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Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic CFPs for MLA 2024 Middle English Forum sessions in the discussion
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 10 months ago
Here are the CFPs for the Middle English Forum’s two sessions, along with a third that’s a collaborative session with the Chaucer Forum.
Adapting Middle English Literature
Organizers: Susan Nakley and Ruen-chuan Ma
This session invites us to consider how contemporary adaptations of Middle English literature contribute to the projects of…[Read more]
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Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic MLA 2023 Middle English Forum Convention Sessions and Call for Nominations in the discussion
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 11 months, 3 weeks ago
Dear Middle English Forum members,
Below is the information for the three sessions that our forum is sponsoring or cosponsoring, with links to session abstracts.
We are also seeking nominations, including self-nominations, for appointment to the Middle English Forum Executive Committee. The term will be for five years, from January 2024 through…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 1 year ago
The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Martha Dana Rust started the topic CFP: Leaving Home, November 3-4 2022 (NYU) in the discussion
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 1 year, 5 months ago
Medieval and Renaissance Center
New York UniversityAnnual Conference
November 3-4 2022Leaving Home
Keynote speakers
Daniel Jütte, NYU Department of History
Olenka Pevny: Cambridge University Faculty of Modern & Medieval LanguagesCall for papers: NYU’s Medieval and Renaissance Center invites proposals for papers for its annual conference to…[Read more]
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Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic CFP MLA 2023: Medieval Rebellion and Modern Insurrectionism in the discussion
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 1 year, 9 months ago
Paul Megna’s paper for the Middle English Forum at MLA 2022 invoked a Public Books piece by Irina Dumitrescu in order to prompt contemporary medievalists to ponder the events of 1/6/2021. How might 1/6/2021 cause us to reconsider the scholarly lenses through which we have typically interpreted the events of Rising of 1381 and their literary ma…[Read more]
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Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic CFP MLA 2023: Old English, Middle English, and Contemporary Trans Studies in the discussion
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 1 year, 9 months ago
Medieval studies is in a moment in which it is re-examining the long-held categories that have traditionally defined its boundaries. As this reconceptualization of the field progresses, Trans Studies offers a number of scholarly methodologies and insights that are changing the way medievalists consider their field and, more specifically, Trans…[Read more]
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Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic CFP MLA 2023: Middle English Encounters with Islamicate and Persianate Cultures in the discussion
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 1 year, 9 months ago
This session seeks to build upon the growing appreciation for the complex and multifarious discursive engagements between late medieval English literary texts and Islamicate or Persianate culture, society, language, or literature. Recognizing that such engagements include much more than direct literary representations of the individual Islamicate…[Read more]
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Alex Mueller deposited Digitizing Chaucerian Debate in the group
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 2 years ago
To encourage classroom dialectic I often turn to the “quitting” structure of “The Canterbury Tales,” within which pilgrims offer requitals of previous tales that range from exuberant acclamations to
raucous attacks. Within these extremes lie productive forms of correction that emerge as subtle critiques, opposing arguments, and timely (or…[Read more] -
Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic Bodleian Library Research Fellowships in the discussion
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 2 years ago
In collaboration with the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford, the New Chaucer Society will support one or two one month (30 day) research visits by an early career scholar who is a member of the New Chaucer Society to the Special Collections of the Bodleian Library in the University of Oxford. Details here:…[Read more]
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Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic MLA 2022 CFP: Remote Middle English 2: Present Negotiations with the Past in the discussion
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months ago
Sequestered away from our institutions, colleagues, and students, and yet continuing to seek connections with them, many medievalists have no doubt registered the uncanny resemblance between the newly remote experiences of our work and the already pervasive perceptions of that work as remote, both within and without academe. On the one hand, we…[Read more]
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Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic New Chaucer Society: Call for Future Forward Session for summer Expo 2021 in the discussion
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months ago
NCS Expo, Future Forward Call for Nominees, #NCSExpo2021
Organisers: Seeta Chaganti; Bobby Meyer-Lee; Emily Steiner.
Whether in the context of long-term social justice commitments or in response to shifts in global politics over the last few years, medievalists have found themselves facing questions about the relation – or lack thereof – betw…[Read more]
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Lisa H. Cooper replied to the topic Middle English Forum Sessions at MLA 2021 in the discussion
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 3 years ago
For Session 660: Poetry and Pandemic: Medieval English Perspectives, please see the attached abstracts.
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Lisa H. Cooper replied to the topic Middle English Forum Sessions at MLA 2021 in the discussion
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 3 years ago
ABSTRACTS FOR: 660. Poetry and Pandemic: Medieval English Perspectives, Sunday, 10 January, 3:30-4:45 pm (jointly sponsored with GS Poetry and Poetics); Presider: Lisa H. Cooper, U of Wisconsin, Madison
1. “Plague and Post-trauma in Chaucer’s ‘First Fragment,’” David Coley, Simon Fraser U
Critics have long discerned what we might call post-tr…[Read more]
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