The Medieval Association of the Pacific
Note: This timetable is provisional. Further changes may be made to the program prior to the beginning of the conference.
| Friday | |
| 9:00 | 1. Power and Piety in Northern Europe |
| Chair: Matthew Kuefler, San Diego State University | |
| An Unknowing Traitor and Just King: Political Interaction in Late 13th Century Iceland | |
| Sayaka Matsumoto, Kyoto University | |
| The Presence of Affective Piety in Medieval Ireland | |
| Daniel Najork, Arizona State University | |
| Pastoral Care or a War Against the Laity? Local Applications of Conciliar Law 1180-1250 | |
| Anthony Perron, Loyola Marymount University | |
| 2. History and Memory | |
| Chair: Thomas Barton, University of San Diego | |
| Online Medievalism: Racializing Beowulf and The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle | |
| Michelle Brooks, Independent Scholar | |
| Langland’s Failed Revisions across the A, B and C texts of Piers Plowman | |
| Michael Calabrese, California State University, Los Angeles | |
| Narrative and Memory: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle(s), 937-55 | |
| Alaric Trousdale, Western Oregon University | |
| 3. Medieval Iberian Literature | |
| Chair: Kim Klimek, Metropolitan State University of Denver | |
| Hermeneutics of Prosody in the Libro de buen amor | |
| Guinevere Allen, Stanford University | |
| The Correspondences of Princess Wallāda bint al-Mustakfī: a Medieval Harlot, Muse and Poet | |
| Doaa Omran, University of New Mexico | |
| Authority and the Vernacular in the Mester de Clerecía: Towards a Religious Language of Sin and Redemption in the Poema de Fernán González | |
| Liliana Worth, Jesus College, Oxford | |
| 4. Corporality, Spirituality, and Learning in the Writings of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim | |
| Organizer: Phyllis Brown, Santa Clara University | |
| Chair: Phyllis Brown, Santa Clara University | |
| Ties That Bond: Hrotsvit and the Project of Spiritual Integration | |
| Michael Zampelli, SJ, Santa Clara University | |
| Speaking like Terence in Tenth century Germany | |
| Scott Wells, California State University, Los Angeles | |
| Transcorporal Virginity and the Chaste Seduction of the Text | |
| Lisa M.C. Weston, California State University, Fresno | |
| 11:00 | 5. Crusading Rhetoric |
| Chair: Anthony Perron, Loyola Marymount University | |
| Exegesis and the Third Crusade: From Biblical Violence to Moral Reform in the Writings of the English Clergy | |
| John Cotts, Whitman College | |
| Islam in the Alexandre en Orient | |
| David Rollo, University of Southern California | |
| Exegesis and History in the Early Twelfth Century: The New Testament in the Latin Chronicles of the First Crusade | |
| Katherine Allen Smith, University of Puget Sound | |
| Gesta Francorum as Crusade Propaganda | |
| Stefan Vander Elst, University of San Diego | |
| 6. Religious Images and Imagery | |
| Chair: Michael Calabrese, California State University, Los Angeles | |
| Church and Family: Donusdeo Malavolti and the bishopric of Siena, 1316-1350 | |
| Brad Franco, University of Portland | |
| What Happened to that Seraph? Francis’s “Ecstasy” as Antecedent for “Annihilation” in Marguerite Porete’s Mirror of Simple Souls | |
| Wendy Petersen-Boring, Willamette University | |
| Devotional Reliefs in Quattrocento Florence | |
| Sarah Kam-Gordon, University of Portland | |
| Soul-sleep and awakening: Gnostic affinities in Pearl and the ‘Hymn of the Pearl’ in the Apocryphal Acts of Thomas | |
| Maura Giles-Watson, University of San Diego | |
| 7. Saints and Sinners in Medieval Iberia | |
| Chair: Marie Kelleher, California State University, Long Beach | |
| Adultery, Bigamy, and Marriage Desertion in the Late Medieval Peasant Communities of Catalunya | |
| Michelle Armstrong-Partida, University of Texas at El Paso | |
| Legislative Regime Alimentary Regulations of Medieval Monastic Orders in the Hispanic Territories | |
| María Margarita Tascón González, Universidad de León | |
| A French Saint in Catalonia: Saint Gerald of Aurillac/Sant Grau d’Orlha | |
| Mathew Kuefler, San Diego State University | |
| 8. Reproductive Bodies | |
| Chair: Jane Georges, University of San Diego | |
| Byzantine Empresses and Bride Shows | |
| Kriszta Kotsis, University of Puget Sound | |
| Henry II’s and Cunegund’s Sanctity: Chastity or Disability? | |
| Anita Obermeier, University of New Mexico | |
| Shameful Reading: The Revelations of the Female Body in Medieval Gynecological Texts | |
| Samantha Seal, Weber State University | |
| 2:30 | 9. The Religious Other |
| Chair: Katherine Smith, University of Puget Sound | |
| Per mundum gyrante: Anti-Waldensian Persecutions and Itinerant Inquisitors in Germany, 1390-1407 | |
| Eugene Smelyansky, University of California, Irvine | |
| The Condemnation of “Judaizers” in European Law, c. 1100-c. 1300 | |
| Sean Murphy, Western Washington University | |
| The Devil Is in the Details: The Life and Times of Bernardino de Sahagún | |
| Kim Eherenman, University of San Diego | |
| 10. Images of Disaster and Apocalypse | |
| Chair: Roger Dahood, University of Arizona | |
| May the Best Interpreter Win: The Battle over Apocalypse Interpretation and its Impact on Byzantine History and Eschatology | |
| Eugenia Constantinou, University of San Diego | |
| Adversus Paganos: Interpreting Natural Disaster in Late Antiquity | |
| David Patterson, University of British Columbia | |
| Virtual Pilgrimage in the Prick of Conscience | |
| Ellen Rentz, Claremont McKenna College | |
| 11. Medieval Music | |
| Chair: Nancy Van Deusen, Claremont Graduate University | |
| Singing the Unsung Song of Repurposed Music Manuscripts | |
| Alicia Doyle, California State University, Long Beach | |
| Text Setting and Versification in the Madrigals of Jacopo da Bologna | |
| Lauren Jennings, University of Southern California | |
| Trading Salvation for Stew: the Ordo Ysaac et Rebecca and Musical Exegesis | |
| Leann Martin, University of Washington | |
| 12. Theological Questions | |
| Chair: Michael Wagner, University of San Diego | |
| Making Excuses for Moses: Improper Intercession in Twelfth-Century Thought | |
| Philippa Byrne, University of Oxford | |
| Augustinian Divine Simplicity and Peter Lombard the Mediaeval Detractor: A Study in Lombard’s Heterodox Concept of a Trinitarian persona | |
| Scott Fennemas, Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology | |
| What Can Be Learned from the Medieval Theorization of Ignorance? | |
| Lev Marder, University of California, Irvine | |
| 4:00 | 13. Beowulf |
| Chair: Joseph McGowan, University of San Diego | |
| Loyalty before Love: Homosocial Bonds in Beowulf and Marie de France’s Bisclavret | |
| Cristina Acevedo, California State University, Fullerton | |
| Reputation Effects, Self-Presentation and Indirect Reciprocity: The Real Story behind Beowulf’s Altruism | |
| Jessie Bonafede, California State University, Fullerton | |
| Monstrosity and Kingship: Subjectivity and Social Mores in Beowulf | |
| Marjorie Housley, University of Connecticut | |
| 14. Tradition and Folklore in Medieval England | |
| Chair: Kim Zarins, California State University, Sacramento | |
| Bald’s Leechcraft and the Traditional Holidays | |
| Amy Hall, Northwestern Oklahoma State University | |
| Devouring the Dead | |
| Heather Maring, Arizona State University | |
| Keeping Your Head: The Unbeheaded Giant in Chivalric Romance | |
| Rachel McClain, Montgomery College | |
| 15. Arabic Mathematics and Cartography | |
| Chair: Eugenia Constantinou, University of San Diego | |
| A Visual Approach to Medieval Arabic Maps | |
| Sally Abed, University of Utah | |
| Old-fashioned versus New-fangled: Reading and Writing Numbers: 1200-1500 | |
| John Crossley, Monash University | |
| Riches from the Middle Ages | |
| Barnabas Hughes, California State University, Northridge | |
| 16. Gender and Personhood in French and English | |
| Chair: Joseph Parry, Brigham Young University | |
| The Invisible King: Le Roman de Silence and Trans Gender Virtue | |
| Terrilynn Cantlon, Mills College | |
| Finding Oneself in the Wilderness: The Trials of Marie de France’s Bisclavret and Sir Orfeo | |
| Caitlin Feener, California State University, Fullerton | |
| Gendered Bodies in Bisclavret and SILENCE | |
| Kristen Over, Northeastern Illinois University | |
| Saturday | |
| 9:00 | 17. Cultural Identity in Britain |
| Chair: Maura Giles-Watson, University of San Diego | |
| Englishness and Otherness: National Identity in Fourteenth-Century England | |
| Chris Anderson, Western Washington University | |
| Palimpsests of Place and Time in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia regum Britanniae | |
| Siân Echard, University of British Columbia | |
| Betrayal and Treason in Wynnere and Wastoure | |
| Ruth Feiertag, The National Coalition of Independent Scholars | |
| “For Engelonde”: Defining English Identity in The Owl and the Nightingale | |
| Florence Newman, Towson University | |
| 18. Medieval Manuscript Studies | |
| Chair: Justin Brock, University of New Mexico | |
| BN fr. 2456 Revisited: Manuscripts and Politics in Late 14th-Century France | |
| Michael Hanly, Washington State University | |
| Textual Traces of Performance Activity in TCD MS 432 | |
| Jacqueline Jenkins, University of Calgary | |
| Queen Isabeau’s Art History Lesson in Christine de Pizan’s Epistre Othéa | |
| Nhora Serrano, California State University, Long Beach | |
| 19. Contemporary Medievalism | |
| Chair: Heather Maring, Arizona State University | |
| “Sir Gary-Stu”: Le Morte D’Arthur as Malory’s Self-Insert Fan-Fiction | |
| Megan Abrahamson, University of New Mexico | |
| U.S. Health Care Truly Is Medieval: A Power Relations Analysis | |
| Jane Georges, University of San Diego | |
| Sustainability, Class, and Waste in the Awntyrs off Arthure | |
| Chelsea Henson, Woodbury University | |
| 20. Sexual Boundaries in Medieval Literature | |
| Chair: Kim Eherenman, University of San Diego | |
| Two Medieval Concepts of Lingual Creativity | |
| James J. Murphy, University of California, Davis | |
| Language and Power in the Old French Fabliau La Demoisele qui ne poiit pas oir de foutre | |
| Megan Moore, University of Missouri, Columbia | |
| Midas’ Touch: Erotic Economies in Book V of the Confessio Amantis | |
| Diane Cady, Mills College | |
| Questions on Gender and Sexuality in Juan Manuel | |
| María Cecilia Ruiz, University of San Diego | |
| 11:00 | 21. Juan Manuel |
| Organizer: María Cecilia Ruiz, University of San Diego | |
| Chair: María Cecilia Ruiz, University of San Diego | |
| Ethnic humor in El Conde Lucanor | |
| Ana Adams, Gustavus Adolphus College | |
| Deep Thoughts and Funny Sayings: Iberian Wisdom Literature and Juan Manuel’s viessos | |
| Jonathan Burgoyne, Ohio State University | |
| Don Juan Manuel as Poet: Argote’s Argument for Castilian Literary Antiquity | |
| Michael Hammer, San Francisco State University | |
| 22. Material Cultures | |
| Chair: Edward Schoolman, University of Nevada | |
| Hronaes Ban: Meaning and Materiality and the Franks Casket | |
| Asa Simon Mittman, California State University, Chico | |
| and Susan M. Kim, Illinois State University | |
| Medieval Theology of Power and City Seals | |
| Alfons Puigarnau, International University of Catalonia | |
| The Venetian Grosso of Enrico Dandolo: Recent Investigations into the First Pure Silver Coinage in Medieval Europe | |
| Kevin Roddy, University of California, Davis | |
| 23. Chaucer | |
| Chair: Stefan Vander Elst, University of San Diego | |
| Petty or Powerful: Abuses of Divine Power in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales | |
| Missy Guzmán, California State University, Fullerton | |
| “The fresshe beautee sleeth me sodeynly”: Violent Beauties and Suffering Knights in Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale | |
| Jenny Howe, Stonehill College | |
| “Is ther no remedye?”: The Problem of Consent in Chaucer’s Physician’s Tale | |
| Sunyoung Lee, Arizona State University | |
| 24. Beyond the Marriage Lens: Women and Work in Late Medieval Europe | |
| Organizer: Sarah Hanson, UC Santa Barbara | |
| Chair: Theresa Earenfight, Seattle University | |
| Anne of Bohemia and the Work of Queenship | |
| Kristen Geaman, University of Southern California | |
| Gender, Work, and Coming of Age in Late Medieval Douai | |
| Sarah Hanson, University of California, Santa Barbara | |
| Fleshing Out the Job Description for Breton Noblewomen in the Fourteenth Century | |
| Katie Sjursen, Southern Illinois University | |
| 2:00 | 25. Saints and Mystics |
| Chair, Anita Obermeier, University of New Mexico | |
| Seven Streams of the Breast: The significance of breastfeeding and female roles in Mechthild of Magdeburg’s The Flowing Light of the Godhead | |
| Adrienne Damiani, University of California, Berkeley | |
| “When a person eats” … the whole body is strengthened” | |
| Anna Harrison, Loyola Marymount University | |
| Voice and Mirror: Narrative Strategies in Three Early Cistercian Vitae | |
| Marjory Lange, Western Oregon University | |
| Friendship and the Ambivalence of Richard Rolle | |
| R. Jacob McDonie, Pomona College | |
| 26. Translation in/of Medieval England | |
| Chair: Scott Kleinman, California State University, Northridge | |
| A Dual Remedy for the Chaos of Babel: Examining John Trevisa’s Dialogue Between a Lord and a Clerk On Translation and Late Medieval English Vernacular Culture | |
| Justin Brock, University of New Mexico | |
| Walking the Tightrope of Translation | |
| Diana Coogle, University of Oregon | |
| Love and Language in Fourteenth-Century Ovidian Poetry | |
| John Fyler, Tufts University | |
| 27. Placing Literature Back Into Composition–At All Levels | |
| Organizer: Megan Ozima, California State University, Fullerton | |
| Chair: Jessie Bonafede, California State University, Fullerton | |
| A Path for Student Success: Using Medieval Literature in the Basic Skills Classroom | |
| Amber Gillis, El Camino College Compton Center | |
| Shifting Through Student Success: SGGK’s Purpose in a Composition Class | |
| Megan Ozima, El Camino College | |
| Shock to the System: Unfamiliar Texts and Contemplations on the Place of Literature in the Composition Classroom Using SGGK and Beckett’s Endgame | |
| Coralyn Foults, California State University, Fullerton | |
| 28. The Cotton Nero A.x Project: Recent Research and Discoveries | |
| Organizer: Murray McGillivray, University of Calgary | |
| Jaclyn Carter, University of Calgary | |
| Murray McGillivray, University of Calgary | |
| Kelsey Moskal, University of Calgary | |
| Kenna Olsen, Mount Royal University | |
| 29. Violence and Authority | |
| Organizer: Edward Schoolman, University of Nevada, Reno | |
| Chair: John S. Ott, Portland State University | |
| Performative Violence in Medieval Southern Italy, 800-1100 | |
| Sarah Whitten, SUNY Cortland | |
| The Consequences of Kidnapping the Bishop in Ottonian Ravenna | |
| Edward Schoolman, University of Nevada, Reno | |
| Resisting the Call to Arms in Medieval Catalonia: the Case of Tortosa | |
| Tom Barton, University of San Diego | |
| 4:00 | 30. Women, Magic, and the Divine |
| Chair: Elizabeth Walsh, University of San Diego | |
| Morgan le Fey: Sister, Savior, Sorceress | |
| Emilee Howland-Davis, University of New Mexico | |
| Anonymous Heroines: The Dames and Pucelles of Chretien de Troyes’ Lancelot and Le Chevalier au Lion | |
| Alexandria Krause, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus | |
| Des Origines et Mystères à Marie: Medieval Chthonic Female Deities | |
| Shauna Robertson, California State University, Fullerton | |
| 31. Heroes and Monsters | |
| Organizer: Michael Heyes, Rice University, and Asa Mittman, California State University, Chico | |
| Chair: Asa Mittman, CSU Chico | |
| Heroic spectacle and monstrous invisibility in Beowulf, Andreas, and Elene | |
| Fabienne Michelet, University of Toronto | |
| Symbolic Bodies: Monstrosity and Heroism in Beowulf and OE Judith | |
| Rebecca Coleman, Mt. San Jacinto College | |
| In the Belly of the Beast | |
| Michael Heyes, Rice University | |
| 32. Rendering Romance in Word and Image | |
| Organizer: Anne Laskaya, University of Oregon | |
| Chair: Kristen Over, Northeastern Illinois University | |
| Fifteenth Century Rhetorical Theory and Generic Congruity in Cambridge, University Library, MS Ff. 2.38 | |
| Ben Ambler, Arizona State University | |
| Seeing the Seer: Images of Merlin | |
| Carol Harding, Western Oregon University | |
| Exploring fault-lines between images, manuscript, and edition: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | |
| Anne Laskaya, University of Oregon | |
| 33. Constructing, Deconstructing, and Reconstructing Kingship in Early English Political Writing | |
| Organizer: Jonathan Forbes, UC Santa Barbara | |
| Chair: Eileen Joy, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville | |
| Sovereign Identity in Guillaume D’Angleterre | |
| Shay Hopkins, University of California, Santa Barbara | |
| De affectui regis | |
| Paul J. Megna, University of California, Santa Barbara | |
| Traumatic Medievalism in Shakespeare’s Richard III | |
| Jonathan Forbes, University of California, Santa Barbara |