How Interdisciplinary Can We Be? - Kalamazoo 2024 Sponsored Session

Please join us at Kalamazoo online this May for

How Interdisciplinary Can We Be? (Re)Conceiving the Scope of Medieval Studies Today (A Roundtable) (Virtual)

59th International Congress on Medieval Studies (you must register to attend)
Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI)
Virtual Session
Session 46: Thursday, 9 May 2024, from 10:00-11:30 AM EDT



Sponsored by Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture


Organized by Michael A. Torregrossa, Bristol Community College


(Per request of one or more participants, this session will not be recorded.)


Presider: June-Ann Greeley, Sacred Heart University

 

Panelists:

(Re)Writing Trauma: The (Good) Wife of Bath as Therapy

Lindsay Pereira, Concordia University


Lindsay Pereira (she/her) is a neurodivergent MA student in her final year of English Literature at Concordia University, in Montreal, Quebec (Canada), with a BA Specialization in English Literature and a background in Health Sciences. At the university level, she is a T.A. Instructor and Evaluator for Concordia’s English Department, working in conjunction with the Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL) to facilitate the inclusion of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in pedagogy creation at the graduate level. At the pre-college level, Lindsay provides UDL-based literature-centered workshops for the Lester B. Pearson School Board of Montreal in inclusive, adaptive learning environments and makerspaces. Her research interests include medieval Arthurian literature, learning and teaching through gaming, and inclusive pedagogy, with an aim to destigmatize neurodiversity and disability in education through the lens of English writing. Lindsay has presented her work on medieval studies and experiential pedagogy at conferences, including the 2024 Dies Medievales Conference, 2023 International Congress on Medieval Studies, and 2023 SAGE Graduate Student Colloquium, and looks forward to presenting at the upcoming 29th International Medieval Congress at Leeds University in July.



Toward a new Interdisciplinary approach in Arabic Medieval Literature

Amina Boukail,University of Jijel


Amina Boukail is an Associate Professor of comparative literature and Arabic Medieval literature at the University of Jijel, Algeria. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Annaba (Algeria) in 2016. Her dissertation title was “Arabic’s elements in Hebrew andalusian literature.” Her research interests include Arabic medieval literature, Judeo-Arabic, Iberian studies, Algerian literature, minorities in Arabic world. Her publications include: Arabic Maqamat in Universal literatures 2022 in Arabic, and The representation of the Other in Hebrew Andalusian literature in Arabic, Damascus 2023.