Programme
Wednesday 7 January
1.15 – 2.00pm Registration, Foyer, Main Arts, Bangor University
2.00 – 2.10pm Welcome: Professor Helen Wilcox, Head of the School of English Literature, Bangor University
2.10 – 3.30pm Session 1: Dirty Romance Chair: Helen Wilcox, Bangor University
Anastasia Ropa, Independent Scholar
‘Women and Manly Dirt: Ladies, Damsels and Horses in the Queste del Saint Graal’
Elizabeth Kinne, Asst. Professor of Comparative Literature and English (Medieval ‘French Studies), The American University of Paris
‘Filthy dealings and feminine circulation in Le Roman de Silence and “Berengier au lonc cul”’
Hannah Priest, Research Associate, Swansea University
‘The Princess’s Toilet: Revisiting Gender and Bodily Functions in Sir Degaré’
3.30 – 3.45pm Tea/Coffee
3.45 – 4.45pm Keynote Speaker: Dr Kate Rudy, University of St Andrews
‘Gender, dirt, religious orders and manuscripts’
5.00pm Winner of the GMS Essay Presentation
Thursday 8 January
10.15 – 11.15am Session 2: Dirty Women in Drama
Chair: Sue Niebrzydowski, Bangor University
Sophia Wilson, PhD Candidate, Kings College, London
‘Erthe, robill and donge and other fylthis’: The Anxiety of Dirty Agency’
Daisy Black, University of Hull
‘In my person I privyde to put me from polucyon’: Corrupted and Corrupting Bodies in the Digby Mary Magdalen’
11.15 – 11.45am Tea/Coffee
11.45 – 1.00pm Session 3: Spirituality, Women and Dirt
Chair: Liz Herbert McAvoy, Swansea University
Madeleine Pepe, MPhil Candidate, University of Cambridge
“Fader, where wilt thou comaunde that y putte oute that the whiche comithe oute the condites of nature?”: In/continence in the Anchoritic Context’
Laura Williams, PhD Candidate, University of Exeter
‘‘ϸe mukke’ of Marriage: Contamination and the Pain Paradox in The Book of Margery Kempe’
Liz Cox, Early Career Researcher, Swansea University
‘þu art lodlich & unclene: Patriarchal discussion of women in The Owl and the Nightingale’
1.00 – 2pm Lunch
2.00 – 3.00pm Session 4: A Wider European Context for Women and Dirt
Chair: Liz Cox, Swansea University
Elizabeth Hutchin-Bellur, Independent Scholar
‘Stains and Pollution: How Blood, Water and Dirt Endangered Minority Women in Late Mediaeval and Early Modern Castile’
Sara Elin Roberts, University of Chester
‘Down and Dirty in Medieval Wales’
3.00 – 3.15pm Tea/Coffee
3.15 – 4.30pm Bangor’s Dirty Books – A Session in the Bangor University Archives
Friday 9 January
10.00 – 11.15 am Session 6: Dirty Words
Chair:
Natalie Hanna, PhD Candidate, University of Liverpool
‘Chaucer’s Prayer “To wasshe sinful soul”’
Sue Niebrzydowski, School of English, Bangor University
‘In the pryvee softely it caste’: Men’s Declarations of Love and Women’s Responses in Chaucer’s Miller’s and Merchant’s Tales’
Victoria Blud, University of York
‘Dirty Words from Dirty Birds: Gendered Insults and the Use of Abuse in The Owl and the Nightingale’
11.15 – 11.30 Tea/Coffee
11.30 - 12.30 Roundtable
12.30 GMS Business Meeting
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