Seminar: Caused Selves
The 2021 Colloquium Seminar
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2021 Sewanee Medieval Colloquium Schedule
Forty-Sixth Annual
Sewanee Medieval Colloquium
Hosted Remotely by
The University of the South
Sewanee, TN
FRIDAY, 9 April
8:30 A.M.—
9:50 A.M. SESSIONS 1-4
1. Early Medieval Politics Click here to email tech support for this session
Chair: Susan J. Ridyard, University of the South
Paper: “Inheriting a Kingdom?: ‘Position’ Before King in Ninth Century Bavaria (c. 860-887)”
Jonathan Dell Isola, Catholic University
Paper: “The Position of Jordanes in His Day and Ours: The Case for a Roman Goth Writing Roman-Gothic History”
Brian Swain, Kennesaw State University
Comment: Matthew Bryan Gillis, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
2. Gender and Hierarchy
Chair: Manuela Ceballos, University of Tennesee, Knoxville
Paper: “Beyond the Realm of the Haram: A Case Study of the Mughal Administrator I‘timād Khān Khwājasarā”
Shreejita Basak, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Paper: “Gender and Authority in Medieval Heresy: The Case of the Children of the Holy Spirit”
Adam Hoose, Troy University, Dothan Campus
Comment:
3. Iberian Negotiations
Chair: Stephen Raulston, University of the South
Paper: “‘Y pasó por mi’: From Rejecting Hegemony to Writing a Legacy: Digital Approaches to Medieval Iberian Women’s Writing”
Holly Kashin Brown, University of Birmingham
Paper: “Female dignity and spatial appropriation: Dynastic pantheons and Iberian women during 11th century”
Pilar Recio Bazal, Universidad Complutense of Madrid
Comment: Antonio Momplet, Universidad Complutense of Madrid
4. Old English Privileges
Chair: Matthew Aiello, University of Pennsylvania
Paper: “Where are the Weavers? Gender and Labor in Gerefa and the Evangelium of Pseudo-Matthew”
Christina Heckman, Augusta University
Sophia D'Ignazio, Cornell University
Comment: Britt Mize, Texas A&M University
10:00 A.M.—
12:00 P.M. SESSIONS 5-8
5. The Position of Italian Literature Click here to email tech support for this session
Chair: Maggie Fritz-Morkin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Paper: “Feeling with Fiammetta: Metafictions of Readerly Empathy in Boccaccio and Juan de Flores”
Sara Torres, University of Virginia
Paper: “L’arboro captivo fa captivo fructo: Pastoral Politics in the Lyric Song of Late-Fifteenth-
Century Southern Italy”
Elizabeth Elmi, Indiana University
Comment: Elsa Filosa, Vanderbilt University
6. Querying Privilege
Chair: Jeffery Stoyanoff, Pennsylvania State University - Altoona
Paper: “A Sure Thing? Queering the Archive in John Lydgate’s Mumming and Disguisings”
Matthew Davis, Blinn College
Paper: “Text, Local Practice, and Their Situational Privilege in the Life of the N-Town Plays”
Britt Mize, Texas A&M University
Comment: Theresa Coletti, University of Maryland
7. Translation and Reception
Chair: Bard Swallow, University of Toronto
Paper: “Anne de Graville Translates Alain Chartier: Identifying the Manuscript Source in the Margins of BNfr 2235”
Joan McRae, Middle Tennessee State University
Paper: “‘Diseynt, ‘Manhu, manhu,’ en lur langage’: Translating Privileged Languages in the Estoyres de la Bible (BL MS Harley 2253)”
Marjorie Harrington, Western Michigan University
Paper: Global Textual Transmission: Medieval Fable Literature from B.C.E. India to the 16th Century C.E. with a Focus on Swiss Poet Ulrich Bonerius (1350)
Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona
Comment: Roberta Krueger, Hamilton College
8. Form in Middle English Literature
Chair: Stephanie L. Batkie, University of the South
Paper: “The Fairy King’s Miscellany: Re-positioning Body and Text in Sir Orfeo’s Otherworld”
Arielle McKee, Gardner-Webb University
Paper: “Subversion and Dominance: Speakers and Judges in Medieval Debate Poetry”
Kathleen Burt, Middle Georgia State University
Comment: Ruth Evans, Saint Louis University
12:00 P.M.—
1:00 P.M. LUNCH BREAK
1:00 P.M.—
1:30 P.M Mentorship Meetings
1:30 P.M.—
3:30 P.M. SESSIONS 9-12
9. La Feminine
Chair: Anne-Hélène Miller, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Paper: “‘Solitary and separated from the world’: Christine de Pizan and Female Enclosure in La Livre de la Cité des Dames”
Gayle Fallon, Auburn University
Paper: “Who Painted the Lion?: Christine de Pizan, The Treasure of the City of Ladies, and Female-Authored Conduct Literature”
Jordan Schoonover, The Ohio State University
Comment: Joan McRae, Middle Tennessee State University
10. Gender and Genre: Gender and Romance Click here to email tech support for this session
Chair: Daisy Delogu, University of Chicago
Paper: “We Can Write a Bad Romance: Male Pregnancy, Sodomy, and Subversive Play in Amis and Amiloun”
Zachary Engledow, Indiana University
Paper: “‘And If That I Consente, I Wrongfully Compleyne’: Genre, Social Pressure, and Desire in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde”
Abigail Greff, The Ohio State University
Paper: “The Wandering Couple: Gender and Marital Adventure in Guillaume de Palerne”
Jacqueline Victor, University of Chicago
Comment: Geri Smith, University of Central Florida
11. Privilege and Position in Teaching the History of the English Language Click here to email tech support for this session
Chair: Chris Palmer, Kennesaw State University
Paper: “Repositioning HEL in the English Curriculum through Literary Analysis”
Megan Hartman, University of Nebraska, Kearney
Paper: “Repositioning English: Language Shift in HEL”
Yin Liu, University of Saskatchewan
Paper: “Repositioning HEL in the General Education Curriculum”
Felicia Steele, The College of New Jersey
Comment: Mary E. Blockley, University of Texas, Austin
12. Royal Privileges
Chair: Craig Nakashian, Texas A & M University, Texarkana
Paper: “Getting Away with Murder: Abuse of Pardon in Late Medieval France”
Aleksandra Pfau, Hendrix College
Paper: “The Crusading Counts of Champagne: Putting Privilege and Position to Use at the End of the Twelfth Century”
Randall Pippenger, Princeton University
Paper: “The Privilege of Retirement from the Position of Royal Cook or other Royal Service in Medieval England”
Wendy Turner, Augusta University
Comment: Sara Butler, The Ohio State University
3:30 P.M.—
5:30 P.M. SESSIONS 13-15
13. Gender and Genre: Occupying Genre
Chair: Jessica Hines, Birmingham Southern College
Paper: “On the Transgender Soul: Hagiography as a Trans Genre of Embodiment”
Gabrielle M.W. Bychowski, Case Western Reserve University
Paper: “Tender Debts: Women as Free Traders in the Decameron’s Sexual Marketplaces”
Maggie Fritz-Morkin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Paper: “Sapiential Women, Foolish Men: Destabilizing Gender through Proverbs in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales”
Johanna Kramer, University of Missouri, Columbia
Comment: Daisy Delogu, University of Chicago
14. The Privileges of Romance
Chair: Valerie Hotchkiss, Vanderbilt University
Paper: “Emotional Privilege: Courtliness and Kay's Resentful Body in the Romances of Chrétien de Troyes”
Judith Haas, Rhodes College
Paper: “Curdling Chivalry: The Politics of Separation in The Knightly Tale of Gologras and Gawain”
Shelby Preston, University of Missouri, Columbia
Paper: “Gender, Home, and Narrative in Sir Perceval of Galles”
Elizabeth Watkins, Loyola University, New Orleans
Comment: Lee Manion, University of Missouri, Columbia
15. Placing Middle English Literature
Chair: Anita Obermeier, University of New Mexico
Paper: “Reconsidering Monarchical Privilege: Reading Networks and Justice in Confessio Amantis Book 7”
Jeffery Stoyanoff, Pennsylvania State University - Altoona
Paper: “Beyond “Chaung[ing] ble”: Enclosed Identities and Embodied Transmission in The King of Tars”
Sydney Owada, University of Michigan
Comment: Matthew Giancarlo, University of Kentucky
5:30 P.M.—
6:00 P.M. COFFEE BREAK(OUTS)
6:00 P.M. First PLENARY SESSION
Brinley Rhys Memorial Lecture
Title: "Boethian Privilege and the Abolitionist Position". (
Seeta Chaganti, University of California, Davis
SATURDAY, 10 April
8:30 A.M.—
9:50 A.M. SESSIONS 16-20
16. The Borders of Byzantium Click here to email tech support for this session
Chair: Felege-Selam Yirga, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Paper: “The Byzantine Honorific Titles and the Relationships between Constantinople and the Provinces”
Gavriil-Ioannis Boutziopoulos, University of Birmingham
Paper: “The Romans Have Not Established His Commemoration: The Impact of Imperial Power on the Collective Memory of Christians in the Middle East”
Joshua Mugler, Hill Museum and Manuscript Library
Comment: Peter Sarris, Cambridge University
17. Positing Medicinal Knowledge
Chair: Aleksandra Pfau, Hendrix College
Paper: “A Poisoning at St. Sofia”
Chelsea Silva, Oklahoma State University
Paper: “The Art of Medicine in the Philosophy of Moses Maimonides”
Norman Whitman, University of Houston, Downtown
Comment: Naama Cohen Hanegbi, Tel Aviv University
18. Masculine Writing Click here to email tech support for this session
Chair: Micah Goodrich, University of Connecticut
Paper: “Privileged Communications: Expressing Masculine Fear in Fourteenth-Century Iberian Letters”
David Cantor-Echols, University of Chicago
Paper: “Hegemonic Masculinity in the Heroic Narratives of the Norman South”
Daniel W. Morgan, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Comment: Linda Mitchell, University of Missouri, Kansas City
19. Privilege and Position in Pedagogies Medieval and Modern Click here to email tech support for this session
Chair: Jake Coen and Emily McLemore, University of Notre Dame
Paper: “‘With the confidence of a middle-aged white man’: Teaching Dante and Navigating Privilege in the Tertiary Classroom”
Emma Barlow, University of Sydney
Paper: “Unsilencing Female Voices: Recentering the Medieval Literature Class”
Virginia Scoggins, Lander University
Comment: Mary Dockray-Miller, Lesley University
20. Mysticism and Hierarchy
*Panel cancelled*
10:00 A.M.—
12:00 P.M. SESSIONS 21-26
21. Rethinking Early English Click here to email tech support for this session
Chair: Britt Mize, Texas A&M University
Paper: “Inscribing Death within Traumatized Subjectivity”
Matthew Aiello, University of Pennsylvania
Paper: “Women as Poet Rather than Invoked Voice in Old English Charms”
Rebecca Mouser, Missouri Southern State University
Comment: Elaine Treharne, Stanford University
22. Privileged Afterlives of Early Medieval Saints Click here to email tech support for this session
Chair: Gabrielle M.W. Bychowski, Case Western Reserve University
Paper: “From Guthlac to Waltheof: Warrior Saints in Literature and History”
M. Wendy Hennequin, Tennessee State University
Elizabeth Dachowski, Tennessee State University
Paper: “'All the Saints of the Church Together': Early Medieval Saints in Twelfth-Century Northumbria”
Lauren Whitnah, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Paper: To Speak or Not to Speak in the Life of Oda: The Normative and Narrative Position of Silence in Medieval Hagiography”
Arvind Thomas, University of California, Los Angeles
Comment: Samantha Kahn Herrick, Syracuse University
23. Manuscript Privileges I
Chair: Elizabeth C. Teviotdale, University of California, Los Angeles Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Paper: “Legacies of Privilege: Making Meaning for Medieval Manuscripts”
Evan Gatti, Elon University
Paper: “Imaging Peoplehood: Privilege and Position in Illuminated Medieval Sephardic Haggadot”
Lorraine Madway, University of Alabama
Paper: “Visible Revisions: The Evolving Content and Context of a Flemish Crusade Manuscript”
Bradley Phillis, Gardner-Webb University
Comment: Nina Rowe, Fordham University
24. Positioning Margery Kempe Click here to email tech support for this session
Chair: Sara Ritchey, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Paper: “Preaching as Power: Negotiating Sermons, Gender and Performance in the Digby Mary Magdalene and The Book of Margery Kempe”
Ann Hubert, St. Lawrence University
Paper: “Margery Kempe’s Self-Interpretive Practice: Privilege and Power in The Book of Margery Kempe”
Anne Spear, Southern Louisiana University
Paper: “Bed Devotion: A Crib for Jesus and the Question of Medieval Motherhood
Stacie Vos, University of California, San Diego
Comment: Catherine Sanok, University of Michigan
25. Medievalisms
Chair: Alison Killilea, Independent Scholar
Paper: “A Connecticut Yankee in Abelard’s Cloister: A Dialogue between a Medievalist and Civil War Historian”
Abigail P. Dowling, Mercer University
Sarah E. Gardner, Mercer University
Paper: “Women’s Positions, Men’s Privilege, and Meghan Purvis’s Beowulf”
Emily McLemore, University of Notre Dame
Comment: Anita Obermeier, University of New Mexico
12:00 P.M.—
1:00 P.M. LUNCH BREAK
1:00 P.M.—
1:30 P.M Mentorship Meetings
1:30 P.M.— Seminar: Caused Selves: Embodying
3:30 P.M.
Director:
Julie Orlemanski, University of Chicago
Participants:
“Claustrophobia, Sensation, and Allegorical Selves in The Pilgrimage of The Life of Man”
Shoshana Adler, University of Pennsylvania
“Touching the Heart with Words: Extending a Saint's Reach through Sound”
Nicole Archambeau, Colorado State University
“If She Escapes Alive: Risk, Power, and Life Insurance for Enslaved Pregnant Women”
Hannah Barker, Arizona State University
“Wax and Embodiment: The Sculptural Cores of the Reliquary Shrine of St. Servatius in Maastricht”
Luke Fidler, University of Chicago
“Alchemical Bodies and the Science of Sex”
Micah Goodrich, University of Connecticut
“Painting Against Time: Spectatorship and Visual Entanglement in the Anagni Crypt”
Marius Hauknes, University of Notre Dame
“Re-Forming the Self with Leben Jesu”
Orsolya Mednyánszky, John Hopkins University
“Taddeo Alderotti and the Physical Consequence of Speech”
Melissa Vise, Washington and Lee University
3:30 P.M.— SESSIONS 26-29
5:30 P.M.
26. The Ethics of Arthur: Medieval and Medievalist
Chair: Judith Haas, Rhodes College
Paper: “Arthurian Ethics and Ethical Reading in Perlesvaus”
Joseph Derosier, Beloit College
Paper: “Translation Praxis and the Ethical Value of Chivalry in Laȝamon’s Brut”
Christopher Jensen, Albany State University
Paper: “Imperial Ambitions and the Ethics of Power: Gender, Race, and the Exclusionary Practices of Medieval Arthuriana”
Nahir Otaño Gracia, University of New Mexico
Comment: Melissa Ridley Elmes, Lindenwood University
27. Peripheral Medieval Studies
Chair: Emily Houlik-Ritchey, Rice University, and Clara Pascual-Argente, Rhodes College
Paper: “‘и прия власть Рюрикъ:’ Tyranny and Power on the Eastern Edges of Europe”
Jake Coen, University of Notre Dane
Paper: “At the Eurasian Periphery: Decentering the Medieval Romance”
Eva Kuras, University of Illinois
Paper: “Centering Emotion in Medieval Islamic Studies”
Stephanie Yep, Appalachian State University
28. Dramatic Positions Click here to email tech support for this session
Chair: Jeffery Stoyanoff, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona
Paper: “Privilege and Catastrophe in the Wakefield and Chester Noah”
Rafael Jaime, University of California, Los Angeles
Paper: “Mural Paintings and Early Dramas: Costumed Angels on Parish Church Walls”
Therese Novotny, Carroll University
Paper: “Feeling Poorly in John Lydgate’s Disguising at Hertford”
Annika Pattenaude, University of Michigan
Comment: Christina Fitzgerald, University of Toledo
29. Manuscript Privileges II
Chair: Evan Gatti, Elon University
Paper: “New Prayers in the Stammheim Missal”
Elizabeth C. Teviotdale, University of California, Los Angeles Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Paper: “A Mess-en-Page? Distinguishing Latin and Vernacular in a Northern English Commentary on Matthew's Gospel”
Lora J. Walsh, University of Arkansas
Comment: Michael Kuczynski, Tulane University
5:30 P.M.—
6:00 P.M. COFFEE BREAK(OUTS)
6:00 P.M. PLENARY SESSION
Edward King Lecture
Title: “Policing the Rural Migrant Labor Force”
William Chester Jordan, Princeton University
