Kalamazoo 2026 Papers of Interest

FRIDAY, MAY 15, 3:30 PM

Session 249, Sangren Hall 1720

Global Medieval Performance: Performing Beasts in the Middle Ages—Fables and More

A performance by Gema Valencia-Turco, Univ. of Pennsylvania; Francis J. Valencia- Turco, Temple Univ.; Alexander Volokh, Emory Law School; M. Wendy Hennequin, Tennessee State Univ.

SATURDAY, MAY 16, 10 :30 AM

Session 323, Sangren Hall 1720

Marie de France

Representing Gendered Violence in the Manuscripts of Marie de France’s Fables

Joseph R. Johnson, Georgetown Univ.

“Ceste beste ad entente e sen”: Affect and Animal Rhetorics in Bisclavret

Miles Smith, Fordham Univ.

Education, Authority and Authoritarianism: Medieval Lessons for Modern Times from Marie de France

Laine E. Doggett, St. Mary’s College of Maryland

SATURDAY, MAY 16, 12 :00 PM—ANNUAL MEETING (LUNCH PROVIDED)

Student Center 2207

International Marie de France Society, Lunch and Business Meeting

SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1 :30 PM

Session 357, Sangren Hall 1720

Breton Lays in Old French, Old Norse, and Middle English (A Roundtable)

A roundtable discussion with Jillian Kern, Univ. of North Carolina–Chapel Hill; Shaun F. D. Hughes, Purdue Univ.; Genevieve R. Berendt, Univ. of Minnesota–Morris; Karen Casey Casebier, Univ. of Tennessee–Chattanooga; Tamara Bentley Caudill, Jacksonville Univ.

In addition to IMFS’s sponsored sessions, there are a number of Marie de France papers throughout the program. Let us draw your attention to these sessions: 

THURSDAY, MAY 14, 8:30 AM

Session 9,  Sangren  Hall 1920

Revisiting the Anglo- and Cambro-Norman Imaginary in Marie de France and the Literary Lay

Jillian Kern, Univ. of North Carolina–Chapel Hill

Session 20,  Sangren  Hall 4530

What Do Trees Have to Talk About? Examining Chevrefoil’s Embodiment of Trees as Reflective of Paper in the Middle Ages

Sarah A. Burt, Saint Louis Univ.

THURSDAY, MAY 14, 10:30 AM

Session 43, Sangren Hall 2710

Cabbage, Class, and Gender in Marie de France’s La vie seinte Audree

Jacob Abell, Baylor Univ.

Session 45, Sangren Hall 2730

“Thought her a wonder”: Silk as Political Rhetoric in Marie de France’s Lanval

Nicole A. Waters, Texas Tech Univ.

Session 49, Sangren Hall 3520

When the Apple Bites Back: Decay, Knighthood, and Ecological Ruin in Le Lai de Guingamor

Genevieve R. Berendt, Univ. of Minnesota–Morris

THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1:30 PM

Session 91, Sangren Hall 4725

Imagining Otherworlds: The Art of Queer Failure in Marie de France’s Lanval

Charlie Serigne, Univ. of Notre Dame

Session 268, Sangren Hall 1720

Papers by Undergraduates (2): Literature

Shifting Sympathies: Gender, Power, and Identity in the Lais of Marie de France

Dustin Wilde, Univ. of Tennessee–Chattanooga

Session 274, Student Center 3205

Material Transfers: Clothing and Textile Terminology in the Medieval Adaptations of Marie de France’s Lais

Monica L. Wright, Univ. of Louisiana–Lafayette

SATURDAY, MAY 16, 8 :30 AM

Session 301, Sangren Hall 3110

Marie de France’s Lanval and the Lawful Autonomy of the Otherworldly Woman

Kyla C. Hill, Independent Scholar

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