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2008 Medieval Forum Schedule of Sessions

Friday, April 25 10:10-11:45

• Chaucer I:
  Dr. Brian Campbell "Chaucer, The Three Eagles, and the Desire to Please in The Parliament of Fowls" Emeritus, Vanier College
  Dr. Lisa LeBlanc "Blurred Visions of Public and Private Realms" Anne Maria College
  Prof. Thomas Napierkowksi "Chaucer's Nun's Priest’s Tale and Scholastic Theories of Authorship, Anglo-Saxon" University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

• Art History I: Significant Spaces
  Prof. Anne Harris "Looking In: Spectatorship, Voyeurism and Other Ways of Seeing the Sacred and the Secular in the Roman de la Rose, Douce 195" DePauw University
  Mr. Jasper Van Putten "Kaleidoscope of Microcosmi: Use and Representation in Annibal Caro's Art Collection" University of Massachusetts Amherst
  Dr. Donald Hochstetler "Rhetoricians in Peace and War: The Netherlands Chambers of Rhetoric as Institutions of Secular Expression in An Age of Faith" Worcester State College

• Women I: Marriage and Household
  Ms. Sharon Teague "Private Act/ Public Document: Marriage Reflected in the Wills of Husbands and Wives" Bryant University
  Dr. Jan Marie Evans "Creating a Sacred Space: Marriage as Sacrament" Anne Maria College
  Ms. Alice Cooley "The Female Household in the Lais of Marie de France" Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto

• British and Scandinavian literature/religion
  Prof. John Sexton: Bridgewater College

• Religion and Morality in Early Modern Literature
  Dr. Vanita Neelakanta , "Under Heaven's Eye: Comus as Theatrum Mundi" Rider University
  Dr. Robert Kellerman "The Penitential Moment in George Herbert's The Temple" University of Maine at Augusta

Friday, April 25 2:20-3:50

• Arthuriana I: The Grail
  Dr. Peter Schwartz “Malory's Grail Quest: From Romance to Ritual." Elmira College
  Prof. Ann McCullough "Sacred Questions: Judaic Influence in Chrétien de Troyes' Conte du Graal" Virginia Tech
  Ms. Leigh Elion "In a Grotta Da Vida, Baby: Trevrizent's Cave as a Place of Re-Birth in Wolfram's Parzival" Boston College

• Shakespeare I
  Prof. Christa Mahalik "Background Noise and Uncertainties: Nightmares, Blood, and Sexual Being in the World of Lady Macbeth" Quinnipiac University
  Dr. William Marx "'What's in a Name?': Black Will Slaughter and the Dramatization of Richard III's Murder of the Boy Princes" Michigan State University
  Ms. Danielle Tovsen "Send Ophelia to a Nunnery: A Cultural Perspective" Seton Hall University

• Women II: Women in Early Medieval Popular Religion
  Prof. Vincent Corrigan "Juliana's Office: The Corpus Christi Service" Bowling Green State University
  Prof. Barbara Walters "Liturgist for the Secular Church: Juliana of Mont Cornillon" The City University of New York
  Ms. Ivy Page "The Unveiling of a Virgin: Saint Christina Mirabilis' Life as a Demoniac" New England College

• Bodies and Identities I: Sexuality
  Dr. Raymond Eichmann "The 'Priestess' in the French Fabliaux" University of Arkansas
  Dr. Roberta Milliken "Women's Glory, Women's Wickedness: Hair as Symbol in the Writings of the Church Fathers" Shawnee State University
  Ms. Elena Gonzalez-Blanco "The Claim of the Secular Topics in the Age of Faith: Romance Goliardic Poetry" Harvard University

• Historical Romances
  Ms. Rachel Kapelle "Angels and Ermines Guy of Warwick's Dreams" Brandeis University
  Dr. Raul Ariza Barile "Fictional Temporality, Historical Time, and Authorial Present in King Horn" Dartmouth College
  Dr. Irene Gnarra “Two Cases of Love Madness in the 12th Century: Layla with the Madman and Yvain with the Lion.” Kean University

Friday, April 25 4-5:20

• Rabelais: Gender and Genre
  Dr. Meredith Clermont-Ferrand "Rabelais, Gargantua, Pantagruel: Utopia as Extra Textual Place" Eastern Connecticut State University
  Dr. Rosa Alvarez Perez "The Workings of Desire: Punurge and the Dogs" Bryant University

• Medieval Drama
  Dr. Andrea Harbin "Virgin's End: The Suppression of the Marion Pageants of the York Corpus Christi Play" George Mason University
  Mr. John Tompkins "She Holds the Stage Alone: The Person of the Grieving Mother in the Chester Gouldsmythes Playe" Purdue University
  Ms. Tanya Anderson Hooper "The Devil's Playthings: Diabolic Occupations in the Medieval Mystery Cycles"University of North Texas

• Bodies and Identities II: Marking Status
  Ms. Tanya Stone "Living in a Material World: Bourgeoisie Motifs in "The Book of Margery Kempe""
  Ms. Heidi Febert "Adorning All: Women and Metal Dress Accessories in Late Medieval England" Fordham University
  Dr. Kimberly Thompson Macuare "Through the Eye of a Needle: St. Alexius Perfection and Poverty" Clayton State University

• Art History II: The Profane and Religious
  Ms. Lisa Mayer "Reformation and the Artist: Sacred and Profane Images in the Art of Pieter Bruegel"Minnesota State University
  Dr. Elaine Block "The Stalls at Gaillon: Their Restoration" Misericordia International
  Dr. Paulette Barton "The Green Man and His Role in the Choir" University of Maine

• Theology, Science, Behavior
  Dr. Peter Ellard "The Role of Science in the Age of Faith: The Early Twelfth Century" Siena College
  Prof. Montague Brown "Time and History in Augustine" Saint Anselm College
  Prof. Robert Sullivan "Hildegard of Bingen and Secular Ethics in the 12th-Century Holy Roman Empire" University of Massachusetts Amherst

Saturday, April 26 9:30-11

• Roundtable discussion: Teaching the Literature Surveys.
  Participants: Meriem Pagès, Keene State University; Carl Grindley, Hostos Community College, CUNY; Ann McClellan, Plymouth State University; Robin DeRosa Plymouth State University; Karolyn Kinane Plymouth State University; Meredith Clermont-Ferrand Eastern Connecticut State University Rather than discussing tricks and techniques we use in our courses, we invite you to join a discussion about the following points: 1. What are some of the best ways to teach literary history to students (perhaps alternatives to surveys)? What are some of the short comings of current methods? 2. Do the current typical divisions of survey classes (i.e. American Literature I & II, British Literature I & II) make sense? Do these divisions assume and create similarities (i.e. between British Literature and American Literature; between the 20th c. and the 16th c; etc.) where there are significant differences? 3. How do we teach the canon without reinscribing the canon?

• Shakespeare II: Undergraduate Papers
  Ms. Jennifer Greenholt "Trumpet to a Red-Look'd Anger: Paulina's Courtly Speech in The Winter's Tale" Bridgewater College
  Mr. Micah Schultz "Where is Thy Sting: A Lesson in Household Kates from The Taming of The Shrew" Bridgewater College
  Ms. Rachel Doria "A Witty Fool Indeed: An Examination off the Fool's Differentiated Role in Shakespearean Tragedy and Comedy" Bridgewater College
  Mr. Kevin McDonald "Autolycus as Almost Loveble Scoundrel" Bridgewater College

• Women III: Marian Devotion
  Prof. Suzanne Paquette "Marian Devotion and Secular Composition: Representation and Spiritual Conversion in Gautier de Coinci's Miracles de Nostra Dame" University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
  Dr. Nicholas Ealy "Secular and Sacred Love: The Virgin as Poetic Domna in the Songs of Holy Mary" University of Hartford
  Dr. Patrick Bayens "Mary: Ethiopian Ark" Concordia College

• Art History III: Pilgrimage/Crusade/ East-West
  Dr. Heather Hill-Vasquez "Mapping the Spiritual in a Physical World: Pilgrimage and the Medieval Drama" University of Detroit Mercy
  Ms. Hazel Antaramian-Hofman "Implications of the Secular Idiom of the Isolated Miniature Leaf of the Family Portrait of Medieval Christian King Gagik-Abas of Kars, Queen Goranduxt, and Princess Marem" California State University, Fresno
  Ms. Jennifer Jordan "Prester John and the Crusader Imagination" New York University

• Literary Influence
  Mr. Jason Cash "Dante and Shakespeare as Animals on Show: Medieval Influence and Post-Colonial Sentiment in Yeats, The Circus Animals' Desertion" Mr. Christopher Riley "A Transcultural Cuchulian" Elmira College

April 26, Saturday 1:15-2:45

• Chaucer II Influence
  Dr. Helena Kogen "Chaucer and Christine de Pizan: A Virtual Encounter" Center for Medieval Studies, University of Montreal
  Mr. Joshua O’Donnell "Chaucer and Postmodern Irony" Bridgewater College
  Prof. Claire-Marie Hart "The Humanist and the Purist: Chaucer Follows Dante" North Shore Community College

• Shakespeare III
  Ms. Jennifer Payne "The Male Scold as Almost Wise: Berowne in Love's Labor's Lost" Bridgewater College
  Prof. Flo Keyes "Beyond Words: The Effects of Various Final Tableaux in Performances of The Merchant of Venice" Castleton State College
  Dr. Scott Suter "Slinging Arrows of Outrageous Fortune: The Humor of Shakespearian Tragedy" Bridgewater College

• Arthuriana II: Malory
  Prof. James Slocombe "Merlin: A Sage for the Age" Center for Medieval Studies
  Dr. Carl Martin "Bawdy of the Grece and Talow: Food, Consumption, and Aristocracy in Malory's Tale of Sir Gareth"
  Dr. Gary LaPointe Elmira College

• Bodies and Identities III:
  Ms. Ashley Brookner Bender “Corporeal Props on the Renaissance Stage"
  Ms. Laura Dobrynin "The Spectacle of the Violated in Renaissance Tuscany: The Sermons of San Bernardino and the Lives of Saints"
  Ms. Zuzana Statsna "The Idea of Aging in Early Modern England, 1520s–1620s"

• Medieval Church and State
  Ms. Jolanta Komornicka "An Arbitrary Feud: Honour, Shame Culture in Gregory of Tours' History of the Franks" Boston University
  Dr. Kate McGrath "Restraining Royal Rage: The Noble Counsel in Expressions of Royal Anger in Anglo-Norman Historical Narratives" Central Connecticut State University
  Dr. Robin Gower "Joan of Arc: Human and Divine Inspirations for Her Mission" Georgian Court University

• Anglo Saxon Studies
  Dr. Jerome Denno "Master Slave and Desire in the Anglo-Saxon Plow Riddle" Nazareth College
  Mr. Nicholas Schwartz "Wergild: An Anglo-Saxon Dilemma" Elmira College
  Prof. James Anderson "The Sins of the Flesh Cast in Stone: Portal Sculpture of St. Marien-Kirche, Norderbrarup" University of Louisiana at Lafayette

• Celtic Art Workshop Mr. Arthur Ketchen "Survivals of Celtic Art from Late Medieval Through the Baroque Era" Montserrat College of Art

April 26, Saturday 3-4:30

• Chaucer III Gender and Sexuality
  Mr. Forrest Helvie "The Pardoner: Questions of Immorality and Sexuality" Central Connecticut State University
  Ms. Lindsay Halle "Monster-In-Law: Re-Evaluating the Sowdanesse in Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale" University of Virginia
  Dr. James Coleman "Agency and Inaction in The Franklin's Tale" University of Virginia

• Shakespeare IV: Glorious Fourths
  Dr. Phillip O’Mara "The Glorious (and Inglorious) Fourth Acts in Shakespeare's Time" Bridgewater College
  Dr. Roberta Staples "The Challenge of the Fourth Acts: Shakespeare's 'Much Ado' and Jonson's 'Volpone'" Sacred Heart University
  Prof. Elizabeth Patton "Stoicism and the Death of the Eponymous Hero in Act 4 of Elizabeth Cary's Tragedie of Mariam and of Mary Sidney's Tragedie of Antonie " Johns Hopkins University
  Ms. Geraldine Suter "Till the Wood of Birnam Rise: Repercussions of the Fourth Act in Shakespeare’s Macbeth" James Madison University

• Bodies and Identities IV: Representing Witches and Demons
  Dr. Robin O’ Bryan "Sacred and Profane in a Dominican Chapel" Harrisburg Area Community College
  Prof. Stephen Henderson "Hell Fire, Miraculous Saints and Stigmata: Visions of Extreme Faith in Late Medieval Art" Quinnipiac University

• Literature: Medieval to Modern
  Prof. Carl Gindley "The Trope That Will Not Die: Anti-Fraternalism in Contemporary Film" The City University of New York
  Dr. William McCarthy "Medieval Tales in Modern Guises" Pennsylvania State University
  Ms. Resa Nelson "Researching the Fantasy Novel" Independent Scholar

• Administration and Economics
  Dr. Alexis Wilkin "The Economical Rationality of the Management of the Religious Communities in North-Western Medieval Europe" Harvard University
  Dr. Gregory Halfond "Provincial Politics in Eigth-Century Francia" Framingham State College
  Mr. Craig Nakashian "The Impact of Ecclesiastical Figures in the Military Affairs of England: 1066 - 1154" University of Rochester

• Arthuriana Workshop
  Peter Schwartz and Jim Slocombe. Informal presentation of work-in-progress with Merlin and the Grail.