Piers Plowman and Langland Studies: Where Are We Now? (A Roundtable)
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Piers Plowman Electronic Archive; Society for Early English and Norse Electronic Texts (SEENET)
Organizer Name
James Knowles
Organizer Affiliation
North Carolina State Univ.
Presider Name
James Knowles
Paper Title 1
Discussant
Presenter 1 Name
Michael Calabrese
Presenter 1 Affiliation
California State Univ.-Los Angeles
Paper Title 2
Discussant
Presenter 2 Name
Andrew Cole
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Princeton Univ.
Paper Title 3
Discussant
Presenter 3 Name
Ian Cornelius
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Loyola Univ. Chicago
Paper Title 4
Discussant
Presenter 4 Name
Thomas Goodmann
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Univ. of Miami
Paper Title 5
Discussant
Presenter 5 Name
Ellen Rentz
Presenter 5 Affiliation
Claremont McKenna College
Paper Title 6
Discussant
Presenter 6 Name
Elizabeth Robertson
Presenter 6 Affiliation
Univ. of Glasgow
Start Date
12-5-2017 10:00 AM
Session Location
Valley I Shilling Lounge
Description
Piers Plowman and Langland Studies: Where Are We Now?
Is the study of William Langland’s Piers Plowman undergoing a generational shift? The Yearbook of Langland Studies celebrates its thirtieth anniversary in 2017. Twenty years have passed since the 1997 publication of the final volume (the C version) in the Athlone edition of the poem. Meanwhile, the last few years have seen an efflorescence of scholarly attempts to synthesize past generations of Langland scholarship in order to introduce the poem to a new and younger audience. Volumes in this vein include Emily Steiner’s Reading Piers Plowman (2013); Andrew Cole and Andrew Galloway’s Cambridge Companion to Piers Plowman (2014); and Michael Calabrese’s An Introduction to Piers Plowman (2016). What has changed in Langland Studies in thirty years? What remains the same? What remains to be done? What remains to be undone? This roundtable will bring together scholars and editors of Piers Plowman and the alliterative tradition representing multiple generations (both junior and senior scholars) and multiple critical and theoretical approaches (from metrics to master narratives) to address these and related questions about the past and future of Piers Plowman studies.
Jim Knowles
Piers Plowman and Langland Studies: Where Are We Now? (A Roundtable)
Valley I Shilling Lounge
Piers Plowman and Langland Studies: Where Are We Now?
Is the study of William Langland’s Piers Plowman undergoing a generational shift? The Yearbook of Langland Studies celebrates its thirtieth anniversary in 2017. Twenty years have passed since the 1997 publication of the final volume (the C version) in the Athlone edition of the poem. Meanwhile, the last few years have seen an efflorescence of scholarly attempts to synthesize past generations of Langland scholarship in order to introduce the poem to a new and younger audience. Volumes in this vein include Emily Steiner’s Reading Piers Plowman (2013); Andrew Cole and Andrew Galloway’s Cambridge Companion to Piers Plowman (2014); and Michael Calabrese’s An Introduction to Piers Plowman (2016). What has changed in Langland Studies in thirty years? What remains the same? What remains to be done? What remains to be undone? This roundtable will bring together scholars and editors of Piers Plowman and the alliterative tradition representing multiple generations (both junior and senior scholars) and multiple critical and theoretical approaches (from metrics to master narratives) to address these and related questions about the past and future of Piers Plowman studies.
Jim Knowles