Modern Medieval at Kalamazoo 2014

And so it comes around again, Spring, when medievalists long to go ... to Kalamazoo. The blog has been a bit quiet of late, but as you can see from the run-down below, we've all been very busy! We're organizing, presiding, and presenting like crazy over here!

Matthew Gabriele

The Exegetical Turn: Exegesis as a Paradigm for New Understandings of the Middle Ages
Thursday 3:30 p.m. Schneider 1320

Sponsor: Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Virginia Tech


Organizer: Matthew Gabriele, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ.
Presider: David M. Perry, Dominican Univ.

Kissing Christ: Judas’s Mouth as Biblical Exegesis

Rabia Gregory, Univ. of Missouri–Columbia

The Exegetical Diplomas of King Philip I of Francia (1060–1108)

Matthew Gabriele

Read! Think! Engage! How Luther’s Exegesis of Genesis Exhorted People out of the Cloister and into Family and Society

Jennifer Hockenbery, Mount Mary Univ.

Writing the Middle Ages for Multiple Audiences (A Panel Discussion)
Friday 3:30 p.m. Fetzer 1045

Sponsor: CARA (Committee on Centers and Regional Associations, Medieval Academy of America)
Organizer: Michael A. Ryan, Univ. of New Mexico
Presider: James M. Murray, Western Michigan Univ.

A panel discussion with David M. Perry, Dominican Univ.; Ellen F. Arnold, Ohio Wesleyan Univ.; Matthew Gabriele, Virginia Tech; and Laura Saetveit Miles, Univ. i Bergen.

 Rick Godden

Disability Studies and the Digital Humanities (A Roundtable)
Friday 3:30 p.m. Schneider 1155

Sponsor: Society for the Study of Disability in the Middle Ages
Organizer: Joshua R. Eyler, Rice Univ.

Presider: Tory Vandeventer Pearman, Miami Univ. Hamilton

A roundtable discussion with John P. Sexton, Bridgewater State Univ.; Cameron Hunt McNabb, Southeastern Univ.; Jonathan Hsy, George Washington Univ.; and Richard H. Godden, Tulane Univ.

#;()@?”:—*! (A Roundtable)
Saturday 1:30 p.m. Fetzer 1005

Sponsor: BABEL Working Group

Organizer: Eileen A. Joy, BABEL Working Group
Presider: Richard H. Godden, Tulane Univ.

Seeing Spaces

Chris Piuma, Univ. of Toronto

The Divorce of Punctuation and Diacritics

Meg Worley, Colgate Univ.

, (A Breath)

Joshua R. Eyler, Rice Univ.

D’oh: A Brief History of Misusing the Apostrophe and Why Its So Annoying

David Hadbawnik, Univ. at Buffalo

‽: Interrobanging Chaucer

Corey Sparks, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington

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Robert Rouse, Univ. of British Columbia

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Jonathan Hsy, George Washington Univ.

Medieval Literary Ethics
Sunday 8:30 a.m. Schneider 1350

Organizer: Emily Houlik-Ritchey, Univ. of California–Santa Barbara
Presider: Emily Houlik-Ritchey

“Doctrine by ensample”: Literature’s Ethical Problem and Spenser’s Aesthetic Solution

Maria Devlin, Harvard Univ.

By Writing Amended: The Ethics of Interpretation in Hoccleve’s Series

A. Arwen Taylor, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington

The Virtues and the Will in Chaucer’s Parliament of Fowls

Sarah Powrie, St. Thomas More College

Prosthetic Neighbors: Enabling Community in The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle

Richard H. Godden, Tulane Univ.

Brandon Hawk

New Methods in Anglo-Saxon Homiletics
Thursday 10:00 a.m. Schneider 1325

Sponsor: Society for the Study of Anglo-Saxon Homiletics (SSASH)
Organizer: Brandon W. Hawk, Univ. of Connecticut

Presider: Stephen Harris, Univ. of Massachusetts–Amherst

“It maie be Alfricus for al my conninge”: Authorizing Ælfric in the Long Seventeenth Century

R. Scott Bevill, Univ. of Tennessee–Knoxville

Ut quidam perverse opinantur: Bede’s Criticism of Unnamed Sources

Damian Fleming, Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ.–Fort Wayne

People of the Bread and the Book: Ecclesiology and the Eucharist in Ælfric’s Catholic Homilies

Rae Grabowski, Cornell Univ.

Universal Saints Located in Anglo-Saxon England
Thursday 7:30 p.m. Bernhard 204

Organizer: Kevin R. Kritsch, Univ. of North Carolina–Chapel Hill
Presider: Bryan Carella, Assumption College

An Old Testament Saint? Judith in Anglo-Saxon England

Brandon W. Hawk, Univ. of Connecticut

How to Read a Saint: Agatha and Interpretation

Ann D’Orazio, Univ. of New Mexico
Univ. of New Mexico Graduate Student Prize Winner

Using Swedish Fragments to Shed Light on the Anglo-Saxon Marian Conception Feast

Sean Dunnahoe, Royal Holloway, Univ. of London

How Was Bartholomew Killed? Apocryphal Traditions of Saint Bartholomew in Anglo-Saxon England

            Kevin R. Kritsch

Medievalists and the Social Media Pilgrimage: The Digital Life of Twenty-First- Century Medieval Studies (A Roundtable)
Sunday 8:30 a.m. Schneider 1280

Sponsor: Massachusetts State Universities Medieval Blog
Organizer: Kisha G. Tracy, Fitchburg State Univ.

Presider: Kisha G. Tracy

A roundtable discussion with John P. Sexton, Bridgewater State Univ.; Peter Konieczny, Medievalists.net; Brandon W. Hawk, Univ. of Connecticut; Andrew M. Pfrenger, Kent State Univ.–Salem; Joshua R. Eyler, Rice Univ.; and M. Wendy Hennequin, Tennessee State Univ.

Jennifer Jordan 

Irrationality as a Fruitful Methodology (A Roundtable)
Sunday 8:30 a.m. Schneider 1220

Sponsor: Heroic Age: A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe
Organizer: Deanna Forsman, North Hennepin Community College

Presider: William Schipper, Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland

A roundtable discussion with Deanna Forsman; Jennifer Jordan, Stony Brook Univ.; Richard Scott Nokes, Troy Univ.; Larry Swain, Bemidji State Univ.; and Silas Mallery, North Hennepin Community College.

Larry Swain

Of the Same Bone and Blood: Anglo-Saxon and Other Germanic Literature in Comparative Perspective
Saturday 3:30 p.m. Schneider 1155

Organizer: Larry Swain, Bemidji State Univ.
Presider: Larry Swain

It’s All in Your Mind: The Power of Intellect, Psychology, and Choice in the Vatican Genesis and Genesis B

Mary Breann Leake, Univ. of Connecticut

An Examination of Queens and King Slaying in Germanic Society

Sarah Barott, Bemidji State Univ.

A Moment Left Unwritten: Problematizing “Caedmon’s Hymn” and Moving Towards a Better Understanding of Early English Christianity through the Lens of Continental (and North) Germanic Literature

David Carlton, Univ. of Victoria

Community in Anglo-Saxon England: A Multidisciplinary Approach
Sunday 10:30 a.m. Fetzer 2030

Organizer: Deanna Forsman, North Hennepin Community College
Presider: Deanna Forsman

Community Matters: Burial Practices and Religious Identity in Conversion-Era England

Mark Alan Singer, Luther College

Re-membering Community: Mortuary Ritual as Social Strategy in Early Anglo- Saxon England

Heather Flowers, Minnesota State Univ.–Mankato

Bede’s Multiple Textual Communities in Anglo-Saxon England

Larry Swain, Bemidji State Univ.