SMART for 2015

Subscriptions are now available for the 2015 issues of Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching. Full information at http://webs.wichita.edu/?u=smart&p=index.

The Spring number (see below) will focus on teaching Chaucer.

SMART Fall 2014 News

The latest number (21.2 for Fall 2014) of Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching is now available. It is a special issue on "Teaching Medieval Drama" guest edited by Sheila Christie. Full contents will be posted as soon as they are made available on the SMART web site (http://webs.wichita.edu/?u=smart).

Higgins Armory Museum RIP

John Sexton at the MassMedieval blog recently reported on the closure of one of Massachusetts real treasures for the medievalist, the Higgins Armory Museum in Worcester. The museum will officially close at the end of the year--so visit now while you still can--and be merged with the collection of the Worcester Art Museum. The official press release can be accessed at the following URL: http://www.higgins.org/integration-worcester-art-museum.

Medieval and Renaissance Forum CFP 2013

34th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum (Proposal Deadline 1/14/13)
Plymouth State University
Plymouth, NH, USA
Friday and Saturday April 19-20, 2013
Call for Papers and Sessions
“Travel, Contact, Exchange”
Keynote speaker: David Simon, Art History, Colby College

We invite abstracts in medieval and Early Modern studies that consider how travel, contact, and
exchange functioned in personal, political, religious, and aesthetic realms.

● How, when, where, and why did cultural exchange happen?
● What are the roles of storytelling or souvenirs in experiences of pilgrimage or Crusade?
● What is exchanged, lost, or left behind in moments of contact?
● How do such moments of contact and exchange hold meaning today?

Papers need not be confined to the theme but may cover many aspects of medieval and Renaissance
life, literature, languages, art, philosophy, theology, history and music.

Students, faculty, and independent scholars are welcome.
Undergraduate student papers or sessions require faculty sponsorship.

This year’s keynote speaker is David L. Simon. He is Jetté Professor of Art at Colby College, where he has
received the Basset Award for excellence in teaching. He holds graduate degrees from Boston University
and the Courtauld Institute of Art of the University of London. Among his publications are the catalogue
of Spanish and southern French Romanesque sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The
Cloisters and studies on Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Aragon and Navarra, Spain. He is coauthor of recent editions of Janson’s History of Art: The Western Tradition and Janson’s Basic History of
Western Art. Since 2007 he has co-directed an annual summer course and conference on Romanesque
art for the University of Zaragoza, Spain.

For more information visit www.plymouth.edu/medieval

Please submit abstracts and full contact information to Dr. Karolyn Kinane, Director or
Jini Rae Sparkman, Assistant Director: PSUForum@gmail.com.
Abstract deadline: Monday January 14, 2013
Presenters and early registration: March 15, 2013

Corporate Medievalism Contents Update

Corporate Medievalism, volume 21 in the Studies in Medievalism series, has recently been released. An earlier post detailed the basics of the book, but now the contents (below) can be matched with their respective authors.


Contents
1 Editorial Notes (Karl Fugelso)
2 Lives of Total Dedication? Medieval and Modern Corporate Identity (M. J. Toswell)
3 Reincorporating the Medieval: Morality, Chivalry, and Honor in Post-Financial-Meltdown Corporate Revisionism (Kevin Moberly and Brent Moberly)
4 Medievalism and Representations of Corporate Identity (KellyAnn Fitzpatrick and Jil Hanifan)
5 Knights of the Ownership Society: Economic Inequality and Medievalist Film (Harry Brown)
6 A Corporate neo-Beowulf: Ready or Not, Here We Come (E. L. Risden)
7 Unsettled Accounts: Corporate Culture and George R.R. Martin's Fetish Medievalism (Lauryn S. Mayer)
8 Historicizing Neumatic Notation: Medieval Neumes as Cultural Artefacts of Early Modern Times (Eduardo Henrik Aubert)
9 Hereward the Dane and the English, but Not the Saxon: Kingsley's Racial Anglo-Saxonism (Michael R. Kightley)
10 From Romance to Ritual: Jessie L. Weston's Gawain (Helen Brookman)
11 The Cinematic Sign of the Grail (J. Rubén Valdés Miyares)
12 Destructive Dominae: Women and Vengeance in Medievalist Film (Felice Lifshitz)
13 Neomedievalism Unplugged (Pamela Clements and Carol L. Robinson)
14 Notes on Contributors

CFP Chivalry Collection

Chivalry and the Medieval Past, call for submissions of essays 
Publication Date: 2012-08-31
Date Submitted: 2012-07-02
Announcement ID: 195520

This is a call for contributions to a volume of essays on the theme of chivalry and the medieval past, to be co-edited by Dr Barbara Gribling and Dr Katie Stevenson of the University of St Andrews. The volume will consider chivalry (in its broadest conception, inc. war, iconography, culture, material culture etc) across all periods but from the perspective of its roots in the Middle Ages. The emphasis of this volume is historical: we are not excluding literature, but ‘medievalism’ is well-served by scholars of literature. By drawing together the work of historians (medievalists, early modernist and modernists alike), we hope to open new vistas to the study of the medieval past. We are encouraging a diverse a collection as possible and we would also encourage you to think ambitiously and experimentally! If your work lends itself to some interesting ideas on this topic and you might be willing to contribute to the volume, please get in touch to find out more.

Email Katie Stevenson on kcs7@st-andrews.ac.uk

Dr Katie Stevenson School of History University of St Andrews Email: kcs7@st-andrews.ac.uk

Terry Jones and the Medieval

The Medieval Python: The Purposive and Provocative Work of Terry Jones (with additional information in the center from WorldCat)
The New Middle Ages
Edited By R. F. Yeager and Toshiyuki Takamiya

Palgrave Macmillan, May 2012
ISBN: 978-0-230-11267-4, ISBN10: 0-230-11267-6
6.000 x 9.250 inches, 278 pages, 1 figures,

Hardcover $95.00

No one working today in Middle English studies or in period-related film and/or documentary can proceed untouched by Terry Jones' thought-provoking views. Through films such as Monty Python and the Holy Grail, educational television series for BBC and the History Channel, and books such as Chaucer's Knight and Who Murdered Chaucer?, Jones has applied his unique combination of carefully researched scholarship, keen intelligence, fearless skepticism of establishment thinking, and broad good humor to challenge, enlighten, and reform. The Medieval Python: The Purposive and Provocative Work of Terry Jones collects original essays by prominent and diverse medievalists in literature and history to celebrate the work of a dedicated independent scholar whose criticism has redirected how we understand the world of Chaucer and life in the Middle Ages.

"The Medieval Python: Essays presented to Terry Jones on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday collects original essays by eighteen prominent medievalists in literature and history to celebrate the work of a dedicated independent scholar whose consistently independent literary and historical criticism has several times redirected how we understand the world of Chaucer and his contemporaries. His film and television productions have entertained and educated generations of viewers about life in the Middle Ages"

The Medieval Works of Terry Jones--S.Ikeda

Young Jones at Oxford 1961-62--V.A.Kolve

The Earl of Arundel, the War with France, and the Anger of King Richard II--C.Given-Wilson

Terry Jones's Richard II--N.Saul

Terry Jones: The Complete Mediaevalist--M.Palin

Medieval Monks and Friars: Differing Literary Perceptions--D.Pearsall

Gower's Manuscript of the Confessio Amantis--P.Nicholson

Gower in Winter: Last Poems--R.F.Yeager

The Naughty Bits: Dating Chaucer's House of Fame and Legend of Good Women--J.M.Bowers

Honi soit qui mal y pense: Adultery and Anxieties about Paternity in Late Medieval England--M.Bennett

Needy Knights and Wealthy Widows: The Encounters of John Cornewall and Lettice Kirriel, 1378-1382--W.M.Ormrod

Making Medievalism: Teaching the Middle Ages through Film--M.Driver

The Silly Pacifism of Geoffrey Chaucer and Terry Jones--W.A.Quinn 

Legs and the Man: The History of a Medieval Motif--R.F.Green 

Chaucer, Langland, and the Hundred Years War--D.Wallace 

Jack and John: The Plowman's Tale--P.Martin

A Prayer Roll Fit for a Tudor Prince--J.J.Thompson 

Macbeth and Malory in the 1625 Edition of Peter Heylyn's Microcosmus: A Nearly Unfortunate Tale-- T.Takamiya

 

About the Editors:

R.F. Yeager is a professor of English and Foreign Languages and chair of the department at the University of West Florida. He is President of the International John Gower Society and the editor of JGN: The John Gower Newsletter. He has written and edited more than seventeen books and collections of essays, including John Gower's Poetic: The Search for a New Arion; A Concordance to the French Poetry and Prose of John Gower; Who Murdered Chaucer? A Medieval Mystery, with Terry Jones, Terry Dolan, Alan Fletcher and Juliette Dor; John Gower: The Minor Latin Works; John Gower: The French Balades and Approaches to Teaching John Gower's Poetry, with Brian W. Gastle.

Toshiyuki Takamiya, MA, HonLittD (Sheffield), HonDLitt (Glasgow), FSA, is Professor Emeritus at Keio Univeristy. He co-edited Aspects of Malory, with Derek Brewer, and has published many books and articles on Malory, Hilton, and the history of the book. He is Director of the Early Book Society and the Editor-in-chief of Poetica. 

The Medieval Review

I just realized that I had never provided a link to The Medieval Review on the blog.

Begun in 1993 (!), The Medieval Review (originally the Bryn Mawr Medieval Review) provides timely reviews of works of scholarship, editions and translations of interest to medievalists. The e-journal can be accessed online at https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/3631 and/or received via email per the instructions on the website.

Rebecca Barnhouse’s Novels

The Medieval News blog has a post on Rebecca Barnhouse’s new novel Peaceweaver, which is inspired by episodes from Beowulf. 

An interview with Barnhouse on the novel appears at Suvudu, and an earlier interview at The Enchanted Inkpot looks at her earlier book, The Coming of the Dragon, which is also based on material in Beowulf. 

Barnhouse has published further material set in the Middle Ages for young readers as well as two academic studies of similar works. Her website is: http://www.rebeccabarnhouse.com/. 

New from Studies in Medievalim

Studies in Medievalism recently published Cahier Calin: Makers of the Middle Ages. Essays in Honor of William Calin, edited by Richard Utz and Elizabeth Emery, with the following contents:

Jesse G. Swan: Erasmus, Calin, Reading and Living -2 
Alicia C. Montoya: Madame de Sévigné’s Aristocratic Medievalism -3 
William Paden: Pound’s Troubadours -5 
Roy Rosenstein: Helen Waddell at Columbia: Maker of Medievalists -6 
M. Jane Toswell: Seamus Heaney and Beowulf -9 
Tom Shippey: Rudyard Kipling -10 
Gwendolyn Morgan: J.R.R. Tolkien: Medievalism and Middle Earth -12 
Edward Risden: Shakespeare: Making Medieval Character -13 
Barbara K. Altmann: Christine de Pizan as Maker of the Middle Ages -15 
Nils Holger Petersen: B.S. Ingemann: Danish Medievalism of the Early Nineteenth Century -17 
Veronica West-Harling: Errol le Cain’s Fairy Tales as Manuscript Illustration -18 
Carol Robinson: Edna Edith Sayers (f.k.a. Lois Bragg) -20 
Pam Clements: Margaret Atwood and Chaucer: Truth and Lies -21 
Richard Utz: Bernhard ten Brink and German English Studies in Lotharingia -23 
Gayle Zachmann: Marcel Schwob’s Archeologies and Medievalism -24 
Elizabeth Emery: Albert Robida, Medieval Publicist -26 
Gina Psaki: C.S. Lewis: More Maiorum -29 
Kathleen Verduin: The Medievalism of Charles Eliot Norton -30 
Karl Fugelso: Tom Phillips’ Dante -32 
Caroline Jewers: Six Views of William Morris -33 
List of Contributors -35.

A new edition with some content changes is available for purchase as Makers of the Middle Ages: Essays in Honor of William Calin at Lulu.com.

My thanks to Richard Utz's blog medievalism-medievalismo-mediävalismus-médiévalisme for the head's up.

Medieval YouTube

If you're looking for an innovative way to approach a medieval topic, check out the History for Music Lovers Channel on YouTube. A group of history teachers use modern songs to present information on medieval history and literature (among other topics). (Thanks to Mr. Vincent Zibelli of Smithfield High School for the head's up.)

SMART 2011 Issues

Here are the details on the 2011 issues of Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching:

Fall 2011 (Volume 18, Issue 2)

TEACHING ITALY
(guest edited by Barbara Stevenson)

BARBARA STEVENSON Introduction to Teaching Italy

MARY BETH LONG Gum-Poppers Deserve their Own Level of Hell: Teaching the Inferno to Baptists

BARBARA STEVENSON Representations of Saladin in the (New) Middle Ages

KURT M. BOUGHAN Teaching Goro Dati’s Libro segreto

KATHRYN A. HALL Teaching Christine de Pizan and the Text via Late Medieval Book Production in Bologna and Paris

CARL GRINDLEY The Whisper Game: Teaching Stemmatics

DARCI N. HILL Altered Arguments: A Textual Analysis of George Herbert’s “Man”

JAY RUUD “A Great Flash of Understanding”: Teaching Dante and Mysticism

ALEXANDRA COOK “Why Study the Middle Ages?”  On Re-Imagining the Medieval Literature Survey

JOHN M. GANIM Book Review:  Illustrating Camelot, by Barbara Tepa Lupack with
Alan Lupack

ANTHONY J. CÁRDINAS-ROTTUNNO Book Review:  The Arts of Intimacy: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Making of Castilian Culture, by Jerrilyn D. Dodds, María Rosa Menocal, and Abigail Krasner Balbale

LESLEY A. COOTE Book Review:  Shakespeare Films in the Making: Vision, Production and Reception, by Russell Jackson

GWENDOLYN MORGAN Book Review:  Key Concepts in Medieval Literature, by Elizabeth Solopova and Stuart D. Lee

EDWARD CHRISTIE Book Review:  Imaginary Worlds in Medieval Books: Exploring the Manuscript Matrix, by Martha Dana Rust

ROBERT GRAYBILL Book Review:  The Medieval British Literature Handbook, edited by Daniel T. Kline

Spring 2011 (Volume 18, Issue 1)

TEACHING POSTCOLONIA HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE 
(guest edited by Michael Matto)

MICHAEL MATTO Foreword: Teaching Postcolonial History of the English Language

ANDREW TROUP Postcolonial HEL: Where Do I Find Room on My Syllabus?

ELISE E. MORSE-GAGNÉ From Sutton Hoo to Tougaloo: Teaching HEL at an HBCU

ROBERT STANTON Teaching Varieties of English in the HEL Classroom

K. AARON SMITH Standardization after 1600 and Its Effects on Two Domains of English Linguistic Structure

JOSHUA PARENS Showing Students the Importance of Political Philosophy in Medieval Islamic and Jewish Philosophy

JANE BLANCHARD Staying on Course with Spenser

GAVIN T. RICHARDSON Practical Paleography in the Chaucer Classroom

JENNY ADAMS Breaking the Waves: Margery Kempe Goes South

ROBERT BRAID Book Review:  Deviance and Power in Late Medieval London, by Frank Rexroth, translated by Pamela E. Selwyn

NIALL SHANKS Book Review:  The Black Death  1346–1353: The Complete History, by Ole J. Benedictow

MEL STORM Book Review:  Chaucerian Spaces: Spatial Poetics in Chaucer’s Opening Tales, by William F. Woods

AMY MORRIS Book Review:  Mary Queen of Scots: An Illustrated Life, by Susan Doran

REBECCA BRUNSON Book Review:  The Yale Companion to Chaucer, edited by Seth Lerer

DAVID J. DUNCAN Book Review:  The Seventh Crusade, 1244–1254: Sources and Documents, edited by Peter Jackson

CATHERINE R. ESKIN Book Review:  Romance for Sale in Early Modern England: The Rise of Prose Fiction, by Steve Mentz

GWENDOLYN MORGAN Book Review:  Erotic Discourse and Early English Religious Writing, by Lara Farina

Tolkien and His Sources

Tolkien and the Study of His Sources: Critical Essays
Edited by Jason Fisher

Print ISBN: 978-0-7864-6482-1
EBook ISBN: 978-0-7864-8728-8
notes, bibliography, index
240pp. softcover (6 x 9) 2011
Price: $40.00


About the Book
Source criticism--analysis of a writer’s source material--has emerged as one of the most popular approaches in exploring the work of J.R.R. Tolkien. Since Tolkien drew from many disparate sources, an understanding of these sources, as well as how and why he incorporated them, can enhance readers’ appreciation. This set of new essays by leading Tolkien scholars describes the theory and methodology for proper source criticism and provides practical demonstrations of the approach.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations xi
Preface
Jason Fisher 1

Introduction: Why Source Criticism?
Tom Shippey 7
Source Criticism: Background and Applications
E. L. Risden 17
Tolkien and Source Criticism: Remarking and Remaking
Jason Fisher 29
The Stones and the Book: Tolkien, Mesopotamia, and Biblical Mythopoeia
Nicholas Birns 45
Sea Birds and Morning Stars: Ceyx, Alcyone, and the Many Metamorphoses of Eärendil and Elwing
Kristine Larsen 69
“Byzantium, New Rome!” Goths, Langobards, and Byzantium in The Lord of the Rings
Miryam Librán-Moreno 84
The Rohirrim: “Anglo-Saxons on Horseback”? An Inquiry into Tolkien’s Use of Sources
Thomas Honegger 116
William Caxton’s The Golden Legend as a Source for Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings
Judy Ann Ford 133
She and Tolkien, Revisited
John D. Rateliff 145
Reading John Buchan in Search of Tolkien
Mark T. Hooker 162
Biography as Source: Niggles and Notions
Diana Pavlac Glyer and Josh B. Long 193

About the Contributors 215
Index 219


About the Author
Jason Fisher is an independent scholar specializing in J.R.R. Tolkien, the Inklings, and Medieval Germanic philology. He is also the editor of Mythprint, the monthly publication of The Mythopoeic Society, and has written for Tolkien Studies, Mythlore, Beyond Bree, North Wind, Renaissance, and other publications.

Welsh Mythology and Folklore in Popular Culture

Welsh Mythology and Folklore in Popular Culture: Essays on Adaptations in Literature, Film, Television and Digital Media

Edited by Audrey L. Becker and Kristin Noone 

Series Editors Donald E. Palumbo and C.W. Sullivan III

Print ISBN: 978-0-7864-6170-7
EBook ISBN: 978-0-7864-8725-7
notes, bibliographies, index
234pp. softcover (6 x 9) 2011
Price: $35.00

About the Book
Examining how we interpret Welshness today, this volume brings together fourteen essays covering a full range of representations of Welsh mythology, folklore, and ritual in popular culture. Topics covered include the twentieth-century fantasy fiction of Evangeline Walton, the Welsh presence in the films of Walt Disney, Welshness in folk music, video games, and postmodern literature. Together, these interdisciplinary essays explore the ways that Welsh motifs have proliferated in this age of cultural cross-pollination, spreading worldwide the myths of one small British nation.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Re-Imagining Wales
AUDREY L. BECKER and KRISTIN NOONE 1
Celtic Studies and Modern Fantasy Literature
C.W. SULLIVAN III 9
“The Rough, Savage Strength of Earth”: Evangeline Walton’s Human Heroes and Mythic Spaces
KRISTIN NOONE 18
Branwen’s Shame: Voicing the Silent Feminine in Evangeline Walton’s The Children of Llyr
NICOLE A. THOMAS 30
Disavowing Maternity in Evangeline Walton’s The Virgin and the Swine: Fantasy Meets the Social Protest Fiction of the 1930s
DEBORAH HOOKER 42
“An Age-Old Memory”: Arthur Machen’s Celtic Redaction of the Welsh Revival in The Great Return
GEOFFREY REITER 61
Magical Goods, “Orphaned” Exchanges, Punishment and Power in the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi
SUSANA BROWER 81
The Hand at the Window: Twm Siôn Cati, the Welsh Colonial Trickster
JONATHAN EVANS and STEPHEN KNIGHT 91
An Irregular Union: Exploring the Welsh Connection to a Popular African-American Wedding Ritual
TYLER D. PARRY 108
Constructing Myth in Music: Heather Dale, King Arthur and “Culhwch and Olwen”
MEGAN MACALYSTRE 130
Torchwood’s “Spooky-Do’s”: A Popular Culture Perspective on Celtic Mythology
LYNNETTE R. PORTER 140
Everyday Magic: Howl’s Moving Castle and Fantasy as Sociopolitical Commentary
CAROLYNN E. WILCOX 160
Loosely Based: The Problems of Adaptation in Disney’s The Black Cauldron
JEFF HICKS 171
We’re Not in Cymru Anymore: What’s Really Happening in the Online Mabinogi
CLAY KINCHEN SMITH 182
Temporality, Teleology and the Mabinogi in the Twenty-First Century
AUDREY L. BECKER 195

Further Reading 213
About the Contributors 219
Index 221


About the Author
Audrey L. Becker is an assistant professor of English literature at Marygrove College in Detroit, Michigan. She writes on the intersection between Renaissance literature and cultural studies.  

Kristin Noone is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Riverside; her dissertation links medieval romance, fantasy fiction, and popular culture studies. She publishes academic articles on fantasy and medievalism as well as short fantasy fiction.

Donald E. Palumbo is a professor of English at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. He lives in Greenville.

C.W. Sullivan III is Distinguished Professor of arts and sciences at East Carolina University and a full member of the Welsh Academy. He is the author of numerous books and the on-line journal Celtic Cultural Studies

Corporate Medievalism

Corporate Medievalism
Studies in Medievalism XXI

Edited by Karl Fugelso

Details

First Published: 19 Jul 2012
$90.00

13 Digit ISBN: 9781843843221
Pages: 208
Size: 23.4 x 15.6
Binding: Hardback
Imprint: D.S.Brewer
Series: Studies in Medievalism
Subject: Medieval Literature
BIC Class: DSBB
Details updated on 27 Nov 2011

Academia has never been immune to corporate culture, and despite the persistent association of medievalism with escapism, perhaps never has that been more obvious than at the present moment. The six essays that open the volume explore precisely how financial institutions have promoted, distorted, appropriated, resisted, and repudiated post-medieval interpretations of the middle ages. In the second part of the book, contributors explore medievalism in a variety of areas, juxtaposing specific case studies with broader investigations of the disciplines' motives and methods; they include Charles Kingsley's racial Anglo-Saxonism, Jessie L. Weston's Sir Gawain and the treatment of women in medievalist film. The book also includes a spirited response to previous Studies in Medievalism volumes on the topic neomedievalism.

Contributors: Harry Brown, Henrik Aubert, Helen Brookman, Pamela Clements, KellyAnn Fitzpatrick, Jil Hanifan, Michael R. Kightley, Felice Lifshitz, Lauren S. Mayer, Brent Moberley, Kevin Moberley, E. L. Risden, Carol L. Robinson, M. J. Toswell, J. Rubén Valdés Miyares

Contents
1 Editorial Notes
2 Lives of Total Dedication? Medieval and Modern Corporate Identity
3 Reincorporating the Medieval: Morality, Chivalry, and Honor in Post-Financial-Meltdown Corporate Revisionism
4 Medievalism and Representations of Corporate Identity
5 Knights of the Ownership Society: Economic Inequality and Medievalist Film
6 A Corporate neo-Beowulf: Ready or Not, Here We Come
7 Unsettled Accounts: Corporate Culture and George R.R. Martin's Fetish Medievalism
8 Historicizing Neumatic Notation: Medieval Neumes as Cultural Artefacts of Early Modern Times
9 Hereward the Dane and the English, but Not the Saxon: Kingsley's Racial Anglo-Saxonism
10 From Romance to Ritual: Jessie L. Weston's Gawain
11 The Cinematic Sign of the Grail
12 Destructive Dominae: Women and Vengeance in Medievalist Film (Felice Lifshitz) (abstract)
13 Neomedievalism Unplugged
14 Notes on Contributors

Medievalism at NEPCA

A number of papers with medieval subjects will be presented in November at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury Connecticut, from 11-12 November. The complete program is now available online.

FRIDAY, 11 NOV., 4-5:30 PM
8) Science and Technology I/Symposium: Geeks, Gadgets and Games: The Influence of Technology on Media Entertainment in Contemporary Culture (ROOM: WHITE 024)

PAPER 1 OF 3: “From Mighty Thor to Thor: Problematizing the Inherent Societal Values and Individual Identities of “Geek” Culture Artifacts Appropriated by Mainstream America” – Jessica Eckstein and David Kazibut, Western Connecticut State University

SATURDAY, 12 NOV., 8:30-10 AM

6) Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Legend II: Legends Old and New (ROOM: WARNER 320)

PAPER 1 OF 4: “The Werewolf: Out of Bounds”—Barry Hall, University of Nizwa

PAPER 2 OF 4: “Robin Hood in Ballad and Film”—Kerry R. Kaleba, George Mason University

PAPER 3 OF 4: “What Do Vampires Have to Do with the Holy Grail? The Transformation of the Grail Legend in Undead Arthuriana”—Michael A. Torregrossa, The Virtual Society for the Study Of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages

SATURDAY, 12 NOV., 10:30 AM - 12 PM 

8) Science Fiction, Fantasy and Legend III: Fantasy (ROOM: WHITE 023)

1. “ ‘Epic’ in Epic-Fantasy Literature”—Robert Luce, Independent Scholar

2. “ Who Is Afraid of Merlin? The Darkening of Merlin in Modern Arthurian Fiction” -- Anne Berthelot, University of Connecticut

3. “ ‘Close This Book Right Now’: The Writer-Character in Children’s Fantasy”-- Amie A. Doughty, SUNY Oneonta

4. “Fandom 2.0: Fantasy, Social Media, and Fan Creativity” -- James Kennedy, Columbia College

SATURDAY, 12 NOV., 1:30-3 PM

2) Comics and Graphic Novels II: Damsels Causing Distress (ROOM: WARNER 226)

PAPER 2 OF 4: “Vampiric Viragoes: Villainizing and Sexualizing Arthurian Women in King Arthur v. Dracula (2005) and Madame Xanadu (2008)”—Kate Allocco, Western Connecticut State University

Medieval Popular Culture and Arthurian Legends (12/15/11; PCA Boston 4/11-14/12)

Medieval Popular Culture and Arthurian Legends, April 11-14th, 2012, Boston, Massachusetts
42nd Annual Popular and American Culture Associations Conference
contact email: kaufmana@mtsu.edu

Medieval Popular Culture and Arthurian Legends at the 42nd Annual Popular and American Culture Associations Conference

April 11-14th, 2012, Boston, Massachusetts

Call for papers and panel proposals on all popular treatments of the Middle Ages or Arthurian Legend from any period and in any medium. We will consider all proposals for papers, but we especially encourage abstracts on the following for this year’s conference:

Arthurian themes in _Dragon Age_ I and II
Harry Potter and medievalism
The _Lost_ finale and the Holy Grail
Medievalism in Martin’s _Game of Thrones_
_The Mists of Avalon_ after 30 years
New Camelots: _Camelot_ on Starz and the BBC’s _Merlin_
Paranormal romance and medievalism
Robin Hood

Abstracts should not exceed 250 words and papers must keep to a reading time of 15 minutes (approximately 7-8 double spaced pages). Be sure to include your full name, affiliation, mailing address, phone number and email address on your abstract, not just in the email. Email submissions are preferred.

Deadline: December 15, 2011

Send submissions to Amy Kaufman at: kaufmana@mtsu.edu

or mail to:
Amy S. Kaufman
Department of English, Middle Tennessee State University
MTSU Box 0070, 1301 East Main Street Murfreesboro
TN 37132-0001

Please note: Membership in the PCA is required for participation. Membership forms and more information about the conference are available online at www.pcaaca.org.

CFP "Does Beowulf Allow (for) Illustration?" (due 9/5/2011)

http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/42051

New College Conference, March 8-10, 2012, Sarasota, FL: Call for papers: "Does Beowulf Allow (for) Illustration?" (due 9/5/2011)
full name / name of organization:
Matthew J. Snyder / University of Florida
contact email:
msnyder@ufl.edu

This session will seek to explore the question: Can Beowulf be illustrated, or does the poem exhibit and/or foster an inherent antagonism between sign and icon? Recent efforts to provide illustration that augments (or perhaps subsumes or subordinates) the poem's 3182 lines of text, including Seamus Heaney and John D. Niles' Beowulf: An Illustrated Edition (Norton, 2007), the graphic novel Beowulf: Monster Slayer (Graphic Universe, 2008), and Robert Zemeckis' 2007 motion-capture animated film, all would seem to push back against what might be termed the text's opacity of the visual imaginary. Do these works and others, including various Beowulf adaptations to film and new media, succeed in their self-appointed task of turning the poem into a (moving-)picture book? Can they? Why might – or might not – these approaches represent successful or failed (re)interpretations or adaptations of the epic, and is there some other logic or desire behind the apparent drive to illustrate Beowulf that we ought to try to get at?

Please submit 250-word abstracts of proposed twenty-minute papers in the body of an email with a current CV attached. The deadline for the submission of abstracts for this session is 5 September 2011. For more on the New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, visit http://faculty.ncf.edu/medievalstudies/index.html.

Matthew J. Snyder
Department of English
University of Florida

CFP The Once and Future Classroom Journal seeks submissions (by 12/15/2011)

http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/42033

The Once and Future Classroom Journal seeks submissions (by 12/15/2011)
full name / name of organization:
TEAMS: The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages
contact email:
cneufeld@emich.edu

The Once and Future Classroom is an electronic journal published by TEAMS (The Consortium for Teaching the Middle Ages). This peer-reviewed journal seeks to encourage medieval studies in the K-12 and community college contexts by providing teachers with inspiring topics, new strategies and academically-sound resources. The OFC is dedicated to representing the diversity of medieval studies and the most current pedagogical modes. The journal welcomes a variety of formats: annotated bibliographies, lesson plans, reviews of teaching materials, books, or films, as well as more traditional scholarship on teaching medieval topics. The journal’s electronic format allows for flexibility in content length, as well as exciting presentation options—such as the inclusion of images, video clips, as well as live links to other web resources.
For more information see: http://www.teamsmedieval.org/ofc/index.html
Or contact the Managing Editor, Dr. Christine Neufeld, at cneufeld@emich.edu.

Friday Sessions for Kalamazoo 2011

FRIDAY, 13 MAY

10:00 AM

Session 172 (Valley II, 201)
Denis Sauvage and Sixteenth-Century Medievalisms
Organizer: Cristian Bratu, Baylor Univ.
Presider: Rosalie Barrera, Baylor Univ.
Where the Author Is Obviously Depraved: Attitudes to the Author Revealed in
Sauvage’s Annotations
Catherine Emerson, National Univ. of Ireland–Galway
Denis Sauvage’s Dilemma: Textual Purity or “Critical Edition”?
Cristian Bratu
What’s in a Name: Commynes Enters the Canon
Irit Ruth Kleiman, Boston Univ.

Session 176 (Valley II, 207)
Anglo-Saxon Studies in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Sponsor: Institute for Medieval Studies, Univ. of New Mexico
Organizer: Timothy C. Graham, Univ. of New Mexico
Presider: Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr., Univ. Leiden
“That Ancient and Once Familiar Language”: Matthew Parker’s Recollections
of Alfredian English
Emily Butler, John Carroll Univ.
Anglo-Saxon Studies in the English Civil War: Abraham Wheelock’s 1644
Edition of Bede’s Historia and Lambarde’s Archaionomia
Rebecca J. Brackmann, Lincoln Memorial Univ.
Thomas Marshall’s Observationes in versionem Anglo-Saxonicam (1665) and the
Beginnings of Textual Criticism in Early Anglo-Saxon Studies
Kees Dekker, Rijksuniv. Groningen

Session 180 (Valley I, 101)
Medieval Sources for the Modern Popes
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
Saint Anselm of Canterbury in Redemptor hominis
Benjamin J. Brown, Lourdes College
Suffering and the Divine Paideia in the Christian Anthropologies of Saint
Augustine and Pope John Paul II
Matthew W. Halbach, Catholic Univ. of America
Benedict XVI’s Retrieval of the Concept of Revelatio as Found in Saint
Bonaventure’s Collationes in Hexaemeron
James B. Anderson, Univ. of St. Thomas, Houston

Session 183 (Valley I, 106)
Hôher êren pflegen: A Session in Honor of Ed Haymes
Sponsor: Society for Medieval Germanic Studies (SMGS)
Organizer: Evelyn Meyer, St. Louis Univ., and Alexander Sager, Univ. of Georgia
Presider: Ray M. Wakefield, Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities
PAPER 3 OF 3: Richard Wagner’s Wieland der Schmied
Danielle Buschinger, Univ. de Picardie-Jules Verne, and Galina Baeva, Sankt
Petersburger Staatliche Univ.

Session 188 (Fetzer 1005)
The Arthur(s) of the Americas
Sponsor: International Arthurian Society, North American Branch (IAS/NAB)
Organizer: Kevin J. Harty, La Salle Univ.
Presider: Kevin J. Harty
Famous in Song and Story: Arthurian Legends in Canadian Music
Ann F. Howey, Brock Univ.
The Transgressive Tristan: John Updike’s Brazil
Roberta Davidson, Whitman College
Childslayers and Once and Future Kings: Guy Gavriel Kay’s Inversion of
Malory’s Morte Darthur
Kathy Cawsey, Dalhousie Univ.
“National Treasure”: America’s Lost Native Arthurian Past
Susan Aronstein, Univ. of Wyoming

Session 194 (Fetzer 2020)
Lighting the Flame: Teaching Early Drama in the Undergraduate Classroom (A
Roundtable)
Sponsor: Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society (MRDS)
Organizer: Gloria J. Betcher, Iowa State Univ.
Presider: Gloria J. Betcher
“The Burgundians knew how to party!”: Student Engagement with a Primary-
Source-Based Unit on Medieval French, Flemish, and English Performance
Lofton Durham, Western Michigan Univ.
“Can we do this all the time?”: Forming a Medieval Drama Troupe
Elizabeth Ellzey, Shepherd Univ.
What Is Medieval Spanish Drama Anyway?
Lori A. Bernard, SUNY–Geneseo
(Extra)Ordinary Women: Teaching Female Agency in Margery Kempe and the
York Plays
Sheila Christie, Cape Breton Univ.
The Text-Appeal of Medieval Drama for a Texting Generation
Alan Baragona, Virginia Military Institute

Session 207 (Schneider 1255)
Clash of Cultures: Confronting the Other in the Middle Ages
Sponsor: Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies
(TACMRS)
Organizer: Denise Ming-yueh Wang, National Chung Cheng Univ.
Presider: Robert E. Bjork, Arizona State Univ.
PAPER 3 OF 3: Why Does Milton Turn His Back on King Arthur?
Hong Shen, Zhejiang Univ.

Session 210 (Schneider 1280)
Scholar as Minstrel: Music and Tolkien
Sponsor: Tolkien at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Robin Anne Reid, Texas A&M Univ.–Commerce
Presider: Keith W. Jensen, William Rainey Harper College
The Harmony of the Worlds and the Horn of Heimdal: Cosmological Music in
Creation and Subcreation
Kristine Larsen, Central Connecticut State Univ.
The Three Greatest Minstrels in Middle-earth: Tolkien’s Early Thoughts on
Music and Power
Brad Eden, Univ. of California–Santa Barbara
Swann’s Songs: Tolkien’s Clues To Tempo, Tone, and Tune in Middle-earth
Music
John R. Holmes, Franciscan Univ. of Steubenville
CSI: Who Killed Cock Robin?
Jennifer Culver, Univ. of Texas–Dallas, and Lynn Payette, Arkansas School for
Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts

Session 213 (Schneider 1330)
The Medieval in Children’s and Young Adult Literature: Classic and Current
Organizer: Meredith Jones Gray, Andrew Univ.
Presider: Meredith Jones Gray
Sacrificing History for Story in Historical Fiction for Young Readers
Rebecca Barnhouse, Youngstown State Univ.
The Enduring Future of the Medieval Quest Narrative: Reading Neal
Stephenson’s The Diamond Age with Nell
Kate Lechler, Florida State Univ.
“Thou art no Christian”: Medievalism and the Suppression of the Jewishness in
Children’s Versions of Ivanhoe
Wendy Love Anderson, Washington Univ. in St. Louis

Session 216 (Schneider 1345)
The Reformation and Medieval Contexts I
Sponsor: Society for Reformation Research
Organizer: Maureen Thum, Univ. of Michigan–Flint
Presider: Brad Gregory, Univ. of Notre Dame
The Investitures Quarrel and the Conversion of Henry IV of France Under the
Pen of Simon Goulart (1543–1628)
Irena Backus, Univ. de Genève
Nicholas Des Gallars, Sieur de Saules, and the Ancient and Medieval Worlds
Jeannine Olson, Rhode Island College
Evangelical Histories of the Roman Church: Novelty, Schism, and Tyranny
Randall Zachman, Univ. of Notre Dame

Session 217 (Schneider 1360)
The Transcultural Middle Ages
Sponsor: postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies
Organizer: Eileen A. Joy, Southern Illinois Univ.–Edwardsville
Presider: Laurie A. Finke, Kenyon College, and Martin B. Shichtman, Eastern
Michigan Univ.
Chaucer, Graunson, and Juan Ruiz’s Libro de buen amor
Lydia Fletcher, Univ. of Oxford
Caxton’s Betweenness: Polyglot Printing and Translingual Mediation
Jonathan Hsy, George Washington Univ.
The Traffic in Monsters: The Scottish Buik of King Alexander and the Malay
Hikayat Iskander Zulkarnain
Su Fang Ng, Univ. of Oklahoma
Neurobiological Alphabets: Foreign Language Systems in Rabanus Maurus,
Boccaccio, and Mandeville
Matthew Boyd Goldie, Rider Univ.
It’s a Poem: A Present Day Use of the Andalusian Muwassaha
Heather Bamford, Univ. of California–Berkeley/College of William and Mary

Session 219 (Schneider 2345)
Low German Medieval Literature: Legends, Drama, Epics, Translations
Organizer: Sibylle Jefferis, Univ. of Pennsylvania
Presider: Sibylle Jefferis
The 1518 Low German Edition of Hieronymus Brunschwig’s Buch der Cirurgia
and Its Terminology
Chiara Benati, Univ. degli Studi di Genova
The Redeemed Wizard: The Figure of Merlin in Der Rheinische Merlin
Francesco Sangriso, Univ. degli Studi di Siena
Auf den Spuren Wielands in der Basilica von San Zeno in Verona
Anna Dalle Mule, Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. München

Session 229 (Bernhard, Brown & Gold Room)
Medieval Books and Their Early Modern Readers
Sponsor: Early Book Society
Organizer: Martha W. Driver, Pace Univ.
Presider: Derek A. Pearsall, Harvard Univ.
Coming Up Roses: The Religio-political Afterlives of Margery Kempe and
Julian of Norwich in Early Modern England
Amy Scott-Douglass, Marymount Univ.
How Francis Thynne Read His Chaucer
Megan Cook, Univ. of Pennsylvania
Making Chaucer Safe for Early Modern Readers
Stephen D. Powell, Univ. of Guelph
Textual Afterlives: The Transmission of Older Scots Writers to the
Enlightenment
Jeremy J. Smith, Univ. of Glasgow


1:30 PM

Session 232 (Valley II, Garneau Lounge)
Philosophy of Aquinas II: Aquinas and Contemporary Philosophy
Sponsor: Center for Thomistic Studies, Univ. of St. Thomas, Houston
Organizer: R. Edward Houser, Center for Thomistic Studies, Univ. of St. Thomas,
Houston
Presider: Mary C. Sommers, Center for Thomistic Studies, Univ. of St. Thomas,
Houston
PAPER 2 OF 3:Love for Animals: Singer and Aquinas
Steve Jensen, Center for Thomistic Studies
PAPER 3 OF 3: Modernity, Tradition, and Society: Thomism and the Early Twentieth Century
in the United States
Markus Faltermeier, Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. München

Session 234 (Valley I, 100)
Medieval Sermon Studies II
Sponsor: International Medieval Sermon Studies Society
Organizer: Ronald J. Stansbury, Roberts Wesleyan College
Presider: George Ferzoco, Univ. of Bristol
PAPER 3 OF 4: Deserentes Omnia: The Sermons of Bertrand de la Tour and the Franciscan
Ideal of Poverty after John XXII
John Zaleski, Harvard Univ.

Session 237 (Valley I, 105)
Medievalisms in Contemporary Poetry (A Reading and Roundtable)
Organizer: Paul Hardwick, Trinity Univ. College, Univ. of Leeds
Presider: Paul Hardwick
A panel discussion with Jane Beal, Independent Scholar, and Adrienne J. Odasso,
Univ. of York.

Session 242 (Fetzer 1005)
Approaching Six Hundred Years of Joan of Arc, Looking Back (A Roundtable)
Sponsor: International Joan of Arc Society/Société Internationale de l’étude de
Jeanne d’Arc
Organizer: Jane Marie Pinzino, Florida State Univ.
Presider: Bonnie Wheeler, Southern Methodist Univ.
The Legacy of Joan to the English, 1431–1831
Gail Orgelfinger, Univ. of Maryland–Baltimore
Six Hundred Years of British Reactions to Joan
Jeremy duQuesnay Adams, Southern Methodist Univ.
La Pucelle, the “Puzzel,” and La Poncella: Joan of Arc in Early Modern
England and Spain
Nancy Bradley Warren, Florida State Univ.
Joan of Arc in the Field
Kelly DeVries, Loyola Univ. Maryland
Joan of Arc in Life and Death
Larissa Juliet Taylor, Colby College

Session 247 (Fetzer 2016)
Anglo-Saxon Exeter and Its Afterlife: Papers in Honor of Patrick W. Conner
Sponsor: Richard Rawlinson Center for Anglo-Saxon Studies and Manuscript
Research
Organizer: Timothy C. Graham, Univ. of New Mexico
Presider: Paul E. Szarmach, Medieval Academy of America
PAPER 3 0F 3: The Early Modern Afterlife of Exeter’s Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts
Timothy C. Graham

Session 262 (Schneider 1265)
Twenty-First-Century Medievalisms
Presider: Julie Nelson Couch, Texas Tech Univ.
“The Darkness of the Womb”: Allegory and Early Medieval Historiography in
S. M. Stirling’s Emberverse
Alicia McKenzie, Wilfrid Laurier Univ.
Rexiles: A Re-envisionist History of the Kings of Britain
Aaron Long, American Univ.
What is the Impact of Popular “Medieval Films” on the Public’s Understanding
of the Middle Ages? A Sociological Approach
Paul B. Sturtevant, Univ. of Leeds
Concerning the Newfound Popularity of Lionheart’s Acre Massacre in Video
Game Narratives
Carl S. Pyrdum, III, Yale Univ.

Session 263 (Schneider 1275)
Of Weasels, Werewolves, and Women
Sponsor: International Marie de France Society
Organizer: Elizabeth W. Poe, Tulane Univ.
Presider: K. Sarah-Jane Murray, Baylor Univ.
PAPER 3 OF 3: Of Werewolves and Noseless Ladies: Teaching Bisclavret in Translation
Jessica Hooten, Univ. of Mary Hardin-Baylor

Session 264 (Schneider 1280)
Geography, Lands, Environments in Tolkien’s Legendarium
Sponsor: Tolkien at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Robin Anne Reid, Texas A&M Univ.–Commerce
Presider: Brad Eden, Univ. of California–Santa Barbara
“We Have Not Here a Lasting City”: The Undying Lands and the Other
Disappearing Landscapes of Arda
Jeffrey Pinyan, Independent Scholar
The Clay of Cataclysm: Graeco-Roman and Medieval Notions of Adaptation
Present in the Building, Destruction, and Rebuilding of Middle-earth
James R. Vitullo, William Rainey Harper College
Geography’s Grammar: A Stylistic Analysis of Middle-earth
Robin Anne Reid
Concerning Horses: Tolkien and Horses in the Legendarium
Janice M. Bogstad, Univ. of Wisconsin–Eau Claire

Session 267 (Schneider 1335)
The Reformation and Medieval Contexts II
Sponsor: Society for Reformation Research
Organizer: Maureen Thum, Univ. of Michigan–Flint
Presider: Carrie Euler, Central Michigan Univ.
Suffering and Penance in Late Medieval and Reformation Pastoral Care
Literature
Ronald Rittgers, Valparaiso Univ.
Tudor-Stuart Deployments of Medieval Notions of the Sacrilege Curse
Michael Kelly, Univ. of Notre Dame
The Place of the Vulgate in Reformation Biblical Scholarship
Bruce Gordon, Yale Univ. Divinity School

Session 269 (Schneider 1345)
Dante II: Dante and Politics: Then and Now
Sponsor: Dante Society of America
Organizer: Christopher Kleinhenz, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison
Presider: Melissa Conway, Univ. of California–Riverside
PAPER 3 OF 3: “Lunga promessa con l’attender corto”: Dante in Today’s Italian Politics
Luigi G. Ferri, John Carroll Univ.

Session 274 (Bernhard 105)
Static and Shifting Landscapes in Medieval Literature, Art, and Thought
Sponsor: Medieval Association of the Midwest (MAM)
Organizer: Cynthia Z. Valk, Vincennes Univ., and Robert A. Benson, Ball State Univ.
Presider: Susann T. Samples, Mount St. Mary’s College
PAPER 3 OF 3: Jane Austin and the Undead: From the Picturesque to the Moonlit Landscape
Robert A. Benson and Cynthia Z. Valk

Session 276 (Bernhard 159)
Madness, Methodology, Medievalisms (A Roundtable)
Sponsor: BABEL Working Group
Organizer: Eileen A. Joy, Southern Illinois Univ.–Edwardsville
Presider: Eileen A. Joy
What Looks Like Crazy: Margery Kempe and the Meanings of Diagnosis
Mo Pareles, New York Univ.
Transversing Our Soundscapes of Lunacy: Agoraphobia and (Un)Masking
Madness
Elliot A. Jarbe, Univ. of Western Ontario
Madness, Masculinity, and the Feminine Audience in Hoccleve’s Series
Jennifer Little, Graduate Center, CUNY
Ni Wood for Sorow: On (the Necessity of) Being at One’s Wit’s End in The Cloud
of Unknowing
Nicola Masciandaro, Brooklyn College, CUNY
Respondent: Michael G. Sargent, Queen’s College, CUNY

Session 284 (Waldo Library, Meader Room)
NEH Seminar “The Reformation of the Book” (2009) I: Evaluating the Impact on
Teaching and Research (A Roundtable)
Sponsor: Special Collections and Rare Book Dept., Waldo Library, Western
Michigan Univ., and the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML)
Organizer: Susan M. B. Steuer, Western Michigan Univ., and Matthew Z.
Heintzelman, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library
Presider: James K. Bracken, Kent State Univ.
A roundtable discussion with Matthew Z. Heintzelman; Emily C. Francomano,
Georgetown Univ.; Rabia Gregory, Univ. of Missouri–Columbia; Laura Williamson
Ambrose, St. Mary’s College, Notre Dame; and John Pendergast, Southern Illinois
Univ.–Edwardsville.


3:30 PM

Session 289 (Valley II, 205)
Rhetoric, Authority, and Aesthetics in Medieval Literature
Sponsor: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, St. Louis Univ.
Organizer: Michael Elam, St. Louis Univ.
Presider: Michael Elam
PAPER 2 OF 4: Kant and the Middle Ages
Peggy A. Knapp, Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Session 297 (Valley I, 109)
Recent Historiography on the Franciscan Movement
Sponsor: Franciscan Institute, St. Bonaventure Univ.
Organizer: Paul Lachance, OFM, Catholic Theological Union
Presider: Paul Lachance, OFM
Poor Francis: The Adventure (and Misadventure) of the Franciscan Movement,
according to Grado Giovanni Merlo
Michael F. Cusato, OFM, Franciscan Institute, St. Bonaventure Univ.
A Conventional or Unconventional Conventual: Michael Robson’s The
Franciscans in the Middle Ages
Steven J. McMichael, OFM Conv., Univ. of St. Thomas, St. Paul
Gender and the Narrative(s) of Franciscan History: Reflections on The
Franciscan Story of Maurice Carmody, and Others
Lezlie Knox, Marquette Univ.

Session 299 (Valley I, Shilling Lounge)
Bridges to Infinity
Sponsor: International Society of Hildegard von Bingen Studies
Organizer: Pozzi Escot, New England Conservatory
Presider: K. Christian McGuire, Augsburg College
PAPER 3 OF 3: Estampie, Virelai, and Rondelet: Medieval Forms in Contemporary Music
Carson Cooman, Harvard Univ.

Session 300 (Fetzer 1005)
Approaching Six Hundred Years of Joan of Arc, Looking Forward (A Roundtable)
Sponsor: International Joan of Arc Society/Société Internationale de l’étude de
Jeanne d’Arc
Organizer: Jane Marie Pinzino, Florida State Univ.
Presider: Nancy Bradley Warren, Florida State Univ.
Extending Our Knowledge of Joan of Arc Sources
Deborah Fraioli, Simmons College
he Maid Marches On: Joan in Modern France and the USA
Nadia Margolis, Mount Holyoke College
The Communion of Saints in a Modern Age and Heroic Virtue in a Time of War
Nora M. Heimann, Catholic Univ. of America
Joan of Arc, the Eucharist, and Martyrdom
Ann W. Astell, Univ. of Notre Dame
The International Joan of Arc Society in 2012
Jane Marie Pinzino
Looking Back and Looking Forward
Bonnie Wheeler, Southern Methodist Univ.

Session 301 (Fetzer 1010)
Dress and Textiles II: Implications and Interpretations
Sponsor: DISTAFF (Discussion, Interpretation, and Study of Textile Arts, Fabrics,
and Fashion)
Organizer: Robin Netherton, DISTAFF
Presider: Robin Netherton
PAPER 4 OF 4: To Be or Not to Be Medieval: Costuming Maid Marian for Film and Television
Sherron Lux, Library, San Jacinto College–North Campus

Session 314 (Schneider 1160)
Modern Reception of Medieval Music
Sponsor: Musicology at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Cathy Ann Elias, DePaul Univ.; Linda Page Cummins, Univ. of Alabama;
and Mary E. Wolinski, Western Kentucky Univ.
Presider: Aleksandra Vojcic, Univ. of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Who Knew Hildegard in the 1870s?
Jennifer Bain, Dalhousie Univ.
Concerning Pitch Context and Tonal Order in Ars Nova Polyphony
Kevin N. Moll, East Carolina Univ.
Morales, Josquin, and the L’homme armé Tradition
Joseph Sargent, Univ. of San Francisco

Session 316 (Schneider 1225)
Imagining Pasts and Futures in Medieval Romance II
Sponsor: Medieval Romance Society
Organizer: Rebecca A. Wilcox, West Texas A&M Univ., Wanchen Tai, Centre for
Medieval Studies, Univ. of York, and Nicola McDonald, Centre for
Medieval Studies, Univ. of York
Presider: Nicola McDonald
PAPER 2 OF 3: Did They Anticipate Our Desire for Them?
Brianna Jewell, Univ. of Texas–Austin
PAPER 3 OF 3: Targeting the Medieval in Halo 2
R. Scott Garbacz, Univ. of Texas–Austin

Session 322 (Schneider 1280)
Returning Heroes: Medieval and Modern in Tolkien’s Legendarium
Sponsor: Tolkien at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Robin Anne Reid, Texas A&M Univ.–Commerce
Presider: Yvette Kisor, Ramapo College
Gandalf’s Sojourn through Purgatory: Medieval and Modern Adventure?
Nicole Andel, Pennsylvania State Univ.
“Well, I’m Back”: Tolkien’s Return Song in Two Part Harmony
Vickie Holtz-Wodzak, Viterbo Univ.
Point of No Return: The Scarred Homecoming in the Writing of J. R. R. Tolkien
Perry Harrison, Abilene Christian Univ.
Making Heroes: The Reception of Returning Soldiers in the Novels of J. R. R.
Tolkien and Virginia Woolf
Margaret Sinex, Western Illinois Univ.

Session 330 (Schneider 2335)
Arthurian Adaptations: Transformation and Interpretation from Text to Film
Sponsor: Arthurian Literature
Organizer: David F. Johnson, Florida State Univ.
Presider: David F. Johnson
Flawless Failure: Guinevere as Warrior-Woman in Antoine Fuqua’s King Arthur
Kimberly T. Anderson, DePaul Univ.
Pendragons at the Chopping Block: Elements of Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight in the BBC’s Merlin
Erin Chandler, Univ. of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign
“Kaamelott”: Revisiting the French Arthurian Tradition
Tara Foster, Northern Michigan Univ.
Post-literary Adaption and Arthurian Film
Kelly E. Hall, Florida State Univ.

Session 332 (Bernhard 105)
Queering the Muse: Medieval Poetry and Contemporary Poetics (A Roundtable)
Sponsor: BABEL Working Group
Organizer: Eileen A. Joy, Southern Illinois Univ.–Edwardsville
Presider: Anna M. Klosowska, Miami Univ. of Ohio
Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan: The Serial, the Field, and the Medieval
Daniel C. Remein, New York Univ.
“Beowulf is a hoax”: Jack Spicer’s Medievalism and Queer Translation
David Hadbawnik, Univ. at Buffalo
Jack Spicer’s Interlinear Death in the Translation of Beowulf
Sean Reynolds, Univ. at Buffalo
Anticipatory Plagiarism and the Ex Post Facto Garde in the Middle Ages
Chris Piuma, Univ. of Toronto
A Basket of Fire: Anne Sexton’s Radical Mysticism
Christopher Roman, Kent State Univ.–Tuscarawas
“Timor mortis conturbat me”: Death, Representational Making, and the Poetics
of the Possible
Katharine W. Jager, Univ. of Houston–Downtown

Session 333 (Bernhard 157)
The Dawn of the Modern Era: Humanism and Early Renaissance in Northern Europe
Sponsor: Fifteenth-Century Studies
Organizer: Mathilde van Dijk, Rijksuniv. Groningen
Presider: Mathilde van Dijk
PAPER 1 OF 3: “King’s Games”: Rhetorical Ethics and Roman Oratory in More’s Richard the Third
Benjamin V. Beier, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison

Session 335 (Bernhard 204)
Teaching Medieval Drama
Sponsor: TEAMS (The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages)
Organizer: Anita Obermeier, Univ. of New Mexico, and Laura Weigert, Rutgers
Univ.
Presider: Laura Weigert
Mankind: The Omnibus Text
Kathleen Ashley, Univ. of Southern Maine
Medieval Drama and Contemporary Dramaturgy: Experiential Learning in the
Twenty-First Century
Edmund B. Lingan, Univ. of Toledo
How to Trust a Medieval Dramatist: The Example of the French Farce
Mario Longtin, Univ. of Western Ontario
Is There a Play in This Book? Editing Lydgate’s Mummings and Entertainments
Claire Sponsler, Univ. of Iowa

Session 336 (Bernhard 208)
Sword in Hand II: Body Mechanics, Weapons Presence, and Purposeful Design in
the Use of the Medieval Longsword (A Demonstration)
Sponsor: Oakeshott Institute
Organizer: Annamaria Kovacs, Independent Scholar
Presider: Annamaria Kovacs
A demonstration with Keith F. Alderson, Oakeshott Institute, and Craig Johnson,
Oakeshott Institute, looking at the role of body mechanics, the weight and balance
of the longsword, and the manifestation of these in production by demonstrating
and discussing the manner in which these weapons were intended to be used. Grips,
stances, blocking, and attacking using the longsword will be shown.

Session 340 (Bernhard, Brown & Gold Room)
In Memory of Charles Muscatine III: Teaching Medieval Literature
Sponsor: Chaucer Review
Organizer: David Raybin, Eastern Illinois Univ., and Susanna Fein, Kent State Univ.
Presider: David Raybin
Bridging the Gap: Chaucer, Medieval Literature, and the Undergraduate
Curriculum
John M. Fyler, Tufts Univ.
The First Published Chaucerian (1665): Richard Brathwait as Frustrated
Pedagogue
Betsy Bowden, Rutgers Univ.–Camden
The Holes in the Miller’s Tale: Who Does What to Which?
Peter G. Beidler, Lehigh Univ., and Grace Hall, Abilene Christian Univ.
Teaching Chaucer at a Minority-Serving Institution
Robert Jacob McDonie, Univ. of Texas, Pan American

Session 341 (Waldo Library, Meader Room)
NEH Seminar “The Reformation of the Book” (2009) II: Research Results
Sponsor: Special Collections and Rare Book Dept., Waldo Library, Western
Michigan Univ., and the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML)
Organizer: Susan M. B. Steuer, Western Michigan Univ., and Matthew Z.
Heintzelman, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library
Presider: Matthew Z. Heintzelman
Sisters, Printers, and Pious Little Books
Rabia Gregory, Univ. of Missouri–Columbia
Marlowe’s Tamburlaine the Great and the Spectacle of Print
John Pendergast, Southern Illinois Univ.–Edwardsville
Keeping up the Scribal Standard in the St. John’s College, Oxford, Copy of
Caxton’s Second Edition of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
Alexander Vaughn Ames, Univ. of South Carolina–Columbia
Travel in Time: The Form of Local Travel and Early English Almanacs
Laura Williamson Ambrose, St. Mary’s College, Notre Dame


5:15 PM

Valley III. Eldridge Lounges
Chaucer Aloud in Honor of Alan Gaylord (A Workshop)
Sponsor: Chaucer Studio
Organizer: Alan Baragona, Virginia Military Institute;
Thomas J. Farrell, Stetson Univ.; Susan
Yager, Iowa State Univ.
Presider: Alan Baragona
Conducted in honor of Alan T. Gaylord, the long-time
organizer of these workshops, the aim of this workshop is
to practice reading Chaucer out loud, with attention given to
matters of pronunciation, scansion, and oral interpretation—
not to mention the pure fun of the poetry! The workshop,
which will run several concurrent small sections, is for
all interested parties (including graduate students) but is
particularly aimed at teachers desiring to brush up on their
classroom delivery. Those interested should pre-register with
Alan Bargona at .


5:45 PM

Fetzer 1055
Medieval Dress/Textile Arts Display and Demonstration
Sponsor: DISTAFF (Discussion, Interpretation, and
Study of Textile Arts, Fabrics, and Fashion)
Organizer: Robin Netherton, DISTAFF
Presider: Robin Netherton
A display of reproduction textile and dress items,
handmade using medieval methods and materials. Items
will include textiles, decorative treatments, garments, and
dress accessories. Exhibitors will demonstrate techniques
and be available to discuss the use of historical evidence
in reproducing artifacts of material culture.


7:30 PM

Valley III, Stinson Lounge
Performing Malory’s Morte Darthur: Tales of Sir Gawain (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.–
Pomona; Kristi J. Castleberry, Univ. of Rochester; Kimberly
Jack, Independent Scholar; Timothy R. Jordan, Kent State
Univ.; John Leland, Salem International Univ.; Maud Burnett
McInerney, Haverford College; Kara L. McShane, Univ. of
Rochester; Meredith Reynolds, Francis Marion Univ.; Rebecca L.
Reynolds, Univ. of Cincinnati; Paul R. Thomas, Brigham Young
Univ.; Katie Lyn Peebles, Marymount Univ.

Fetzer 1005
Film Screening: The Devils (1971)

Fetzer 1010
Tolkien Unbound
Sponsor: Tolkien at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Robin Anne Reid, Texas A&M Univ.–Commerce
Presider: Robin Anne Reid
Maidens of Middle-earth
Eileen Marie Moore, Independent Scholar
The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun
John D. Rateliff, Independent Scholar; Verlyn Flieger, Univ.
of Maryland; and Deidre Dawson, Michigan State Univ.
Music Inspired by the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien
Brad Eden, Univ. of California–Santa Barbara
“Where Did Our Ring Go?”: The Motown Tolkien
Mike Foster, Independent Scholar; Merlin DeTardo,
Independent Scholar; Jo Foster, Independent Scholar; and
Amy Amendt-Raduege, Whatcom Community College
a cash bar will be available