International
John Gower
Society
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PROPOSALS
Proposals are invited for 20-minute papers addressing
any aspect of Gower’s life and works, including manuscripts
and early printed editions. Shorter papers, ca. 10 minutes,
on topics related to pedagogy and technology are encouraged
as well. Speakers may give a short paper of this sort, and a
longer paper as well. Please indicate IN YOUR PROPOSAL whether
specific equipment—slide projector, OHP, or computer gear—will
be required.
PROPOSED SESSIONS, SEEKING PARTICIPANTS:
Email brief (1-2 pages) abstracts by 15
September, 2007, to the organizers listed below:
- “Gower and Iberia”
- María Bullón-Fernández, Seattle
University
bullon@seattleu.edu
- “Theoretism in/by Gower”
- J. Allan Mitchell, University of Victoria
amitch@uvic.ca
- “Reassessing Gower’s Politics”
- Matt Giancarlo, University of Kentucky
matthew.giancarlo@gmail.com
- “Gowerian Forms”
- Matt Giancarlo, University of Kentucky
matthew.giancarlo@gmail.com
- “Gower Scribes”
- Linne Mooney, University of York, Simon Horobin,
Oxford University
lrm3@york.ac.uk
- “Gower and Hypertext”
- Georgiana Donavin, Westminster College
gdonavin@westminstercollege.edu
- “Gowerian Performativity”
- Martha Driver, Pace University
MDriver@fsmail.pace.edu
- “Gower and the Law”
- Andreea Boboc, University of the Pacific
andreea_boboc@hotmail.com
- “The Afterlife of John Gower: His Influence
on Later Writers”
- Rosamund Allen, Queen Mary/University of London
r.s.allen@qmul.ac.uk
- “Gower and Medieval Education”
- Annika Farber, Penn State University
alf237@psu.edu
- “Gower and the Auctores”
- Annika Farber, Penn State University
alf237@psu.edu
- “Reassessing Gower’s ‘middel
weie’: New Thoughts on an Old Topic”
- Annika Farber, Penn State University
alf237@psu.edu
- “Gower and the Exemplum Tradition”
- Annika Farber, Penn State University
alf237@psu.edu
- “Gower and Ovid”
- Susannah M. Chewning, Union County College
chewning@ucc.edu
- “Gower’s Biography”
- Annika Farber, Penn State University
alf237@psu.edu
- “Illuminations in Gower and/or Related
Manuscripts.”
- Joyce Coleman, University of Oklahoma
joyce.coleman@ou.edu
General Sessions and Paper Proposals
Proposals are also being accepted for general sessions
and for sessions organized around paper topics. Currently, JGS
has accepted papers on the following topics. If you are working
on a topic not related to the aforementioned sessions, please
consider submitting to the general sessions.
- Postcolonial Theory and Gower’s Multilingualism
- Gower’s Influence upon Chaucer’s Legend
of Good Women
- Ovid and World History in the Confessio Amantis
- Gower, Formalism, and Rime Riche Couplets
- Gower’s Reputation,1660-1810
- Fragments of the Ellesmere Confessio Amantis
Please send (email, fax, or usps) general paper proposals no
later than 15 September 2007 to :
R.F. Yeager
Dept. of English and Foreign Languages, University of West Florida
Pensacola FL 32514
FAX (850) 474-2934
e-mail, rfyeager@hotmail.com
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