Medieval Ecocriticisms: Environmental Crisis and the Middle Ages (A Roundtable)

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Medieval Ecocriticisms

Organizer Name

Heide Estes

Organizer Affiliation

Monmouth Univ.

Presider Name

Ilse Schweitzer VanDonkelaar

Presider Affiliation

Medieval Institute Publications

Paper Title 1

Making the Body Toxic in the Siege of Jerusalem

Presenter 1 Name

Carolyn B. Anderson

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Univ. of Wyoming

Paper Title 2

"Þonne hit wæs renig weder": Natural Emotions in Anglo-Saxon Poetry

Presenter 2 Name

Courtney Catherine Barajas

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of Texas-Austin

Paper Title 3

Perceiving Environmental Agency: Embodied Cognition as a Solution to the Objectification of Nature in Beowulf

Presenter 3 Name

Traver Scott Carlson

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Western Michigan Univ.

Paper Title 4

Vernacular and Official Landscapes in the Fens

Presenter 4 Name

Jeremy DeAngelo

Presenter 4 Affiliation

Carleton College

Paper Title 5

The Weakening of the Ramparts: Human/Nonhuman Alliance and the Troubled Boethianisms of Late Middle English Literature

Presenter 5 Name

Sarah-Nelle Jackson

Presenter 5 Affiliation

Univ. of British Columbia

Paper Title 6

Wastelands

Presenter 6 Name

Simone Pinet

Presenter 6 Affiliation

Cornell Univ.

Paper Title 7

Bearing Strange Children: Motherhood and the Anglo-Saxon Wetlands

Presenter 7 Name

C. Elizabeth Rosch

Presenter 7 Affiliation

Univ. of British Columbia

Start Date

12-5-2018 3:30 PM

Session Location

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

Description

Ecocriticism is a relatively new subfield of inquiry in the humanities, burgeoning in response to climate science. Interpreting literary texts from a perspective that foregrounds the non-human natural world invites new readings of the world that humans occupy and how they interact with one another as well as with animals and the enviroment.

Heide Estes