Author Archives: Tamara Caudill

About Tamara Caudill

Assistant Professor of French at Jacksonville University Past President, International Marie de France Society Assistant Editor, Le Cygne

CFP – SEMA 2022

2022 Conference of the Southeastern Medieval Association 10-12 November in Birmingham, Alabama Marie de France’s Lais frequently feature one or more characters whose bodies are entrapped in some way. The ladies of Guigemar, Yonec, Laustic, and Milun, for example, are … Continue reading

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Kalamazoo 2022 – Papers of Interest

The following papers are of interest to members of the Society. Did we accidentally miss you in the program? Please let us know. S48 – Monday, May 9, 3:00 pm EDT“‘By my faith’: Eliduc as Metaphysical Magical Realism”Aaron Richard Kestle, … Continue reading

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Kalamazoo 2021 – Papers of Interest

The following papers and panels at Kalamazoo 2021 are of interest to scholars of Marie de France. All of these papers/panels are available as recordings, except for those marked with an asterisk (*). If we missed your paper, email Tamara … Continue reading

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Dorothy Gilbert wins Ina Coolbrith award for original poetry

IMFS member and author/translator of Marie de France: Poetry, Dorothy Gilbert has received two first place awards for her original poetry in the Ina Coolbrith 94th Annual Poets’ Contest. From the Ina Coolbrith Circle’s webpage: In 1919, poet/librarian/teacher Ina Coolbrith … Continue reading

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Call for Papers – Kalamazoo 2021

The International Marie de France Society is pleased to announce that it is sponsoring three sessions for the International Congress on Medieval Studies to be held at Western Michigan University from May 13-15. Abstracts and queries should be sent to … Continue reading

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New Member Publication – An Old French Trilogy: Texts from the William of Orange Cycle

Congratulations to Logan E. Whalen, past president of the International Marie de France Society, and his co-translators, Catherine M. Jones and William W. Kibler, on the publication of An Old French Trilogy: Texts from the William of Orange Cycle (University … Continue reading

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Le Cygne, 3rd Series, Vol. 6 (2019)

In the past year the 2019 issue of Le Cygne has appeared. It contains four articles on the works of Marie de France and two editions taken from MS S of the Lais. Karen Casebier writes about two episodes from … Continue reading

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Call for Papers: IMFS @ ICMS 2020 (Kalamazoo)

The International Marie de France Society is pleased to announce that it is sponsoring three sessions for the International Congress on Medieval Studies to be held at Western Michigan University from May 7-10. Abstracts and queries should be sent to … Continue reading

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Call for Papers: New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies

From the New College Conference organizers: The twenty-second biennial New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies will take place 12-14 March 2020 in Sarasota, Florida. The program committee invites 250-word abstracts of proposed twenty-minute papers on topics in European … Continue reading

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ICLS Panels, Exeter, July 22-27, 2019

The International Marie de France Society has organized two panels for the 16th Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society to be held July 22-27 at the University of Exeter. For more information on the Congress, click here. MARIE DE FRANCE I: … Continue reading

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