Graduate Students Attending Scholarly Conferences in February and March 2012

Conference for the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Tempe, AZ, February 2012

Marisa Sikes: “De-eroticizing the Lurid Gaze: The Knight of the Tower’s Use of Exempla in his Manual for his Daughters”

Conference for College Composition and Communication, St. Louis, MO, March 2012

Brian Hendrickson: “As Taproot, As Heart: Writing Across Communities and the Democratizing Function of the Community Writing Center”

Valerie Kinsey: “Grassroots in Zion: An Ecological Approach to the Rhetorical Landscape in the Utah Suffrage Debate, 1895”

Charles Paine, Session Presider: The Consortium for the Study of Writing Survey as a Gateway to Writing Assessment, Faculty Development, and Program Building: A Comparative Perspective

Michael Schwartz, Lindsey Ives, Tom Pierce and Annie Leming and UNM alumna Elizabeth Leahy: “Is the Next America Totally WACked?”

Medieval Association of the Pacific, Santa Clara University, CA, March 2012

Justin Brock: “‘Here the Spear Tore My Flesh’: The Performative Depiction of Christ and the Virgin in the Lauds of Jacapone da Todi”

Emilee Howland-Davis: “From Lyric Poetry to Arthurian Romance: The Influence of the Troubadour Tradition on the Works of Crétien de Troyes”

Lisa Myers: “Environmental Meaning and Action in Beowulf and Felix’s Life of Guthlac”

Anita Obermeier: “Incubus Conception and the Queering of Merlin”

Anita Obermeier also assumed the role of President of the Medieval Association of the Pacific at the meeting for a term of two years.

Doaa Omran: “The Virgin Saint as an Archetypal Heroine in Bockenham’s Legends of Holy Women”

Marisa Sikes: “Rhetorical Shaming and Hypothesizing Gynosocialities: Imagery for Women in the Writings of Christine de Pizan and Anne de France”