34th Annual SEMA Meeting
Saint Louis University
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
(Page 2)
Friday, October 3rd
8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Busch Student Center Lobby (Grand Ave. Entrance)
REGISTRATION
9:00-10:30 a.m.
Session 14. Medieval Medicine I
Busch Student Center 251A
Chair: Florence Eliza Glaze, Coastal Carolina University
"Medicine, Disease, and Malarial Depression in Italy c. 1000-1200"
Florence Eliza Glaze, Coastal Carolina University
"Feeding the Multitudes: The Peasant Table in Medieval Southern France"
Wendy Pfeffer, University of Louisville
"Rashid al-Din's Tansuqnamah: Taoist Medical Images in Fourteenth-Century Iran and the Limits of Cross-Cultural Reception"
Persis Berlekamp, University of Chicago
Session 15. Hypermedia/Hypertext
Busch Student Center 253A
Chair: Steve Guthrie, Agnes Scott College
"Hypermedia and the Bayeux Tapestry: A Study of Remediation"
John M. Crafton, University of West Georgia
"The Luttrell Psalter as Hypertext"
Steve Guthrie, Agnes Scott College
Session 16. Royal Bodies, Disobedient Kings, and the Body Politic
Busch Student Center 352
Organizer: Wendy Marie Hoofnagle, University of Northern Iowa
Chair: Larissa Tracy, Longwood University
"In the Dreams of Snoring Monks: William Rufus's Body in the New Forest"
Wendy Marie Hoofnagle, University of Northern Iowa
"Remembering the Body of the King in Robert of Cisyle"
Kisha G. Tracy, University of Connecticut
"The Family as Body Politic: Royal Lieutenants or Rivals in Ottonian Germany"
Phyllis G. Jestice, University of Southern Mississippi
Session 17. Medieval Philosophy
Busch Student Center 353
Chair: Frans van Liere, Calvin College
"The 'Existential' Interpretation of Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy"
Antonio Donato, Queens College, CUNY
"Whence Ockham?"
Alexander W. Hall, Clayton State University
"Deficient Material Causes and the Limits of the Science of Corporeal Creatures"
Andrew Lang, University of California, Berkeley
"Humanist Translation as Commentary"
Tom Juettner, Loyola University Chicago
Session 18. Mary/Madonna
Busch Student Center 254
Chair: Dan O'Sullivan, University of Mississippi
"Na Maria: The Virgin Mary in Old Occitan Song"
Dan O'Sullivan, University of Mississippi
"Christ Clothed in the Virgin's Flesh: Mary's Maternal Body in Gothic Devotional Sculpture"
Marian Bleeke, Cleveland State University
"The Body Holy and Defiled: Representations of Virgin Mary as Seen in Medieval Rhymed Versions of Her Nativity and Assumption"
Anne Scott, Northern Arizona University
Session 19. Vagina Dialogues: Sexual Dynamics in Medieval Comic Literature
Busch Student Center, Saint Louis Room
Organizer: Mary Leech, University of Cincinnati
Chair: Mary Leech
"Voyeurism in the French Fabliaux"
Dorothy Schrader, Oklahoma State University
"The Spade-Made Maid Spayed: A Just-So Fabliau"
Nathaniel Dubin, St. John's University, Minnesota
Session 20. Christian/Christ's Bodies
Busch Student Center 351
Chair: Keith Stiles, Western Carolina University
"The Exaltation of the Holy Dead in Early Christian Basilicas"
Aneilya Barnes, Coastal Carolina University
"Christ the Giant"
Carl P. Springer, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
"Embodying Wisdom: An Examination of the Development of the Iconography of Christ-Wisdom in the Late and Post-Byzantine Eras"
Dylan Remes Jensen, Independent Scholar
"Body of Christ, Body of the King: Christ III and Anglo-Saxon Law"
David Swanson, Florida State University
11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Session 21. Eros and Phenomenology I
Busch Student Center, Saint Louis Room
Organizer: Jessica Rosenfeld, Washington University in Saint Louis
Sponsor: The BABEL Working Group
Chair: Eileen Joy, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
"Eros and Unknowing in Malory's Tale of Balyn and Balan"
Eileen Joy, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
"Fro thens list hir not remove for nothing: The Place of Contemplative Desire"
Nicola Masciandaro, Brooklyn College, CUNY
"Philosophers in Love"
Jessica Rosenfeld, Washington University in Saint Louis
"Besotted"
Anna Klosowska, Miami University
Session 22. Embodiments of Chaucer in Modern Times
Busch Student Center 254
Organizers: Josephine A. Koster, Winthrop University and Alan Baragona, Virginia Military Institute
Chair: Norman Hinton, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (emeritus)
"Hey Kids, Let's Put on a Pleye: The Challenge of the Royal Shakespeare Company's The Canterbury Tales"
Alan Baragona, Virginia Military Institute
"The Pardoner's Pitches, the Wife of Bat, and Baseball Pilgrims on The Cranberry Trail"
Gloria J. Betcher, Iowa State University
"The Holy Blisful Martir of Kannapolis: Chaucerian Narrative and NASCAR in Sharyn McCrumb's St. Dale"
Josephine A. Koster, Winthrop University
"Renaissance Fa(y)re: Helgeland's Knight's Tale"
Lan Lipscomb, Troy University, Montgomery
Session 23. Chaucer I
Busch Student Center 353
Chair: Ordelle Hill, Eastern Kentucky University
"I am myn ownen womman: Gender and Embodiment in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde"
Christian Beck, Binghamton University
"The Arraying of Griselda: Gifting, Giving, and Clothing in Chaucer's Clerk's Tale"
Sheri McCord, Saint Louis University
"Sterile Bodies: Simony, Sodomy, and the Summoner's Compeer"
Joseph E. Marshall, Stevenson University
Session 24. Pedagogy
Busch Student Center 351
Chair: Warren Edminster, Murray State University
"Chaucer, Out Loud"
Bernard Lewis, Murray State University
"Sink or Swim: Tossing Undergraduates into the Deep End of Chaucerian Middle English"
Warren Edminster, Murray State University
"Teaching the Morte D'Arthur: Transferring the Body of Knowledge"
Tom Hanks, Baylor University
"Chivalry and the Student Athlete"
Natalie Grinnell, Wofford College
Session 25. Beowulf II
Busch Student Center 352
Chair: Daniel O'Gorman, Loyola University, Chicago
"Beowulf's Precarious Peace-Weaving"
Bridget Nordquist, South Dakota State University
"The Fighting Freoðuwebbe: Weaving Peace in the Fabric of Beowulf's Body"
Jennifer Culver, Saint Louis University
"Beowulf: The Body as Weapon"
Michael Elam, Saint Louis University
"Worldly Wisdom and Tragic Flaws: Wisdom Passages and Meaning in Beowulf"
Randi Anderson, South Dakota State University
Session 26. Old English/Anglo-Saxon II
Busch Student Center 251A
Chair: Edward J. Christie, Georgia State University
"Bodily Conflict in the Old English Guthlac Poems"
Justin T. Noetzel, Saint Louis University
"Fluid Bodies and Dangerous Signs: The Discourse of the Letter in the Old English Poetic Solomon and Saturn"
Edward J. Christie, George State University
"Bright Voice of Praise: An Old English Poet-Patron Convention in Widsith and Christian Verse"
Heather Maring, Arizona State University
"Revisiting Tolkien's Ofermod"
Nicholas Giedt, South Dakota State University
Session 27. Gawain
Busch Student Center 253A
Chair: Mary Behrman, Morehouse College
"Discursive and Conversive Communication in Oral Tradition: Literary Bodies Written and Unwritten--The Case of Sir Gawain"
Jean E. Jost, Bradley University
"Outwitted in Wales: The Five Wits, the Physical Brain, and Gawain's Senseless Concupiscence"
Alice Blackwell, Louisiana State University, Alexandria
"Gawain's Struggle with Ecology: An Eco-critical Look at Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"
Michael W. George, Millikin University
"Gawain and the Value of Virginity"
Sarah Lindsay, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
12:30-2:00
LUNCH BREAK
2:00-3:30 p.m.
Session 28. Eros and Phenomenology II
Busch Student Center, Saint Louis Room
Organizer: Jessica Rosenfeld, Washington University in Saint Louis
Sponsor: The BABEL Working Group
Chair: Jessica Rosenfeld
"Reading, Touching, Knowing, Wanting"
Lara Farina, West Virginia University
"Bodies in Waiting"
Cary Howie, Cornell University
"Not a Love Story: Desire, History and Early Tudor Court Poetry"
Tony Hasler, Saint Louis University
Response
Amy Hollywood, Harvard University (Featured Respondent)
Session 29. Embodied Debates
Busch Student Center 351
Chair: Alexander Hall, Clayton State University
"Hartmann and Soul: An Examination of Cathar Influence on Body Versus Soul Dualism in Hartmann von Aue's Gregorius"
James C. Henriques, University of Georgia
"The Hope of Embodied Discourses: The Utopian Function in Winner and Waster"
Jacob Lewis, University of Arkansas
"Bodily Punishment and the Masculine Soul in the Desputation bitwen þe Bodi and þe Soule"
Eve Siebert, Saint Louis University
Session 30. Old English/Anglo-Saxon III
Busch Student Center 352
Chair: Doug Simms, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
"The Three Voices of the Old English Riming Poem"
Doug Simms, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
"Writing Riddles and Riddle Writing in the Exeter Book"
Peter Ramey, University of Missouri, Columbia
"The Empowered Feminine in the Anglo-Saxon Riddles"
David Fritts, Henderson Community College
"The Exeter Maxims: The Communal Body Speaks"
Patrick W. Conner, West Virginia University
Session 31. Medieval Medicine II
Busch Student Center 353
Chair: John Theilmann, Converse College
"Lacnunga 15: A Remedy for Wounds? An Answer from the Cadfael Chronicles"
Marie Nelson, University of Florida and Caroline Dennis, Independent Scholar
"The English Sweat and Henry Tudor Come to England"
John Theilmann and Whitney Weeks, Converse College
"Physical Diagnosis in the Leech Book of Bald"
Robert J. Tallaksen, M.D., West Virginia University
"Cognition's Corporal Consequences: Tommaso Del Garbo on the species in anima as Cause of Physical Change"
Kurt M. Boughan, The Citadel
Session 32. Chaucer II
Busch Student Center 251A
Chair: Josephine A. Koster, Winthrop University
"The Caytyf Body: Fiction and Flesh in the Parson's Tale"
Merrall Llewelyn Price, Oklahoma State University
"My Tale is of a Cok: The Nun's Priest's Tale as Quyting Agent"
Stephen Barker, Winthrop University
"The Cherles Dede: The Body as Battleground in the Summoner's Tale"
Mary Behrman, Morehouse College
"Substance into Accident: The Accidental Body and the Liberation of Intent"
Jessica Davis, Winthrop University
Session 33. Lyricism, Sin, and Divided Holy/Secular Bodies
Busch Student Center 254
Chair: Cynthia Ho, University of North Carolina, Asheville
"Piers Plowman and Lyric Embodiment"
Curtis H.R. Jirsa, Washington & Lee University
"The Pytt of the Body: Physicality and Sin in Fifteenth-Century England"
Candace Gregory-Abbott, California State University, Sacramento
"Stygmatizing Brother Ass: Reconciling the Bodies of St. Francis"
Cynthia Ho, University of North Carolina, Asheville
"The Transgressive, Non-Christian Bodies of Hrotsvit's Dulcitius and Pelagius"
Marisa Sikes, University of New Mexico
Session 34. Bodies of Knowledge: Teaching Differently-Themed Medieval Courses
Busch Student Center 253A
Organizer: Ellen L. Friedrich, Valdosta State University
Chair: Ellen L. Friedrich
"Fairy Lovers, Gallant Knights and Drunken Students--I Mean, Giants: Teaching Early French Literature in a Regional University"
Shira Schwam-Baird, University of North Florida
"Racial Stereotypes, Misogyny, and Sexual Innuendo: A Politically Incorrect Approach to Teaching Humor in Medieval Spanish Literature"
Connie Scarborough, University of Cincinnati
"Whoso list it nat yheere: Teaching the Medieval Culture of Violence in American Universities"
Larissa Tracy, Longwood University
Session 35. Reader's Theatre Performance of the York Fall of the Angels and Fall of Man
Busch Student Center 253D
Organizer: Warren Edminster, Murray State University
Two short plays from the York Cycle produced by and featuring Gloria Betcher (Iowa State University), Tom Farrell (Stetson University), Alan Baragona (Virginia Military Institute), Justin Brent (Presbyterian College), Joseph Wittig (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), and Warren Edminster (Murray State University).
4:00-5:00 p.m.
FIRST PLENARY ADDRESS
Busch Student Center, Saint Louis Room
Bodies in Motion / Mandeville, Defective
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, George Washington University
5:30-7:00 p.m.
Reception
Knights Room, Pius XII Memorial Library
7:30-9:00 p.m.
Banquet
Busch Student Center, Saint Louis Room
The BABEL Post-Everything Tiny Shriner After-After-Assignation
9:30-ish to Late-ish
