Announcements, Presentations

Faculty and Graduate Students Attend International Congress on Medieval Studies

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 Arthurwhich 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.