New Readings on Women in Old English Literature Revisited (A Roundtable)
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Special Session
Organizer Name
Yvette Kisor
Organizer Affiliation
Ramapo College
Presider Name
Yvette Kisor
Paper Title 1
Discussant
Presenter 1 Name
Heide Estes
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Monmouth Univ.
Paper Title 2
Discussant
Presenter 2 Name
Shari Horner
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Shippensburg Univ.
Paper Title 3
Discussant
Presenter 3 Name
Stacy S. Klein
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Rutgers Univ.
Paper Title 4
Discussant
Presenter 4 Name
Andrew Rabin
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Univ. of Louisville
Paper Title 5
Discussant
Presenter 5 Name
Helene Scheck
Presenter 5 Affiliation
Univ. at Albany
Paper Title 6
Discussant
Presenter 6 Name
Lisa Weston
Presenter 6 Affiliation
California State Univ.-Fresno
Paper Title 7
Respondent
Presenter 7 Name
Helen Damico
Presenter 7 Affiliation
Univ. of New Mexico
Start Date
8-5-2014 7:30 PM
Session Location
Bernhard 106
Description
It has been over twenty years since the publication of New Readings on Women in Old English Literature, edited by Helen Damico and Alexandra Hennessey Olsen (Indiana University Press 1990). That text was a landmark, the first to collect scholarship examining Old English texts, both canonical and those less frequently considered, from a feminist perspective. Many of the essays included are still valuable, but it is time for an updating of this important text. Much valuable work has been accomplished in the years since its publication, and more remains to be done. This roundtable session aims to re-examine the scholarship that considers Anglo-Saxon texts from a feminist perspective, whatever that might mean today, and determine what direction an updating of the original volume might take.
Yvette Kisor
New Readings on Women in Old English Literature Revisited (A Roundtable)
Bernhard 106
It has been over twenty years since the publication of New Readings on Women in Old English Literature, edited by Helen Damico and Alexandra Hennessey Olsen (Indiana University Press 1990). That text was a landmark, the first to collect scholarship examining Old English texts, both canonical and those less frequently considered, from a feminist perspective. Many of the essays included are still valuable, but it is time for an updating of this important text. Much valuable work has been accomplished in the years since its publication, and more remains to be done. This roundtable session aims to re-examine the scholarship that considers Anglo-Saxon texts from a feminist perspective, whatever that might mean today, and determine what direction an updating of the original volume might take.
Yvette Kisor