Tuesday, Dec 3, 2013
Three Rider undergraduates will offer their papers on Dec. 7
Several English literature students are presenting at the , on December 7.
This day-long conference draws students from several universities, including Fordham University, Sarah Lawrence College, Iona College, the University of Maryland, and many others. It will include a keynote presentation by Dr. Tracey-Anne Cooper (St. John鈥檚 University) and Dr. Christine Senecal (Shippensburg University) on 鈥淢edieval Representations of Women Warriors and Female Aggression.鈥
English major Taylor DiSarcina will present 鈥淪pace Invasion: Challenging the Conventions of Nature in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,鈥 Alexandra Majeski 鈥淭he Chivalric Code is Dead: Marie de France鈥檚 Lanval,鈥 and Kelly Cherie Webster 鈥淚n Adherence and Opposition to Behavioral Norms: Gender Roles and Courtly Love in Lanval and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.鈥
Their papers draw on recent ideas about environment and gender to reexamine medieval romances, including one by the earliest named woman author active in England, that have been so important in the history of English literature.
