2007 Program of Papers & Performances
Conference Panels 2007
Session 1 10:00-11:00
Poetics and Signification
PPHAC 116
Moderator: Dr. Kate Crassons (Lehigh University)
- Jessica Scott (Bucknell University): “The Signified and the Signifier: Shaping Frameworks of Reality in Icelandic Saga”
- James McDowell (Haverford College): “Two Poets: Rhetorical Diversity in Chaucer and Deschamps”
- Christine DiDomenico (Franklin & Marshall College): “Completely Constructed to Liberate: Intentionally Provocative Form in Marlowe’s Hero and Leander”
Combat, Courts, and Chivalry
PPHAC 117
Moderator: Samantha Lukasiewicz (Moravian College)
- Sarah Kolba (Lafayette College): “Armor and Warfare: The Transition from Cavalry to Infantry in Europe from the 15th to the 17th Centuries”
- Danielle Sabatka (Pacific University): ““Heathen Saracens”: Distorted Views of Muslims in Europe During the Crusades”
- Carolyn King (Moravian College) and Patrick Rosendale (Moravian College): “Legends, Troubadours, and Eleanor: The Courts of Love in a Queen’s Final Years”
Controversies in Arthurian Studies
PPHAC 232
Moderator: Jessica Carlini (Moravian College)
- Anthony Jarvis (Le Moyne College): “Kingdom or Clan: The Scottish Origins of the Arthurian Legends”
- Crescenda Long (Lycoming College): ““Flame and shadow, image and opposite”: The Development of Mordred into Modern Arthurian Texts”
- Leah Hilliard (Bloomsburg University): “Chivalry and Courtly Love in Arthurian Literature: Manipulated and Contradictory Concepts”
Sexual Politics
PPHAC 233
Moderator: Kelly Mintzer (Moravian College)
- Maria R. Lathroum (McDaniel College): ““Lust” and the Subjectification of Women in The Canterbury Tales”
- Angela Allan (Villanova University): “A Game for Knights: Chivalry and Misogyny in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep”
- Elizabeth Clark (Wilkes University): “The Sexual Politics of Speech in Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi”
Chaucer: Reception and Re-interpretation
PPHAC 235
Moderator: Dr. George Diamond (Moravian College)
- Jenny Boyar (Lafayette College): “The Shifting “Moevere”: Of Order in Chaucer’s General Prologue and Knight’s Tale”
- Michael Murawinski (Lehigh University): ““To the worshipe of my lord”: Moral Responsibility of Author/Parent in Chaucer’s Physician’s Tale”
Education in Medieval and Early Modern Literature
PPHAC 330
Moderator: Krys Willing (Moravian College)
- Mollie Rance (Wilkes University): “Giovanni’s Broken Tools: Education and Inferiority Complexes”
- Troy McNeil (University of Tennessee): “The Trivium: Its Understanding and Importance in the Clerk’s Tale”
- Catherine Janecek (Wilkes University): “The Faults of Logic”
Resistance and Challenge
PPHAC 335
Moderator: Emily Gibbons (Moravian College)
- Lucy Barnhouse (Messiah College): “In Scholis Aut Extra: The Influence of Oxford on the Formation of Wycliffite Theology”
- Amber Konek (Misericordia University): “Chaucer’s Wyf of Bath as a Figure of Both Submission and Resistance”
- Sara deRosa (Lycoming College): “Eleanor and Isabella: Queens of Independence and Power”
Music of God: Plainchant of the Medieval Church
HUB UBC Room
- Philip Minnich, Cynthia Dretel, Katelyn Gudknecht, Eileen Cooper, Caitlin DeBrigard, and Sean Reardon (Moravian College)
Session 2 11:15-12:15
Process and Function in Art and Manuscript
PPHAC 116
Moderator: Lauren Pettit (Moravian College)
- Marissa Miller (Misericordia University): “Lorenzetti’s Frescoes of Good and Bad Government in Context”
- Deanna Smith (Kutztown University): “Medieval Identity Crisis: Art and Individuation”
- Catherine Janis (Oberlin College): “Reconstructing the Book: A Case Study of the Challenges of Localizing, Dating, and Reuniting Medieval Manuscript Fragments”
Disrupting Gender Expectations
PPHAC 117
Moderator: Dr. Suzanne Edwards (Lehigh University)
- Geoffrey Forman (Wilkes University): “The Faults of Man”
- Anna E. Edinger (Le Moyne College): “Julius Caesar: Silence and Gender”
- Alexander C. Sutton (Marist College): “The Interdependence of Homosociality and the Pursuit of the Ideal in Chrétien’s Perceval”
Catholic and Protestant Tension and Compromise
PPHAC 232
Moderator: Dr. Janet Loengard (Moravian College)
- Jonathan Ennis (Moravian College): “Sixteenth-Century Drama as Religious Propaganda”
- Alissa A. Butterworth (Franklin & Marshall College): “Calvinism and Catholicism in Dr. Faustus”
- Diana Wise (Harvard University): “The Timely and the Timeless: The Collects of the English Book of Common Prayer”
Discourse and Deconstruction
PPHAC 233
Moderator: Geoffrey Roche (Moravian College)
- Nida Asheer (Franklin & Marshall College): “Language’s Capacity to Change the Natural World: A Discourse Between Pico della Mirandola, Sir Philip Sidney, and Galileo”
- A. Joseph McMullen (Bucknell University): “A Painted Act of Speech’: Deconstructing the Grail in Malory’s Tale of the Sankgreal”
Disease and Dis-ease
PPHAC 235
Moderator: Ellen Flynn (Moravian College)
- Natasha Burns (Lehigh University): “The Importance of the Body in the Medieval Plague”
- Lisa Zelinski (Wilkes University): “A Black Plague upon Othello’s House”
Satire and Social Commentary
PPHAC 330
Moderator: Rebecca Angstadt (Moravian College)
- Ashley Bentivoglio and Derly Sarmiento (Neumann College): “Satire and Morality in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales”
- Danielle Sahm (Messiah College): “Discovering Thomas More’s True Utopia: Interpreting Book Two Through the Lens of Book One”
Mothers, Healers, Queens, and Saints – Exploring the Complexities of Women’s Roles
in the Anglo-Saxon World
PPHAC 335
Moderator: Martha Larkin (Moravian College)
- Amy Ziolkowski (St. John’s University): “Remedies and Solutions for Infertility in Anglo-Saxon England”
- Malessa Rodrigues (St. John’s University): “The Utility of Anglo-Saxon Female Saints”
- Michael Russo (St. John’s University): “Changing Views of Women Healers and Magic-Users”
- Jeremy Llanos (St. John’s University): “The Tasks of Good Queenship During Periods of Turmoil”
Minuet Dance
HUB UBC Room
- Julienne Basso and Steven Inghram (Moravian College)
Jews and Muslims in Medieval Europe: Poster Presentations
HUB Snyder Room
Moderator: Dr. Cullen Chandler (Lycoming College)
- Aaron Lay and Gregory Nieder (Lycoming College): “Influences of the three Abrahamic Faiths on Architecture in Medieval Spain”
- Gillian Robbins and Damian Mariano (Lycoming College): “Jewish Kingdoms of the Middle Ages”
- Justin Dixon and Ed Williams (Lycoming College): “Islamic Conquest”
- Alison Hamblin and Sara Quinlan (Lycoming College): “The Jews of Medieval Europe”
Session 3 2:30-3:30
Power in Transition
PPHAC 116
Moderator: Amy O’Connor (Moravian College)
- Lyndsay Roscoe (Lycoming College): “When the pagans desecrated the house of our hope”: A Look at the Destruction of Monasteries in Anglo-Saxon England and Francia during the Viking Invasions”
- Darlene Holt (Lycoming College): “Odilo of Bavaria”
- Janet McGlade (Lycoming College): “The End of the Carolingian Empire”
Old English Connections
PPHAC 117
Moderator: Brenda Maturi (Moravian College)
- Michael Kellichner (Lycoming College): “Christian Influences on Pagan Texts”
- Nicholas Hovan (Bucknell University): “Yggdrasil and The Dream of the Rood: Ecocritical Approaches”
- Erin Johnson (University of Hartford): “Beowulf: A Linguistic Analysis”
Persistent Satan
PPHAC 232
Moderator: Chris Leiby (Moravian College)
- Katie Coombs (Le Moyne College): “The Perverse Hero: Satan’s Representation in Old English”
- Sarah Lucci (Moravian College): “Pride: The Moral Corruptor of Faustus”
- Henry Hunsinger (Wilkes University): “Only in His Own Mind: Milton’s Use of Classical Allusion to Parody Lucifer in Paradise Lost”
Shakespeare and Love
PPHAC 233
Moderator: Pete Coutros (Moravian College)
- Peter Cutler (Franklin & Marshall College): “A Happiness Enjoyed but of a Few: Platonic Love in the Book of the Courtier, The Canzoniere, and the Rape of Lucrece”
- Kellie Huff (Macon State College): “The Parody of Courtly Love as Exemplified in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night”
Journeying to Insight
PPHAC 235
Moderator: Kristen O’Connor (Moravian College)
- Marybeth Thoma (Misericordia University): “Petrarch and Augustine”
- Kathryn Fulton (Messiah College): “The Riddle of the Pentangle Knight”
- Elizabeth Moore (Drew University): “God turne us every drem to goode!: Personal Anxiety, Experiential Learning and Allegorical Transcendence in Chaucer’s Dream Visions”
The Supernatural and the Otherworld
PPHAC 330
Moderator: Sarah Ward (Moravian College)
- Christina Townsend (Moravian College): “Spirits, Sorcerers and Sadducees: Science, Religion and the Supernatural in Seventeenth-Century Britain”
- Kris Breeden (McDaniel College): “Nature and Femininity: Otherworldly Influences in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Lanval, and The Wife of Bath’s Tale”
- Aliah O’Neill (Bucknell University): “The Journey to the Irish Otherworld in Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”
Medieval and Early Modern Spain
PPHAC 335
Moderator: Mike Accurso (Moravian College)
- Lori-Jean Foster (Bloomsburg University): “Humanism’s Influence on La Celestina and Lazarrilo of Tormes”
- Makenzie Seiple (Gettysburg College): “Venus and Virgin: The Sacred and the Profane in the Libro de Buen Amor”
- Carla Anderson (Millersville University): “The Portrayal of Medieval Spain in The Poem of the Cid”
Women: Saints, Sinners, and Other Stereotypes
HUB Snyder Room
Moderator: Carolyn King (Moravian College)
- Margaret Malloy (Misericordia University): “Beyond Laura: Examining Petrarchism through the Feminine Perspective”
- Ellen Flynn (Moravian College): “The Noose, The Cross, and the Double-Cross: The Repealed Repentance of Moll Flanders”
- Monika McDole-Russell (Temple University): “Theatrical Depictions of Feminine Stereotypes During the English Renaissance”
Pandora
HUB UBC Room
Moderator: James Tyler (Moravian College)
- James Tyler, Jasmin Maurer, Emma Grigore, Rachael Todd, Marta Johnson (Moravian College), Eduardo Zevallos (Moravian Academy), Luke Ranieri, and Hans Buckley
