The Round Table

NEWS from the North American Branch

NAB Officers 2009-2011 (for full addresses see Bibliographical Bulletin of the International Arthurian Society [BBIAS])

President : Kevin J. Harty (La Salle University)

Immediate Past President: William W. Kibler (University of Texas-Austin)

Vice President: Joan Tasker Grimbert (Catholic University of America)

Secretary-Treasurer: : K. Sarah-Jane Murray (Baylor University)

Advisory Committee:

• Romance Languages: Carol Dover (Georgetown University)

• English: Michael Twomey (Ithaca College)

• Germanic: Siegfried Christoph (University of Wisconsin-Parkside)

• Post-Medieval: Susan Aronstein (University of Wyoming)

• Canadian Representative: Kevin Whetter (Acadia University)

• ARTHURIANA Editor (ex officio): Dorsey Armstrong (Purdue University)

IAS Officers 2009-2011 (for full addresses see BBIAS)

President : Christine Ferlampin-Acher (Université Rennes 2)

Immediate Past President: Peter Field (University of Wales-Bangor)

Vice President: Keith Busby (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Secretary: Maria Colombo Timelli (Università di Milano)

Bibliographical Secretary: Frank Brandsma (University of Utrecht)

Treasurer: Joan Tasker Grimbert (Catholic University of America)

Honorary Presidents:

• Bart Besamusca, University of Utrecht

• Peter Field, University of Wales-Bangor

• Anna Maria Finoli, Università di Milano

• Norris J. Lacy, Pennsylvania State University

• Rita Lejeune, Université de Liège

• Philippe Ménard, Université de Paris-Sorbonne

• Jane H.M. Taylor, University of Durham

• Friedrich Wolfzettel, Universität Frankfurt/Main

Past issues of BBIASand ARTHURIANA: For back issues of BBIAS through vols. 54/2002, contact Joan Grimbert, Dept. of Modern Languages, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC 20064 USA (grimbert@cua.edu); for vols. 55–59/2003–2007, contact K. Sarah-Jane Murray, One Bear Place # 97144, Baylor University, Waco TX USA (SJ_Murray@baylor.edu). Back issues still available are vols. 25–29 (1973–77), 31–34 (1979–82), 36–41 (1984–89), 43 (1991), 45–60 (1993–2008), all for $40 each. All other volumes are out of print. For back issues of ARTHURIANA, contact ARTHURIANA, English Dept, Purdue University, 500 Oval Dr, West Lafayette, IN 47907 USA (sarmstr@purdue.edu).

Your BBIASAbstracts:

Members are reminded that, for inclusion in the society's annual bibliography, they should send bibliographic entries and abstracts for articles or books published in 2008 to Anne Berthelot (anne_berthelot@hotmail.com).

45th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan May 13-16, 2010

Kalamazoo IAS/NAB Business Meeting: Friday, May 14, 12:00 noon, Fetzer 1005. North American Branch Business Meeting with box lunches, $10. (It would be a great help if you could bring the exact amount.)

1. 1. Adoption of agenda

2. 2. Minutes of 2008 meeting (as printed in ARTHURIANA 19.4)

3. 3. President's report

4. 4. Secretary/Treasurer's report (including CFP for Bristol 2011)

5. 5. Bibliographer's report

6. 6. Report from the General Editor of Arthuriana

7. 7. Sessions proposed for the 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies, 2011

8. 8. New business

Reception: Sponsored by IAS/NAB, Thursday, May 13, 5:15 p.m., Bernhard 158. (Cash bar.)

Sessions sponsored by the North American Branch of the International Arthurian Society at the 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 13-16, 2010):

Film: The Last Legion, Thursday, May 13, 7:30 p.m., Fetzer 1005.

Session 126 (Valley I 109): FOOD AND DRINK IN THE ARTHURIAN TRADITION

Organizer: Felicia Nimue Ackerman, Brown Univ.

Presider: Susan Butvin Sainato, Kent State Univ.

1. 1. Malory's Mealtime Miracles

   Amy S. Kaufman, Wesleyan College

2. 2. 'How vertuously she has chaunged': Fasting and Penance in Malory's Morte Darthur

   Felicia Nimue Ackerman

3. 3. Sustenance in the Morte Darthur

   Ann Elaine Bliss, Western Oregon Univ.

4. 4. 'And the food he ate....'

   Carol R. Dover, Georgetown Univ.

Session 206 (Fetzer 1005): THE YOUNG(ER) KING ARTHUR

Organizer: Roberta Davidson, Whitman College

Presider: Kevin J. Harty, La Salle Univ.

1. 1. Knight Terror: King Arthur and America's 'Boy Problem'

   Laurie A. Finke, Kenyon College, and Martin B. Shichtman, Eastern Michigan Univ.

2. 2. When Good King Arthur Ruled This High School: Meg Cabot's Avalon High

   Ann F. Howey, Brock Univ.

3. 3. Arthur and Galahad as Models for Youth

   Alan Lupack, Univ. of Rochester

4. 4. Not Your Boys' King Arthur

   Janina P. Traxler, Manchester College

Session 389 (Valley I 107): THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS IN THE ARTHURIAN TRADITION

Organizer: Susann...