Highlights from Kzoo Sneak Peak!


The Kalamazoo Sneak Peak is now available online!

Some highlights for scholars of Marie de France are as follows:

  • Friday, 1:30 PM: Session 249
    Unwilling Wives: Doon, Melian, and Bisclavret, Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner, Boston College
  • Friday,  3:30PM: Session 298
    Marie de France: A Case Study of Cultural Shift and Literary Motherhood, Kimberly Tate Anderson, Florida State Univ.
  • Saturday, 10AM: Session 367
    (1) Of Medieval Spaces: Heterotopia and Gender in Marie de France’s Lanval, Julie K. Chamberlin, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington
    (2) Women, Space, and Influence in the Lais of Marie de France, Holly C. A. Corbett, McMaster Univ
  • Saturday, Noon
    Business Meeting of the IMFS
    IMPORTANT! WE WILL BE ELECTING OFFICERS THIS YEAR!
  • Saturday 1:30PM: Session 387
    (1) Expression in Disjunction: Marie’s Espurgatoire, Ann McCullough
    (2) Interspecies Encounters: Words and Deeds between Man and Beast in the Fables of Marie de France, Tamara Bentley Caudill, Tulane Univ
  • Saturday 3:30PM: Session 441
    Performances of Marie de France: Equitan, Tamara Bentley Caudill (Tulane Univ), Chris Treen (Independent Scholar), Simonetta Cochis (Transylvania Univ), Ronald Cook (Independent Scholar), Walter A. Blue (Hamline Univ)
  • Sunday 8:30AM: Session 510
    Beastly Desires: Heteronormative Correctives in Marie de France’s Guigemar, Bisclavret, and Yonec, L. Kip Wheeler, Carson-Newman Uni