This promises to be an excellent year for the Society at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University. We have five very exciting panels scheduled for Kalamazoo next May. Please do keep in mind that the IPpS Business Meeting is held at 12.00 PM on the Saturday (May 11). We will elect a new Vice-President and plan our proposed sessions for the 55th ICMS in 2020.
Is there a class in this text? Teaching the Gawain-poet (Roundtable)
Chair: B.S.W. Barootes (Pontifical Institute of Mediæval Studies)
“The Pearl-poet and Non-Conformist Religious Ideas in the First Year Seminar”
Felisa Baynes-Ross (Yale University)
“Playing the Manuscript: Teaching the Games of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”
Julie Nelson Couch (Texas Tech University) & Kimberly Bell (Sam Houston State University)
“An Intertextual Approach to Courtliness and the Divine in Pearl”
Amber Dunai (Texas A&M University—Central Texas)
“Defamiliarizing the Pearl-poet: Rejecting Translation and Broadening the Course”
Stephen D. Powell (University of Guelph)
“Teaching Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in the Context of Rhetorical and Linguistic Traditions of the Middle Ages”
Scott Troyan (University of Wisconsin—Madison)
Gender and Engendering in the Works of the Pearl-poet
Chair: Kimberly Jack (Athens State University)
“Nurturing Fathers and Supportive Authorities: Reconsidering Paternal Affection in the Pearl-poet’s Works”
Ashley E. Bartelt (Northern Illinois University)
“Untying and Re-tying the ‘Endles Knot’: Retroactively Reading Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as a Woman’s Narrative”
Jonathan Juilfs (Redeemer University College)
“‘He Said, She Said,’ He Said: Gendered Dialogue in Pearl and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”
Florence Newman (Towson University)
“The Emotional Intelligence of Pearl: Purging the Jeweler of his Gendered Irrationality?”
William M. Storm (Eastern University)
Visual Rhetoric in the Works of the Pearl-poet I: New Frontiers
Chair: Denise A. Stodola (Kettering University)
“The Green Knight Without the Green: Re-Investigating the Multispectral Illustrations of MS Cotton Nero A.x art. 3”
Matthew R. Higgins (Georgia State University)
“Visible Thoughts: The Spontaneous Gesture and Imaging Identity in the Pearl-Poems”
Misho Ishikawa (UCLA)
“Peripheral Vision: Choreographing Description through Dance in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”
Clint Morrison, Jr. (Ohio State University)
“Crashing by Dasein: Neurorhetoric Supplying the Vision for “Being There” at the Green Chapel”
Scott Troyan (University of Wisconsin—Madison)
Visual Rhetoric II: Looking Closer
Chair: Julie Nelson Couch (Texas Tech University)
“Spaces for Seeing: Sight as a Function of Moral Space in the Works of the Pearl-Poet”
Andrew Bell (University of Connecticut)
“Inside the Whale and Outside the Ark: Reconsidering Enclosure in Patience and Cleanness”
David K. Coley (Simon Fraser University)
“Visual Rhetoric and Argumentation in Pearl”
Denise A. Stodola (Kettering University)
“Of schyr goulez: Red as Complement to Green in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”
Witt Womack (Independent scholar; University of Leeds)
Fifty Shades of Green: Hagiography and Demonology in the Pearl-poet Corpus
Chair: Ashley E. Bartelt (Northern Illinois University)
“Confessing to Fairies”
Richard Firth Green (Ohio State University)
“Romance in St. Erkenwald: Blending the Pagan Past and Christian Present”
Jenna Schoen (Columbia University)
London, British Library, MS Cotton Nero A.x (art. 3), fol. 56r
B.S.W. Barootes 