Program, Eighteenth International Congress

Monday, July 23

10:00–4:00: Book Exhibit (University Place, Crater Lake)

9:00–10:30: Concurrent Sessions, Group 1

Session 1A: The Medieval Atlantic, the Medieval Pacific (Ondine 201)

(Thread: Oceans)

Session Organizer and Chair: Meg Worley, Pomona College

• • “A Brave New World: Orality as a Theoretical Bridge between ‘Medieval’ America and the European Middle Ages,” Geoffrey W. Gust, Temple University

• • “Old Chaucer across the Atlantic: Cotton Mather, Anne Bradstreet, and the Medieval Past in Colonial America,” Nancy Warren, Texas A&M University

Session 1B: Embodying Compassion (Ondine 202)

Canceled

Session 1C, Round Table: Strange Speech (Ondine 220)

Session Organizer: Program Committee

Chair: Rob Barrett, University of Illinois

• • “Generic Hybridity and the Middle English Charlemagne Romances,” Elizabeth Watkins, University of Toronto

• • “‘In this may be notid’: Negotiating Strangeness and Familiarity in Middle English,” Emily Butler, John Carroll University

• • “Pilgrims in Cairo,” Erin Maglaque, University of Oxford

Session 1D: Emotional Literacies: The Textual Production of Feeling (Ondine 203)

(Thread: Affect)

Session Organizer and Chair: Myra Seaman, College of Charleston

• • “The Blessed Mary (Sue): Fans of Christ in Middle English Devotional Communities,” Anna Wilson, University of Toronto

• • “Affective Literacy and the Fifteenth-Century Textual Communities of Troilus and Criseyde,” Sara Baechle, University of Notre Dame

• • “Accounting for Disgust in The Reeve’s Tale,” Brantley Bryant, Sonoma State University

• • “Illuminated,” Cary Howie, Cornell University

Session 1E: Physiognomy in the Late Middle Ages (University Place, Coos Bay)

(Thread: Sciences)

Session Organizer: Cord Whitaker, University of New Hampshire

Chair: Jerome Mandel, Tel Aviv University

• • “Marks of Maternal Desire: Pregnancy, Lust, and the Visible Womb in The Merchant’s Tale,” Samantha K. Seal, Yale University

• • “The Colors of Eyes and Hair: Some Caveats Regarding Physiognomic Interpretations of Chaucer,” Daniel J. Ransom, University of Oklahoma

• • “Black, White, and In-Between: Physiognomy, the Spirit, and the Miller’s Alison,” Cord Whitaker, University of New Hampshire

Session 1F: Feminism and Race (University Place, Astoria)

(Thread: Feminisms)

Session Organizer: Nicole Nolan Sidhu, East Carolina University

Chair: Tara Williams, Oregon State University

• • “The Ethics of Gender, Conquest, and Wonder in the Boke of John Mandeville,” Christine Chism, UCLA

• • “Beyond the Pale: Other Women in Chaucer’s Orientalist Tales,” Susan Nakley, Saint Joseph’s College

Session 1G, Round Table: Agential Image (Ondine 218)

(Thread: Image)

Session Organizer and Chair: Shannon Gayk, Indiana University

• • “Sculpture, Body, Person, Prototype,” Marian Bleeke, Cleveland State University

• • “Puppets and Other Articulated Objects,” Allan Mitchell, University of Victoria

• • “Beholding the Likeness: Hoccleve’s ‘Lyfly’ Images,” Sebastian Langdell, University of Oxford

• • “Image-ing the Jew: Words and Pictures in the Vernon Manuscript,” Miriamne Ara Krummel, University of Dayton

10:30–11:00: Coffee Break (University Place Lobby)

11:00–12:30: Concurrent Sessions, Group 2 [End Page 516]

Session 2A, Round Table: Imagining Emotion (University Place, Coos Bay)

(Thread: Affect)

Session Organizer: Program Committee

Chair: Holly Crocker, University of South Carolina

• • “Controlled Burn: Regulating the Fire of Love in Nicholas Love’s Mirror,” Jennifer Garrison, Saint Mary’s University College

• • “Reading for Affect,” Sarah Noonan, Lindenwood University

• • “‘Hertly redyng is a gracious meene to goostly felyng’: Memory and Emotion in The Doctrine of the Hert,” Kate Ash, University of Manchester

• • “Images, Emotion, and Education in Dives and Pauper,” Elizabeth Harper, University of Central Arkansas

Session 2B: Romance and the Neighbor/Stranger (Ondine 201)

(Thread: Neighbor)

Session Organizer and Chair: Thomas Prendergast, College of Wooster

• • “A Scottish Corpse in King Arthur’s Court: Exquisite Insiders in the Stanzaic Morte Arthure,” Mark Bruce, Bethel University

• • “Conversion, Betrayal: Ferumbras as Neighbor in The Sowdon of Babylon,” Emily Houlik-Ritchey, Indiana University

• • “Neighbors and Romance in The Earl of Toulouse,” George Shuffleton, Carlton College

• • “Monsters and Other Neighbors: The Stranger Knight in Medieval Romance,” Richard Godden, Tulane University

Session 2C, Round Table: Political Ecologies (University Place, Astoria)

(Thread: Ecologies)

Session Organizer and Chair: Brantley Bryant, Sonoma State University

• • “ Labbing against the Land,” Alexis Kellner Becker, Harvard University

• • “Economic Landscapes in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales,” Sarah Breckenridge Wright, Skidmore College

• • “Keeping of the Sea,” Ruth Lexton, Bates College; and Mary Kate Hurley, Columbia University

• • “‘King by Kynde’: Allegory and Apiary in Mum and the Sothsegger,” Amanda Walling, University of Hartford...