Ecopoetics in Celtic Literatures

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Special Session

Organizer Name

Coral Lumbley

Organizer Affiliation

Univ. of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign

Presider Name

Robert W. Barrett Jr.

Presider Affiliation

Univ. of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign

Paper Title 1

Irish Land Goddesses Revisited: The Question of Knotworked Identity

Presenter 1 Name

Elizabeth Kempton

Presenter 1 Affiliation

St. Louis Univ.

Paper Title 2

Reading the Medieval Irish Dindshenchas as Deep Maps

Presenter 2 Name

Joey McMullen

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Centenary Univ.

Paper Title 3

A Communally Produced Topography of Wales: Marginal Annotation in the Manuscripts of Gerald of Wales

Presenter 3 Name

Sarah Jane Sprouse

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Texas Tech Univ.

Start Date

10-5-2018 10:00 AM

Session Location

Schneider 1330

Description

This session intervenes in the posthuman, ecocritical turn in recent humanities studies by hosting scholars working on new approaches to the nonhuman, natural world. Each paper presents a different approach to the innovative field of landscape studies as it intersects with traditional Celtic literary studies. Speakers will present diverse approaches to representations of landscape in medieval Celtic literatures, including ecofeminist readings of medieval Irish literature, contemporary practices of deep mapping as they appear in medieval Irish literature, and the function of landscape in an annotated and illustrated Cambro-Latin manuscript.

Coral Lumbley