NEW CHAUCER SOCIETY TENTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS
SUNSET VILLAGE, LOS ANGELES JULY 26-30, 1996
The Program Committee for the New Chaucer Society's Tenth
International Congress is pleased to make the preliminary program
public.
PRELIMINARY LOS ANGELES CONGRESS PROGRAM:
I. CONCURRENT PAPER SESSIONS
1) Foundational Moments: England (Derek Brewer, Emmanuel,
Cambridge, org.)
Charlotte Brewer (Hertford, Oxford): "The Work of W.W. Skeat"
Sigmund Eisner (Arizona): "The Work of Furnivall"
Steve Ellis (Birmingham): "Late Nineteenth-Century Historical
and Poetical Readings of Chaucer"
2) Textuality and History (Susan Crane, Rutgers, org.)
Margaret Aston (Chipping Ongar, Essex): "Retrospective Reading:
Knighton, Walsingham, and Lollardy"
Colin Richmond (Keele): "Gesta Henrici Quinti and the Power of
Prophecy"
Paul Strohm (Indiana): "Untying a Text: Capgrave on the Death of
Richard II"
3) Chaucer and Langland (James Simpson, Girton, Cambridge,
org.; Anne Middleton, California, Berkeley, pres.)
Wendy Scase (Hull): "Censorship and the Clergy"
James Simpson (Girton, Cambridge): "Reading Wills"
Nicolette Zeeman (King's, Cambridge): "Making and Breaking
Stories"
4) Chaucer and Print Culture (Seth Lerer, Stanford, org.)
Brian Cummings (Sussex): "The Reformation of the Text"
Joseph A. Dane (Southern California): "Variation and the Myth of
Chaucerian Print Culture"
Jennifer Summit (Stanford): "Gender, Print, and Authorship in
Pynson's Book of Fame"
5) Reading Dreams (Peter Brown, Kent, org.)
Andrew Butcher (Kent): "Who's Afraid of Dream Readers?"
Steven Kruger (Queens , CUNY): "Dreams, Illness, and Sex in
Chaucer's Book of the Duchess"
Kathryn Lynch (Wellesley): "Chaucer's Philosophical Vision(s)"
6) Chaucer and Celtic Culture (Lynn Staley, Colgate, org.)
Morgan T. Davies (Colgate): "Prophets, Ploughmen, and Patrons:
Welsh Poetry and the Matter of Britain in the Later Middle Ages"
Dafydd Johnston (Swansea): "Iolo Goch: Chaucer's Other Welsh
Contemporary"
Stephen Knight (Cardiff): "Colonising Chaucer: A Celtic View of
the English Father"
7) Thirteenth-Century Approaches to Chaucer: Revaluations,
Reclamations, Redirections (Christopher Cannon, UCLA, org.)
Susanna Greer Fein (Kent State): "Chaucer and the Legacy of
Harley 2253"
Jennifer Miller (California, Berkeley): "Multilingualism and
English Poetry, or the Pre-Chaucerian Polyglot"
Nicholas J. Watson (Western Ontario): "Towards the Formation of a
Vernacular Reading Public, 1270-1320: Cursor Mundi, the
Northern Homily Cycle, and Some Other Religious Poems"
8) Chaucer in Stanzas (Howell Chickering, Amherst, org.)
Clare Regan Kinney (Virginia): "No Stanza of One's Own:
Criseyde and the Poetics of Voice in Troilus and Criseyde"
Paul Beekman Taylor (Geneva): "Doggerel and Jupartie: The
Thopas Stanzas"
James I. Wimsatt (Texas): "Rime Royal and Feminine Heroism in the
Canterbury Tales"
9) Genders (Glenn Burger, Alberta, org.)
Jeffrey Cohen (George Washington): "Diminishing Masculinity in
Fragment VII"
Bruce Holsinger (Columbia): "A Psalm Is Being Sung: Pedagogy,
Violence, and the Subject of Music"
Sarah Stanbury (Holy Cross): "Masculine Play in the Knight's
Tale"
10) Foundational Moments: Europe and America (Steven Barney,
California, Irvine, org.)
Judith Laird (Southwest Texas): "Robert K. Root"
Elizabeth Scala (Texas): "George Lyman Kittredge"
Richard Utz (Northern Iowa): "German Chaucer Criticism, 1914-45"
11) Chaucer and Romance (Carol Meale, Bristol, org.)
Robert R. Edwards (Pennsylvania State): "Translating Romance:
>From Menedon's Story to the Franklin's Tale"
Kathryn McKinley (Campbell): "The Silenced Knight: A Reassessment
of the Wife of Bath's Tale as Romance"
Corinne J. Saunders (Brasenose, Oxford): "Generic
Transformations: Patterns of Love and Abduction"
12) 1396 (Program Committee, org.)
James Dean (Delaware): "The Best of Times, the Worst of Times:
1396"
Michael Hanly (Washington State): "'Et les Sarrazins ont
victoire': Divided Christianity and Islamic Threat in 1396"
Helen Phillips (Nottingham): "1396 and the Prologue to the Legend
of Good Women"
13) Chaucer and Money (Program Committee, org.; Richard
Newhauser, Trinity, pres.)
Peter Beidler (Lehigh): "Fast Forward: The Value of 100 Francs in
Chaucer's Shipman's Tale"
Lianna Farber (Harvard): "Just Price in Chaucer's Tales"
Mark Miller (Yale): "The Wife of Bath and the Pleasures of
Commerce"
14) Dissent (Lee Patterson, Yale, org.)
Alcuin Blamires (Wales, Lampeter): "Chaucer the Reactionary"
Andrew Johnston (Freie Universit t Berlin): "Aristocratic
Romanticism: Dissenting from Above"
Stephanie Trigg (Melbourne): "Affinity and Dissent"
15) Hoccleve: Piety, Politics, and Gender (Larry Scanlon, Rutgers,
org.)
Lee Patterson (Yale): "Hoccleve's 'Blabbyng Tong'"
Ruth Shklar (Nebraska): "The Image of Obedience: Hoccleve,
Heresy, and the Politics of Chaucerianism"
Miriamne A. Krummel (Lehigh): "Hoccleve's Planctus Mariae: A
Changing Culture of Female Martyrdom and Virgin Iconography"
16) Chaucer and Translation (Robert Hanning, Columbia, org.)
Elizabeth Allen (Michigan): "'As telleth Titus Livius': Literary
and Exemplary Imitations in the Physician's Tale"
Warren Ginsberg (SUNY, Albany): "Petrarch, Chaucer, and the
Making of the Clerk"
Fiona E. Somerset (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford): "The Politics of
'Englysch Translacion': 'Lewed'-Transferred Capacities in
Trevisan, Wycliffite, and Chaucerian Dialogue"
17) Chaucer and Wall Paintings, English and Italian (C. David
Benson, Connecticut, org.)
C. David Benson (Connecticut): "Picture Books for the Literate:
What Chaucer Saw on English and Italian Walls and Why It Matters"
Miriam Gill (Courtauld, London): "Old Wounds, Young Sinners:
Blasphemy and Iconography in Medieval England"
Norman Klassen (Minnesota, Twin Cities): "Lorenzetti's Effetti
del Buon Governo and Chaucer's General Prologue"
18) Women of the Court: Female Patronage and Power in England
1327-1400 (Carolyn P. Collette, Mt. Holyoke, org.; Arlyn
Diamond, Massachusetts, Amherst, pres.)
Carolyn P. Collette (Mt. Holyoke): "Joan of Kent and the Idea of
the Prudent Princess"
Jill C. Havens (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford): "A Devout Lady's
Book?: Joan de Bohun and the Simeon Manuscript (British Library
Additional 22283)"
Jean Jost (Bradley) "English Women Manuscript Owners in the Late
Middle Ages"
19) The Virgin Mary (Louise Fradenburg, California, Santa
Barbara, org.)
Suzanne Conklin Akbari (Toronto): "The Feminine Image: Mediation
in the Man of Law's Tale"
Sarah Kay (Girton, Cambridge): "Domina and Domna: The Virgin Mary
and Twelfth-Century Courtliness"
Karma Lochrie (Loyola, Chicago): "Resisting the Maternal:
Chaucer's Virgin and the Erotic Economy of Loss"
20) Chivalry and Violence (Richard Firth Green, Western
Ontario, org.)
Mar!a Bull"n-Fern ndez (Seattle): "Gower's Albinus: Violent
Knight, Tragic King"
Richard W. Kaeuper (Rochester): "Worship of the Demi-god
Prowess"
William Snell (Keio): "'Feloun' and 'Felonye': Violence and
Violent Crime in the Canterbury Tales"
21) Orality and Literacy in Chaucer (Dieter Mehl, Bonn, org.)
Nancy Mason Bradbury (Smith): "Performed Genres and Old Books:
The Orality/Literacy Spectrum in Troilus"
Joyce Coleman (North Dakota): "Chaucer's Orality: `Fictionalized'
or `Functional'"
Ebbe Klitg rd (Roskilde): "Narrative Voice in the House of Fame"
22) Public Space/Private Space in Late Medieval Culture (Sarah
Beckwith, Pittsburgh, org.)
Christine Chism (Allegheny): "Significant Spaces in the House of
Fame"
Deborah Ellis (Southwestern): "The Rape of Intimacy: Violating
Space in Late Medieval Culture"
William Marvin (Minnesota): "Rituals and Reserves: Charting the
Hunts in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"
23) Open Submissions (Program Committee, org.)
Karen Arthur (Toronto): "The `Swerde of Sorwe:' The Relationship
between Chivalric Violence and Love's Cruelty"
Kenneth Bleeth (Connecticut): "Chaucerian Gardens and the Spirit
of Play"
Lisa Lampert (California, Berkeley): "Marian Piety and
Antisemitism in the Prioress' Tale"
24) Spectacle (Program Committee, org.)
Lawrence M. Clopper (Indiana): "The Engaged Spectator: Langland
on Civil and Royal Spectacle"
Barbara Hanawalt (Minnesota, Twin Cities): "Rituals of Inclusion
and Exclusion in Medieval London"
Linda Tarte Holley (North Carolina State): "Repetition and
Medieval Ceremony"
25) Open Submissions (Program Committee, org.)
Thomas Honegger (Z rich): "More than thou and ye: Chaucer's Use
of Forms of Address"
Laura Kendrick (Rutgers/Versailles): "Bilingual Rhyme Play in the
`Envoy' to the Clerk's Tale"
Derrick G. Pitard (Rochester): "Sowing Difficulty: Vernacular
Commentary on Lollards in the Man of Law's Epilogue"
II. CONCURRENT COLLOQUIA
1) Teaching Chaucer in Non-English-Speaking Countries (Anna
Torti, Macerata, org.)
Shinsuke Ando (Keio)
Juliette Dor (Li
ge)
Joerg O. Fichte (T bingen)
Enrico Giaccherini (La Basilicata)
Jerome Mandel (Tel Aviv)
Patricia Shaw (Oviedo)
2) Teaching Beyond Chaucer's Text: Modern Poetry, Images,
Critical Essays, etc. (Thomas Hanks, Baylor, org.)
Tom Burton (Adelaide): "An Oral/Aural Approach to Chaucer"
Carol Everest (King's University): "Gender Theory in
Undergraduate Teaching"
Susan Hagen (Birmingham-Southern): "Twins: the Post-Medieval and
Post-Modern Ages"
Daniel Pinti (New Mexico State): "Abusing, Then Using, Modern
Translations of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales"
Lorraine K. Stock (Houston): "Teaching within Chaucer's Cultural
Context: Some Prescriptives by a Period Purist"
Cindy Vitto (Rowan): "Chaucer and Popular Psychology: Criseyde as
the Classic Codependent"
3) Chaucer and the Digital Revolution (Mary Wack, Washington
State, org.)
Thomas Bestul (Illinois, Chicago): "Chaucernet"
Martin Irvine and Deborah Everhart (Georgetown): "Labyrinth,
Interscripta, and Cultural Studies"
Murray McGillivray (Calgary): "Hypertext BD and Postmodern
Theory"
Susan Yager (Iowa State): "Chaucer on the Web: An Experiment in
Pedagogy"
4) Manuscripts (Julia Boffey, Queen Mary, London, org.)
Joan Baker (Florida International): "'Lack of Steadfastness' in
Trinity Dublin MS 432"
Martha Driver (Pace): "Chaucer, Christine, and Melibee: Morgan
M39"
Simon Horobin (Sheffield): "The Canterbury Tales Project"
Kathryn Kerby-Fulton (Victoria) and Steven Justice (California,
Berkeley): "A Penchant for Topical Revision? Scribe D,
'Lollars,' and the Politics of Vernacular Book Production in Late
14th-Century London"
Nicola F. McDonald (St John's, Oxford): "'Rede th'origynal, that
telleth al the cas': MSS as Evidence for the Reading of the
Legend of Good Women"
Charles Owen (Connecticut): "Access to Complete Canterbury
Tales MSS in the Mid-Fifteenth Century"
Steve Partridge (British Columbia): "The Fallacy of the Surviving
Codex"
Sue Powell (Salford): "The Parson's Tale and the Circulation of
The Clensyng of Mannes Sowle"
5) Teaching the Man of Law's Tale (Elizabeth Robertson,
Colorado, org.)
William Askins (Community C of Philadelphia)
Richard Glejzer (Albertson of Idaho)
David Raybin (Eastern Illinois)
James Rhodes (Southern Connecticut State)
Christine Rose (Portland State)
6) Chaucerian Crossdressing and Crossgendering: Theories,
Texts, Contexts (Linda Lomperis, California, Santa Cruz, org.)
Katheleen Biddick (Notre Dame)
John Bowers (Nevada, Las Vegas)
Gayle Margherita (Indiana)
Valerie Ross (California, Santa Cruz)
7) Chaucer and the East (Thomas Hahn, Rochester, org.)
Thomas Hahn: "Envisioning the East in the Age of Chaucer"
Iain Higgins (British Columbia): "Mandeville and the Orient"
Diane Speed (Sydney): "Chaucer and the Jews"
John V. Tolan (North Carolina, Greensboro): The Image of the
Saracen in Fourteenth-Century Polemics"
Sylvia Tomasch (Hunter, CUNY): "The Processes of Orientalism and
the Study of Chaucer"
8) Workshop on Reading Chaucer Out Loud (Alan Gaylord,
Dartmouth, org.; Arthur Wayne Glowka, Georgia, pres.)
Richard Osberg (Santa Clara)
Paul R. Thomas (Brigham Young)
9) Teaching the Ending of Troilus and Criseyde (Winthrop
Wetherbee, Cornell, org.)
Rebecca Beal (Scranton)
George Economou (Oklahoma)
Disa Gambera (Carleton)
Harold Kaylor (Northern Iowa)
Teresa Kennedy (Mary Washington)
Thomas Stillinger (Utah)
10) Chaucer and Cultural Studies (David Lawton, East Anglia,
org.)
Carolyn Dinshaw (California, Berkeley)
Peggy Knapp (Carnegie-Mellon)
Jenna Mead (Tasmania)
III. SPECIAL GROUP SESSIONS
1. Electronic Research Tools: Demonstrations (Mark Allen,
Texas, San Antonio, org.)
"The Online Chaucer Bibliography" (Mark Allen)
"The Thomas Gravell Watermark Archive: A Searchable Online
Database of over 6000 Watermarks from 1400-1800" (Daniel W.
Mosser and Ernest Sullivan, II, Virginia Tech)
2. Negotiated Connections: Teaching Langland with Chaucer
(Daniel Pigg, Tennessee at Martin, org.)
Louise M. Bishop (Oregon)
James Flynn (Western Kentucky)
Kathleen M. Hewett-Smith (Richmond)
Jay Ruud (Northern State)
Josephine Koster Tarvers (Winthrop)
OPENING PLENARY: Manuscript Illumination in the Age of Chaucer
J. J. G. Alexander (New York)
Jeffrey Hamburger (Oberlin)
Anne D. Hedeman (Illinois)
CLOSING PLENARY: Chaucer Criticism in 1996
Helen Cooper (University, Oxford)
Elizabeth Fowler (Yale)
H. Marshall Leicester, Jr. (California, Santa Cruz)
PRESIDENTIAL LECTURE
V. A. Kolve (UCLA)
BIENNIAL CHAUCER LECTURE
David Wallace (Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Attendance at the New Chaucer Society's Biennial Congress is
restricted to members of the Society. Non-members interested in
attending should contact the following address for membership
information:
Bryan P. Davis, Secretary for Membership and Finance
The New Chaucer Society
The Center for Medeival and Renaissance Studies
Ohio State University
1841 Millikin Road
Columbus, OH 43210-1229
(614) 292-2061
fax: (614) 292-1599
e-mail: bdavis@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
Program Committee:
John Fyler (Tufts), Co-chair/program planning; Ed Condren (UCLA),
Co-chair/local arrangements; Susan Crane (Rutgers); Linda
Georgianna (Califronia, Irvine); R.F. Green (Western Ontario)
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