We hope you’ll join us at the following sessions and events, part of the 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 9 to 13, 2018.
Session 103. Approaches to Teaching Medieval Drama, Revisited
Thursday, May 9, 3:30 PM
Location: Fetzer 1045
Chair: Andrew M. Pfrenger (Kent State University, Salem)
Presenters
- “Authentic Pedagogy in the Medieval Drama Classroom,” Cameron Hunt McNabb (Southeastern University)
- “The Umpteenth Annual Secunda Pastorum at a Commuter Campus, or, My Son, the Stolen Sheep,” Betsy Bowden (Rutgers University)
- “Countering Presentism in a Student-Led Performance of Mankind,” Boyda J. Johnstone (Fordham University)
- “Not Scripted: Playing with the Archive,” Gina Di Salvo (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
Session 161. Staging Politics: Tyranny, Repression, and Unrest in Medieval Plays
Friday, May 10, 10:00 AM
Location: Valley 3 Eldridge 309
Chair: Mario B. Longtin (Western University)
Presenters
- “Tyrannicide, Liberation, and Proto-Reformation Preaching in the Earliest Extant William Tell Play (ca. 1512),” Stephen K. Wright (Catholic University of America)
- “That Reverant Unutile Moi Play: Herod’s Gibberish,” Ruth Nisse (Wesleyan University)
Session 229. New Voices in Early Drama Studies
Friday, May 10, 1:30 PM
Location: Fetzer 2016
Chair: Christina M. Fitzgerald (University of Toledo)
Presenters
- “Approaching Sacred Comedy in Early English Drama,” Sarah Jane Brazil (University de Genève)
- “Divine Travail: Christ’s Conflicting Abilities and Mobilities in the York Plays,” Jennie Friedrich (University of California, Riverside)
- “On Stage Directions from the Twelfth Century to the Twenty-First Century in Jehan Bodel’s Jeu de Saint Nicolas,” Nouha Gammar (University of Virginia)
- “Le diable qui parle par ta bouche”: Vulgar Language from Mankind to Michel Tremblay’s Les Belles-Sœurs,” Aylin Malcolm (University of Pennsylvania)
Session 287. Claire Sponsler: In Memoriam I
Friday, May 10, 3:30 PM
Location: Fetzer 2016
Chair: Matthew Evan Davis (McMaster University)
Presenters
- “Crossdressing on the Medieval Stage: A Transgender and Transracial Sartorial Masquerade,” Jesse Njus (Virginia Commonwealth University)
- “Medieval Drama and the ‘Myth of Communal Life’ in the Twenty-First Century,” Heather Mitchell-Buck (Hood College Hamilton)
- “Hamilton and Medieval Drama,” Michelle Markey Butler (University of Maryland)
Executive Council Meeting
Friday, May 10, 11:45 AM
Location: Fetzer 1030
General Business Meeting
Friday, May 10, 5:15 PM
Location: Fetzer 2016