SEMA 2021: Medieval Passions And Proclivities

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SEMA 2021:Medieval Passions and ProclivitiesSpartanburg, South CarolinaNovember 11-13Hosted by Wofford CollegePlenary Speakers:Michelle M. Sauer, University of North DakotaandWan-Chuan Kao, Washington and Lee University

I would like to personally thank the following persons and organizations for their support of thisyear’s conference:The Wofford College Office of the ProvostThe Associate Provost for Curriculum and Co-CurriculumThe Wofford College Cultural Affairs CommitteeProvost’s Office, Converse UniversityRev. Ron Robinson, Perkins-Prothro Chaplain of Wofford CollegeDepartment of Admissions, Wofford CollegeDepartment of History, Wofford CollegeDepartment of English, Wofford CollegeDepartment of Religion, Wofford CollegeDepartment of Government and International Affairs, Wofford CollegeDepartment of Art and Art History, Wofford CollegeDepartment of Environmental Studies, Wofford CollegeDepartment of Philosophy, Wofford CollegeDepartment of Theater, Wofford CollegeAndAn Anonymous Donor Too Shy to Endure the Rigors of Public GratitudeWithout their time, money, and dedication, it would have been difficult or impossible to hold ourconference in Spartanburg this year. Thank you so much!NatalieSEMA’s Inclusivity Statement, adopted by the membership in 2016:The Southeastern Medieval Association publicly rejects discrimination in all its forms. As aninternational society of scholars, we prize inclusiveness, diversity, and difference, and we actively opposediscrimination based on race, color, ethnicity, national origin, disability, military status, gender, religion,age, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.SEMA will not tolerate harassment, discrimination, or assault by any member at our conferences. Wewill report any such offender to the hosting institution, to the offender's institution, and to local police.Offenders may be suspended at the discretion of the Executive Council.COVID-19:Wofford College is requiring all students, faculty and staff to be fully vaccinated against the COVID-19virus by November 1, and, so long as Spartanburg County as significant numbers of infections, there is amask mandate in place for all academic and administrative buildings on campus. The SpartanburgMarriott likewise has a mask mandate in place for all public areas in the hotel. SEMA asks allparticipants who qualify for the vaccine to get it in order to protect one another and avoid exposingothers to this pernicious disease.

AccommodationsThe conference hotel for SEMA 2021, where most events will be held on Thursday and Friday, isthe Spartanburg Marriott at 299 N. Church Street, Spartanburg, SC 29306. The Marriott is located justover two blocks from the campus of Wofford College and a few blocks north of downtown Spartanburg,easy walking distance to multiple restaurants and clubs.To reserve rooms at the SEMA conference rate, go to:Southeastern Medieval Association ConferenceIf you have any trouble with reservations or the rooms appear to be unavailable, please call NicoleGibson at Marriott Hotels at: 864-591-4182TransportationBy Air:Wofford and the conference hotel are approximately 19 miles from the Greenville-SpartanburgInternational Airport, which is served by multiple airlines, including American, Delta, Southwest andUnited. Unfortunately, the pandemic has eliminated the hotel shuttle service, so participants who areflying to SEMA will need to rent a vehicle or make use of Uber / Lift or a taxi service from GSP.The following are among the companies with airport transportation services:Atchison Transportation Services, https://www.atchisontransport.com, 864-346-7129Eastside Taxi Service, https://eastsidetransportation.com, 864-609-5466By Car (to the hotel; use 429 N. Church Street for Wofford College):From Charlotte via I-85 South (70 miles, 1.2 hours) Get on I-85 S from Old Dowd Rd, Harlee Ave and Wilkinson Blvd Follow I-85 S to N Pine St in Spartanburg County Continue on N Pine St. to 299 N. Church StreetFrom Atlanta via I-85 North (185 miles, 3.1 hours) Get on I-85 N in Fulton County Follow I-85 N to S 23/Simuel Rd in Spartanburg County. Take exit 4 from I-85BL N Follow SC-56 to 299 N. Church StreetFrom Asheville and I-40 via I-26 East (69 miles, 1.2 hours) Get on I-240 W/US-70 W from Broadway St Take I-26 E to N Pine St in Spartanburg County Continue on N Pine St to 299 N. Church StreetFrom Columbia and I-20 via I-26 West (96 miles, 1.5 hours) Get on I-26 W in Springdale from Aviation Way, John N. Hardee Expy and SC-302/Airport Blvd Follow I-26 W to US-221 N in Spartanburg County. Take exit 28 from I-26 W Follow US-221 N to 299 N. Church Street in Spartanburg

Schedule of EventsNovember 11th, 2021 (Thursday)9:00 am-4:00pmRegistrationLobby,Marriott Hotel8:30am-10:00pmBook ExhibitEarle’s Ford,Marriott HotelRound A12: 00 pm-1:30pmSession 1 – Performing Passions: Lyric, Song and DramaPresider: Laura McCloskey Wolfe, University of West GeorgiaKing’s MountainRoomMarriott Hotel“What’s Love Got to Do with It? Adam de la Halle’s Jeu de la feuillée”Laine E. Doggett, St. Mary’s College of Maryland“Tales of Chivalry, Songs of Love: Gendered Lyric Expression in JeanFroissart’s Meliador,”Geri Smith, University of Central FloridaSession 2 – ASIMS I: A Passion for Expansion: SettlerColonialism in the Middle AgesSponsor: American Society for Irish Medieval Studies (ASIMS)Organizers: Deanna Forsman, North Hennepin Community College & VickyMcAlister, Southeast Missouri State University (ASIMS)Musgrove Room,Marriott HotelPresider: Mary Valante, Appalachian State University“Passion for the ‘Good Old Days’: Perspectives of the ‘Colonized’ in LateAntique Gaul”Deanna Forsman, North Hennepin Community College“Settling in Wales: How King Arthur Became English”Marisa Mills, University of Southern Mississippi“Settler Colonialism in High Medieval Ireland? Landscape andEnvironmental Perspectives”Vicky McAlister, Southeast Missouri State UniversitySession 3 – The Bold and the Beautiful: Critical Reassessments ofMalory’s WomenPresider: Josephine Koster, Winthrop University“Villainous Damsels and Antagonistic Queens: Anti-Feminism in Le MorteDarthur”Lillian Barfield, Winthrop University“Good Girls, Beware! Malory’s Queens and Damsels as Harbingers of Doomand Destruction in Le Morte Darthur”Nora Webb, Winthrop UniversityCedar Springs Room,Marriott Hotel

Round A12: 00 pm-1:30pmSession 4: French LiteraturePresider: Sherron Lux, International Association of Robin Hood StudiesBlackstock Room,Marriott Hotel“Raoul and His Self”Juliette Bourdier, College of Charleston“Rejected and Accepted: The Effects of Hybridity in Bisclavret and theRoman de Melusine”Kyrie Miranda, Francis Marion University“Passion Gone Awry: La Dame de Gaut Destroit in La Vengeance Raguideland Hunbaut”Kristin L. Burr, St Joseph’s UniversitySession 5 – Working and WinningPresider: Phyllis Jestice, College of CharlestonWalnut Grove Room,Marriott Hotel“The Work of their Hands: Cuthbert, Æthelthryth, and EmbroideredMysteries”Christina M. Heckman, Augusta University“Imperial Women and the Construction of Roman Martyrs”Aneilya Barnes, Coastal Carolina University“’Scorched Earth’ in Premodern Warfare”Kelly Robert DeVries, Loyola University Maryland1:30-2:30pmCoffee BreakCroft Foyer,Marriott HotelRound B2:30-4:00 pmSession 6 – Passion, Emotion and SufferingPresider: Kathleen Burt, Middle Georgia State UniversityKing’s MountainRoom,Marriott Hotel“Passionate about Wounds? Claiming Trauma in the Life of St. ThomasBecket”Will Rogers, University of Louisiana Monroe“St. Æthelthryth’s Scar: The Wound We Desire to See”Leah Pope Parker, University of Southern Mississippi“A Passion for the Passion: The Suffering of Christ in the Writings ofMedieval Mystics”Debra L. Stoudt, Virginia Tech“The Pains of Love: Gendered Suffering in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde”Dalicia Raymond, Spartanburg Methodist College

Round B2:30-4:00 pmSession 7 – Roundtable “They lawghed all as they were wylde”:Humorous Proclivities in Malory’s Le Morte DarthurPresider: D. Thomas Hanks, Jr., Baylor UniversityMusgrove Room,Marriott HotelSession Participants: Elizabeth Rambo, Campbell University; MeredithReynolds, Francis Marion University; Jake Stiling, Winthrop University;Josephine Koster, Winthrop UniversitySession 8 – Medievalists’ MedievalismsCedar Springs Room,Marriott HotelPresider: Tison Pugh, University of Central Florida“When Medievalists Write Mysteries: Authenticity in Bruce Holsinger’sGower Mysteries”Debra Best, California State Dominguez Hills“But Frilly Underclothes Didn’t Exist in the Twelfth Century!: Accuracy inParanormal Historical Fantasy”Emily Leverett, Methodist University“Her life was no heroic adventure of daring and greatness”: ToxicMasculinity in Susan Signe Morrison’s Grendel’s MotherAlison Gulley, Appalachian State University“Talmudic Wisdom in Adam Gidwitz’s The Inquisitor’s Tale”Trish Ward, College of CharlestonSession 9 – Gender and Medieval RomancePresider: Kathy Krause, University of Missouri—Kansas CityBlackstock Room,Marriott Hotel“Marie de France’s Subversion of the Man vs. (Feminized) Nature Hierarchyin Les Deux Amanz”Kimberly Tate Anderson, Virginia Military Institute“Fairy Family Affairs: Fathers and Sons in Sir Degaré and Yonec”Arielle McKee, Gardner-Webb University“Passion, Self-definition, and Confessional Speech: The Use of DirectSpeech with Queen Guinevere and Elaine, the Fair Maid of Astolat”Dwayne Coleman, University of Central ArkansasRound B2:30-4:00 pmSession 10 – Old EnglishPresider: Shannon Godlove, Columbus State University“Wonsæli Wer: Grendel as Exile”Kayla Shea, University of Tennessee--KnoxvilleWalnut Grove Room,Marriott Hotel

“The Drama of Exorcism in Beowulf and Juliana”Chris Vinsonhaler, Borough of Manhattan Community College(CUNY)“Tolkien on Ofermod, The Hero, and the Leader”Colin Cutler, Guilford Technical Community College[Note: The Plenary is on the campus of Wofford College, in LeonardAuditorium, Main building, about a 12-minute, 3 block, walk from thehotel; a Wofford van will leave the hotel at 4:10pm for those who needspecial assistance]Plenary4:30-5:30pm“Custance in the Hold:Premodern Desire and Racial Capitalism in Chaucer's Man ofLaw's Tale"Leonard Auditorium,Main Building,Wofford CollegeWan-Chuan Kao, Washington and Lee UniversitySponsored by the Wofford College Cultural Affairs Committee5:30-7 PMReceptionHosted by President Nayef Samhat and Prema SamhatNovember 12, 2021 tion RoomPapadopoulosBuildingWofford CollegeFoyer,Marriott Hotel8:30am-10:00pmBook ExhibitEarle’s Ford,Marriott HotelRound C9:00-10:30amSession 11 – Arthurian IPresider: Kate Craig, Auburn UniversityKing’s MountainRoom,Marriott Hotel“The High Order of Knyghthoode: Monasticism and Malory in Le MorteDarthur”Cecelia Linton, Christendom College“The Passion of Honor in Layamon’s Brut: Disruptive and Reliable Passionsin the Locrin/Guendoleine Episode”Josh Pittman, Bluefield College"The Normanization of King Arthur and Church Reform"Daniel Bennett, Catholic University of America

Round C9:00-10:30amSession 12 - ASIMS Studies II: A Passion for Religion: Ireland andIdentity in the Middle AgesSponsor: American Society for Irish Medieval Studies (ASIMS)Presider: Anne Latowsky, University of South FloridaMusgrove Room,Marriott Hotel“That Old-Time Religion: the influence of southern Gallic monasticismupon Comgall’s Bangor”Westley Follett, University of Southern Mississippi,“A Passion for Europe in Early Medieval Ireland”Patrick Wadden, Belmont Abbey College“Burial ad sanctos: High status burial in late medieval Ireland”Rachel Scott, DePaul UniversitySession 13 - Middle English LiteraturePresider: Laura K. Bedwell, The University of Mary Hardin-BaylorCedar Springs Room,Marriott Hotel“Identity in King Horn: Who are the Saracens and Why Does It Matter?”Daniel F. Pigg, the University of Tennessee at Martin“Cause, Courage and Correction: The Wisdom of Effective Courage in PiersPlowman”Phillip F. O’Mara, Bridgewater College“Radical Patience”Sara Torres, Converse UniversitySession 14 - Crossing Boundaries: The Sacred and the Profane inMedieval TextsPresider: Lauren L. Whitnah, University of TennesseeBlackstock Room,Marriott Hotel“Passion and Proclivity in the Vie des pères’ Chevalier”Karen Casebier, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga“Handmaiden of the Lord: St. Radegund in Baudonivia’s vita”Sarah Elizabeth Wolfe, Middle Tennessee State University“Home and the Holy Land: The Proclivities of Archbishop William of Tyre”Philip Handyside, Stetson UniversitySession 15 – Speech Acts: Medieval English and EnglishesPresider: Ana Grinberg, Auburn University“Tolkien, Cleanness, and Patience: In Search of a Missing(?) Affinity”Amber Dunai, Texas A&M—Central Texas“’For drede that he wald hir bite:’ Monsterization in Race-making in TheKing of Tars and the Croxton Play of Sacrament”Duncan Fischbach, Anderson UniversityWalnut Grove Room,Marriott Hotel

“A Passion for Some of God’s Word: On Regional Emphases in VernacularScriptures”Stephen C. E. Hopkins, University of Central Florida10:30-11:30amCoffee BreakCroft Foyer,Marriott HotelRound D10:45am-12:15pmSession 16 – Medievalisms IPresider: Karen Casebier, University of Tennessee at ChattanoogaKing’s MountainRoomMarriott Hotel“Bremo in the 1590s Comedy Mucedorus: Medieval Wild Man orElizabethan Passionate Shepherd?”Lorraine Kochanske Stock, University of Houston“Passionate Falstaff: Innocent Fun or Deadly Enemy?”Laura K. Bedwell, The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor“Contagion, War, and Beowulf in Sarah L. O’Ferrall’s Poetic Works”Britt Mize, Texas A&M UniversitySession 17 – Arthurian IIPresider: Josh Pittman, Bluefield CollegeMusgrove Room,Marriott Hotel“’Arður hine iwræððede’: Arthur’s Passionate Response to the Giant’s Pleain Laȝamon’s Brut”B. J. Thome, Baylor University“Gaming Parzival from Wolfram to Ernest Cline”Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand, Appalachian State UniversitySession 18 – Objects, Symbols and SignificancesPresider: Phillip F. O’Mara, Bridgewater College“Foreign Made, Locally Retained: Recognizing Objects of a Non-LocalProvenance in the Domestic Settings of Late Medieval England”Emily M. Tuttle, Florida State University“Dante’s Medieval Passion for Numerology: Its Use, Origin, andSignificance”Madison U. Sowell, Independent Scholar“A Failure of Arbitration? The Loveday of 1458”John Theilmann, Converse UniversityCedar Springs Room,Marriott Hotel

Round D10:45am-12:15pmSession 19 – Explorations of Medieval GenresPresider: Kristin L. Burr, St Joseph’s UniversityBlackstock Room,Marriott Hotel“Mocking Metaphysics: A Juxtaposition of Medieval Passions in FrenchScholastic Parody”Bryant White, Vanderbilt University“Medieval Proclivity to Dreams Interpretation”Malek J. Zuraikat, Yarmouk University“The Values of Fin’Amor: The Passionate Voice of the Alba (Dawn-Song)”Gale Sigal, Wake Forest UniversitySession 20 – Religious Power and Passion IPresider: Kyrie Miranda, Francis Marion UniversityWalnut Grove Room,Marriott Hotel“From Ephemeral to Eternal Passion: Hrotsvit of Gandersheim on the Joyof Reclusion”Phyllis Jestice, College of Charleston“Sir Gawain and the Crown of Thorns”Chris Pipkin, Emmanuel College12:30-1:45pmLunch (on one’s own; see restaurant guide for suggestions)12:30-1:45pmBoard Meeting Boxed LunchWisteria Room,Marriott HotelRound E2:00-3:30pmSession 21: Medievalisms IIPresider: Lisa Myers, University of New MexicoKing’s MountainRoom,Marriott Hotel“The Romance of Piers Plowman: Reading William Langland after WalterScott”Mimi Ensley, Flagler College“The Appalachian Grendel: Medieval Analogs in Cormac McCarthy’s Childof God”Sarah Yancey, University of Tennessee, Knoxville“What Is Culture: A Review of England’s Travel Obsession from the MiddleAges through the Victorian Era”Kathleen Burt, Middle Georgia State University“Stars and Stripes In King Arthur’s Court: Government and Class in Twain’sConnecticut Yankee”Sam English, Wofford College

Round E2:00-3:30pmSession 22: ChaucerSponsor: Department of Admissions, Wofford CollegePresider: Lorraine Kochanske Stock, University of HoustonMusgrove Room,Marriott Hotel“Accounting for Passion and Passion for Accounting in The Shipman’s Tale”Aubrey Morris, Baylor University“Chaucer’s Wife of Bath: Retailing Reproductive and Marital History”Alice Blackwell, LSU-Alexandria“By heigh ymaginacioun forncast”: Circumscribing Forces of Habit in theNun’s Priest’s Tale”Kendra Slayton, Georgia Institute of TechnologySession 23: Family Passions Across the CenturiesSponsor: Department of History, Wofford CollegePresider: Amy Vines, University of North Carolina at GreensboroCedar Springs Room,Marriott Hotel“Villainous Mothers: Products of Successful Exogamy”Katie Beeman, University of North Carolina--Greensboro“The Dead Children and Anti-Carnivalesque Humor of the Summoner’sTale”Tison Pugh, University of Central Florida“A Matrimonial Excursion to Scotland”: Passion, Pulmonary Disease andthe Use of an Illness Narrative”Carolyn Anne Day, Furman UniversitySession 24: Religious Power and Passion IIPresider: Philip Handyside, Stetson UniversityBlackstock Room,Marriott Hotel“Pastoral Passions and Proclivities: Apostleship and Authorial Identity inÆlfric’s Catholic Homilies”Shannon Godlove, Columbus State University“’Undiscrete sorowe turneþ into enuyous bittirnesse of soule:’ Despair andFleshly Sorrow in Rolle’s Revised Psalter and the Northern Homily Cycle”Hunter Keith Curlee, Anderson University“No Rest for the Dead: Miracles Attributed to Hernando de Talavera, FirstArchbishop of Granada”Timothy J. Schmitz, Wofford CollegeSession 25: Manuscript and Early Book StudiesPresider: Wendy J. Turner, Augusta University“The Anglo-French Disciplina Clericalis in the Manuscripts”Gabriel Ford, Drake UniversityWalnut Grove Room,Marriott Hotel

“The Manuscript Context of the Old French Translations of the PseudoTurpin: A Preliminary Investigation into the textual proclivities of a popularchronicle,”Kathy Krause, University of Missouri-Kansas City“A Passion for Pseudo-History? On the Many Uses and Users of theChronicle of Pseudo-Turpin”Anne Latowsky, University of South FloridaNote: The Plenary is on the campus of Wofford College, in LeonardAuditorium, Main building, about a 12-minute, 3 block, walk from thehotel; a Wofford van will leave the hotel at 3:40pm for those who needspecial assistancePlenary4:00-5:00pm“Queer Encounters in the Cell:Outer-Courses and the Eremitic and Anchoritic Traditions”Michelle M. SauerUniversity of North DakotaLeonard Auditorium,Main Building,Wofford CollegeSponsored by the Office of the Perkins-ProthroChaplain of Wofford College5:30-6:30pmReceptionAzalea FoyerMarriott Hotel7:00-9:00pmConference BanquetTickets Required!Azalea B, MarriottHotelNovember 13, 2021 (Saturday)Note: Saturday sessions are on the campus of Wofford College, in the OlinBuilding, about a 12-minute, 3 block, walk from the hotel; a Wofford vanwill leave the hotel at 8:40am for those who need special assistance.Please refer to the map in your registration packet to find the building. Ifdriving, you may park in the Admissions Parking Lot.9:00am-noonRegistrationOlin Building Lobby,Wofford College9:00am-noonBook ExhibitsEarle’s Ford,Marriott Hotel8:30-8:45amCoffee and Krispy Kreme Doughnuts!(to find the elevator to the second floor in the Olin Building, go down theright side hallway and look on your left)Olin 210,Wofford College

Round F9:00-10:30amSession 26: Seeing, Sight, and the Proclivities of Books in EarlyMedieval EnglandOrganizer: Jill Hamilton Clements, Univ. of Alabama at BirminghamPresider: Gabriel Ford, Drake UniversityRoom 103,Olin Building,Wofford College“Terrible Letters and Books of Sin: Recording Damnation in Bede's HistoriaEcclesiastica”Jill Hamilton Clements, Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham“Reading as Writing and Writing as Reading? Juvencus’ Life of Christ inEarly Medieval England”Janet Schrunk Ericksen, University of Minnesota at Morris“The Codex Riddle in The Dream of the Rood”Thomas A. Bredehoft, Chancery Hill Books & AntiquesSession 27: ASIMS III A Passion for Teaching: Teaching theMiddle Ages with Technologies Old and NewSponsor: American Society for Irish Medieval Studies (ASIMS)Organizer and Presider: Melanie MaddoxRoom 101,Olin Building,Wofford CollegeParticipants: Mary Valante Appalachian State University;Phyllis Jestice, College of Charleston; Deanna Forsman, North HennepinCommunity College; Vicky McAlister, Southeast Missouri State University;Scott Jessee, Appalachian State UniversitySession 28: Malorian Passions: Desire and Suffering in Le MorteDarthurOrganizer: Sarah B. Rude, Augustana UniversityPresider: David Eugene Clark, Suffolk Community College“Passion, Murder, and Feminine Agency in Malory’s Morte Darthur”D. Thomas Hanks, Jr., Baylor University“Invisibility, Accountability, and Passion in ‘The Tale of Balin Le Sauvage’”Sarah B. Rude, Augustana University“Uninspired Passions: Lancelot and the Art of Rejection”Laura Clark, Collin College“Repetitive Passion and Memento Mori: The Multiple Deaths of ThomasMalory’s Sir Tristram”Clint Morrison, Jr., Ohio State UniversityRoom 114,Olin Building,Wofford College

Round F9:00-10:30amSession 29: “Ab intus enim de corde hominum”: ReligiousPractice, Emotion, and Intention in the Middle AgesPresider: Daniel F. Pigg, the University of Tennessee at MartinRoom 118,Olin Building,Wofford College“’My gast make joye alswa in God that es my hele’: Teaching the Laity HolyJoy”Lynneth Miller Renberg, Anderson University“’I stand in need of a great deal of God’s mercy’: Guilt, Worry, and Crusadein High Medieval Flanders”Bradley Phillis, University of Southern Mississippi“Emotion and Commemoration in Reginald of Durham’s Libellus deadmirandis”Lauren L. Whitnah, University of Tennessee Knoxville“Armed before Birth: John the Baptist and the Lorica Tradition”Jill Fitzgerald, United States Naval Academy, AnnapolisSession 30: Gender and Passion in the Middle AgesPresider: Laine E. Doggett, St. Mary’s College of MarylandRoom 201,Olin Building,Wofford College"’Yet we are united in your grief": Women in Central Medieval MortuaryRoll Networks”Kate Craig, Auburn University“A Dead Passion: Sufrencia and Late Medieval Masculinity”Juan Manuel Escourido, East Carolina University“Medieval Law and Emotion—and Connections to Nature and Artiface”Wendy J. Turner, Augusta UniversitySession 31: Robin Hood Games – Past and PresentSponsored by the International Association of Robin Hood Studies (IARHS)Presider: Sherron Lux, International Association of Robin Hood StudiesRoom 212,Olin Building,Wofford College“Robin Hood as Gamester: Out of the Greenwood and Off the Board”Antha Cotten-Spreckelmeyer, Ph.D, University of Kansas“I’ll Strike You on the Head: Violence and Reward in A Gest of Robyn Hode”Megan Woosley-Goodman, Francis Marion University“Rewriting Medieval May-games in Hood: Outlaws and Legends”Gayle Fallon, Auburn UniversitySession 32: Approaches to Medieval StudiesPresider: Brian Gastle, Western Carolina University“Assessing the “Global Middle Ages”: Merits, Pitfalls, and New Directions”Sarah Cox, North Carolina State UniversityRoom 213,Olin Building,Wofford College

“Confronting White Supremacy in the History of the English LanguageCourse: Teaching Against the Myth of Pure English”Melinda Menzer, Furman University“’Lady Meed got a bad rap:’ Re-reading Well-known Texts in the Wake ofthe #MeToo Movement”Barbara Goodman, Clayton State University10:30-10:45amBreakOlin Lobby,Wofford CollegeRound G10:45am-12:15pmSession 33: Images of the Crusades and CrusadersPresider: Bradley Phillis, University of Southern MississippiRoom 103,Olin Building,Wofford College“Sword of the Sultan”: Latin Christian Imaginations of a Weaponized Nile in14th & 15th Century Manuscripts”Tirumular (Drew) Narayanan, University of WisconsinMadison“Richard Coer de Lyon, Expanding Narratives of Later Twelfth-CenturyCrusades”Michael Pagel, Northeast TN Community College“Narrative, Memory, and Meaning: The Massacre of the Innocents Capitalin the Cloister of Saint-Trophime Arles”Katherine Clark Walter, S.U.N.Y. BrockportSession 34: The Persistence of MedievalismPresider: Alison Gulley, Appalachian State University“Legends Never Die: The Myth of King Arthur and How It Endures”Adam Caratenuto, Winthrop U.“A Passion for the Medieval: Mardi Gras, Religion, and Racial Controversy”Nancy Bradley Warren, Texas A&M University“White Horses and Grey Horses: Chesterton, Hill Figures, andMedievalism”William H. Smith, Weatherford College“’Make Me a Knyghte with Thi Hande’: Chivalric Masculinity and ModernMilitias”Will Smith, UNC—GreensboroRoom 114,Olin Building,Wofford College

Round G10:45am-12:15pmSession 35: Requiems for Chivalry: Medieval and ModernCommentaries on Chivalric Passions in Malory’s Le MorteDarthurSession Proposer: Josephine Koster, Winthrop UniversityPresider: Meredith Reynolds, Francis Marion UniversityRoom 118,Olin Building,Wofford College“Requiem for a Kingdom: The Framing of Combat with Dialogue as aCommentary on Chivalric Ideals in Malory’s Le Morte Darthur”Ian Mueller, Winthrop University“The ‘Jantyllyste’ Knights Living: Sir Tristram and Sir Palomides.”Marin Grant, Winthrop UniversitySession 36: Music and SoundPresider: Lynneth Miller Renberg, Anderson University“Echoes of Tang Music in the Former Shu and Later Shu Kingdoms”Stewart Carter, Wake Forest UniversityRoom 101,Olin Building,Wofford College“Defining Romanesque and Gothic Qualities in Late-Medieval Music”Kevin N. Moll, East Carolina University“Lyrical and Visual Artistic Expression in Medieval Irish Manuscripts”Laura McCloskey Wolfe, University of West GeorgiaSession 37: Passion for Order and Habits of Resistance: AnInterdisciplinary PanelOrganizer: Lisa Myers, University of New MexicoPresider: Vicky McAlister, Southeast Missouri State University“‘Zeal for Your House Consumes Me’: Ritual, Violence and Ritual Violencein Late Medieval Religious Reforms”Jamie McCandless, Kennesaw State University“Resisting and Re-using Classical Auctores: Lydgate’s Achilles and Hector inthe Troy Book”Marisa Sikes, Austin Peay State University“Carmina cantabrigiensia as Educational Tool: Music Theory and theNatural World”Lisa Myers, University of New Mexico“Parishioner’s Passions: John Myrk’s Instructions for Parish Priests”Christine Kozikowski, University of the BahamasRoom 201,Olin Building,Wofford College

Round G10:45am-12:15pmSession 38: Teaching Epics in Translation: A Form of PassionSponsor: Société Rencesvals, American-Canadian BranchOrganizer: Ana Grinberg, Auburn UniversityPresider: Geri Smith, University of Central FloridaRoom 212,Olin Building,Wofford College“Women’s Voices in the East and in the West: Pairing The Saga of thePeople of Laxardal and The Tale of Genji in the Global MedievalClassroom”Brian Cook, Auburn University“Enfance Narratives as Fan Fiction: When Rolandin meets Cú Chulainn andEgil”Ana Grinberg, Auburn University"Teaching Epics Despite Toxic Masculinities"Larry J. Swain, Bemidji State UniversitySession 39: A Passion for WordsPresider: Melinda Menzer, Furman UniversityRoom 213,Olin Building,Wofford College“Translating Gower’s Confessio Amantis”Catherine Carter and Brian Gastle, Western CarolinaUniversity“The Emprynted Narrator: Caxton as Storyteller and Reteller”Ashley Barros, Texas A&M University“The Stability and Utility of De Worde’s Formatting for the Morte Darthur”David Eugene Clark, Suffolk County Community College12:30-2:00pmBusiness LuncheonHarley room,Richardson building,Wofford College2:00-3:00pmBack of the College TourA walking tour conducted by Professor Jim Neighbors, Department ofEnglish, memorializing Wofford’s historical mistreatment of the localblack populace of Spartanburg.Tour will leave fromthe Harley room andtake about 1 hour

Index of ParticipantsKimberly Tate AndersonLillian BarfieldAneilya BarnesAshley BarrosLaura K. BedwellSession 9Session 3Session 5Session 39Session 13; Session 16Katie BeemanDebra BestAlice BlackwellJuliette BourdierThomas A. BredehoftSession 23Session 8Session 22Session 4Session 26Kristin L. BurrKathleen BurtAdam CaratenutoCatherine CarterStewart CarterSession 4; Session 19Session 6; Session 21Session 34Session 39Session 36Karen CasebierDavid Eugene ClarkLaura ClarkJill Hamilton ClementsDwayne ColemanSession 14; Session 16Session 28; Session 39Session 28Session 26Session 9Brian CookAntha Cotten-SpreckelmeyerSarah CoxKate CraigHunter Keith CurleeSession 38Session 31Session 32Session 11; Session 30Session 24Colin CutlerCarolyn Anne DayKelly Robert DevriesLaine E. DoggettAmber DunaiSession 10Session 23Session 5Session 1; Session 30Session 15Sam EnglishMimi EnsleyJanet Schrunk EricksenJuan Manuel EscouridoGayle FallonSession 21Session 21Session 26Session 30Session 31Duncan FischbachJill FitzgeraldWestley FollettGabriel FordDeanna ForsmanSession 15Session 29Session 12Session 25; Session 26Session 2; Session 27Brian GastleShannon GodloveBarbara GoodmanMarin GrantSession 32; Session 39Session 10; Session 24Session 32Session 35

Ana GrinbergSession 15; Session 38Natalie GrinnellAlison GulleyPhilip HandysideD. Thomas Hanks, Jr.Christina M. HeckmanWherever the caffeine isSession 8; Session 34Session 14; Session 24Session 7; Session 28Session 5Stephen C. E. HopkinsScott JesseePhyllis JesticeWan-Chuan KaoJosephine KosterSession 15Session 27Session 5; Session 20; Session 27Plenary 1Session 3; Session 7Christine KozikowskiKathy KrauseAnne LatowskyEmily LeverettCecelia LintonSession 37Session 9; Session 25Session 12; Session 25Session 8Session 11Sherron LuxMelanie MaddoxVicky McAlisterJamie McCandlessLaura McCloskey WolfeSession 4; Session 31Session 27Session 2; Session 27; Session 37Session 37Session 1; Session 36Arielle McKeeMelinda MenzerMarisa E. MillsKyrie MirandaBritt MizeSession 9Session 32; Session 39Session 2Session 4; Session 20Session 16Kevin N. MollAubrey MorrisClint Morrison, Jr.Ian MuellerLisa MyersSession 36Sessio

Get on I-85 N in Fulton County Follow I-85 N to S 23/Simuel Rd in Spartanburg County. Take exit 4 from I-85BL N Follow SC-56 to 299 N. Church Street From Asheville and I-40 via I-26 East (69 miles, 1.2 hours) Get on I-240 W/US-70 W from Broadway St Take I-26 E to N Pine St in Spartanburg County