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
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