Thursday, October 15, 1998

• Alice Blackwell, UNC Chapel Hill, "Framing Cleanness: The Poem in the Context of Fourteenth Century Vices and Virtues Literature"
• Holly Crocker, Vanderbilt University, "When Clothes Make the Woman: Elaborate Dress and Authorized Address in Pearl"
• Lynnea Brumbaugh-Walter, Washington University of St. Louis, "Between the Story and the Moral: Killing Family as Killing Worldly Attachment in The Gesta Romanorum"
• Karl Tamburr, Sweet Briar College, "The Harrowing of Hell in Piers Plowman"

• Susan Johnson, University of Memphis, "Problems of Genre Definition: The Interrelationship Between the Chanson de femme and the Pastourelle"
• Geri Smith, University of Pennsylvania, "Chivalry is Not Dead: History, Idealization, and Generic Renewal in Froissart's Pastourelles"
• Daniel O'Sullivan, Boston College, "'Na Carenza': Song for Two (Maybe Three) Women's Voices and Chorus?"

• Phoebe Mainster, Wayne State University, "The Strong Voice of Gandersheim: Hrotsvita Within Her Social and Cultural Milieu"
• Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona, "The Emergence of Modern Drama Out of Late-Medieval Shrovetide Plays: The Case of Das Leben der heyligen Frawen Susanna"
• Dansby Evans, Emory University, "T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral, and Some Essentials of the Early English Drama"
• Robert and Laura Lambdin, University of South Carolina, "I Want My M(edieval) TV: Iconoclasm, Medieval Drama, and the Classroom"

• Elizabeth Sklar, Wayne State University, "Ælfric's Life of St. Edmund: (Re)Constructing National Identity"
• John Brinegar, UNC Chapel Hill, "Earth, Wind, and Fire: Echoes of Bede's De Natura Rerum in Alfred's Boethius"
• Jane Zatta, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, "Did Milton Know the Old English Genesis B?"
• Joyce Tally Lionarons, Ursinus College, "Simon Magus and the Figure of the Antichrist in Anglo-Saxon England"

• Lawrence Butler, George Mason University, "Vikings, Websites, and Archaeology"
• Michael Crafton, West Georgia University, "Caught in the Web of Words: Internet Projects for the History of the English Language"
• Bonnie Duncan, Millersville University and ReSoundings, "New Media/Old Texts -- At Home at a Distance"
• Susan Hagen, Birmingham-Southern College, "[Hyper]Glosing is a Glorious Thing"
• Barbara Stevenson, Kennesaw State University, "Research for the Web Novice"

• Lorraine Stock, University of Houston, "Visual Images of Robin Hood"
• Evelyn Perry, University of Rhode Island, "Kevin Costner was Not a Medieval Man: The Legend of Robin Hood and the Medieval Literature Classroom"
• Allen Wright, Toronto, Ontario, "Robin Hood and the 1950's Comics Code Authority"
• Laura Blunk, Cuyahoga Community College, "Medieval Reality and Richard Carpenter's Robin of Sherwood"
• Sherron Lux, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, "Maid Marian and Medieval Reality"

• Mark Anthony Conti, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, "Gullielmus Illegitimus Felix Erat"
• David Bernstein, Sarah Lawrence College, "Reflections on the Bayeux Tapestry: Texts, Subtexts, Perfidious Albion and All That"
• Chris Groomes, Collin County Community College and Harvard University, "The Welsh Reaction to the Norman Victory"
• Amy Brown Amelio, University of Minnesota, "The Impact of the Norman Conquest on the Status of English Women"

• Diana Slampyak: Titivillus & Mercy
• Aaron Nielsenshultz: Mankind
• Bruce Nicholson: Mischief
• Wallace Cleaves: New-Guise
• Paul Beehler: Nought
• Keith Vance: Nowadays

Friday, October 16, 1998

• Britt Mize, UNC Chapel Hill, "Modern Readers and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Report"
• Debbie Higgens, Southern Adventist University, "Tournament Protocol in Fitt I of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"
• Suzanne Craymer, UNC Chapel Hill, "Signifying Chivalric Identities: Armor in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"
• Ordelle Hill, Eastern Kentucky University, "Gawain's Journey and Grosmont's Country"

• Debra Combs, Southern Methodist University, "Speaking from Traditions Not Our Own: NonWestern 'Classical' Women in Christine de Pizan's Cité des Dames"
• Natalie Grinnell, Wofford College, "Medea's Maidenhood and John Gower's Romance"
• Susannah Chewning, Kean University, "Suffering Women, Heroic Men: Language, Gender, and Justice in Chaucer's Legend of Good Women"

• Ruth Anne Dunkerly, Middle Tennessee State University, "Conflicting Appetites: Margery Kempe's Construction of Self"
• Rick McDonald, Utah Valley State College, "The Sensual Appetites of Medieval Contemplatives: Experiential Appeals in the Writings of Richard Rolle and Margery Kempe"
• Nanda Hopenwasser, University of Alabama, and Signe Wegener, University of Georgia, "Mother ALWAYS Knows Best: A Twentieth-Century Appropriation of The Book of Margery Kempe and St. Birgitta's Revelations"

• Maureen Fries, SUNY at Fredonia, "The Evolution of Eve: A Comparative Study in French and English Medieval Drama"
• Laine Doggett, Erskine College, "Reading Knowledge in Jeu de la Feuillee: Folk and Learned Traditions"
• Minnie Sangster, North Carolina Central University, "Envisioning Le Miracle de Théophile: Stage, Stained Glass, and Sculpture"

• Pam Whitfield, UNC Greensboro, "Power Plays: Relationships in Marie de France's Lanval and Eliduc"
• Judith Barbas, Winthrop University, "The Case for an Acrostic in the Lais of Marie de France"
• June Hall McCash, Middle Tennessee State University, "The Lady in Marie de France's Chaitivel: Villainous or Vilified?"

• David Johnson, Florida State University, "Jabob van Maerlant's Roman van Torec and the Thematic Coherence of the Lancelot Compilation"
• Myra Seeman, Claremont Graduate University, "Securing the Knight's Dominion: Renouncing the Feminine in Lybeus Desconus"
• Cynthia Gravlee, University of Montevallo, "Identity, Agency, and Power: Post-Colonial Conflicts in Layamon's Brut"

• Michael Kensak, Vanderbilt University, "Divine and Profane Silences: Paradiso, Anticlaudianus, Manciple's Tale"
• Chip Court, Emory University, "Neoplatonic Revision and January's Problem of Knowing What He Sees"
• Mary Flowers Braswell, University of Alabama at Birmingham, "Chaucer's Con Artists: Play-Acting in Literature and Law"

• Ordelle Hill, Eastern Kentucky University
• Helen Bennett, Eastern Kentucky University
• Jim Flynn, Western Kentucky University

• Frans Van Liere: Diocletian
• John Newell: Dulcitius and Sissinus
• Robyn Holman: Agapes
• Paige Wisotzka: Chionia
• Patricia Ward: Hirena
• Meg Cormack and Janice Wright: Soldiers

• Liam Purdom, Doane College
• Cindy Vitto, Rowan University
• Lorraine Stock, University of Houston
• Kathryn Jacobs, Texas A&M, Commerce
• Fiona Tolhurst, Alfred University
• Daniel Pigg, University of Tennessee at Martin
• James McGowan
• Barbara Gusick, Troy State University, Dublin
• Shearle Furnish, West Texas A&M
• Jean Jost, Bradley University

• Janet Sholty, University of North Texas
• George Staples, Hurst, Texas
• Edward Sholty, Dallas, Texas
• Ray Pearce, Sr., Dallas, Texas
• Arthur Babb, Dallas, Texas
• LuAnn Harrell, University of North Texas
• Tim Haygood, University of North Texas

• Andrea Harbin, Catholic University, "The Citizens of York and the Archetypal Christian Journey: Pilgrimage and Ritual in the York Cycle"
• Kathryn Jacobs, Texas A&M, Commerce, "Marriage in the Mystery Cycles: The Voice of Experience"
• Jean Jost, Bradley University, "The Wakefield First Shepherd's Play: Comic Re-enactment of the Mass"
• Shearle Furnish, West Texas A&M, "Play-Within-the-Play in the Dramas of the Wakefield Master"

• Mary Hatch Gies, Columbia College, "Education of a Noblewoman: Isolde and Die Winsbeckin"
• Patricia Norwood, Mary Washington College, "Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179)" Katya Skow-Obenaus, The Citadel, "Children in German Literature: The Example of Das Buch der Liebe (1587)"

• John Newell, College of Charleston, "Dwarves on the Shoulders of Giants: A Metaphor in Wood, Glass, and Stone"
• Michael McVaugh, UNC Chapel Hill, "The Misfortunes of Niccolò da Reggio's Galen Translations at Fourteenth Century Montpellier"
• Charles Briggs, George Southern University, "Towards a Reception History of Aristotle's Moral Philosophy in Late Medieval Europe"

• Miriam Moore, Emory University, "Troilus's Mirror: Drama, Imagination, and Desire in Troilus and Criseyde"
• Joyce Spivey, Baylor University, "Notes and Queering: Some Observations on the Homoerotic Rhetoric in Boccaccio's Filostrato and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde"
• Michael Aaij, University of Alabama, "Perverted Love in Anelida and Arcite"
• Fiona Tolhurst, Alfred University, "Chaucer's Legend of Good Women and the History of Chaucer Criticism"

• Marie Nelson, University of Florida, "From Beowulf to Gangstawulf: Beowulf Lives and So Do His Worthy Adversaries"
• Richard Nokes, Wayne State University, "Fantastic Artifacts in Beowulf: Reevaluating the Pagan-Christian Dichotomy"
• Samuel Wiscombe, Jr., Lake Orion, Michigan, "The Curse of Heorot"
• Gayle Miller, Western Carolina University, "And No Children Play: The Image of the Child in Anglo-Saxon England"

• Chris Snyder, Marymount University, "The Once and Future Kings: Political Prophecy in the Medieval Celtic Fringe"
• Bryan Carella, UNC Chapel Hill, "Humor in the Middle Welsh Prose Tales"
• Don Sunnen, Virginia Military Institute, "Importing Arthurian Romance: Communication as Seen by the Monarch and by the Poet"
• Shira Schwam-Baird, University of North Florida, "King Arthur in Hollywood: The Case of First Knight"

Saturday, October 17, 1998

• Mary Coker Joslin, Raleigh, North Carolina, "Parallels to Medieval Drama in the Fourteenth Century Egerton Genesis"
• Erick Keleman, University of Delaware, "Drama in Preaching: Quotation and Performative in A Treatise of Miraclis Pleying and in Two Middle English Sermons on the Prodigal Son"
• Aaron Nielsenshultz, University of California Riverside, "Exclusion and Inclusion: The Ordering and Othering of Identity in Medieval Mystery Plays"
• John V. Fleming, Princeton University, "Ovid, the Dramatic Spirit, and Medieval Amatory Drama"

• Shelby Richardson, Tulane University, "Interpretive Difficulties in the Anglo-Saxon Charm 'Against a Dwarf'"
• Edith Williams, Eastern Kentucky University, "'Wha Mec Rære?...Wha Mec Stæðþe?': The Quest for Certainty in the Old English Storm Riddles"
• Lisa Verner, Tulane University, "Pagan and Christian Geographies in the Wonders of the East"
• John Schwetman, Sam Houston State University, "Divine Sanction for Feudal Revenge in Early Germanic Literature"

• Alan Gaylord, Dartmouth College
• Mary Hamel, St. Mary's College
• Tom Hanks, Baylor University
• Marilyn Parins, University of Arkansas, Little Rock
• Elizabeth Rambo, Biola University

• Patricia Ward, College of Charleston, "Tears of Compunction, Private and Public"
• Paul Beehler, University of California, Riverside, "Beyond Maternal Boundaries: Appropriating the Erotic in Jacobus's Hagiography"
• Virginia Blanton-Whetsell, Marist College, "Text, Image, and Context: A Hagiographic Representation of Aristocratic Patronage"
• Kay Slocum, Capital University, "Angevin Marriage Diplomacy and the Early Dissemination of the Cult of Thomas Beckett"

• Donna Crawford, Virginia State University, "Healing, Wholeness, and the Moment of Miracle: Malory's 'The Healing of Sir Urry'"
• Kelly Richardson, UNC Greensboro, "Suitor Women and the Prepositioning of Lancelot in Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur"
• Kristin Pike, UNC Greensboro, "Are You Sure We're Really in Wales? A Look at Geography in Malory's Morte d'Arthur"
• James Lapeyre, Baylor University, "Epistle and Penitence: Some Structural Notes on the Winchester Manuscript"

• Mary Edwards, Pratt Institute, "Interpreting Two Motifs in Duccio's Entry into Jerusalem"
• Joseph Byrne, Belmont University, "'I'll Never Have Anything Painted Again': Francesco Datini and His Crucifix"
• Anne McClanan, UNC Greensboro, "Refashioning the Queen: Early Medieval Imperial Women on the Objects of Everyday Life"
• Pam Loos-Noji, Geneva, Switzerland, "Filling in the Blanks: History and Parable on the Saint-Denis Facade"

• Jane Chance, Rice University
• Deanna Evans, Bemidji State University
• Jana Schulman, Southeastern Louisiana University
• Florence Newman, Towson State University
• Linda McMillin, Susquehanna University

• Maud Burnett McInerney, Haverford College, "Medieval Bodies in Cyberspace: Teaching Through Technology"
• Teresa Reed, Jacksonville State University, "Cultural Bodies in Medieval Writings About Women"
• Keith Vance, University of California, Riverside, "Kingship and the Female Body"

• Wallace Cleaves, University of California, Riverside, "The Reception of Romance: Genre and the Internal Audience of The Canterbury Tales"
• Meredith Reynolds, Winthrop University, "How Tzvetan Todorov Unites the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale"
• Thomas J. Farrell, Stetson University, "Griselda / Chaucer's Petrarch"

• Lynn Ramsey, Pleasant View, Tennessee, "Saracen Women in Medieval French Epic"
• Leslie Zarker Morgan, Loyola College in Maryland, "The Reine Sibille / Macaire Story and the Charlemagne Cycle Throughout Europe"
• Matthew Morris, Oxford College of Emory University, "'The Other' as a Reflection of Augustinism in the Chanson de Roland"

• Frans Van Liere, Calvin College, "Exile and the Twelfth-Century Scholar"
• Theresa Leslie, Emory University, "What Constitutes an Appropriate Response to Death? Explaining Anomalous Entries on Mortuary Rolls"

• Jim Anderson, University of Southwestern Louisiana
• Bryan Bachman, University of Southwestern Louisiana
• Gudmundur Erlingsson, University of Southwestern Louisiana

• Dawn Hayes, NYU and the College of Staten Island, "Using the Body to Elevate Space: The Pious Propaganda of Thirteenth-Century Chartres Cathedral"
• Marian Hollinger, Morgantown, West Virginia, "King Henry III, the Cult of the Confessor, and Pilgrimage"

• Julian Wasserman, Loyola University, New Orleans, "Kids Read the Darndest Things: Children's Versions of The Miller's Tale"
• Peter Beidler, Lehigh University, "Presenting Chaucer's Reeve's Tale to Children"
• John Kinsner, Baylor University, "Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale for Children"

• Jill Averil Keen, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, "Reading Latin, Reading Pictures: Visual Elements in the Short Charter of Christ"
• Patricia Price, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, "For Wales, See England: Two Native Welsh Authors in the Age of Chaucer"
• Kathleen Kennedy, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, "A, B, C is for Chantry: Fifteenth Century Provincial Merchant Education"

• Judith Rosenthal, California State University, Fresno, "Margery Kempe, Medieval Drama, and Anti-Judaism"
• Cheryl Vann, George Washington University, "The Book of Margery Kempe: Theater of Operations in the War Between the Friars and the Seculars"
• Laura Jeffries, Emory University, "Marian Analogues in The Book of Margery Kempe"

• Chauncey Wood, McMaster University, "John Matthews Manly: Some Old Light on Chaucer"
• Daniel Pigg, University of Tennessee at Martin, "Studying Men in the Middle Ages and Medieval Texts 'Again': Why?"
• Cynthia Ho, UNC Ashville, "Retroactive Readings: Postcolonialism and the Middle Ages"

• Richard Rawls, Freine Pacific University, "Tonsuring the Enquiry: The Deposition of King Wamba"
• James Thomas, Southern Methodist University, "Wamba, Princeps religiosus"
• Jeremy Adams, Southern Methodist University, "Wamba the Ploughman King: A Mythic Motif to Decode"

• Josephine Koster Tarvers, Winthrop University, "Gender, Text, Critic: The Case of Holkham Misc. 41"
• Helen Bennett, Eastern Kentucky University, "The Old English 'Wife's Lament' and Heloise's Letters to Abelard"
• Peggy McCracken, University of Illinois, Chicago, "Heloise's Essentialist Rhetoric"

• Chris Harris, Florida State University, "Ascent of a Woman: Gaspara Stampa's Appropriation of the Petrarchan Model"
• Gina Gammage-Sikora, Binghamton University, "Italian Humanism in the MS 10207 of the Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid"

• Miriam Youngerman Miller, University of New Orleans, "Beowulf : The Monsters and the Kiddies"
• Alan Gaylord, Dartmouth College, "Trine Schart Hyman Imagines / Illustrates Chaucer and the Middle Ages"

• Stephanie Harper, Middle Tennessee State University, "Gendered Religion in Béroul's The Romance of Tristan"
• Sabar Amer, UNC Chapel Hill, "Adultery and the Changing Laws of Marriage in Béroul's Tristan and Iseut"
• David Paul Rogers, Middle Tennessee State University, "The Danger of Knowing Too Many Secrets: Tristan's Frocin as Astrologer"

• Celia Lewis, Baylor University, "Distilling the Decameron: Death as a Framing Device in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales"
• Scott Lightsey, University of Delaware, "A Key to Chaucer's Marvels"
• James Morey, Emory University, "Chaucer's Women for Good and Ill: Eva / Ave and the Letter A"