Medieval Association of the Midwest (MAM)
Sessions:12, 86, 426, 465, 501, 527
Thursday 10:00
Session 12
FETZER 1005
The Medieval “Canon” in the Early British Literature Survey (A Roundtable)
Sponsor: Medieval Association of the Midwest (MAM)
Organizer: Alexander L. Kaufman, Ball State Univ.
Presider: Alexander L. Kaufman
Teaching outside the Old Medieval Canon, Michel Aaij, Auburn Univ.–Montgomery
The Battle of Maldon and the Rise of Post-Canonical Pedagogy, Eric R. Carlson, Univ. of South Carolina–Aiken
Medieval Images of Christ: A Look at Non-Canonical Images as “Text,” Dominique Hoche, West Liberty Univ.
Not on the Celtic Fringes: Meaningful Incorporation of Non-English Texts in the British Literature Survey Course, and Why it Matters in the Twenty-First Century Classroom, Melissa Ridley Elmes, Lindenwood Univ.
What about Medieval Romances, NAEL?, Ryan Naughton, Arizona State Univ.
The Physical Canon: Reading Rare Books from Early Modern England, Matthew Z. Heintzelman, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library
How Scholarly Is Your Textbook/Anthology?, Lesley Coote, Univ. of Hull
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Thursday 12:00
MAM Executive Council meeting
Bronco Global Lounge (G10, on the ground floor near the computing center)
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Thursday 1:30
Session 86
SCHNEIDER 1345
Lawless Justice or Lawful Injustice?
Sponsor: Medieval Association of the Midwest (MAM)
Organizer: Toy-Fung Tung, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
Presider: Toy-Fung Tung
“Si guardo di mai piú non beffarlo”: The Semiotics of Hunger and Thirst in Decameron 9.8
Margaret A. Escher, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
Guinevere’s Case Revisited
Jennifer Wollock, Texas A&M Univ.
Anti-Trafficking Awareness and the Fouquet Circle
Margaret E. Hadley, Independent Scholar
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Thursday 5:30
MAM Business Meeting
Bronco Global Lounge (G10, on the ground floor near the computing center)
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Saturday 1:30
Session 426
SCHNEIDER 1340
Interpretative Impasses and the Pearl-Poet
Sponsor: Medieval Association of the Midwest (MAM)
Organizer: Mickey Sweeney, Dominican Univ.
Presider: David Sprunger, Concordia College
Cleanness and that Lost Shaker of Salt
Jamie C. Fumo, Florida State Univ.
Material Mistakes: Reinterpreting Impasse in Pearl
Chris Klippenstein, Columbia Univ.
Critical Quagmires in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Mickey Sweeney
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Saturday 3:30
Session 465
SCHNEIDER 1155
The Medieval in Children’s Literature
Sponsor: Medieval Association of the Midwest (MAM)
Organizer: Kristin Bovaird-Abbo, Univ. of Northern Colorado
Presider: Kristin Bovaird-Abbo
Medieval “Distory”: Historicity and Disney-on-Ice Fairy Tales
Wendy A. Matlock, Kansas State Univ.
Questioning Gender and Sexuality in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales through the Young Adult Novel Sometimes We Tell the Truth
McKenzie Peck, Univ. of Missouri–Columbia
Beetle/Alyce of The Midwife’s Apprentice: A Feminist Version of Medieval Romances’ Noble Male Heroes
Dainy Bernstein, Graduate Center, CUNY
Thinking Like a Wizard: Medievalism in Young Adult Literature
Jes Battis, Univ. of Regina
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Sunday 8:30
Session 501
BERNHARD 212
Queyntes, Cuckolds, and Handsy Clerks: Toxic Masculinity and Medieval Bro Culture
Sponsor: Medieval Association of the Midwest (MAM)
Organizer: Matthew O’Donnell, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington
Presider: Matthew O’Donnell
Patient Wives and Defiant Women: Toppling Toxic Masculinity in Chaucer’s Secular Saints’ Lives
Carol Jamison, Georgia Southern Univ.
Desperate to Denigrate: Diffident Male Authority and “Rape Worthy” Women in Three Late Fourteenth-Century Texts
Heather Hill-Vásquez, Univ. of Detroit Mercy
How Tirant Won the Battle and Entered the Castle by Force of Arms: Toxic Masculinity in Tirant lo blanc
David M. Reher, Univ. of Chicago
Is It the Dirtiest Tale in the English Language or Just Regular Conversation on Any College Campus? A Look at How Students Interact with The Miller’s Tale
Austin A. Deray, George Mason Univ.
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Sunday 10:30
Session 527
BERNHARD 208
Nevertheless, She Resisted: Centering Female Will and Consent in Medieval Literature
Sponsor: Medieval Association of the Midwest (MAM)
Organizer: Alison Langdon, Western Kentucky Univ.
Presider: Alison Langdon
“The Drake, Stroyer of His Owne Kinde”: Feminine Will in The Parliament of Fowls
Kristin Bovaird-Abbo, Univ. of Northern Colorado
“In myn armes I had her faste”: Rape and Its Undercurrents in The Isle of Ladies
Boyda J. Johnstone, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
Que si faire li plot: Toxic Masculinity, Erased Consent, and the Making of a Queen in Chrétien de Troyes’s Erec et Enide
Elizabeth S. Leet, Franklin & Marshall College
Negotiating Survival: Women’s Strategies of Resistance in Premodern Rape Lyrics
Carissa M. Harris, Temple Univ.