Seminar: Caused Selves
The 2021 Colloquium Seminar
WHILE MUCH WILL REMAIN THE SAME FOR 2021, WE WILL BE EDITING THIS SCHEDULE FOR NEXT YEAR.
2020 Sewanee Medieval Colloquium Schedule
Forty-Sixth Annual
Sewanee Medieval Colloquium
17-18 April 2020
ON THE THEME:
“Priviledge and Position”
The University of the South
Sewanee, TN
FRIDAY, 17 April
7:30 A.M. Registration begins, Convocation Hall
(Light breakfast and printed program available)
8:30 A.M.— 9:50 A.M. SESSIONS 1-4
1. Early Medieval Politics Spencer 271
Chair: TBA
Paper: “Inheriting a Kingdom?: ‘Position’ Before King in Ninth Century Bavaria (c. 860-887)”
Jonathan Della 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: TBA
2. Medievalisms DuPont Library, Torian Room
Chair: TBA
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
3. Islamic Governance Walsh-Ellett 310
Chair: TBA
Paper: “Beyond the Realm of the Haram: The Case-Study of I‘timād Khān Khwājasarā”
Shreejita Basak, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Paper: “The Reign of Ibn Hud and Andalusi Identity after the Almohads”
Anthony Minnema, Samford University
Comment: TBA
4. Manuscripts and Translations Social Lodge
Chair: Bard Swallow, University of York
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
Comment: Roberta Krueger, Hamilton College
10:00 A.M.— 12:00 P.M. SESSIONS 5-7
5. Querying Privilege Spencer 271
Chair: Jeffery Stoyanoff, Spring Hill College
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
Paper: “The Peculiar Case of the Virgin’s Songs: Polyphony and Privilege in the York Assumption”
John Sebastian, Loyola Marymount University
Comment: Theresa Coletti, University of Maryland
6. Positioning Christine de Pizan DuPont Library, Torian Room
Chair: TBA
Paper: “‘Solitary and separated from the world’: Christine de Pizan and Female Enclosure in La Livre de la Cité des Dames”
Gayle Fallon, Louisiana State 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
Paper: “Print, Privilege, and Politics: Christine de Pizan’s Epistre Othea and Robert Wyer’s Cent Hystoryes of Troye”
Nancy Warren, Texas A&M University
Comment: Joan McRae, Middle Tennessee State University
7. Old English Privileges Walsh-Ellett 310
Chair: TBA
Paper: “Where are the Weavers? Gender and Labor in Gerefa and the Evangelium of Pseudo-Matthew”
Christina Heckman, Augusta University
Paper: “Plants, Privilege, and the Old English Herbarium”
Lori Garner, Rhodes College
Paper: “Women as Poet Rather than Invoked Voice in Old English Charms”
Rebecca Mouser, Missouri Southern State University
Comment: TBA
8. Form in Middle English Literature Social Lodge
Chair: TBA
Paper: “The Fairy King’s Miscellany: Re-positioning Body and Text in Sir Orfeo’s Otherworld”
Arielle McKee, Gardner-Webb University
Paper: “Positioning the Constance Narrative as Allegory”
Isabel Stern, Rutgers University
Comment: Ingrid L. Nelson, Amherst College
12:00 P.M.— 1:00 P.M. LUNCH, Convocation Hall
1:00 P.M.— 3:00 P.M. SESSIONS 9-12
9. Gender and Genre: Gender and Romance Spencer 271
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
10. Privilege and Position in Teaching the History of the English Language DuPont Library, Torian Room
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, College of New Jersey
Comment:
Mary E. Blockley, University of Texas, Austin
11. Positing Saints Walsh-Ellett 310
Chair: TBA
Paper: “Abbess Gertrude of Hackeborn and the Thirteenth-Century Monastery of Helfta”
Anna Harrison, Loyola Marymount University
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
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
12. Royal Privileges Social Lodge
Chair: TBA
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
3:00 P.M.— 3:30 P.M. BREAK, Convocation Hall
3:30 P.M.— 5:30 P.M. SESSIONS 12-15
13. Gender and Genre: Occupying Genre Spencer 271
Chair: Jessica Hines, Birmingham Southern University
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 duPont Library, Torian Room
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: “Impurity 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 Medieval English Literature Walsh-Ellett 310
Chair: TBA
Paper: “Lydgate’s Apologies to Women”
Michelle Ripplinger, University of California, Berkeley
Paper: “Reconsidering Monarchical Privilege: Reading Networks and Justice in Confessio Amantis Book 7”
Jeffery Stoyanoff, Spring Hill College
Paper: “The Inequalities of Friendship in Amis and Amiloun”
Walter Wadiak, Lafayette College
Comment: Matthew Giancarlo, University of Kentucky
5:45 P.M. First PLENARY SESSION Brinley Rhys Memorial Lecture Gailor Auditorium
Title TBA
Seeta Chaganti, University of California, Davis
7:00 P.M. COCKTAILS AND DINNER Convocation Hall
SATURDAY, 18 April
7:30 A.M. Registration continues, Convocation Hall
(Light breakfast and printed program available.)
8:30 A.M.— 9:50 A.M. SESSIONS 16-19
16. Privileged Afterlives of Early Medieval Saints Spencer 271
Chair: Arvind Thomas, University of California, Los Angeles
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
Comment: Catherine Sanok, University of Michigan
17. Manuscript Privileges I DuPont Library, Torian Room
Chair: TBA
Paper: “New Prayers in the Stammheim Missal”
Elizabeth Teviotdate, Western Michigan University
Paper: “A Non-Wycliffite, Unilluminated, and Anti-Vernacular Translation and Commentary on Matthew’s Gospel”
Lora J. Walsh, University of Arkansas
Comment: Michael Kuczynski, Tulane University
18. Dramatic Privileges Social Lodge
Chair: TBA
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
Comment: Christina Fitzgerald, University of Toledo
19. Masculine Writing Gailor 110
Chair: TBA
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: TBA
10:00 A.M.— 12:00 P.M. SESSIONS 20-23
20. Mysticism and Hierarchy Spencer 271
Chair: Rebecca Makas, Villanova University
Paper: “Performing Masculinity: Gendered Hierarchy in Sufi Theology”
Rose Deighton, Emory University
Paper: “Worm-Person or Handmaid of Christ? Position and Authority in the Letters of Elisabeth of Schönau”
Christina Grundmann, The Ohio State University
Paper: “A Claim to the Throne or Resistance’s Siren Song: Authority and Epistemology in Medieval Persianate Sufism”
Matthew Lynch, University of the South
Comment: María Carriόn, Emory University
21. Manuscript Privileges II duPont Library, Torian Room
Chair: TBA
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: Sonja Drimmer, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
22. Privilege and Position in Pedagogies Medieval and Modern Gailor 110
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
23. Gendered Writing Social Lodge
Chair: Anne-Hélène Miller, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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: “Machaut’s ‘Feminine’ Lyric Poetry: Giving Voice to the Lady?”
Matthew Sieffert, Harvard University
Comment: TBA
12:00 P.M.—1:00 P.M. LUNCH, Convocation Hall
1:00 P.M.—3:00 P.M. Jos Charles: Poetry Reading Gailor Auditorium
Conversation to follow, led by Gabrielle M.W. Bychowski, Case Western Reserve University
3:00 P.M.— 3:30 P.M. BREAK, Convocation Hall
3:30 P.M.—5:30 P.M. SESSIONS 24-27
24. The Ethics of Arthur: Medieval and Medievalist Spencer 271
Chair: TBA
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, Florida 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
25. Peripheral Medieval Studies Social Lodge
Chair: Emily Houlik-Ritchey, Rice University, and Clara Pascuale-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
Comment: Simone Pinet, Cornell University
26. The Position of Italian Literature duPont Library, Torian Room
Chair: Maggie Fritz-Morkin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Paper: “The Latin Eclogues: Boccaccio’s Minor Work”
Daisy Delogu, University of Chicago
Paper: “Desire at the Edges: Compassion and Consent in Courtly Fiction”
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
27. Gender and Religious Hierarchy Gailor 110
Chair: TBA
Paper: “Reading Hildegard through Hildegard: Compositional Strategy in Theodoric of Echternach’s Vita Sanctae Hildegardis Virginis”
Nicholas Brown, Catholic University
Paper: “Gender and Authority in Medieval Heresy: The Case of the Children of the Holy Spirit”
Adam Hoose, Troy University, Dothan Campus
Paper: “Margery Kempe’s Self-Interpretive Practice: Privilege and Power in The Book of Margery Kempe”
Anne Spear, University of Mississippi
Comment: Nancy Warren, Texas A&M University
5:45 P.M. PLENARY SESSION, Edward King Memorial Lecture Gailor Auditorium
“Policing the Rural Migrant Labor Force”
William Chester Jordan, Princeton University
7:00 P.M. COCKTAILS AND DINNER, Convocation Hall
