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2020 Program Sessions

305. Barbarous Tongues: Middle English and Beyond

1:45 PM–3:00 PM Jan 10, 2020 (US - Pacific)

WSCC - 618

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

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