Unsettled Marks: To #;()@?”:—*!… and Beyond! (A Roundtable)

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Grammar Rabble

Organizer Name

Richard H. Godden, Shyama Rajendran

Organizer Affiliation

Tulane Univ., George Washington Univ.

Presider Name

Shyama Rajendran

Paper Title 1

☧ Chrismon "Can Be Set Down as a Sign Wherever the Writer Likes"

Presenter 1 Name

Damian Fleming

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ.-Fort Wayne

Paper Title 2

Students, Period

Presenter 2 Name

Kisha G. Tracy

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Fitchburg State Univ.

Paper Title 3

In Search of Lost Punctuation: The Medieval Uses and the Modern Absence of the Paraph

Presenter 3 Name

Sarah Noonan

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Lindenwood Univ.

Paper Title 4

You've Been Punc't

Presenter 4 Name

Cameron Hunt McNabb

Presenter 4 Affiliation

Southeastern Univ.

Paper Title 5

Tiro and the Druids

Presenter 5 Name

Bruce Holsinger

Presenter 5 Affiliation

Univ. of Virginia

Paper Title 6

P oetry /

Presenter 6 Name

Chris Piuma, David Hadbawnik

Presenter 6 Affiliation

Univ. of Toronto, Univ. at Buffalo

Start Date

16-5-2015 1:30 PM

Session Location

Fetzer 2016

Description

Punctuation marks infiltrate and inform our everyday experiences, but they have their own histories as well. They structure, relate, balance, and invoke; they collide, confuse, limit, and terminate. This roundtable, sponsored by Grammar Rabble, takes punctuation and other typographical marks as the starting point for eclectic and inventive readings/meditations on Medieval Studies. We invite short presentations on any modern or archaic characters, and we are particularly interested in modes and marks of punctuation that are not immediately recognizable to modern eyes, including arrows, manicles, and neumes (and other musical notations). This session will continue to expand our sense of what punctuation is and in what ways it can be read.

Richard Godden