Queering Marie

Sponsoring Organization(s)

International Marie de France Society

Organizer Name

Leslie Anderson

Organizer Affiliation

Tulane Univ.

Presider Name

Leslie Anderson

Paper Title 1

Feminization and Queer Violence in the Lais of Marie de France

Presenter 1 Name

Elizabeth Liendo

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Pennsylvania State Univ.

Paper Title 2

Queer Embodiment, Homosocial Imagining, and Human Being in Bisclavret

Presenter 2 Name

Emily McLemore

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of Notre Dame

Paper Title 3

Shapeshifting Knights and Subservient Wives: Marie de France Challenging Marriage within Her Lais

Presenter 3 Name

Marybeth Perdomo

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Univ. of New Mexico

Paper Title 4

Fathers Beware: Marie de France, Les Deus Amanz, and the Case for Tempered Paternal Love

Presenter 4 Name

Audrey C. Townsend

Presenter 4 Affiliation

Univ. of Oklahoma

Start Date

11-5-2018 1:30 PM

Session Location

Valley 2 Garneau Lounge

Description

This paper panel proposes to call attention to tales of queerness in the works of Marie de France or her imitators. Papers may address any of the known works by Marie de France (the Lais, the Fables, the Espurgatoire seint Patriz, and/or La vie Seinte Audree) or the anonymous lays. Comparative analyses that draw connections between works of medieval literature of queerness are welcome. Papers may consider, but should not be limited to, animal studies, disability studies, gender and sexuality, alterity, and so on. The objective is to stimulate discussion regarding the ways that Marie's oeuvre addresses queerness in the Middle Ages and its broader implications.

- Leslie Anderson (Tulane University)