Program
One of the great epistemological strengths of Medievalism Studies has been its openness to various forms of cultural reception, including linguistic, ideological, geographical, and disciplinary perspectives. For this year’s conference at Georgia Tech we specifically invited sessions and individual papers that would investigate the manifold transformations (hence the plural MEDIEVALISMS) that happen when recreations, reinventions, and redefinitions of the “medieval” move from one cultural space and time to another. The conference will feature two plenaries: Sylvie Kandé will speak ON the migration of medievalisms from Europe and Africa to the Americas, and Kathleen Verduin will share her work on THE reception of Dante Alighieri in North America. This year’s program also features contributions on how medievalisms MOVE between discourses, genres, modes, geographies, technologies, historical periods, religions, art forms, social classes, and research paradigms. And our program includes numerous other examples of the reception of medievalia from the Renaissance through present times.
Leah Haught, Valerie B. Johnson, and Richard Utz, Co-hosts
Thursday, October 23
EVENING RECEPTION
6:30-7:30 pm
The Club Room, Georgia Tech Hotel; Cash Bar
Regular Sessions Address:
Stephen C. Hall Building, 215 Bobby Dodd Way
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30313
Friday, October 24, 9am-10:30am : 2 concurrent sessions
Session 2: Gender and the Spirit
Stephen C. Hall Building Room 102
Chair: Kara L. McShane (U of Rochester)
Claudia Yaghoobi (Georgia College & State U)
The Ideal of Beauty in Medieval and Post-Medieval Persian Culture: Jami’s “Yusuf and Zulaikha”
Carol L. Robinson (Kent State U at Trumbull)
Medievalist Media Sexism on the Move
Niamh Pattwell (U of Dublin)
Engaging the Medieval in Frank McGuinness’s Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me
Session 3: Remix Culture / The Medieval Remixed
Stephen C. Hall Building Room 103
Chair: Lesley A. Coote
Eric Doyle (Villanova University)
Lohengrin Drowning: Myth and History in The Good Soldier
Matthew Schwager (Montana State U)
The Mousetrap and the Medieval: Historical Rhetoric and Design in Musical Interfaces
Alexander L. Kaufman (Auburn U at Montgomery)
Remake/Remodel: Roxy Music’s Avalon and the Spiral of Arthurian Renewal
Gwendolyn Morgan (Montana State U)
Reclaiming Englishness: Modern Usage of the Anglo-Saxon Language
10:45am-12:15pm : 3 concurrent sessions
Session 4: Medievalisms in the Classroom: A Roundtable
Stephen C. Hall Building Room 106
Organizers: Leah Haught & Valerie B. Johnson (Georgia Tech)
Chair: Peter Fontaine (Georgia Tech)
Leah Haught (Georgia Tech)
From Westeros to Broceliande: Mapping the Multimodal Middle Ages
Valerie B. Johnson (Georgia Tech)
Up-Cycling: Adapting the York Mystery Cycle
Kara L. McShane (U of Rochester)
“Just Like the Thirteenth Century”: Examining Fact and Authenticity In the Footsteps of Marco Polo
Arthur Bahr (MIT)
Anglo-Saxon from Anywhere: Mobile Pedagogy and Virtual Classrooms
Robin Wharton (Georgia State U)
Digital Pedagogy, Textual Studies, and Thomas Hoccleve
Session 5: Medievalism & France
Stephen C. Hall Building Room 103
Chair: Thomas Hahn (U of Rochester)
Kara Larson Maloney (Binghamton U)
Lost in Translation: Gawain, Reputation and His Troubles with Old French
Chris Ippolito (Georgia Tech)
Flaubert’s Middle Ages
Laura Hollengreen (Georgia Tech)
Riding and Marching to Victory: The Military Tactic of the Chevauchée in Medieval France and Nineteenth-Century America
Session 6: Physicality and Performance
Stephen C. Hall Building Room 102
Chair: Jonathan Kotchian (Georgia Tech)
Kathryn O’Toole (Independent Scholar)
Physical Spirits
E.L. Risden (St. Norbert College)
Detective Dee: Chinese Cinematic Medievalism and the Acrobatic Art of Detection
Lisa Nalbone (U of Central Florida)
Moving through Time and Space in Mercedes Rubio’s Las siete muchachas del Liceo (1957) Via Wagner’s Parsifal in Barcelona, Spain (1914)
Session 7: Open Access in the Academy
Stephen C. Hall Building Room 102
Organizers: Fred Rascoe & J. Britt Holbrook (Georgia Tech)
Chair: Richard Utz (Georgia Tech)
Sponsor: Innovation and Collaboration in Liberal Arts, Science, and Technology (ICLAST); funded by Provost Office GT FIRE Transformative Research and Education
Discussants:
Kevin Harty (La Salle U; Review Editor Arthuriana); Leah Haught (Georgia Tech; Assoc. Editor Medievally Speaking); Jesse G. Swan (U of Northern Iowa; Editor UNIversitas); Thomas Hahn (U of Rochester; TEAMS editorial); Robin Wharton (Georgia State U; Hoccleve Project); Paul Sturtevant (Managing Editor, Curator: The Museum Journal)
Friday, October 24, 1:45pm-3:15pm : 3 concurrent sessions
Session 8: Time, Space, Movement, Theory
Stephen C. Hall Building Room 106
Chair: Valerie B. Johnson (Georgia Tech)
Vincent Ferré (Université Paris Est, UPEC)
The adventures of a notion: Alterität-altérité-alterity, from Europe to the USA
M.J. Toswell (U of Western Ontario)
Borges’ Medievalism First and Last
Lesley Coote (U of Hull)
CGI, Borders and Spaces Between
Session 9: Medievalists Making Medievalism: Readings
Stephen C. Hall Building Room 102
Organizer: Pamela Clements (Siena College)
Chair: Andy Frazee (Georgia Tech)
Readers: Gwendolyn Morgan (Montana State U); E.L. Risden (St. Norbert College); Curtis VanDonkelaar (Michigan State U); Pamela Clements
Session 10: Absence
Stephen C. Hall Building Room 103
Organizer/Chair: Amy Kaufman (Middle Tennessee State U)
Elizabeth Sklar (Wayne State U)
Ubi Arturus?
Rebecca King (Middle Tennessee State U)
Arthur’s Absence in Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Arthurian Works
Michael Evans (Central Michigan U)
Is Pre-Columbian America ‘Medieval’?
Donald L. Hoffman (Northeastern Illinois U)
The Medieval Absence in Arabic Film
Friday, October 24, 3:30pm-5pm : 3 concurrent sessions
Session 11: Medieval Grail Quest Narratives in Contemporary Cinema
Stephen C. Hall Building Room 106
Organizer: Peter Fontaine (Georgia Tech)
Chair: Clint Stivers (Georgia Tech)
Peter Fontaine (Georgia Tech)
Let’s Booboo: The World’s End as (Re)Iteration of the Grail Quest and Medieval Narrative
Dustin Hannum (Georgia Tech)
“This is our immortality”: Tin Cup, Sporting Quests, Inner Demons, Failure, and the American Dream
Julie Hawk (Georgia Tech)
Arthur and Lancelot Go to Camelot: The Hamburger Slider as Holy Grail in Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle
Session 12: Major Authors
Stephen C. Hall Building Room 103
Chair: Caitlin Kelly (Georgia Tech)
Rachel Landers (U of Alabama Birmingham)
“A Tale Thrice Told”: The Medievalism in William Wordsworth’s Geoffrey Chaucer Modernizations
Clare A. Simmons (Ohio State U)
Medievalist Wandering in Wordsworth’s Excursion
Martha Oberle (Frederick Community College)
Chaucer, Malory, Dante--the Medievals--and The Computer
Session 13: Medieval Things
Stephen C. Hall Building Room 102
Chair: Joy Robinson (Georgia Tech)
Henry Schilb (Princeton U)
Lost in Translation: The Displacement of Meaning from Post-Byzantine Liturgical Textiles Acquired by R.F. Borough and Burton Y. Berry
Elizabeth Emery (Montclair State U)
Meubles: The Collection and Display of Medieval Furniture in Nineteenth-Century France
Dustin Frazier (University of Roehampton)
Charter Horns and the Eighteenth-Century English Landscape
Robin Wharton (Georgia State U)
Medievalism in the Makerspace
Friday, October 24, 5:15pm-6:15pm
Session 14: PLENARY I
D.M. Smith Lecture Hall 105 (685 Cherry Street, Georgia Institute of Technology)
Introduction: Karl Fugelso, Editor: Studies in Medievalism
Kathleen Verduin (Hope College)
“The Times of the Appreciation”: Dante among the Americans
Friday, October 24, 7:15pm-9pm
Ceremony honoring Kathleen Verduin
Saturday, October 25, 9am-10:30am
3 concurrent sessions
Session 15: Monachatus non est pietas: Matthew Lewis’ The Monk
Stephen C. Hall Building Room 103
Organizer: Nickolas Haydock (U of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez)
Chair: Nicole Lobdell (Georgia Tech)
Nickolas Haydock
The (A)wry Views of Matthew Lewis’ The Monk
Pedro Noel Doreste (Emory U)
“Collapse of the Sacrosanct: Monk Lewis’ Violent Christophobia in Ken Russell’s The Devils”
Margarita Rivera (U of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez)
Power and Social Hierarchy in Matthew Lewis’ The Monk
Session 16: What We Remember to Forget: Medievalism’s Aporiae
Stephen C. Hall Building Room 106
Organizer/Chair: Lauryn S. Mayer (Washington and Jefferson College)
Carol Robinson (Kent State U at Trumbull) & Pamela Clements (Siena College)
Serious Play—Unseriously: Acceptance and Empowerment in Neomedievalism
Kevin Moberly (Old Dominion U) & Brent Moberly (Indiana U)
Swords, Sorcery, and Steam: Industrial Age Nostalgia in Medieval-themed Computer Games
E.L. Risden (St. Norbert College)
A Lesser-known Sister Rehabilitates a Lesser-known Brother: Clemence Housman’s Sir Aglovale de Galis
Thomas Goodmann (U of Miami)
Arts and Crafts and Women’s Work
Richard Utz (Georgia Tech)
Medievalism’s Nationality
Session 17: Animating the Medieval World
Stephen C. Hall Building Room 102
Organizer/Chair: J.P. Telotte (Georgia Tech)
Richard Neupert (U of Georgia)
Animated Animals and Embodied Performance in Starewicz’s Tale of the Fox
Krystina Madej (Georgia Tech)
Bakhtin and Disney: Dialogism, Heterglossia, and Longevity in Disney’s world of Knights and Ladies Fair
J.P. Telotte (Georgia Tech)
Flatness and Depth: Disney’s Medieval—and Modern—Vision
Saturday, October 25, 10:45am-12:15pm : 3 concurrent sessions
Session 18: The Modern Medieval Fantasy
Stephen C. Hall Building Room 102
Chair: Patricia R. Taylor (Georgia Tech)
Maria Sachiko Cecire (Bard College)
“It Grows Like a Seed in the Dark”: Medieval Literature and Tolkien’s Alternate Canons
Kyle Ann Huskin (U of Rochester)
A Theory of Slayer Slang: Creating a New “Cult Classic” Television Series out of Old English Language and Culture
Sarah Lindsay (Milligan College)
Knights vs. Prejudice in Space: The Pre-modern Past in “The Mountains of Mourning”
Emily Huber (Franklin and Marshall)
Leave off Loki, for thou art drunk: Mediating the Trickster in Comics and Film
Session 19: Russian Medievalisms
Stephen C. Hall Building Room 106
Organizers/Chairs: Dina Khapaeva & Nikolay Koposov (Georgia Tech)
Nikolay Koposov
Ancient Rus: The Birth of Russian Medievalism
Kevin Platt (U of Pennsylvania)
Sergei Eisenstein and Stalinist Medievalism
Dina Khapaeva
Russian Gothic Society: Report on the Recent Advancement of Pragmatic Medievalism
Session 20: Presence
Stephen C. Hall Building Room 103
Organizer: Amy Kaufman (Middle Tennessee State U)
Chair: Michael Evans (Central Michigan U)
Kevin J. Harty (La Salle U)
The Vikings in Rhode Island: The Sagas, The Newport Tower, and R. William Neill’s 1928 Film, The Viking
Susan Aronstein (U of Wyoming) & Laurie Finke (Kenyon College)
Frederick Glasscock’s New Round Table
Anne Howey (Brock U)
Uther’s Presence in the BBC Merlin
Amy Kaufman
Dark Revivals
Saturday, October 25, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Session 21: PLENARY II
D.M. Smith Lecture Hall 105 (685 Cherry Street, Georgia Institute of Technology)
Introduction: Carol Colatrella, Associate Dean, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts
Sylvie Kandé, SUNY Old Westbury
Olifants and Balafos: The Social Life of African Things in Postcolonial Middle Ages
Saturday, October 25, 1:45pm-3:15pm : 3 concurrent sessions
Session 22: Medieval Spectres
Stephen C. Hall Building Room 106
Chair: Alexander Kaufman
Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler (Western Michigan U)
Remembering the Voyage of Sir Vivian Fuchs to the South Island in 1934: The Elmolo and Europeans on the Shores of Lake Rudolf in the Kenya Colony
Thomas Hahn (U of Rochester)
Medievalism, Oscar Wilde, and Pyle’s Robin Hood
Session 23: Medievalisms of Early Modern English Language, History, and Drama
Stephen C. Hall Building Room 103
Organizer/Chair: Jesse Swan (U of Northern Iowa)
Sarah A. Kelen (Nebraska Wesleyan U)
Ancestor or Alien? Early Modern Perspectives on Medieval English
Rebecca Brackmann (Lincoln Memorial U)
Separation Anxiety: Sir Simonds D’Ewes’ Passionale in Harley 315 and Harley 624
Brian Gourley (Independent Scholar)
An Analysis of Late Medieval Representations of Evil on the Reformation Stage: The Reconfiguring of the Seven Deadly Sins in John Bale’s Three Laws
Session 24: The (Augmented) Cathedral and the (Magic) Book: Image, Space, and Experience in the Middle Ages and the Digital Age
Stephen C. Hall Building Room 102
Organizers/Presenters: Jay Bolter (Georgia Tech) & Maria Engberg (Malmö U)
Respondents: Karl Fugelso (Towson U); Elizabeth Emery (Montclair State U); M.J. Toswell (U of Western Ontario)
Saturday, October 25, 3:30pm-5pm: 3 concurrent sessions
Session 25: Flannery O’Connor’s Medievalism
Stephen C. Hall Building Room 106
Organizer/Chair: Jesse Swan (U of Northern Iowa)
Jesse Swan
Flannery O’Connor’s Narrative Voice and the Medievalizing of Modernity
Marshall Bruce Gentry & Elaine Whitaker (Georgia College & State U)
Flannery O’Connor’s Boy Bishops
Session 26: Made in Italy
Stephen C. Hall Building Room 102
Chair: Kathleen Verduin (Hope College)
Karl Fugelso (Towson U)
Moving Illustrations of the Divine Comedy
Jesse DeSales Shelton (Independent Scholar)
Multiple Modernities in the Works of Leonardo Bruni
Eloisa Bressan (U of Aix-Marseille)
Pound’s Medievalism: Translation to Creation
Rebecca Burnett (Georgia Tech)
Poison, Padua, and Risk: Authenticating Toxins in “Rappaccini's Daughter”
Session 27: Medieval Atlanta
Stephen C. Hall Building Room 103
Organizer / Chair: Richard Utz (Georgia Tech)
Katherine Squire, Karthik Rao, Matthew Kaune (Georgia Tech): People
Michael Adkison, Jessica Thomas, Tabitha Shamis (Georgia Tech): Places
Cody Owen, Elizabeth Pemberton, and Kimberly Duane (Georgia Tech): Things
Saturday, October 25, 5pm-6pm
Session 28: Doing Medievalism: Projects & Opportunities for Publishing
Stephen C. Hall Building Room 103
Networking session with editors, advisory board members, and authors from Studies in Medievalism, The Year’s Work in Medievalism, Medievally Speaking, Medievalism (book series), and Perspicuitas.