Literary Personae, Translating Identity

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Harvard English Dept. Medieval Colloquium

Organizer Name

Aparna Chaudhuri: Anna Kelner: Stella Wang

Organizer Affiliation

Harvard Univ.; Harvard Univ.; Harvard Univ.

Presider Name

Joseph Shack

Presider Affiliation

Harvard Univ.

Paper Title 1

Wisdom's Smile: Affectivity and Authority in the Old English Boethius

Presenter 1 Name

Hilary E. Fox

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Wayne State Univ.

Paper Title 2

Rescued from Ruin: William of Saint Albans's Passio sancti Albani and the Distant Past

Presenter 2 Name

Anna Johnson Lyman

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of Pennsylvania

Paper Title 3

From Donation to Vocation: Performance, Metadrama, and Modeling in the Colloquy of Ælfric

Presenter 3 Name

Emily Taplin Boyd

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Columbia Univ.

Paper Title 4

Translating Augustine: From African Catechumen to Anglo-Saxon Bishop in the Old English Soliloquies

Presenter 4 Name

Leslie Lockett

Presenter 4 Affiliation

Ohio State Univ.

Start Date

12-5-2018 3:30 PM

Session Location

Schneider 1360

Description

Literary personae often operate as sites of negotiation between historical identity and literary or intellectual-historical traditions. This panel features papers that discuss literary personae and notions of cultural identity in Anglo-Saxon England, as well as in the reception of Old English texts in the following centuries.

Anna Kelner