Medieval and Renaissance Student Association Graduate Student Conference: In the Margins (CSU, Long Beach)

April 19th, 2018 Karl Anatol Center

Registration 9:00 

    Welcome 10:00      

Dr. Ilan Mitchell-Smith

Session I. 10:15 – 11:15

The Role She Must Play: Medieval Women

Moderator: Dr. Marie Kelleher (California State University, Long Beach)

Female Agency and Religious Salvation in How the Good Wife Taught Her Daughter

Elizabeth Diesel (California State University, Long Beach)

Medieval Women in Codex Ashmole 61.

Gloria Ramirez (California State University, Long Beach)

From Seduction to Sexual Assault: Notions of Consent and Models of Heterosexual Interaction in El Libro de Buen Amor

Karime Parodi (University of California, Los Angeles)

Session II.   11:30 – 12:45

    Marginalized Bodies

Moderator: Dr. Alicia Doyle (California State University, Long Beach)

 Left to the Dogs: The Inversion of Monstrosity in The Passion of Saint Christopher

Jessica Acosta  (California State University, Long Beach)

The Devil’s Contemplatives: Satan’s Body as the Means and Site of Deceptive Seduction in Theological and Literary Texts of the Middle Ages

Kimberlee Flack (University of California, Irvine)

Eaters without Borders: Marlowe’s Model of Oppressive Cannibalism

Patrick Shaffer  (California State University, Long Beach)

Meals on the Margins: Sculptural Decoration in Pamplona’s Fourteenth-Century Refectory

Hannah Maryan Thomson (University of California, Los Angeles)

Lunch.   1:00

Keynote Speaker.   2:00

“Mirabilia, Experimenta, and Magical Fraud”

Dr. Michael Ryan (The University of New Mexico)

Session III. 3:00 – 4:00

Early-Modern Women Writers

Moderator: Dr. Martine van Elk(California State University, Long Beach)

Flipping the Fifty-Shades: A Reading of Eroticism in Lady Mary Wroth’s “The Tale of Veralinda and Leonia” from The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania and Anna Weamys’s A Continuation of Sir Philip Sidney’s Arcadia in Relation to the Renaissance Political Domestic Metaphor

Kelsey Devoe  (California State University, Long Beach)

‘Arbitrary Power’: Hierarchy Ideology in the Plays of Elizabeth Cary and Mary Pix.

David McDevitt (California State University, Long Beach)

The Rake, the Virgin, and the Whore: Women’s Autonomy in Aphra Behn’s The Rover

Chelsea Taylor (California State University, Long Beach)

Session IV.  4:15 – 5:15

Heroine or Heretic: Exploring Female Power

Moderator: Dr. Heather Graham (California State University, Long Beach)

Joan of Arc: The Maid Inside the Mail: Obtaining Power and Freedom Through Dress

Jaclyn Molinar (California State University, Long Beach)

The Anglo-Saxon Judith: Brave Woman (Mægð Modigre) or The Lord’s Servant (Þeodnes Mægð)?

Kristina Lewis (California State University, Long Beach)

The Maiden and the Monster: Reading the Female Body in Old English Judith and Beowulf

Maitlyn Reynolds (California State University, Long Beach)

 Session V.  5:30 – 6:30

Men/Women Wonders and Trolls: Monstrosity in the Beowulf Manuscript

Moderator: Ashley Kolb (California State University, Long Beach)

Destroying the Platinum Credit Card; Women’s Monstrous Boycott of Male Dominated Economic Systems in Wonders of the East

Britt Radine (California State University, Long Beach)

Beowulf: Understanding Grendel’s Monstrosity as an Ahistorical Identity

Christopher Maye  (California State University, Long Beach)

Grendel’s Mother: Focusing on the Multiple Layers of Gender

Akira Hendershot  (California State University, Long Beach)

April 20th, 2018 Karl Anatol Center

9:00 a.m.   Welcome and Coffee

Session VI. 9:30 – 10:30

From Unicorns to Youtube: Appropriating the Past

Moderator: Dr. Justin Gomer (California State University, Long Beach)

Significance of the Medieval and Modern Unicorn

Aliyah Beiruti (San Diego State University)

Appropriating The Lord of the Rings: Effects of Medieval Architecture in Popular Culture

Katie Waltman (San Diego State University)

“Mischief, thou art afoot”: YouTube Theater and the Ethics of Appropriation

Ofir Cahalan  (University of California, Davis)

Session VII. 10:45 – 11:45

Vagrancy and Outcasts

Moderator: Dr. Lloyd Kermode (California State University, Long Beach)

A Threat to the Ideal City: Peddlers on the Streets of Medieval Italy
Susan Schmidt (University of California, Santa Barbara)

 The Elizabethan Stranger: Barabas’s Radicalization in The Jew of Malta

Kayla Boogar (California State University, Long Beach)

Early Modern Encodings: Rogue Literature and the Indecipherability of Thieves Cant

Leanna O’Brien (University of California, Davis)

Presentation.   12:00

“Women in Medieval Art”

Dr. Mariah Proctor (California State University, Long Beach)

Lunch.  12:30

Session VIII. 1:30-2:30

What the Wyght: The Exploration of a Forgotten Word

Moderator: Dr. Ilan Mitchell-Smith (California State University, Long Beach)

Curious Wights: Tolkein, The Lord of the Rings, and the Etymology of Wight

Katelin Garner (California State University, Long Beach)

Wyght: Person, Creature, Anything, Nothing

Elisabeth Oliver (California State University, Long Beach)

The Ever Transforming “Wyght”: Finding Balance in Codex Ashmole 61 

Jillian Sutton (California State University, Long Beach)

Session IX. 2:45-3:45

Gender and Speech: Challenging Borders through Rhetoric

Moderator: Dr. Susan Carlile (California State University, Long Beach)

Speech, Writing, Dance, and Power: The Political Fashioning of Elizabeth I

Violet Gregory (California State University, Long Beach)

Lybeaus Desconus: Speech Acts and Assimilation

Jason Thames (California State University, Long Beach)

Blurred Lines in Codex Ashmole 61

Tanya McGrail (California State University, Long Beach)

Session X.  4:00 -5:00

The Hag Speaks: Distribution of Power in the Loathly Lady Trope

Moderator: Maitlyn Reynolds (California State University, Long Beach)

Female Erasure in The Wedding  of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle

Dania Mohammad (California State University, Long Beach)

 “Of the most manlyest is ouredesyre”: Dame Ragnelle’s Appropriation of

Medieval Masculinity in “The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle”

Lucila Rojo (California State University, Long Beach)

The Wife of Bath: Reading the ‘good Wif’ Across Editions

Vanessa Moore (California State University, Long Beach)

Session XI. 5:15- 6:15  

Female Divinity

Moderator: Dr. Katherine Mcloone (California State University, Long Beach)

Brigid between Worlds: How Ireland’s First Woman Saint Preserved the Feminine Divine

Kaitlyn Gorbett (California State University, Long Beach)

“Glad-Hearted” Juliana: The Monstrous Voice of Anglo Saxon Christianity

Laura Simko (California State University, Long Beach)

   Monstrosity in Juliana: Aggression and Punishment through Verbal Action

Briana Nickol (California State University, Long Beach)

Session XII. 6:30 – 7:30

Out of Bounds: Hypermasculinity and Excessive Behavior

Moderator: Elisabeth Oliver (California State University, Long Beach)

Frekis of Nature: The Meaning of “Freik” in The Knightly Tale of Gologras and Gawain

Gitana Deneff (California State University, Long Beach)

The Humbling Hound: Correcting Excessive Violence by Supernatural Knights in Lybeaus Desconus and Sir Gowther

Ashley Kolb (California State University, Long Beach)

The “Brastyng” of the “Hoole Book” in Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur

Schuyler Eastin (University of California, Riverside)

A Special Thanks To:

The California State University Long Beach Department of English.

The California State University Long Beach Department of Music for their generous contribution.

Dr. Ilan Mitchell-Smith for his constant guidance and unwavering support.

The board and members of the Medieval and Renaissance Student Association.

The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

The moderators who graciously volunteered their time towards making this conference a success.

Kayla Boogar for her time and commitment towards making our conference a success.