1.00-2.15: Germanic Excursions
Greenlaw 318
Moderator: Luke Mills
“Faust mit springen: the English Players Returning Faust to Germany” — Kevin Chovanec, UNC-Chapel Hill
“Sche ouer se ferde: Insight on the Etymology of ‘she’ through an Overlooked Attestation” — Axton Crolley, University of South Carolina
“Ofer Harne Stan: Landscape, Legend, and the Mysterious in the Depiction of Grendel’s Mere” — Gregory Vaillancourt, Wake Forest University
2.30-3.45: Marginal Women: Margery and Guinevere
Greenlaw 318
Moderator: Kit Curtin
“Margery Kempe and Subversive Female Piety” — Valerie Voight, NC State University
“‘I Don’t Know How to Love Him’: Queer Virginity in the Book of Margery Kempe” — Danielle Sanfilippo, University of Rhode Island
“Guinevere: Arthur’s Amorphous Queen” — Rebecca Brodney, NC State University
4.00-4.50: Life on the Edges?
Greenlaw 318
Moderator: Paul Stapleton
“Insipid Marginalia: On the Methodological Problems of Thoughtless Annotators” — Vaughn Stewart, UNC-Chapel Hill
“What did Renaissance Language-Learners Write in Their Books?” — Andrew Keener, Northwestern University
5.00-7.00: Dinner
7.00: Keynote
“The Battle of Hastings on the Bayeux Embroidery”
Professor Stephen D. White, Emory University
Greenlaw 101
8.00-9.00: Reception
Donovan Lounge — 2nd Floor
8.00-9.00: Breakfast Refreshments
1st Floor
9.00-10.15: Flesh-eating Monsters
Greenlaw 104
Moderator: Euan Griffiths
“‘The Best and Sweetest Flesh in the World’: Comparative Cannibalisms in John Mandeville’s Travels” — Caitlin Watt, UNC-Chapel Hill
“When the Margins Come Home in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus” — Matthew Charles Carter, UNC-Greensboro
“Mapping the Monstrous Margins” — Clark Donley, Tufts University
10.30-11.45: Margins and Morality
Greenlaw 104
Moderator: Kevin Kritsch
“The Mad, the Moral, and The Masculine: Subverting Social Boundaries in the English Revenge Tragedy” — Megan Denton, Virginia Commonwealth University
“‘Empress I am, but Yonder Sits the Emporer’: Women’s Agency as a Marginalizing Trait in Early Modern Revenge Tragedy” — Daniel Skoglund, Winona State University
“Margins of Error: Guilt and Responsibility in Malory’s Tale Eight” — Euan Griffiths, UNC-Chapel Hill
11.45-1.30: Luncheon
Donovan Lounge — 2nd Floor
1.30-2.45: Re-evaluating Texts and Sources
Greenlaw 104
Moderator: Rebecca Shores
“Reassessing Originality from the Margins of Renaissance Music Theory” — Samuel Brannon, UNC-Chapel Hill
“Write to Rule: From the Margins to Central Consciousness in English Literary Empire Making” — Melissa Ridley Elmes, UNC-Greensboro
“Reassessing the Apostles in the Old English Martyrology: Towards a Methodological Re- evaluation of Martyrological Source Analysis” — Kevin Kritsch, UNC-Chapel Hill
3.00-4.15: Documentary and Societal Marginalia
Greenlaw 104
Moderator: Vaughn Stewart
“Saint Margaret of Antioch in the Luttrell Psalter: Birth, Rebirth, and the Motif of Bodily Emergence” — Eva Sclippa, UNC-Chapel Hill
“The Margins of Philosophia: Theory and Practice in Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy and the Illumination of a North Italian Manuscript” — Cliff Robinson, Duke University
“The Apothecary and the Inquisitor: Legal Sources and the Social Status of Apothecaries in Early Modern Venice” — Sean Parrish, Duke University
The coordinators of the NC Colloquium in Medieval and Early Modern Studies would like to thank the generous support of:
You can download a PDF of the program here.