Please circulate widely to anyone who may be interested.

Dhira Mahoney Fellowship (applications due February 1, 2022)

Dhira Mahoney, a longtime member and secretary/treasurer of the ICLS-NAB, died in 2019. She generously bequeathed $5,000.00 to the International Courtly Literature Society, which we have voted to use to establish recurring research grants in her memory for ICLS-NAB members who do not have access to other research funds.

Emerging Scholars Grant (submit application with ICMS abstract)

We have recently established the Emerging Scholars grant, which offers a one-year ICLS-NAB membership and $200 for domestic travel/$500 for international travel for presenters on our panels at ICMS in Kalamazoo. Because the 2022 Congress will be online only, the award amount is $200 for all recipients, to cover the registration fee.

Session title: International Courtly Literature Society
Chair: Tamara Bentley Caudill, Jacksonville U

Presenters:

Susanne Hafner, Fordham U, “An Outremer Trophy Wife Deep in the Heart of Bavaria”

Daniel E. O’Sullivan, U of Mississippi, “The Lai Lyrique in Medieval Arras”

Lorraine K. Stock, U of Houston, “Courtly Primitivism in the “Bal des Sauvages” Tapestry at the Château of Saumur”

Conference Website

Please join us for our ICLS-NAB panels and business meeting next week! All times listed are in Eastern Daylight Time. All events will take place via the ICMS Zoom interface, which you login to using the email address you used to register for the conference, with the exception of our ICLS-NAB business meeting. The business meeting will be hosted separately and is open to all (and not listed in the program). See link below to join.

311* Thursday, May 13, 7:00 p.m. EDT: Impropriety and Notoriety in Courtly Society (A Roundtable)

Presider: Suzanne C. Hagedorn, College of William & Mary

A roundtable discussion with Shawn Phillip Cooper; Caroline M. Fleischauer, Univ. of Wyoming; and Julie Human, Univ. of Kentucky.

Thursday, May 13, 9:00 p.m. EDT: Business meeting (Zoom link)

343* Friday, May 14, 1:00 p.m. EDT: Ovid and His Heirs at Court

Presider: Suzanne C. Hagedorn, College of William & Mary

Invisible Echo: Narcissus’s Hermaphroditic Role in The Romance of the Rose, Lesleigh B. Jones, Southern Methodist Univ.

Ovidian Myth and Auctoritas in Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess, Vincent Mennella, Southern Methodist Univ. (Recipient of the 2021 ICLS-NAB Emerging Scholars Grant)

Singing at Pluto’s Court in Halberstadt and Wickram’s Metamorphosen, Jennifer S. Carnell, Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities

401* Saturday, May 15, 11:00 a.m. EDT: Love on the Battlefield

Presider: Susanne Hafner, Fordham Univ.

“Do you know who my father is?!”: Gendered Imperialism and the Exceptional Parent Excuse in Sir Degaré, Arielle C. McKee, Gardner-Webb Univ.

Violence, Vulnerability, and Hurt/Comfort Fanfiction in the Stanzaic Guy of Warwick and the Alliterative Morte Arthure, Megan B. Abrahamson, Central New Mexico Community College (Recipient of the 2021 ICLS-NAB Emerging Scholars Grant)

Love, Sex, and Amazons, Suzanne C. Hagedorn, College of William & Mary