Literature Compass Pre-Kalamazoo Round-Up
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As Kalamazoo fast approaches, we’re delighted to provide a list of panels below which Literature Compass editors and board members will be involved with this year.
As usual, we hope to have some post-conference coverage of ‘Zoo so do keep an eye on the blog in the days following the conference!
List of Kalamazoo Panels with Literature Compass editors or editorial board members:
Thursday May 8, lunchtime
Session 47
Bernhard Brown & Gold Room
The Political Arthur
Sponsor: Arthurian Literature
Organizer: David F. Johnson, Florida State Univ.
Presider: James P. Carley, York Univ.
Arthurus Rex, Alexander Imperator
Thomas Hahn, Univ. of Rochester
Who Would Write a Letter about Piers Gaveston in the Voice of Morgan le Fay?
Michael W. Twomey, Ithaca College
Arthur and Empire in Early Tudor England: Leland’s Assertio . . . Arturij (1544) and Laboryouse Journey (1549)
Stewart Mottram, Univ. of Aberystwyth
Thursday May 8, 3:30 p.m.
Session 126
Schneider
1140
Chaucer as Translator II: Latin
Sponsor: Chaucer Review
Organizer: David Raybin, Eastern Illinois Univ., and Susanna Fein, Kent State Univ.
Presider: Michael W. Twomey, Ithaca College
Chaucer’s Vernacular Epic of Translation and Creative Instability
Sarah Powrie, St. Thomas More College
Chaucer and Patristic Translation Theory
Sarah Baechle, Univ. of Notre Dame
Chaucer’s Translation of the Vulgate Parallels
L. Kip Wheeler, Carson-Newman College
Thursday May 8, 7:30 p.m.
Session 161
Valley I
Shilling
Lounge
The Influence of the Crusades on Middle English Literature
Sponsor: Rossell Hope Robbins Library, Univ. of Rochester
Organizer: Leila K. Norako, Univ. of Rochester
Presider: Leila K. Norako
Crusade Ideology and Conversionary Fears in The Siege of Milan
Alan S. Ambrisco, Univ. of Akron
Fantasies of Crusading and Conversion in The King of Tars and The Sultan
of Babylon
Kristi C. Castleberry, Univ. of Rochester
Following (in) Their Footsteps: Romance Cartographies of the East
Robert Rouse, Univ. of British Columbia
Session 165
Fetzer
1060
Reading Gower Aloud: An Experimental Workshop with Multilinguality
Organizer: Joyce Coleman, Univ. of Oklahoma
Presider: Joyce Coleman
A workshop with Alison A. Baker, California State Polytechnic Univ.–Pomona;
Mica Dawn Gould, Grambling State Univ.; Alexander L. Kaufman, Auburn
Univ.–Montgomery; James M. Palmer, Prairie View A&M Univ.; Michael W. Twomey, Ithaca College; and R. F. Yeager, Univ. of West Florida.
Session 183
Bernhard
213
New Voices in Anglo-Saxon Studies
Sponsor: International Society of Anglo-Saxonists
Organizer: David F. Johnson, Florida State Univ.
Presider: David F. Johnson
“This mystery is a pledge”: Some Lexical Aspects of Ælfric’s Theology of the
Eucharist
Matthias Ammon, Robinson College, Univ. of Cambridge
A New Approach to Understanding Variation in Beowulf
Karen Bollermann, Arizona State Univ.–Polytechnic Campus
Nominal Compounds, Discourse Structures, and Manuscript Presentations in
the Two Versions of the Old English Boethius
Jonathan Davis-Secord, Univ. of Texas–Arlington
The Sublime Avenger: Divine Vengeance in Anglo-Saxon Literature
Andrew M. Pfrenger, Univ. of Connecticut
Session 147
Valley III
Stinson
Lounge
Ploughing the Field of Cultural Production: Medieval Authorship and Pierre
Bourdieu
Organizer: James Hala, Drew Univ.
Presider: Burt Kimmelman, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Can the Field of Cultural Production Be Enfiefed?
James Hala
Who’s in Charge Here? Gendered Role Reversals and the Division of Authorship
in Alan of Lille’s Plaint of Nature
Amy L. Hume, Univ. of Kansas
Reconstructing the Italian Trecento’s Field of Struggles: A “Rerealization” of
Dante’s Poetry
Glenn A. Steinberg, College of New Jersey
Field of Power, Poetic Dispositions: The Literary Field in Ricardian England
R. James Goldstein, Auburn Univ.
Discussant: Burt Kimmelman
Friday May 9, 10:00 a.m.
Session 194
Valley II
Community
Building
Lounge
Teaching Piers Plowman (A Roundtable)
Sponsor: Yearbook of Langland Studies
Organizer: Emily Steiner, Univ. of Pennsylvania
Presider: Michelle Karnes, Univ. of Missouri–Columbia
A roundtable discussion with Larry Scanlon, Rutgers Univ.; Elizabeth Robertson,
Univ. of Colorado–Boulder; Louise M. Bishop, Clark Honor College, Univ. of
Oregon; Theodore L. Steinberg, SUNY–Fredonia; and Thomas Goodmann,
Univ. of Miami.
Friday May 9, 1:30 p.m.
Session 254
Valley I
106
New Scholarship on Ælfric: A Companion to Ælfric
Organizer: Mary Swan, Univ. of Leeds
Presider: Joyce Hill, Univ. of Leeds
Catechetic Homiletics: Ælfric’s Teaching and Preaching during Lent
Robert K. Upchurch, Univ. of North Texas
Ælfric and the Limits of “Benedictine Reform”
Christopher A. Jones, Ohio State Univ.
Boredom, Brevity, and Last Things: Ælfric’s Style and the Politics of Time
Kathleen M. Davis, Princeton Univ.
Session 280
Schneider
1330
Why Am I Me? On Being Born in the Middle Ages I
Sponsor: Medieval Club of New York
Organizer: Nicola Masciandaro, Brooklyn College, CUNY
Presider: Richard H. Godden, Washington Univ. in St. Louis
The Sorrow of Being in the Cloud of Unknowing
Nicola Masciandaro
Being Silly: On Non Sequitur
Anna Klosowska, Miami Univ. of Ohio
Losing Anthropocentrism: Folcuin’s Horse, Yvain’s Lion, and the Two Trueloves
Karl Steel, Brooklyn College, CUNY
Dying Is an Art, like Everything Else: The Lowly, Unsettled Aesthetics of
Guthlac-Becoming
Eileen A. Joy, Southern Illinois Univ.–Edwardsville
Session 272
Schneider
1140
Anglo-Saxon Studies in Memory of Stephen O. Glosecki I
Sponsor: International Society of Anglo-Saxonists
Organizer: David F. Johnson, Florida State Univ.
Presider: Elaine M. Treharne, Florida State Univ.
Performance and Audience in the Exeter Book Riddles (Animals and Birds)
Jill A. Frederick, Minnesota State Univ.–Moorhead
Making and Breaking a Crux in the Nine Herbs Charm
László Sándor Chardonnens, Radboud Univ. Nijmegen
Works as Words: Beowulf as Memorial Space
Mary K. Ramsey, Southeastern Louisiana Univ.
Friday May 9, 3:30 p.m.
Session 324
Schneider
1140
Anglo-Saxon Studies in Memory of Stephen O. Glosecki II
Sponsor: International Society of Anglo-Saxonists
Organizer: David F. Johnson, Florida State Univ.
Presider: Marijane Osborn, Univ. of California–Davis
Grendel’s Kin: Myths of Man-Eating Giants
John Edward Damon, Univ. of Nebraska–Kearney
Beowulf and the “Grendel” Charters: A Nativist View
John D. Niles, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison
Totemic Reflexes in Tolkien’s Middle-Earth
Yvette Kisor, Ramapo College
Friday May 9, evening
Valley I 106
Reading Malory’s Morte Darthur Aloud: Man-Woman Dialogue in the Morte Darthur
Organizer: D. Thomas Hanks, Jr., Baylor Univ.
Presider: D. Thomas Hanks, Jr.
A readers’ theater performance with Dorsey Armstrong,
Purdue Univ.; Stephen Atkinson, Park Univ.; Alison A.
Baker, California State Polytechnic Univ.–Pomona; Karen
Cherewatuk, St. Olaf College; Julie Nelson Couch, Texas
Tech Univ.; Miriam Rheingold Fuller, Univ. of Central
Missouri; Melanie M. Gibson, Southern Methodist Univ.;
Mica Dawn Gould, Grambling State Univ.; Emily Huber, Univ. of Rochester; Kimberly Jack, Univ. of California–
Davis; Janet Jesmok, Univ. of Wisconsin–Milwaukee;
Timothy Jordan, Indiana State Univ.; Amy S. Kaufman,
Northeastern Univ., John Leland, Salem International
Univ.; Stephen Maulsby, Catholic Univ. of America; Maud
Burnett McInerney, Haverford College; Sharmila Mukherjee,
Purdue Univ.; Claire Nave, California State Univ.–
Fullerton; Leila K. Norako, Univ. of Rochester; Marlene
Ruby-Canaday, Independent Scholar; Gregory M. Sadlek,
Cleveland State Univ.; Kendra O’Neal Smith, Univ. of California–
Davis; John William Sutton, Univ. of Rochester;
Paul Thomas, Brigham Young Univ.; Michael W. Twomey,
Ithaca College; Karen Williams, Univ. at Albany; and
Joseph S. Wittig, Univ. of North Carolina–Chapel Hill.
Saturday May 10, 1:30 p.m.
Session 406
Valley III
Stinson Lounge
Papers from Dr. Kim’s Seminar: The Other Texts of the Beowulf Manuscript
Organizer: Teresa Hooper, Univ. of Tennessee–Knoxville
Presider: Susan M. Kim, Illinois State Univ.
Decius of Dagnus, Dog-Headed or No: The Many Faces of the Saint Christopher
Story
Eric Jurgens, Northern Illinois Univ.
The Betrayal of Alexander: Self-Fashioning, Hybridity, and Unreliable Narrative
in the Letter of Alexander to Aristotle
Michelle Kustarz, Wayne State Univ.
“And especially that they did not have the head for the body”: Transformation
and Group Dynamics in the Old English Passion of Saint Christopher and
Passion of Saint Edmund
Andrew Grubb, Univ. of Connecticut
Discussant: Eileen A. Joy, Southern Illinois Univ.–Edwardsville
Session 412
Valley II
Garneau
Lounge
Negotiating the Past with Lee Patterson I
Organizer: Candace Barrington, Central Connecticut State Univ.
Presider: Candace Barrington
Gower’s Ovidianism
Maura Nolan, Univ. of California–Berkeley
Chaucerian Ekphrasis: Question the Politics of Epic Vision in the Knight’s Tale
Andrew James Johnston, Freie Univ. Berlin
The Value of Chaucer
Robert J. Meyer-Lee, Goshen College
The Long Middle Ages: Varro and Civic Allegory
Ethan Knapp, Ohio State Univ.
Session 447
Schneider
2145
Textual Cultures/Cultural Texts, 1350–1600
Sponsor: History of Text Technologies (HOTT), Florida State Univ.
Organizer: Richard K. Emmerson, Florida State Univ.
Presider: Elaine M. Treharne, Florida State Univ.
Layout and Meaning in Late Medieval Bibles
Eyal Poleg, Centre for the History of the Book, Edinburgh Univ.
Reading, Textual Transmission, and Incarnational Play: The Libraries of the
English Benedictines of Cambrai and Paris
Nancy Bradley Warren, Florida State Univ./National Humanities Center
The Missing Book: Revising Some Ideas about the French Renaissance
Lori J. Walters, Florida State Univ.
Saturday May 10, 3:30 p.m.
Session 466
Valley II
Garneau
Lounge
Negotiating the Past with Lee Patterson II (A Roundtable Discussion)
Organizer: Candace Barrington, Central Connecticut State Univ.
Presider: Larry Scanlon, Rutgers Univ.
A roundtable discussion with Seeta Chaganti, Univ. of California–Davis; Patricia
DeMarco, Ohio Wesleyan Univ.; Matthew Giancarlo, Univ. of Kentucky; Carroll
Hilles Balot, Univ. of Toronto; Ellie Johnson, Univ. of California–Berkeley; Emma
Lipton, Univ. of Missouri–Columbia; and Jennifer L. Sisk, Yale Univ.
Session 500
Schneider
2145
The Materiality of Text, 1000–1500
Sponsor: Group for the History of Books and Texts, The English Association
Organizer: Elaine M. Treharne, Florida State Univ.
Presider: Jill A. Frederick, Minnesota State Univ.–Moorhead
Living by the Book in Chaucer’s Franklin’s Tale
Karrie Fuller, San Diego State Univ.
The Power of the Fixed Text? Competing Functions, the Struggle for Authority,
and the Nature of Textuality in the York Register (British Library MS
Additional 35,290)
Liberty Stanavage, Univ. of California–Santa Barbara
Session 490
Schneider
1235
Cognitive Approaches to Medieval Literature III
Organizer: Ronald J. Ganze, Univ. of South Dakota
Presider: Michael D. C. Drout, Wheaton College
Augustine’s Confessions and the Neurology of Narrative
May 10, 3:30 p.m.
Cognitive Aging and Wisdom in Old English Poetry
Corey J. Zwikstra, Univ. of Notre Dame
Beyond Christian and Pagan: Beowulf and Theological Correctness
Eric Lutrell, Univ. of Oregon
Cognitive Theory, Sensual Performance, and Rhythmic Texts
Jill Stevenson, Marymount Manhattan College
Sunday May 11, 8:30 a.m.
Session 540
Schneider
1280
What Is the Place of the Present in Medieval Studies? (A Roundtable)
Sponsor: BABEL Working Group
Organizer: Eileen A. Joy, Southern Illinois Univ.–Edwardsville
Presider: Myra J. Seaman, College of Charleston
Hello, I Must Be Going: The Medievalist’s Theme Song (Opening Remarks)
Nancy F. Partner, McGill Univ.
Roundtable: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, George Washington Univ.; Betsy McCormick,
Mount San Antonio College; Andrew Scheil, Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities;
Angela Jane Weisl, Seton Hall Univ.; Glenn D. Burger, Queens College and Graduate
Center, CUNY; Steve Guthrie, Agnes Scott College; Karma Lochrie, Indiana Univ.–
Bloomington; and Bruce Holsinger, Univ. of Virginia.
Session 515
Valley II
203
Medieval Border Cultures I: Wales and England
Sponsor: Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Research (MEMO), Swansea
Univ.
Organizer: Helen Fulton, Swansea Univ.
Presider: Daniel Power, Swansea Univ.
“From comlye Conway unto Clyde”: Anglo-Welsh Border Culture in the
Chester Shepherds’ Play
Robert W. Barrett, Jr., Univ. of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign
Borders and Bodies: Spaces of Hybridity in Medieval Chester
Catherine A. M. Clarke, Swansea Univ.
The Welsh Troilus
Simon Meecham-Jones, Univ. of Cambridge/Swansea Univ.
Session 538
Schneider
1220
Using Twelfth-Century English Manuscripts
Sponsor: Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220, Univs. of
Leicester and Leeds
Organizer: Orietta Da Rold, Univ. of Leicester
Presider: Mary Swan, Univ. of Leeds
Translating the Translation: Latin and Vernacular Glossing in Anglo-Saxon
Manuscripts, ca. 1066–1200
Mark Faulkner, St. John’s College, Univ. of Oxford
An Anglo-Saxon Minster in the Margins: Detecting the Influence of Saint
Guthlac’s Minster in Twelfth-Century Hereford
Chris Tuckley, Univ. of Leeds
Dangerous Liaisons: Scribal Connections, 1050–1200
Elaine M. Treharne, Florida State Univ.
Sunday May 11, 10:30 a.m.
Session 588
Schneider
1280
Is There a Theory in the House of Old English Studies? (A Roundtable)
Sponsor: BABEL Working Group and The Heroic Age: A Journal of Early Medieval
Northwestern Europe
Organizer: Eileen A. Joy, Southern Illinois Univ.–Edwardsville, and Larry J.
Swain, Univ. of Illinois–Chicago
Presider: Eileen A. Joy
A roundtable discussion with Kathleen M. Davis, Princeton Univ.; Renée R. Trilling,
Univ. of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign; Kathryn Powell, Univ. of Manchester/
Univ. of Cambridge; Mary Swan, Univ. of Leeds; Mary Dockray-Miller, Lesley Univ.;
Jacqueline Stodnick, Univ. of Texas–Arlington; and Stacy S. Klein, Rutgers Univ.
Session 576
Fetzer
1035
Medieval Border Cultures II: Cultural Frontiers in Britain and France
Sponsor: Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Research (MEMO), Swansea
Univ.
Organizer: Helen Fulton, Swansea Univ.
Presider: Simon Meecham-Jones, Univ. of Cambridge/Swansea Univ.
A Monetary Frontier? Money of Account and Coinage in the Angevin-Capetian
Borderlands
Daniel Power, Swansea Univ.
Trinkets and Charms: The Use and Socio-cultural Significance of Dress Accessories
from Two Border Regions in Britain, ca. 1300–1700
Eleanor Standley, Durham Univ.
Between the Living and the Dead: Late-Onset Anchoritism in the Middle Ages
Liz Herbert McAvoy, Swansea Univ.
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