2006 Program of Papers & Performances
Paper & Performance Session 1: 10:30-11:30
Unlocking the Byzantine Icon: A Round-table Session
Megan Averbuch, Meghan Martino, Caitlin Thompson, Jill Nickel, Leah Corrigan, Mark Adamiak, Douglas Maryott, Caroline Conway, and Ashley Maida (Lafayette College)
The Power of the Artifact: Gospel Books and Weapons
Karla Erdman (Moravian College): “Picture This: Illumination of the Book of Kells and Lindisfarne Gospels”Elizabeth Lipke (Hood College): “Interpreting Beowulf’s Society: The Bloody-Heirloom”
Matthew Korrodi (University of Louisiana at Monroe): “A Time for Heroes”
Magic: Roots and Renaissance
Laura Bill (Moravian College): “Definitional Dilemmas in Medieval Magic, Witchcraft, Religion, and Science”
Elizabeth C. Yepez (Messiah College): “‘Why waverest thou?’: Renaissance Humanism in Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus”
Vanessa Taylor (College of the Holy Cross): “Damned by Dogma: The Witch Hunts of Renaissance Europe”
Enduring Philosophies
Christina LaVecchia (Moravian College): “Fire and Tears: Differing Treatments of Christian Sin, Redemption, and the Individual in Inferno and Confessions”
Gary Ritacco (Lehigh University): “The Complexities of Conversion in St. Augustine’s Confessions”
Mike Gibney (Bucknell University): “Early Medieval Ecology: An Ecocritical View of Erugena’s Periphyseon”
Questioning the Civic Construct
Kate Seward (Widener University): “Pacifism in the Writings of Menno Simons”
Lia Mirigliani (Widener University): “Peter Chelčický and the Renunciation of Civic Engagement”
Brian Zumbrum (DeSales University): “Civic Humanism: Revolutionary or Revisionist?”
The Lesser Sex? Part I
Stephen Underwood (Gwynedd-Mercy College): “Of Monks and Misogyny: Tale versus Teller in the
Monk’s Tale”
Kacy Muir (Wilkes University): “Sex and Violence: The Male Thought of Women in the Canterbury Tales”
Meagan Harkness (Wilkes University): “Watch Out for Romantic Love, Ladies: Your Identity is at Risk”
Labor and Commerce
Sam Chiarelli (Wilkes University): “Chaucer’s Nameless Identities: The Reader’s Tale”
Catherine Janis (Oberlin College): “Performing Labor: Who is Acting in the Trade Windows of Chartres Cathedral?”
Jeffrey Wayno (Princeton University): “Trading London: City, Crown, and the German Hanse at the Turn of the Fourteenth Century”
Paleographic Exploration
Sarah Donahue and Aryn Conway (Roanoke College): “A Paleographic Exploration of the Verse Life of St. Margaret from a Picardy Book of Hours, ca. 1325”
Paper & Performance Session 2: 1:15-2:15pm
Faith and Love in Tristan and Isolde
Rebecca Wagner (Hamilton College): “The Power of Love”
Benjamin Hewes (Lafayette College): “Medieval Religion and Divine Presence in Béroul’s Roman de Tristan”
On the Edge: Female Warriors, The Apocalypse, and The Other in Anglo-Saxon England
Vanessa Fisher (Moravian College): “The Three Faces of Judith”
Christina Townsend (Moravian College): “English Apocalypticism and the Year 1000”
Kristina Lang (University of Louisiana at Monroe): “Heathen! Construction of the Other in The Passion of St. Edmund”
Constructing Identity
Tiffany DeRewal (Messiah College): “Richard II as an Image of Christ: Constructing an Illusion to Regenerate Identity”
Samantha Stens (Moravian College): “The Game of Appearances in French Classical Theater”
Conrad Miller (Wilkes University): “Questioning Religious Authority in the Canterbury Tales”
Cultural Values and Social Structure
Sarah Lucci (Moravian College): “Mesh of Heroic Code and Judeo-Christian Traditions in Beowulf”
Mary Jean Hughes (Hood College): “‘Sometimes I feel like a fatherless child’: Beowulf’s Father-Longing”
Elena Augustine (Bucknell University): “Early Insular Rulers: Goddesses and Kings in Beowulf and The Tain”
Seekers, Ranters, and Libertines
Andrew Berrios (Widener University): “Laurence Claxton: Seeker, Ranter, Libertine”
Kevin Golden (Widener University): Richard Coppin: Apocalyptic Antinomian”
Dave Feldmann (Widener University): “Abiezer Coppe and Radical Spiritual Libertinism as Revolutionary Behavior”
Narrative Strategies in the Canterbury Tales
Ken Mont (Gwynedd-Mercy College): “The Damned Pardoner”
Elisa Phillips (Wilkes University): “Theseus’ Knightly Erection: A Theatrical Construct”
Jennifer Hameza (Wilkes University): “The Puppeteers of Fate: The Gods in Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale”
Dreams and Visions
Corrine Medvec (Wilkes University): “The Systematic Role of Identity Leads to Unreliability”
Kevin Lasko (Lycoming College): “Dream Interpretation in the Carolingian Period”
Jackie Rosenthal (Brooklyn College): “Dreams and Visions in Dante’s Vita Nuova and Guibert of Nogent’s Monodiae”
Manipulative Dürer
Jen Bajczyk (Moravian College): “Albrecht Dürer and his Negative Portrayal of Middle Eastern Peoples”
Nicole E. Cook (Moore College of Art and Design): “Death of the Maiden: A Study of how the Reformation Altered the Representation of Women in German Renaissance Art”
Mankind for a 21st-century Audience
Paula Tremain, Christoph Nowaczyk, and Jamie Kelleher (Centenary College): “Mankind for a 21st Century Audience”
Paper & Performance Session 3: 2:15-3:15pm
Broken Ideals
Henry Hunsinger (Wilkes University): “A Failure of the Clerk to Meet Our Expectations”
Apolon (Hamilton College): “Malory the Idealist”
Jennifer Dumas (University of Louisiana at Monroe): “A Warrior’s Principles: The Battle between Pride and Humility in Anglo-Saxon Texts”
Desire and Gender Identity
Elizabeth Laribee (Messiah College): “The Lady Within: The Concept of Self in Twelfth Night”
Joshua Mackin (Messiah College): “A Hope for Transcendence: John Donne and the Jacobean Gender Debate”
Anthony D’Errico (DeSales University): “Sodom and Gomorrah Resurrected: Homosexuality in Renaissance Florence”
Straddling Two Worlds: Intersections of the Historic and Literary
Marisa Gennace (Moravian College): “There and Back Again: An Anglo-Saxon Tale”
Jennifer Quinn (Lycoming College): “The Knight in Literature vs. History”
A. Joseph McMullen (Bucknell University): “A Living Land: The Wooing of Etain and an Early Irish Land Ethic”
Responses to Authority
Greg DeDomenicis (Widener University): “Gerrard Winstanley and the Digger Movement”
Andrew Gatti (Widener University): “Anti-Popery in the Writings of John Wyclif”
Megyn E. Dixon (Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Robert E. Cook Honors College): “For Kirk and Kingdom: The Scottish Prayer Book Riots and the Shaping of National Identity”
Marriage and Instrumentality
Kristen Geaman (University of Delaware): “Isabella Marshal, Sanchia of Provence, and Beatrice of Falkenburg: The Wives of Richard, Earl of Cornwall, and their Political Influence in Thirteenth-Century England”
Jennifer O’Neill (Gwynedd-Mercy College): “Love and Marriage in The Merchant’s Tale”
Ashley Fiorucci (Wilkes University): “The Clerk of Oxford Takes (A Wife of) Bath”
The Lesser Sex? Part II
Tara Kline (Gwynedd-Mercy College): “The Portrayal of Women through The Merchant’s Tale
Mollie Rance (Wilkes University): “The Clerk: Feigning Regard for Authority”
Maggie Merkle (Wilkes University): “Chaucer’s Maiden Conspirators: Feminine Catalysts in Male-Dominated Texts”
Natural Trunpet: From Parts to Performance
A demonstration by Christopher A. Lucca and Sean Mason (Moravian College)
Contingent Identity
Angelina Teutonico (Wilkes University): “‘Devyne and Glosen’: Multifaceted Interpretation Within and Concerning The Wife of Bath’s Prologue”
Brian Redmond (Wilkes University): “Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales: Wallflower Wives, Empty Cradles, and Invisible Mothers”
Leslie Ann Sissenstein (State University of New York at New Paltz): “The Maiden in Medieval Romance”
Chaucer, Authority, and the Canterbury Tales
Translations and discussion led by Aaron Poppleton, Elana Grabowski, and Amelia Dougherty (Iona College)
