Queering Medieval Disability

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Society for the Study of Disability in the Middle Ages

Organizer Name

Joshua R. Eyler

Organizer Affiliation

George Mason Univ.

Presider Name

Joshua R. Eyler

Paper Title 1

Collective Perfectibility and Monastic Discourses of the Flawed Male Body in Eleventh-Century Germany

Presenter 1 Name

Scott Wells

Presenter 1 Affiliation

California State Univ.-Los Angeles

Paper Title 2

Disability, Disorientation, Distranslation: Chaucer’s The Monk’s Tale as Crip Performance

Presenter 2 Name

Jonathan Hsy

Presenter 2 Affiliation

George Washington Univ.

Paper Title 3

What Can Leprosy Tell Us about Queerness, and Vice Versa?

Presenter 3 Name

Valéria M. Souza

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Univ. of Massachusetts-Boston

Paper Title 4

Disability, Queerness, and Pleasure in Amis and Amiloun

Presenter 4 Name

Tory Vandeventer Pearman

Presenter 4 Affiliation

Miami Univ. Hamilton

Start Date

12-5-2013 10:30 AM

Session Location

Valley II 203