Session Information
Description: Middle English language and literature’s status is a perennial matter of debate, whose immediate political subtexts include race, class, gender, and nation. Panelists consider the stakes of relevant linguistic taxonomies. Some presentations rethink relationships between Latinity and vernacularity, otherness and assimilability, or enemy and ally; others reevaluate linguistic capital’s tendency to fund hierarchies of class and race across time.
Speakers
Melissa Heide, U of Texas, Austin
Leila Norako, U of Washington, Seattle
Shyama Rajendran, Krea U
Larry Scanlon, Rutgers U, New Brunswick
Audrey Walton, U of Toronto
Presider
Susan M. Nakley, St. Joseph’s C, Brooklyn