English department faculty and students participated in the 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies held at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, “Discontinuous Literary Histories.”
Jonathan Davis-Secord, Associate Professor of Medieval Studies orgranized the roundtable, “Teaching the Saints.”
Lisa Myers, English Term Teaching Faculty was a panelist in, “Reading Women in England, ca. 1150-1350;” presided over “Monster Cultures;” and presented, “Ambiguity and Terror in the Dragon’s Barrow of Beowulf“ in ‘Arthurian Kingship: King Arthur.’
Andrew Fields, PhD student in Medieval Studies presented, “Heavy is the Head: Kingshop in the Alliterative Morte Arthure and the Stanzaic Morte Arthur” which was the winner of the IMS Prize.
Cody West, MA student in Medieval Studies presented, “Dux Bellorum: Arthur as a Living Avatar of the Hermano-Celtic Warrior Elite.“