. Larson
Law and Literature in the Poema de Mio Cid: Theoretical Underpinnings
Michael P. McGlynn, Wichita State Univ.
La religiosidad: Tinte propagandista en el Poema de Mio Cid
Jaime Leaños, Univ. of Nevada–Reno
El Cid and the Franco Regime
Sarah Apffel, Baylor Univ.


SESSION 27: FETZER 2020
NEH Summer Institute “J. R. R. Tolkien: The Real and Imagined Middle Ages” One Year Later
Organizer: Judy Ann Ford, Texas A&M Univ.–Commerce
Presider: Judy Ann Ford
Just a War Theory to Rule All Them History Classes? A Model for High School
Paul Wexler, Needham High School
Free Will and the Enemy: A Study in the Dichotomy of the Orcs
James Tustin, Clark High School
By Paths Appointed
Leta Edwards, NEH Summer Institute on Tolkien
Beowulf and the Early Middle Ages
Ethan Dolleman, NEH Summer Institute on Tolkien
The Symbolic Power of Water
Diana Caddell, Austin Community College
Tolkien as Father
Sandra Pettit, NEH Summer Institute on Tolkien


SESSION 30: SCHNEIDER 1120
The Bow and the Canon: Teaching Robin Hood in the Survey (A Roundtable)
Sponsor: Envoi: A Review Journal of Medieval Literature
Organizer: James I. McNelis, III, Wilmington College
Presider: James I. McNelis, III
A roundtable discussion with Leigh Smith, East Stroudsburg Univ.; Stuart A. Kane, Stonehill College; Melissa Ridley-Elmes, Carlbrook School; and Lorraine Kochanske Stock, Univ. of Houston.

SESSION 31: SCHNEIDER 1140
Heroic Poetry of the Edda and Its Afterlife
Sponsor: Viking and Medieval Scandinavia
Organizer: Carolyne Larrington, St. John’s College, Univ. of Oxford
Presider: Carolyne Larrington
PAPER 3 OF 3: Wagner, Morris, and the Sigurd Figure: Confronting Freedom and Uncertainty
David Ashurst, Durham Univ.


SESSION 37: BERNHARD 157
Dante, Fruits of an NEH Seminar I: Historical and Literary Perspectives on the Comedy
Sponsor: NEH Summer Seminar on Dante
Organizer: Christopher Kleinhenz, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison
Presider: Thomas Parisi, Saint Mary’s College
PAPER 4 OF 4: Dante and Game Theory: Strategic Interaction in Inferno
John Alcorn, Trinity College


SESSION 39: BERNHARD 204
Publishing Chaucer, Lydgate, and Hoccleve from Manuscript to Print
Sponsor: Early Book Society
Organizer: Martha W. Driver, Pace Univ.
Presider: Mary Morse, Rider Univ.
Caxton’s Canterbury Tales: “It Does Exactly What It Says on the Tin”
Barbara Bordalejo, Univ. of Birmingham
Writing Fame: Renaissance Chaucer Editions’ Epitaph Transcriptions and the Construction of Chaucer
Arnold Sanders, Goucher College
Sixteenth-Century Readers of the 1721 Chaucer
David Sprunger, Concordia College
Literary Men, Kings, and Princes: Nineteenth-Century Facsimiles and Medieval Literary History
Siân Echard, Univ. of British Columbia


SESSION 51: SANGREN 2301
Teaching King Arthur and Ethnicity/Race (A Roundtable)
Sponsor: TEAMS (The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages)
Organizer: Anita Obermeier, Univ. of New Mexico
Presider: Karolyn Kinane, Plymouth State Univ.
A roundtable discussion with Dorsey Armstrong, Purdue Univ.; Kevin J. Harty, La Salle Univ.; Christine M. Neufeld, Eastern Michigan Univ.; Anita Obermeier; Meg Roland, Marylhurst Univ.; and Bonnie Wheeler, Southern Methodist Univ.


SESSION 56: WALDO LIBRARY CLASSROOM A
Using Digital Resources for Teaching Medieval Studies (A Workshop)
Sponsor: Digital Initiatives Advisory Board, Medieval Academy of America
Organizer: Dorothy Carr Porter, Royal Irish Academy
Presider: James C. Cummings, Univ. of Oxford
The workshop examines useful Web sites, tools, and projects for teaching medieval studies and methods to be used by both intructors and students for evaluating online resources. Pre-registration is recommended, walk-ins will be welcome pending available space. The fee for Medieval Academy members/non-members is $15/$25 students, $25/$35 non-students for pre-registration, and $35/$45 for walk-ins. To register, contact Dot Porter at dot.porter@gmail.com. The workshop is limited to 35 participants.



1:30-3:00 PM

SESSION 58: VALLEY II 201
Chivalry and the Effects of War: Comparative Approaches across Borders and Time
Sponsor: Dept. of History, Univ. of Rochester
Organizer: Craig M. Nakashian, Southeast Missouri State Univ.
Presider: Craig M. Nakashian
PAPER 3 OF 3: The New “Knight Errantry”? Privateering and the Elizabethan Chivalric Revival
Peter Sposato, Univ. of Rochester


SESSION 68: VALLEY I 105
Why Arthur? Reflections on the International Appeal of the Matter of Britain in thePost-medieval World (A Roundtable)
Sponsor: Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Villains of the Matter of Britain and the Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages
Organizer: Michael A. Torregrossa, Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Villains of the Matter of Britain/Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages
Presider: Mikee Delony, Abilene Christian Univ.
Glorious Gods: The Eschatology of Camelot
Joshua Fullman, Southern Illinois Univ.–Carbondale
Arthur’s Popularity: Legacy, Hybridity, and Salvation
Matthew T. Hanson, Cornell Univ.
Crafting the Witch: The Transformation of Morgan le Fay
Heidi J. Breuer, California State Univ.–San Marcos
Perception and Joy: Political Commentary in Dryden’s King Arthur and Milton’s Paradise Lost
Kara Larson Maloney, Binghamton Univ.
Arthur and Merlin go to France: Arthurian Fantasy in French
Anne Berthelot, Univ. of Connecticut


SESSION 69: VALLEY I 106
Shakespeare and Otherness
Sponsor: Shakespeare at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Linda Shenk, Iowa State Univ.
Presider: Joseph F. Stephenson, Abilene Christian Univ.
The Alien Other of La Pucelle in Shakespeare’s I King Henry VI
Jason R. Gildow, Independent Scholar
Revenge Is But a Wilderness of Tigers
Jessica Trant, Univ. of South Florida
Reading Lucretius in Elsinore
Christopher Crosbie, North Carolina State Univ.


SESSION 76: FETZER 1035
Time, Space, Place I: Internal Geographies in Neomedieval Electronic Media
Sponsor: Medieval Electronic Multimedia Organization (MEMO)
Organizer: N. M. Heckel, Univ. of Rochester
Presider: Ryan T. Harper, Univ. of Rochester
Taking the Long Road: Transportation and Shrinking Geographies in Virtual Neomedieval Worlds
Thomas Rowland, St. Louis Univ.
(Re)Mapping Geography and Dynasty: Culture, Religion, and Cartography in Crusader Kings: Deus Vult
Jason Pitruzzello, Univ. of Houston
Neomedieval Heroic Spaces: Vermin-Infested Cellars and Beyond
Chad Simpson, Univ. of Michigan–Ann Arbor


SESSION 88: SCHNEIDER 1255
Global Progeny
Sponsor: Scholarly Community for the Globalization of the Middle Ages
(SCGMA)
Organizer: Gabriel Gryffyn, Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities
Presider: Maria Cecire, Univ. of Chicago/Univ. of Oxford
Zen Dog: Lian Hearn’s Otori Pentalogy
Sheng-mei Ma, Michigan State Univ.
The Percival Complex: Understanding the Role of the Imperfect Hero in the Global Popularity of Juvenile Manga Series
Lorna Wolcott Cooper, Lubbock Christian Univ.


SESSION 89: BERNHARD 105
In Honor of Tom Shippey I: Philology
Organizer: William F. Hodapp, College of St. Scholastica
Presider: William F. Hodapp
PAPER 2 OF 2: The Wisdom of Philology
Michael S. Nagy, South Dakota State Univ.
PAPER 3 OF 3: Them Philologists: Philological Practices and Their Discontents from Nietzsche to Cerquiglini
Richard Utz, Western Michigan Univ.


SESSION 92: BERNHARD 204
The Index of Middle English Verse: From Text to Database
Sponsor: Early Book Society
Organizer: Martha W. Driver, Pace Univ.
Presider: John Block Friedman, Kent State Univ.–Salem
The Index of Middle English Verse: Printed or Electronic?
Linne R. Mooney, Univ. of York
The iMEV: From Reference Book to Database
David H. Radcliffe, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ.
The iMEV: An Open-Access, Web-Based Edition of the Index of Middle English Verse: Prototype Demonstration
Daniel W. Mosser, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ.


SESSION 94: BERNHARD 209
Is Medieval Studies Undergoing a Paradigm Shift? (A Panel Discussion)
Sponsor: Digital Medievalist
Organizer: Peter Robinson, Univ. of Birmingham
Presider: Rebecca Welzenbach, Univ. of Michigan–Ann Arbor
A panel discussion with Larry J. Swain, Univ. of Illinois–Chicago; Benjamin Albritton, Stanford Univ.; Daniel Paul O’Donnell, Univ. of Lethbridge; Nicole Guenther Discenza, Univ. of South Florida; and Melodie Harris Eichbauer, Florida Gulf Coast Univ.


SESSION 98: BERNHARD 211
Characters and Characterization in Medieval French Theater
Organizer: Mario B. Longtin, Univ. of Western Ontario
Presider: Mario B. Longtin
PAPER 2 OF 2: François Villon: Poet, Character, and Movie Star
Corneliu Dragomirescu, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris/Univ. of California–Los Angeles


SESSION 100: SANGREN 2204
Early Medievalisms: 1600 to 1900
Sponsor: Center for Medieval Studies, Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities
Organizer: Elissa Hansen, Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities
Presider: Elissa Hansen
An Unpublished Seventeenth-Century Anglo-Saxon Glossary by Nathaniel Spinckes in the Bodleian Library, Oxford
Dabney A. Bankert, James Madison Univ.
Enlightened Medievalisms: On the Function of the Medieval in the Scottish Enlightenment
Ken Fullam, Univ. of South Carolina
Medievalism, Post-1848 Czech Nationalism, and the Beginnings of Medieval Archaeology in Bulgaria and Ukraine
Florin Curta, Univ. of Florida


SESSION 101: SANGREN 2209
Teaching Tristan: Interdisciplinary Strategies for Approaching Literature and Culture
Sponsor: Tristan Society
Organizer: James L. Zychowicz, Tristan Society
Presider: Christopher R. Clason, Oakland Univ.
Learning from Generational Differences: The Lexicon and Rhetoric of Love in Gottfried von Strassburg’s Tristan
Salvatore Calomino, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison
Teaching Tristan’s Teaching: Assessing the Merits of a Courtly Education
Joshua M. H. Davis, Univ. of Montana
Teaching Tristan: Sources for Music
James L. Zychowicz


SESSION 104: SANGREN 2302
Motets and the Like
Sponsor: Musicology at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Cathy Ann Elias, DePaul Univ.; Julia Wingo Shinnick, Univ. of Louisville; and Mary E. Wolinski, Western Kentucky Univ.
Presider: Sarah Carleton Latta, Univ. of Toronto
PAPER 3 OF 3: Teaching the Motet and Medieval Performance Practice to Undergraduate
Music Theory Student through a Comparison of Written Editions with Recorded Performances
Richard O. Devore, Kent State Univ.


SESSION 108: WALDO LIBRARY CLASSROOM A
Using Digital Resources for Research in Medieval Studies (A Workshop)
Sponsor: Digital Initiatives Advisory Board, Medieval Academy of America
Organizer: Dorothy Carr Porter, Royal Irish Academy
Presider: James C. Cummings, Univ. of Oxford
The workshop examines Web sites, tools, and projects that may be of use for medievalists from a variety of disciplines, as well as methods to be used by scholars for evaluating such tools. Pre-registration is recommended, walk-ins will be welcome pending available space. The fee for Medieval Academy members/non-members is $15/$25 students, $25/$35 non-students for pre-registration, and $35/$45 for walk-ins.
To register, contact Dot Porter at dot.porter@gmail.com. The workshop is limited to 35 participants.



3:30-5:00 PM

SESSION 113: VALLEY II 202
In Honor of Tom Shippey II: Medievalism
Organizer: William F. Hodapp, College of St. Scholastica
Presider: William F. Hodapp
Ulterior Alteriority: The Middle Ages and Global Periodicity
Peter H. Goodrich, Northern Michigan Univ.
Really Ancient Druids in British Medievalist Drama
Clare A. Simmons, Ohio State Univ.
Middle-Earth and the Waste Land: Greenwood, Apocalypse, and Post-War Resolution
Edward L. Risden, St. Norbert College


SESSION 131: FETZER 1035
Time, Space, Place II: Neomedieval Electronic Media and the Construction of Community
Sponsor: Medieval Electronic Multimedia Organization (MEMO)
Organizer: N. M. Heckel, Univ. of Rochester
Presider: Carol L. Robinson, Kent State Univ.–Trumbull
Navigating the Labyrinth and Ascending to the Shadow Council: The Mapping and Discourse of Vampire Communities in Online Application Games
Vanessa M. Bosley, Xavier Univ./Cincinnati State Technical and Community College
“My Friends and Allies”: Medieval Games, Interactivity, and Social Play in Social Network Applications
Serina Patterson, Univ. of Victoria
Mapping the Medieval Outlaw as Media Creature: Robin Hood and Electronic Fan Productions
Valerie B. Johnson, Univ. of Rochester


SESSION 133: FETZER 1055
The Crusades: New Directions
Sponsor: Texas Medieval Association (TEMA)
Organizer: Paul E. Chevedden, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Univ. of California–Los Angeles
Presider: James R. King, Midwestern State Univ.
PAPER 2 OF 3: Teaching Crusades Historiography to Senior High School Students: New Directions Down Under
Anthony Dale, Inverell High School


SESSION 136: FETZER 2020
Dress and Textiles II: Imagined and Re-imagined
Sponsor: DISTAFF (Discussion, Interpretation, and Study of Textile Arts, Fabrics, and Fashion)
Organizer: Robin Netherton, DISTAFF
Presider: Robin Netherton
PAPER 4 OF 4: Deconstructing and Reconstructing Sixteenth-Century Clothing in Film
Melanie Schuessler, Eastern Michigan Univ.


SESSION 137: FETZER 2030
Constructions of Joan of Arc: Fifteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Sponsor: International Joan of Arc Society/Société Internationale de l’étude de Jeanne d’Arc
Organizer: Jane Marie Pinzino, Florida State Univ.
Presider: Craig Taylor, Centre for Medieval Studies, Univ. of York
Engendering Fama at the Nullification Trial of Joan of Arc
Gail Orgelfinger, Univ. of Maryland–Baltimore County
Scriptural Interpretations in the Rehabilitation of Joan of Arc
Jane Marie Pinzino
“Occupying” Her Place in History: Joan of Arc in Postwar France
Stephanie L. Coker, Univ. of Mississippi


SESSION 139: SCHNEIDER 1155
Old English Poetry
Presider: Joyce Hill, Univ. of Leeds
PAPER 4 OF 4: A Recitable Performing Text: Notes on Translating Beowulf into Chinese
Stella Wang, Univ. of Rochester



5:30 PM
FETZER 1035
Medieval Electronic Multimedia Organization (MEMO)
Business Meeting


5:45 PM
FETZER 1045
Medieval and Renaissance Arms and Armor Display
Sponsor: Higgins Armory Museum
Organizer: Amy West, Higgins Armory Museum
Presider: Annamaria Kovacs-Mitchell, Independent Scholar
A display of reproduction arms and armor with a focus on German and Italian styles. Items will include museum-quality historical arms and armor reproductions and stage arms reproductions. Exhibitors include armorers, sword smiths, historians,
and experimental archaeologists who will discuss the reconstruction of production and use based on historical evidence, and also stage combatants who will discuss the difference between the theatrical and the historical.


7:30 PM
FETZER 1005
Film Screening: The Last Legion (Wikipedia entry)


7:30-9:00 PM

SESSION 167: VALLEY II 205
Medieval Sources in Pope Benedict XVI
Sponsor: St. Mary’s School of Theology, Univ. of St. Thomas, Houston
Organizer: Paul E. Lockey, Univ. of St. Thomas, Houston
Presider: Paul E. Lockey
Benedict XVI’s Retrieval of the Concept of Revelatio as Found in Saint Bonaventure’s Collationes in Hexaemeron
James B. Anderson, St. Mary’s School of Theology, Univ. of St. Thomas, Houston
Unlocking Benedict XVI’s Inner Bonaventure
Justin D. Aquila, Institute of Faith and Culture, Univ. of St. Thomas, Houston
The End of Times: The Impact of Medieval Sources on Benedict XVI’s Eschatology
Mary DeBroeck, Univ. of St. Thomas, Houston


SESSION 168: VALLEY II 207
How to Get Published: Advice from Editors and Insiders (A Panel Discussion)
Sponsor: La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Organizer: Sol Miguel-Prendes, Wake Forest Univ.
Presider: Sol Miguel-Prendes
Demystifying the Book Publication Process
Ellie Ferguson, Boydell & Brewer
Three Reasons (at Least) to Take Heart: Publishing in Medieval Hispanic Studies
Jerome E. Singerman, Univ. of Pennsylvania Press
“No amount of revision could make this publishable”: Putting Unconstructive Criticism to Use
Emily C. Francomano, Georgetown Univ.


SESSION 169: VALLEY I 100
Readers’ Theater Performance of the Brome The Sacrifice of Isaac and the York Abraham and Isaac
Sponsor: Chaucer Studio
Organizer: Warren Edminster, Murray State Univ.
Presider: Warren Edminster
A readers’ theater performance with Thomas J. Farrell, Stetson Univ.; Alan Baragona, Virginia Military Institute; J. Justin Brent, Presbyterian College; D. Thomas Hanks, Jr., Baylor Univ.; Gloria J. Betcher, Iowa State Univ.; and Dana-Linn Whiteside, Roanoke College.


SESSION 180 BERNHARD 157
Archaeo-ecologies of the Medieval: Collaborations in Place
Organizer: Gillian R. Overing, Wake Forest Univ.
Presider: Kelley Wickham-Crowley, Georgetown Univ.
PAPER 3 OF 4: Archaeo-ecologies of Elfdom: From Mirkwood to Du Weldenvarden
Marijane Osborn, Univ. of California–Davis


SESSION 181: BERNHARD 159
Oral Tradition and the Teaching of Medieval Texts (A Panel Discussion)
Sponsor: Oral Tradition
Organizer: Lori Ann Garner, Rhodes College, and Heather Maring, Arizona State Univ.
Presider: Lori Ann Garner
A panel discussion with Evelyn Birge Vitz, New York Univ.; Joyce Coleman, Univ. of Oklahoma; William Layher, Washington Univ. in St. Louis; Paul B. Creamer, East Stroudsburg Univ.; and Leslie K. Arnovick, Univ. of British Columbia.


SESSION 184: BERNHARD 210
Laurie Finke and Martin Shichtman’s King Arthur and the Myth of History (A Roundtable)
Sponsor: Arthuriana
Organizer: Dorsey Armstrong, Purdue Univ.
Presider: Dorsey Armstrong
A roundtable discussion with Eileen A. Joy, Southern Illinois Univ.–Edwardsville; David W. Marshall, California State Univ.–San Bernardino; Myra J. Seaman, College of Charleston; Christine M. Neufeld, Eastern Michigan Univ.; and Anna Klosowska, Miami Univ. of Ohio.


SESSION 186: BERNHARD 212
Voices of the Medieval in Children’s and Young Adult Literature: Others and Othering
Organizer: Kate Koppy, Andrews Univ.
Presider: Meredith Jones Gray, Andrews Univ.
The Orphan Motif in Harry Potter
Wendy Gouine, Eastern Michigan Univ.
Explorations of Class in Medievalesque Literature for Children and Young Adults
Kate Koppy
Catherine, Crispin, and the Midwife’s Apprentice: Names and Identity in Children’s Literature
Erin Banks, Ball State Univ.


SESSION 187: BERNHARD 213
Teaching with Second Life: A Virtual Reality
Sponsor: TEAMS (The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages)
Organizer: Anita Obermeier, Univ. of New Mexico
Presider: Daniel T. Kline, Univ. of Alaska–Anchorage
Virtually Medieval
Tamara F. O’Callaghan, Northern Kentucky Univ.
Modeling the Medieval Theater: Teaching and Performance in a Virtual Space
Sharon Collingwood, Ohio State Univ.
The Virtual Pardoner: Creating a Second Life Supplement to Chaucer’s Troubling Text
Sarah L. Higley, Univ. of Rochester
Respondent: Martha W. Driver, Pace Univ.