2025 Program Schedule
"Jubilee!"
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Note: this is subject to change and is only provisional -- the final program will be
available at the Conference Registration Desk
FRIDAY, 28 February
7:30 A.M. Registration begins, Convocation Hall
(Light breakfast and printed program available)
8:30 A.M.— 9:50 A.M.
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1. Creative Re-Evaluation
Location: McGriff Alumni House
Chair: Nancy Bradley Warren
Paper: “Imitation as Adaptation in the Middle Ages”
Katie Little, The University of Colorado, Boulder
Paper: “Romancing the Church: Mothers and Inventions in the Lives of Constantine and Thomas Becket”
Claire Waters, The University of California, Davis
Comment: Matthew Giancarlo, The University of Kentucky
2. Joyous Movement in Romance
Location: Social Lodge
Chair: Clint Morrison, Jr.
Paper: “I Want You To Want Me”: Amorous Fairies and Im/mobilities in Yonec and Sir Degaré”
Arielle McKee, Wake Forest University
Paper: “All Manner Revels and Games: Collective Joy and Discord in Malory’s Morte Darthur”
Sarah B. Rude, Augustana University
Comment: John T. Sebastian, Loyola Marymount University
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3. Remembering and Reviving a Golden Age
Location: Center for Teaching
Chair: Anthony Perron
Paper: “Longing for the Islamicate Past in Petrus Alfonsi’s Disciplina Clericalis and its Old French Verse Translations”
Gabriel Ford, Drake University
Paper: “Nostalgic Religious Dissent: The Apocalypticism of the Apostolic Brethren, 1260-1307”
Adam Hoose, Troy University
Comment: Nina Caputo, The University of Florida
4. Material Adaptations
Location: Torian Room
Chair: Cynthia Turner Camp
Paper: “Just Add Another Crown: The Deceptive Augmentation of the Medieval Papal Tiara”
Grace Nicoll, The University of Alberta
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Paper: “Rethinking the Contents in Books Hours: The Case of Charlottesville MMS W”
Andrew Rivard Hill, The University of Virginia
Comment: Lillian Joyce, The University of Alabama in Huntsville
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10:00 A.M.— 11:50 A.M.
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5. Parties of Masculine Havoc
Location: McGriff Alumni House
Chair: Carissa Harris
Paper: “Prosecuting the Rude: Nighttime Revelry, Policing, and Public Space in Late Medieval Bruges”
Mirielle J. Pardon, Berea College
Paper: “Celebrations Gone Wrong? Weddings, Charivaris, and Crimes in France”
Aleksandra “Sasha” Pfau, Hendrix College
Paper: “‘Customes’ of Violence: Reading Endurance in the Insular Pastourelles”
Sarah Baechle, The University of Mississippi
Comment: Michelle Armstrong-Partida, Emory University
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6. Repurposing Recurrence: Making and Remaking Ritual
Location: Torian Room
Chair: Catherine Sanok
Paper: “John Barleycorn Must Die: Brewing as Eucharistic Ritual in the John Barleycorn Tradition”
Noelle Phillips, Douglas College
Paper: “Annual Recurrence in the Parliament of Fowls”
Anne Llewellyn Morgan, The University of Alabama
Paper: “Werewolf Recurrences in William of Palerne”
Elizabeth Allen, The University of California, Irvine
Comment: Catherine Sanok, The University of Michigan
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7. Medium as Meaning
Location: EQB House
Chair: Britt Mize
Paper: “‘Parchment into Stone: Name-Stones as Skeuomorphic Books”
Jill Hamilton Clements, The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Paper: “Booklets, Gatherings, and Bindings: Material Adaptations of Old English Poetry”
Thomas A Bredehoft, Chancery Hill Books
Paper: “‘Fitting the Box: the Clopton Chantry Chapel in Context”
Matthew Davis, The University of British Columbia, Okanagan
Comment: Lori Ann Garner, Rhodes College
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8. Fleshly Appetites
Location: Center for Teaching
Chair: Arielle McKee
Paper: “‘I wol bileve wel that I am noon’: The Miller’s Tale, Guilt, and Queer Horror”
Jeffrey G. Stoyanoff, Penn State Altoona
Paper: “Bad Taste, or Delicious Diplomacy? Cannibalism and Community in Chronicle and Romance”
Katherine Terrell, Hamilton College
Paper: “‘Is Sarezynys flesch thus good’: the Eucharist and Cannibalistic Pleasure in Richard Coer de Lyon”
Amanda Leary, The University of Wisconsin
Comment: Karl Steel, Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center at the City University of New York
9. Celebrating Community in Late Medieval Lyric
Location: Social Lodge
Chair: Stephanie L. Batkie
Paper: “Bromance in Ballades: Homosociality, Real and Imagined, in the Cent Ballades”
Elizaveta Strakhov, Marquette University
Paper: “Celebrating Poetic Fellowship in the Forest de Longue Actente”
Lucas Wood, Texas Tech University
Paper: “‘Oncques ne vy plus plaisant compaignie’: Jubilant Poetry as Record of Women’s Puissance”
S.C. Kaplan, Louisiana Tech University
Comment: R.D. Perry, The University of Tennessee
12:00 P.M.—
1:00 P.M. LUNCH, Convocation Hall
1:00 P.M.— 2:50 P.M.
10. Marriage Ain’t No Party
Location: Torian Room
Chair: Carissa Harris and Sarah Baechle
Paper: “Feminist Killjoys at the Wedding: Marital Consent in Medieval English Conduct Literature”
Chelsea Skalak, Dickinson College
Paper: “The Safety of Marriage: Trans Misogyny and the Long History of Marriage Defense”
Gabriel Medina, Princeton University
Paper: “Violent Feasts and Male Bonding in Gower’s Confessio Amantis”
Caitlin G. Watt, Indiana University
Comment: Fiona Somerset, The University of Connecticut
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11. A Celebration of the Percy Folio Manuscript
Location: Social Lodge
Chair: Andrew Taylor
Paper: “Queer Junk: Composting The Squier of the Percy Folio”
Zachary Engledow, Indiana University
Paper: “The Sovereign Body and Landscape in Three Gawain Romances of the Percy Folio Manuscript”
Joshua Pontillo, Indiana University
Paper: “Outlaw Violence and the Boundaries of Romance in the Percy Folio Manuscript”
Benjamin Hoover, Indiana University
Comment: Randy Schiff, The University at Buffalo
12. Recurrence and Repair
Location: Gailor 110
Chair: Claire Waters
Paper: “Seeking Healing on la feste: Repetition and Apocalypse in Marie de France’s Vie seinte Audree”
Jacob Abell, Baylor University
Paper: “Seasons and Sensations in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”
Ingrid Pierce, Clemson University
Paper: “Christmas around the Clock: The Extension of Holiday Healing in Lydgate’s Disguising at Hertford”
Emma Bradford, UNC Chapel Hill
Comment: Claire Waters, The University of California, Davis
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13. The Whole Medievalist: Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts? (Invited Roundtable)
Location: McGriff Alumni House
Chair: Katie Little
Paper: “Manicotti on Thanksgiving: Confessions of a Guinea Medievalist”
Michael Calabrese, California State, Los Angeles
Paper: “Meeting in the Middle: Medieval Studies and Critical Multiracial Theory (MultiCrit)”
Misho Ishikawa, NYU
Paper: “The Public Work of Queer Medieval Studies”
Jessica Hines, Whitman College
Paper: “Premodern Perspectives and Disability Studies: Care, Institutions, and Community”
Kate Crassons, Lehigh University
Paper: “Going Local”
Moira Fitzgibbons, Marist University
Paper: “Being a Whole Medievalist Both Inside and Outside the Academy”
Jennifer N. Brown, Marymount Manhattan College
Comment: Elizabeth Schirmer, New Mexico State University
14. 1381 After January 6
Location: Gailor 128
Chair: Lynneth Miller Renberg
Paper: “Conspiracist Lyrics: The Prayers of the QShaman and the Rebel Letters of 1381”
Katharine Jager, The University of Houston-Downtown
Paper: “Rhyme and the Form of Protest”
R.D. Perry, The University of Tennessee
Paper: “Illegitimate Forms; Rumor and Riot”
Spencer Strub, Princeton University
Comment: Robert Meyer-Lee, Agnes Scott College
3:00 P.M.— BREAK and COLLABORATION,
3:30 P.M. Convocation Hall
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3:30 P.M.— 5:20 P.M.​
15. Party to (Reproductive) Justice
Location: Torian Room
Chair: Sarah Baechle
Paper: “Abortion Parties”
Carissa Harris, Temple University
Paper: “‘Outcast Mothers and Surrogates’ in English Lives of St Mawryne”
Mary Beth Long, The University of Arkansas
Paper: “‘The Wombe of Here that Was Your Wife’: Reproductive Sovereignty and the End of Marriage in The Clerk’s Tale”
Katharine Jager, The University of Houston– Downtown
Comment: Sara Petrosillo, The University of Evansville
16. Systems + Event
Location: McGriff Alumni House
Chair: Shoshana Adler
Paper: “Narrative as Event in Chaucer's Dream Visions”
Danielle Allor, Haverford College
Paper: “Communicating Contingency: Oaths as Events in the Romance Tradition”
Laura Hatch, Brigham Young University
Paper: “Event, Aventure, and a Good Time”
Tekla Bude, Oregon State University
Comment: Ingrid Nelson, Amherst College
17. Framing Indulgence
Location: Gailor 110
Chair: Arielle McKee
Paper: “The Duty of Delight: The Eschatological Horizon of Pleasure and Taste in Eriugena’s Poetry”
Gabriel Torretta, Providence College
Paper: “Pain as Pleasure: The Guilty Pleasures of Suffering Mystics”
Heather McRae, Westminster College
Paper: “Indulgent Anachronism: Medieval, Modern, and the Pleasures that Ruin Us”
Zaccary Haney, Loyola University, Chicago
Comment: Jennifer N. Brown, Marymount Manhattan College
18. Medical Matters
Location: Social Lodge
Chair: Caitlin Kelly
Paper: “Eating Between the Lines: Personal Agency and Dietary Morality in Medieval Texts”
Lindsay Ragle-Miller, UNC Chapel Hill
Paper: “Well-Healed: Medieval Medicine as Middle-Class Pastime”
Noa Nikolsky, The University of Miami
Paper: “Parallel Diagnosis: Understanding Historical Health Without Retrospective Diagnosing”
Wendy J. Turner, Augusta University
Comment: Aleksandra “Sasha” Pfau, Hendrix College
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19. Jubilant Reunions: Trans*formative Reencounter in the European Middle Ages
Location: Gailor 128
Chair: Misho Ishikawa
Paper: “‘Ful joly’ Holes in The Miller's Tale”
Micah Goodrich, Boston University
Paper: “Joyous Transformation in Arthur and Gorlagon”
Kersti Francis, Boston University
Paper: “The Gender Politics of Reunion in Le Conte de Floire et Blanchefleur”
Anne Le, The University of Notre Dame
Comment: Glenn Burger, Queens College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York
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5:45 P.M. PLENARY SESSION
Edward King Memorial Lecture
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“Jubilee: Freedoms, Past and Present”
Amy Remensnyder, Brown University
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7:00 P.M. COCKTAILS AND DINNER
Convocation Hall
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SATURDAY, 1 March
7:30 A.M. Registration continues, Convocation Hall
(Light breakfast and printed program available.)
8:30 A.M.— 9:50 A.M.
20. The Tangible Event
Location: Gailor 110
Chair: Mariah Min
Paper: “Attention to Particulars: Carving Out Phenomenology in a Norwich Misericord”
Matthew Boyd Goldie, Rider University
Paper: “Eventinge the Wound”
H.M. Cushman, UNC Chapel Hill
Comment: Taylor Crowdery, UNC Chapel Hill
21. Figuring Commemorative Spaces
Location: Gailor 130
Chair: Hannah Matis
Paper: “Commemorating Saints in the Coemeterium Commodillae (Rome)”
Dennis Trout, The University of Missouri
Paper: “Bishop Antonio d’Orso’s Tomb in Conversation: Allegory, Adaptation, and Allusion in the Cathedral Complex of Florence”
Shelley MacLaren, The University of the South
Comment: C. Jean Campbell, Emory University
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22. Cultural Crossings in Medieval Romance
Location: Gailor 128
Chair: Elizaveta Strakhov
Paper: “Courtly Feasting in the Medieval Romance from a Cross-Cultural Perspective”
Eva Kuras, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Paper: “The Greek 'Old Knight': An Immigrant Poet's Gift to the Arthurian World “
Thomas H. Crofts, East Tennessee State University
Comment: Marcel Elias, Yale University
23. Performing Gender Identity
Location: Gailor 112
Chair: Jeffrey G. Stoyanoff
Paper: “Trans Pregnancy in Performance: Birth Imagery in the Mystery Plays”
Adrian Whitacre, Eureka College
Paper: “Performing Womanhood in the 20th Century Medieval Pageant”
Stacie Vos, The University of San Diego
Comment: Margaret Pappano, Queen’s University
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24. Translation Party
Location: Gailor 132
Chair: Tekla Bude
Paper: “Making a Joyful Noise with Adaptation” (and a fiction reading about Grendel's Swamp Mama)
Kim Zarins, California State, Sacramento
Paper: “The Art of Adaptation in Translating Piers Plowman”
Michael Calabrese, California State, Los Angeles
Comment: Kathleen Tonry, The University of Connecticut
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10:00 P.M.— 11:50 A.M.
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25. Colloquium Seminar:
Temporality, Varietas, and Performance in the
Late Middle Ages
Location: Naylor Auditorium (Gailor Hall)
Seminar Leader: Jesse Rodin, Stanford University
Panelists:
Elizabeth Allen, The University of California, Irvine
Cynthia Turner Camp, The University of Georgia
Jane Alden, Wesleyan University
Freddy Dominguez, The University of Arkansas
Sean Gallagher, The New England Conservatory
Evan A. MacCarthy, The University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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26. Medievalism from Caxton to Hope Emily Allen
Location: Gailor 110
Chair: Stacie Vos
Paper: “Belle da Costa Greene's New York City of Ladies”
Carolyn Funk
Paper: “A Tale of One Saint and Two Villages: Sainte Reine d’Alise (et de Flavigny)”
Maud Burnett McInerney, Haverford College
Paper: “Celebrating Beowulf in Texas, 1891”
Britt Mize, Texas A&M University
Comment: Christopher Cannon, Johns Hopkins University
27. Formal Repetition and the Shaping of the Self
Location: Gailor 128
Chair: Jessica Brantley
Paper: “Chiastic Devotion in Late Medieval Books of Hours and Literature”
Roark Wilson, The University of Kentucky
Paper: “Frogs, Again: Iterative Exempla in Late Medieval Literature”
Shoshana Adler, Vanderbilt University
Paper: “Self-Effacing, Self-Embracing: Modes of Repetition in the Orrmulum”
Claire Adler, Yale University
Comment: Jessica Brantley, Yale University
28. Reading as Festival: Sunday Seminars with The Gower Project
Location: Gailor 130
Chair: Matthew Irvin
Paper: “Gower Reading Group: Collaboration and Celebration”
Eve SalIsbury, Western Michigan University
Paper: “Protection from the Stalker: All Eyes on Amans in the Confessio Amantis”
Georgiana Donavin, Westminster University
Paper: “Funny Gower”
Brian W. Gastle, Western Carolina University
Comment: Andrew Galloway, Cornell University
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29. Affective Movement
Location: Gailor 132
Chair: Lynneth Miller Renberg
Paper: “Playing Mercy: Crossing Emotional and Generic Boundaries in Mankind”
Ann Hubert, St. Lawrence University
Paper: “Spaces of Merriment in Feminized Encounters with the Divine”
Elizabeth Perry, Prairie View A&M University
Paper: “Emotional Temporalities and Explorations of Identity in Marian Lyric”
Madeline Fox, The University of Michigan
Comment: Mary Hayes, The University of Mississippi
12:00 P.M.—
1:00 P.M. LUNCH, Convocation Hall
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1:00 P.M.— 2:50 P.M.
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30. Celebrations of Form: Narrative, Commemorative, Memorial
Location: Gailor 130
Chair: Matthew Irvin
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Paper: “Courtesy and Cash: Bonds of Narrative in A Gest of Robyn Hode”
Arvind Thomas, UCLA
Paper: “Celebrating the Dead: the art of the funerary verse inscription in late medieval England”
Bard Swallow, The University of Toronto
Paper: “Charles d’Orleans’s Jubilee”
Holly Barbaccia, Georgetown College
Comment: Frank Grady, The University of Missouri--Saint Louis
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31. Medievalisms Past and Present
Location: Gailor 110
Chair: Kim Zarins
Paper: “Remembering Bede in the American South”
Lori Ann Garner, Rhodes College
Paper: “Revenge of the (Vegas Golden) Knights: Escalating Medievalism in their 2023 Stanley Cup Run”
Emily Leverett, Methodist University
Paper: “The Party That Doesn’t Want to End: Deconstructing Mythologized Medieval Legacy in Tracy Deonn’s Legendborn”
Chelsea Keane, UNC Wilmington
Comment: Megan Cook, Colby College
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32. Producing and Using Literary Nostalgia
Location: Gailor 112
Chair: Anthony Perron
Paper: “How Nostalgia Works: Phenomenological Mimesis of Nostalgia in Malory’s Morte Darthur”
Josh Pittman, Gardner-Webb University
Paper: “Commemorating Her Own Success: Reclaiming Constance of Sicily from Nostalgic Misogyny”
Sara Pertrosillo, The University of Evansville
Paper: “‘Pergama Flere Volo’: Remembering Troy in Medieval Latin Verse”
Susannah Wright, Rice University
Comment: Heather Blurton, The University of California, Santa Barbara
33. Bodies and Being in the World
Location: Gailor 128
Chair: Joseph Taylor
Paper: “‘Of his diete mesurable was he’: Chaucer at the Table”
Caitlin Kelly, The University of Oxford
Paper: “Eating the Rich: The More-Than-Human Dame Ragnelle and Embodied Resistance”
Melissa Heide, Colby College
Paper: “‘Blastis Bitterlie’ and ‘Frawart Froistes’: Robert Henryson's Winters and Aesopic Amplificatio”
Jessica Hines, Whitman College
Comment: Karl Steel, Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center at the City University of New York
34. Commemoration in Medieval Chronicles
Location: Gailor 132
Chair: Susan Ridyard
Paper: “Sin and Repentance in Giovanni Villani's Nuova Cronica”
Matthew Sneider, The University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, and Rala Diakite, Fitchburg State College
Paper: “Le Pèlerinage de Charlemagne: Sitting in God's Chair, A King's Joyous Movement”
David King, Stockton University
Paper: “Celebrating Roman-Gothic Unity: A Reappraisal of the Getica of Jordanes”
Brian Swain, Kennesaw State University
Comment: Kelly DeVries, Loyola University, Maryland
35. Sociopolitical Performance
Location: Gailor 225
Chair: Jeffery G. Stoyanoff
Paper: “Ordo Societatus: Imparting Community Identity via the York Corpus Christi Plays”
Elizabeth Brissey, Auburn University
Paper: “Performance, Celebration, and Rebellion in Early Robin Hood Plays”
Emily Youree, UNC Chapel Hill
Paper: “Time's Dominion: Between Call Time the End-Time in the York Corpus Christi Plays”
Jordan Skinner, Princeton University
Comment: Lynneth Miller Renberg, Anderson University
3:00 P.M.— BREAK and COLLABORATION,
3:30 P.M. Convocation Hall
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3:30 P.M.— 5:20 P.M.
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36. Celebration and Joy in Performance
Location: Gailor 110
Chair: Jeffery G. Stoyanoff
Paper: “‘In the pretended celebration’: Frustrated Celebration in The Two Noble Kinsmen”
Angeline M. Morris, The University of Tennessee, Southern
Paper: “‘To bringe yowe alle to joye’: Movement in the Mumming at Bishopswood”
Clint Morrison, The University of Texas, Austin
Paper: “‘Ill spon weft’: Joy and Judgement in the Second Shepherds’ Play”
Sydney Owada Welk, The University of Michigan
Comment: Theresa Coletti, The University of Maryland
37. Adaptation and the Shape of Life
Location: Gailor 112
Chair: Amber Dunai
Paper: “Literary Adaptation and Self-Narration in Le Pèlerinage de la vie humaine”
Shea McCollough, Washington University in St. Louis
Paper: “Adaptation, Revision, and Inventiveness in Peter Idley’s Instructions to His Son”
Matthew Giancarlo, The University of Kentucky
Paper: “Translation through a Body: Margery’s Kempe’s Visions as Scriptural Adaptation”
Elizabeth Perry, Prairie View A&M University
Comment: Katie Little, The University of Colorado, Boulder
38. Textual Traditions and Medieval Literary Culture: Essays in Honour of Siân Echard
Location: Gailor 225
Chair: Daniel Helbert
Paper: “The Weight that English Carries: Vernacularity from Hali Meiðhad to Chaucer’s House of Fame”
Andrew Galloway, Cornell University
Paper: “A Knight at the Roxburghe (Club): George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower and the Textual Transmission of Balades and Other Poems by John Gower”
David Watt, The University of Manitoba
Paper: “Trojan Ghosts in Arthurian Romance”
Elizabeth Archibald, Durham University
Comment: Siân Echard, The University of British Columbia
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39. Forgiveness, Pardon, Indulgence
Location: Gailor 128
Chair: Aleksandra “Sasha” Pfau
Paper: “You’re So Reparative, You Probably Think Reading Is About You: Sedgwick on Mandeville”
Mariah Min, Brown University
Paper: “Mercy, Sacrilege, and the Jurisprudence of Stephen of Tournai”
Anthony Perron, Loyola Marymount University
Paper: “The Realism of Physical Labor in Julian of Norwich’s A Revelation of Love”
Izzy Howard, UNC Chapel Hill
Comment: Claire Waters, The University of California, Davis
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40. Celebration and Change in Middle English
Location: Gailor 132
Chair: R.D. Perry
Paper: “Celebrating in New Jerusalem: The Anomalous Procession of the 144,000 in Pearl”
Kimberly Jack, Athens State University
Paper: “Pity Party for One: the role of Nature and the Female in the 3 Stages of Grief in Body/Soul Debates”
Kathleen Burt, Middle Georgia State University
Paper: “Celebrations of Kinde: Theology and Epistemology in William Langland’s Piers Plowman and Julian of Norwich’s Revelation of Love”
Nancy Warren, Texas A&M University
Comment: Elizabeth Schirmer, New Mexico State University
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5:45 P.M. PLENARY SESSION
Brinley Rhys Memorial Lecture
“Rhetoric of Praise: Celebrating Students and a King…or a University”
Rita Copeland, The University of Pennsylvania
7:00 P.M. COCKTAILS AND DINNER
Convocation Hall
Thank you, and safe travels!