Report of the Convener of Conferences - Ms. Valk reported that MAM has five sessions at Kalamazoo this year.  MAM has maintained a good presence at the Congress meetings.  Over the six past years, it has had not less than five sessions and, at one time, as many as ten.  She asked for participants’ cooperation in getting her information in a timely fashion and to fill out session forms properly.

Venue for MAM-Sponsored Sessions -  Ms. Valk reported that there was one MAM session last year at SEMA.

Report on the Publications - Ms. Moranski reported that PMAM Eight and Nine are being worked on simultaneously.  Mr. Storm has just begun working on Volume Nine and is in need of submissions.  There were about 20 submissions for PMAM Eight; the final volume will have six articles and will come out in August which is the time previously agreed upon for publishing these volumes.  A name/title change for the journal to better signify its diversity and scope (art history, history, language, literature) has not been established.  Another issue also being deliberated  involves book reviews for PMAM; last year MAM voted to include book reviews in Volume Nine; Pat Hollahan agreed to take on this task but, with her new position as Director of Medieval Institute Publications, is  unable to do so.  Ms. Moranski also announced that her administrative responsibilities preclude her from continuing as  co-editor.  Kristen Figg has volunteered to assume this position.  Ms. Moranski invited further nominations, including self nominations, for a co-editor beginning 2003 with PMAM 10.   It was moved and seconded (Wethington/Hollahan) to nominate Kristen Figg for this position.  It was moved and seconded (Risden/Valk) to make Rosanne Gasse the book review editor.  Nominations will be left open and more nominations taken at the MAM fall meeting at St. Norbert College.  Further nominations can also be submitted through Nuntia and the MAM website.  Mr. Hinton moved to thank Ms. Moranski for her service.  Unanimously agreed.

Report of the Membership Committee - Mr. Kleinhenz reported that the Membership and Executive Committees have agreed to embark on a large membership drive using the CARA mailing list for Midwest members as well as its list of centers and regional associations.  There was also a suggestion to use medieval listserves, and Council members were asked to share their listserve resources.  In addition, it was decided to send a flyer and letter to department chairs, targeting four-year baccalaureate schools on a trial basis.  The English and foreign language departments of a small sample of about 50 small colleges from the baccalaureate Carnegie classification will be targeted.  Suggestions of schools can be given to Mr. Kleinhenz, Mr. Kindrick, or Ms. Bixby.

Report on the 2001 Conference - Mr. Kleinhenz reported on the 2001 conference which included about 100 participants, 21 sections, and Sylvia Huot as the keynote speaker.  A profit from the conference was turned over to the Association.

Report on the 2002 Conference - Mr. Risden reported on the conference that has been scheduled for St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin, September 27-28, 2002.  Plenary speakers, Norris Lacy and Jonathan Wilcox, have been arranged, and numerous inquires about papers and sessions have been received.  Mr. Risden mentioned that the submission deadline of June 1 on the announcement flyer is not firm.  In order to avoid problems with a Packers game on the same weekend, he suggested that participants arrive on Thursday and leave on Sunday morning, or before, to avoid travel problems.  The conference fee and facilities are quite accommodating and very manageable.  The tentative theme of the conference is Pilgrims, Heroes, and Ascetics.

Discussion on the 2003 Conference - Ms. Toni Morris has volunteered and brought an invitation to hold the 2003 MAM Conference at the University of Indianapolis.   Mr. Thundy previously volunteered, and Mr. Goodrich confirmed, Northern Michigan University for a future conference.

Election of New Officers - The following slate of nominations was presented to members at the Business Meeting for further nominations:

                President - William Hodapp (traditionally previous Vice President)

                Past President - Bruce Hozeski

                Vice President - Christopher Kleinhenz

(traditionally organizer of previous MAM conference)

                Executive Secretary - Robert Kindrick                                                             

                Assoc. Executive Secretary - Kristie Bixby 

                Councillors - Kristen Figg, Toni Morris, Mary Olson (for term ending 2005) 

It was moved and seconded (Hudson/Hinton) to approve the nominations.  Approved unanimously.  Those councillors whose terms expire include:  Goodrich and Olson.  Those councillors who will continue include:  Barnhouse, Gasse, Hinton, Hollahan, Hudson, Jewers, and Risden.

New Business - Mr. Goodrich invited members to submit MAM professional news information about association members for Nuntia to Kristen Figg (figg@salem.kent.edu).  Mr. Kindrick made a motion to thank Mr. Hozeski for his efforts serving as President this year, and to thank Mr. Kleinhenz and Mr. Doane for their efforts hosting the MAM conference which resulted in a substantial increase to the MAM treasury.  Approved by acclamation.

Meeting was adjourned at approximately 7:55 P.M.

 MAM 18^th Annual Meeting Program, St Norbert College, Green Bay, Wisconsin

Conference Program

Friday, September 27

8:45 A.M. Informal Welcome

Bemis International Center 114C,  SNC President William Hynes

9:00-4:00 Registration, Bemis 114C

10:00-5:00 Book Exhibit, The Scholar's Choice, Bemis 114C

            Session 1  9:00-10:15

Saints:  Conversion, Leadership, and Marriage

Bemis 114AB

Presider:  Scott Schreiber, St. Norbert College

1. Garrett Jacobsen, Denison University"'Tolle Lege':  Augustine's Conversion of Self and Text"

2. William Hyland, St. Norbert College, "Prophecy and Community Leadership in Rudolph of Fulda's Vita Leobae"

3. Charles Reid, University of St. Thomas, "Early Medieval Hagiography and the Marital Ideal"

            Session 2  10:30-11:45

Old English

Bemis 114 AB

Presider:  Russell Rutter, Illinois State University

1.  John Niles, University of Wisconsin--Madison, "'The Wife's Lament' and the Practice of Cursing in Anglo-Saxon England"

2. Carol Lind, Illinois State University, "All of the Above:  Enigmatic Apposition Within the Riddles of the Exeter Book"

3. Margaret Hostetler, University of Wisconsin—Oshkosh, "Possibilities for Hypersignification in Aelfric's Commentary on Judith"

Lunch 12-1

            Session 3  1:30-2:45

Pilgrims, Ascetics, and Heroes

Bemis 114 AB

Presider:  John Day, St. Norbert College

1. Ernesto Livorni, University of Wisconsin—Madison, "Pilgrims as Romei:  The Examples of Dante and Petrarch"

2. Thomas Bestul, University of Illinois at Chicago, "Asceticism in Walter Hilton's Scale of Perfection"

3. Barbara Gusick, Troy State University—Dothan, "Christ's Transformation of Zacheus in the York Cycle"

            Session 4  1:30-2:45

Millers, Maps, and Manuscripts

Bemis 114 D

Presider:  Bradford Ellis, St. Norbert College

1.William F. Woods, Wichita State University, "Defining Symkyn's Place in the 'Reeve's Tale'"

2. Steven Yandell, Indiana University, "Undergraduate Readers as Narrative Cartographers"

3. Karen Moranski, University of Illinois—Springfield, "From Manuscript to Print:  The Whole Prophesie of Scotland"

Session 5  3:00-4:15

Medieval and Classical Echoes in Renaissance England

Bemis 114 AB

Presider:  Ken Zahorski, St. Norbert College

1. Mel Storm, Emporia State University, "Spenser and Medieval Mythographers:  Pagan Gods in the Bower of Bliss"

2. Robert Ebben, St. Norbert College and Neenah High School, "Heavenly Instruction in Paradise Lost:  Milton's Response to Aquinas and Comenius"

3. Russell Rutter, Illinois State University, "A Sixteenth-Century Poet and a Medieval Knight:  Thomas Churchyard's Tragedy of Simon Burley"

Plenary Address #1 5:00-5:45, Fort Howard Theater, Bemis

Jonathan Wilcox, University of Iowa, "Walking to Santiago de Compostella:  A Modern Version of the Medieval Pilgrimage"    

Introduced by Diane Mockridge, Ripon College

Banquet 6:00-7:30, Bemis International Center Dining Room

Saturday, September 28

Book Exhibit 10:00-4:00, The Scholar's Choice, Bemis 114C

            Session 6  9:00-10:15

Ancient, Medieval, Modern:  Connections and Transitions

Bemis 114 D

Presider: Michael Lovano, St. Norbert College

1. Susan Solway, Barat College of Depaul University, "Coins No More:  Ancient Numismatics, Medieval Art, and Material Culture"

2. Patrick Murphy, University of Wisconsin—Madison, "Unwinding the Wif Wundenlocc:  The Oral Roots of the Exeter Book Riddles"

3. Basil Clark, Saginaw Valley State University, "Malory's Launcelot and Wister's Virginian:  Arthurian Codes and Masculine Ambivalence in the Old West"

            Session 7  9:00-10:15

Chaucer

Bemis 114 AB

Presider:  Robert Boyer, St. Norbert College

1. Raychel Haugrud Reiff, University of Wisconsin—Superior, "Borrowing a Hero:  Chaucer's Daun John of 'The Shipman's Tale'"

2. Rosanne Gasse, Brandon University, "The 'Fierce Achilles' in Chaucer and Gower"

3. William Hodapp,  College of  St. Scholastica, "The Laughter of Agnes and Troilus:  Prudentius's Peristephanon 14 as Analogue to Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde 5.1807-27"

            Session 8  10:30-11:45

Understanding the Medieval Mind

Bemis 114 AB

Presider:  Donald Abel, St. Norbert College

1. Kevin Guilfoy, University of Akron, "Consciousness and the Rational Soul:  Augustine and Aquinas"

2. John Bienz, Mount Union College, "The Center Is Up:  The Embodied Mind and Structured Spaces at Durham, England, and Plymouth Plantation in the 1620s"

3. Thomas Conner, St. Norbert College, "Whose Charlemagne? Charlemagne's Posterity and the Creation of Modern France"

            Session 9  10:30-11:45

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Bemis 114 D

Presider:  Stanley Matyshak, St. Norbert College

1. Mickey Sweeney,  Dominican University, "The Goddess Figure in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"

2. Randi Eldevik, Oklahoma State University, "Mortal Hopes:  The Trojan Framework of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in a Doctrinal Context"

3. Nicholas Haydock, University of Puerto Rico, "Treasonous Founders and Pious Seducers:  Aeneas, Gawain, and the Aporetic Hero"

            Lunch 12:-1:00

            Plenary Address #2  1:00-1:45, Fort Howard Theater

Norris Lacy, Pennsylvania State University, "From Criticism to Fiction:  Taking the Arthurian Plunge"

Introduced by John Pennington, St. Norbert College

Session 10  2:00-3:15

Medieval and Renaissance Spanish Literature

Bemis 114AB

Presider:  Kristee Boehm, St. Norbert College

1. Carlos Hawley Colon, North Dakota State University, "Ethnicity and El Cid:  Premodern and Postmodern Polemic"

2. Benjamin Smith, Minnesota State University—Moorhead, "Principios de liderazgo del poema de Mio Cid"

3. Bradford Ellis, St. Norbert College, "Unity and Plurality in the Narrative Framework of Maria de Zayas' Desenganos amorosos"

            Session 11  2:00-3:15

Medievalism:  A Reading of Original Fiction

Bemis 114 D

Presider:  Laurie MacDiarmid, St. Norbert College

1. Loren Gruber, Missouri Valley State College, "Beowulf Proves His Name"

2. Robert Boyer, St. Norbert College, from "Al-Andalus"

3. Edward Risden, St. Norbert College, from "The Lay of the Last Survivor"

            Session 12  3:30-4:45

Panel:  Resources, Pedagogy, and Publication

Bemis 114AB

Presider:  Stefan Hall, University of Wisconsin—Green Bay

1. Matthew Heintzelman, Hill Monastic Library, on how to incorporate manuscript research at the Hill Monastic Library into your projects

2. Matt Blessing, Marquette University, on the J. R. R. Tolkien special collection at the Marquette University library

3. William Hodapp, College of St. Scholastica,  on his sabbatical at Cambridge

4. Mel Storm, Emporia State University, on PMAM, the journal of the Medieval Association of the Midwest

Calls for Papers

38^th International Congress on Medieval Studies:  The deadline for submitting paper proposals to organizers of sessions advertised in the July Call for Papers is September 15, 2002.  For more information on MAM sessions, contact Cynthia Valk, 525 Nogalitos Drive, Brownsville, TX 78526, telephone: 956-550-8600, fax: 956-550-8700, email: czvalk@utb1.utb.edu.

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PMAM (Publications of the Medieval Association of the Midwest) is currently requesting submissions from the members of the Medieval Association of the Midwest for Volume Eight.  Articles of 3,000-10,000 words may be based on conference papers given in MAM-sponsored sessions at the Annual Congress of the Medieval Institute, M/MLA, or MAM conferences.  MAM members are encouraged to submit book reviews (beginning with Volume 9) and articles unrelated to conference papers.

MAM Professional News

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Submit by e-mail (preferred) to figg@salem.kent.edu, or in hard copy to Prof. Kristin Figg, Department of English, Kent State University – Salem Campus, 2491 SR 45 South Salem, OH 44460.

Barbara F. Weissberger, Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, published two book chapters this past academic year: "'Deceitful Sects': The Debate about Women in the Age of Isabel the Catholic," in Gender in Debate from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, ed. Claire A. Lees and Thelma S. Fenster (New York: Palgrave, 2002): 207-35;

"The Critics and Florencia Pinar: The Problem with Assigning Feminism to a Medieval Court Poet," in Recovering Spain's Feminist Tradition, ed. Lisa Vollendorf (New York: Modern Language Association, 2001): 31-47.

Christopher Kleinhenz (University of Wisconsin -Madison), the recently elected Vice-President of MAM, serves as President of the American

Association of Teachers of Italian and is a member of the Executive Committee of CARA (Committee on Centers and Regional Associations of the Medieval Academy of America).  He was recently named Chief International Bibliographer for the International Courtly Literature Society and continues to serve as Editor of Dante Studies.  A recent

article, "Courtly Codes and Popular Diction in Medieval Italian Poetry," appeared in the volume Word, Image, Number: Communication in the Middle Ages, ed. John J. Contreni and Santa Casciani (2002).  He is on sabbatical leave for academic year 2002- 2003.

Earl Anderson, who is currently serving as

Interim Dean of Arts & Sciences at Cleveland State, recently had two articles reprinted: "Style and Theme in the Old English Daniel," in The Poems of MS Junius, ed. R. M. Liuzza (New York & London: Routledge, 2002): 229-60;

"Social Idealism in Aelfric's Colloquy," in Old English Literature: Critical Essays, ed. R. M. Liuzza (New Haven: Yale UP, 2002): 204-14.

Randi Eldevik, Oklahoma State University, recently published "Women's Voices in Old Norse literature: The Case of Trojumanna Saga" in the essay collection Cold Counsel: The Women of Old Norse Literature and Myth, ed. Karen Swenson and Sarah May Anderson.  Her English translation of Torfi Tulinius's La Matiere du Nord (orig. pub. Sorbonne, 1995) was published this year by Odense University Press as The Matter of the North: The Rise of Literary Fiction in Thirteenth-Century Iceland.

Tom Shippey's two William Matthews lectures of 1999, "Bibliophobia: Hatred of the Book in the Middle Ages," have now been printed by Birkbeck College, London.

William R. Levin, Centre College KY, has published "The Façade of Public Philanthropy:  A Typological Study of the Tuscan Loggias of Charity," in Arris: Journal of the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians 12 (2001): 1-29, 16 illustrations. 

This spring Toni Morris (University of Indianapolis) published entries on Sally Potter, Ernst Lubitsch, and Alison Anders in the Encyclopedia of Film Directors (Facts on File), as well as entries in the Cyclopedia of Literary Places on "Daisy Miller," Heart of Darkness," and "Elegy in a Country Churchyard."  Her article on John Sayles for the Cyclopedia of World Authors is forthcoming.

Bruce Hozeski (Ball State) published Hildegard's Healing Plants: From Her Medieval Classic Physica (Boston, Beacon Press, 2002), and edited Volume 26 of  the LIT Journal, the annual publication of Lamdba Iota Tau national honor society.  In May he was the invited Plenary Speaker at Marywood University in Scranton, PA, where he spoke on "Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179): Mystic, Healer, Composer, Herbalist, Abbess.”

Photo Contest

No one identified the last issue’s puzzler: the inside of the West Kennet Long Barrow. Can you identify this issue’s photo?  (Email answer to pgoodric@nmu.edu)