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Noah Guynn started the topic Medieval French CFP, MLA 2023: Feminist/Queer Reading in Honor of Simon Gaunt in the discussion
LLC Medieval French on MLA Commons 1 year agoNew Directions in Feminist and Queer Readings of Medieval French Literature: a Session in Honor of Simon Gaunt
Simon Gaunt’s research interests were remarkably varied: from Romance philology to psychoanalysis, postcolonial studies, and beyond. This panel honors one important part of his legacy: his groundbreaking feminist and queer readings of m…[Read more]
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Noah Guynn started the topic Medieval French CFP, MLA 2023: Fictions of the Sacred in the discussion
LLC Medieval French on MLA Commons 1 year agoThe omnipresence of religious rhetoric in medieval French culture is among the most salient and often among the most alienating cultural juggernauts faced by students and scholars alike. Yet, sacred biography–hagiographical, Marian, and Christological–has not fully found its place in the discipline of medieval French studies. As a corpus at onc…[Read more]
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Noah Guynn started the topic Appointments to the Executive Committee, LLC Medieval French in the discussion
LLC Medieval French on MLA Commons 1 year, 1 month agoAs you may have heard, the Program Committee has implemented a change to the process of assembling Forum Executive Committees. We will use an appointment model as a trial run for the next three years, meaning the existing committee will select new members. The rationale for this change is that the MLA has heard from many executive committees that…[Read more]
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May Spangler deposited Paris in Architecture, Literature, and Art in the group
LLC Medieval French on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month ago“Notre-Dame in Jean Fouquet’s Hours of Etienne Chevalier, ca. 1452-52” is a book excerpt of May Spangler’s “Paris in Architecture, Literature and Art,” recently published at Peter Lang. Designed for an interdisciplinary course in Cultural Studies, the book capitalizes on the little exposure liberal arts students have to architecture, and the wid…[Read more]
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Charles-Louis Morand-Métivier started the topic Upcoming MLA Elections in the discussion
French Medieval Language and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoMy name is Charles-Louis Morand Métivier, and I am both excited and very proud to have been nominated to the Medieval French Executive Committee. After graduating with a Ph.D. in French Literature from the University of Pittsburgh in 2013, I have been an Assistant Professor of French at the University of Vermont since 2013. My research focuses on…[Read more]
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Jesús R. Velasco deposited Boundless Troubadours in the group
LLC Medieval French on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoThis paper deals with the complicated sociopolitical space defined by the use and transformation of what we call Occitan language. Literary and cultural production in Occitan language during the late 12th and early 13th centuries light up the boundary conditions, the boundary values of what we call courtly culture making them visible in all their…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
French Medieval Language and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Michelle R. Warren deposited Diversity in Every Course, Cross-Cultural Encounters in Every Classroom in the group
LLC Medieval French on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months agoRound Table on Diversity and Teaching Medieval Studies sponsored by Graduate Student Council. Session title: “Tearing Down Walls, Building Bridges:
Medieval Diversity and Cross-Cultural Encounters in Syllabus Design and Teaching.” This paper is about two courses that illustrate the principle “Diversity in Every Course Title” and several…[Read more] -
Pamela Kirkpatrick started the topic CFP for MLA 2018 in New York: Medieval and Renaissance Terms of Endearment. in the discussion
French Medieval Language and Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoSeeking proposals to a non-guaranteed session about kinship terminology or terms of endearment used for friends and foes. For example, in The Song of Roland, characters use sarcasm to describe enemies as friends, and interestingly, demeaning monikers are used to chastise friends. What do these epithets say about the cultural boundaries between…[Read more]
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Michelle R. Warren deposited Ar-ar-archive in the group
LLC Medieval French on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoA reflection on the state of the archive in the state of post-theory.
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Lynn Ramey started the topic CFP Transnational Medieval (journal) in the discussion
French Medieval Language and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoLICO Call for Papers: Medieval Literature and the Trans-National
Literature Compass invites contributions for a special issue on transnationalism in medieval literature.
The period from c. 500 to c. 1500CE can be characterized by fluidity of borders and identities. While a town or individual might have belonged to a particular religious group or…[Read more]
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