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Texas Medieval Association Conference

September 23–25, 2016

@tema2016tamu

Texas A&M University tema.tamu.edu

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From the President It is my great pleasure to welcome you to Texas A&M University for TEMA 2016. This year’s conference features approximately 100 presenters from 23 Texas institutions of higher learning and 26 colleges and universities outside of the state. Texas medievalists are joined in 2016 by colleagues from Canada and Colombia as well as from Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania. Thank you all (y’all) for participating in what promises to be one of the best TEMA meetings ever. Our keynote speaker, musicologist Nancy van Deusen of Claremont Graduate University, will deliver her plenary address beginning at 4:45 on Saturday afternoon. This will be the only plenary session of this year’s conference. For a number of reasons, including the desire to singularly highlight Professor van Deusen’s keynote lecture, this year’s Presidential Address will take the form of an ordinary conference paper kicking off a sequence of two panels on medieval practices of adaptation. In addition to an outstanding lineup of scholarly papers and panel discussions, many of which tie directly into the 2016 theme of –form–, the conference features two performance events: a staged reading of Percy MacKaye’s little-known play Beowulf: A Drama of Anglo-Saxon Legend (c. 1899), which we believe to be its world premiere, and a selection of medieval English and French music from the vocal and instrumental group Heartsease. For the theatrical presentation of MacKaye’s play, I am very grateful to director Melissa Filbeck and to the volunteer actors—mainly graduate students—who have worked extremely hard to bring it into being; and I am equally grateful to Robert Boenig and the other members of Heartsease for sharing period music with us. Warmest regards, Britt Mize 2016 President

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Some Convenient Things to Know The TEMA check-in desk on the ground floor of LAAH will remain open throughout the conference. The Logistics Committee members there can help you with information and other needs. All conference events other than the keynote address are in LAAH. The keynote is in an adjacent building, Animal Industries (AIEN). The Black Box Theater, site of one conference session, the MacKaye play, and the Heartsease performance, is on the ground floor of LAAH, directly across from the elevators. Map 1 in the back of the program shows the area of campus on which LAAH is located. LAAH and AIEN are indicated with yellow arrows. Parking information is at tema.tamu.edu and transport.tamu.edu. Map 2 in the back of the program zooms in more closely on the neighborhood of LAAH. On this map, nearby options for lunch on Friday are circled in yellow: The Pavillion Grill, in the Pavillion; Azimuth Café, in the College of Architecture; and areas where food trucks regularly set up shop. All of these facilities are closed on Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday, those who did not order a box lunch will need to leave campus for food, either by car, by walking northwest and crossing University Drive (12–15 minutes), or by walking northeast and crossing Texas Avenue (12–15 minutes). A Starbuck’s is located in Evans Library, near LAAH to the southwest. Within LAAH, there are vending machines on the second floor, at the south end of the main corridor.

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23

Conference check-in opens at 9:00 a.m. in the LAAH ground floor lobby, with late registration and assistance with the registration system available on site. The check-in desk will remain open throughout the conference for late arrivals. PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP Echoes of the Medieval in Special Collections and the Classroom Early Session, 9:00–10:15, Cushing Library, Mayo-Thomas Room Late Session, 10:30–11:45, Cushing Library, Mayo-Thomas Room Led by Kevin O’Sullivan, Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, Cushing Memorial

Library and Archives, and Professor Emeritus J. Lawrence Mitchell, former Director, Cushing Memorial Library and Archives. By reservation.

SESSION 1, 1:15–2:45

LAAH 453

FORM, THEORETICALLY Presider: Lindy Brady, University of Mississippi

Form, History

Tiffany Beechy, University of Colorado

Chaucer’s Philosophical and Poetic “Formes”

Matt Brumit, University of Dallas

Anglo-Saxon Formalism

Jonathan Davis-Secord, University of New Mexico

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LAAH 109

RELIGIOUS STUDIES I: SPIRITUALITY AND LEARNING Presider: Karmen Lenz, Middle Georgia State University

Syneisaktism and the Gregorian Reform Holle Canatella, Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania Mediated Vision in The Vision of Edmund Leversedge Nicole Hagstrom-Schmidt, Texas A&M University Breaking Form: Sufficiency and Excess in Reginald Pecock’s Social

Hierarchy J. A. T. Smith, Pepperdine University

LAAH 124

ARTHURIAN LITERATURE Presider: Tom Hanks, Baylor University

“Thou Shall Nat There Lyghtly Win Prouesse”: Interpreting Chivalric

Adventure in Malory’s “Tale of the Sankgreal” Wesley Garey, Baylor University Deceptive Enchantment in the Legend of Arthur Umaymah Shahid, University of Houston–Clear Lake Geaunte Problem: Heteroglossia in the Alliterative Morte Arthure Sadie Hash, University of Houston

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LAAH 463

IBERIAN STUDIES I: MARGINALIZED FIGURES Presider: April Najjaj, Texas A&M University–San Antonio

Exploring Jewish-Christian Convivencia Writings in Medieval Iberian

Kingdoms: Santob de Carrión’s Proverbios morales (1290–1369) and Jafudá Bonsenyor’s Llibre de paraules e dits de savis e filósofs (1250–1331)

David D. Navarro, Texas State University Forming a Community of the Deaf in Medieval and Early Modern Spain Connie L. Scarborough, Texas Tech University Elena, Zara-María, y la Méndez: un análisis feminista-humanista de las tres

antiheroínas que constituyen el mundo picaresco-pecaminoso en la obra maestra de Alonso Jerónimo de Salas Barbadillo, La hija de Celestina (1612)

Debarati Byabartta, Texas A&M University

LAAH 255

ROUNDTABLE I: INFORMING STUDENT WARRIORS AND PEACEWEAVERS: APPROACHES TO TEACHING BEOWULF

Organizer and presider: Susan Signe Morrison, Texas State University

Panelists: Susan Signe Morrison, Lorraine K. Stock (University of Houston), Larry Bonds (McMurry University), and William H. Smith (Weatherford College).

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SESSION 2, 3:00–4:30

LAAH 109

ART AND ARTIFACT Presider: Danielle Joyner, Southern Methodist University

Ghent Tech: A New Look at the Ghent Altarpiece Katharine D. Scherff, Texas Tech University Reformulating the Story of Cain and Abel at Monreale Cathedral Annie Montgomery Labatt, University of Texas–San Antonio From Here to Eternity: The Spatio-Temporal/Eschatological Form of the

Apsidal Mural of the Cluniac Chapel of Berzé-la-Ville Paul E. Chevedden, University of Texas

LAAH 255

ADAPTATION IN PRACTICE: MEDIEVAL ADAPTATION I Organizer and presider: David F. Johnson, Florida State University

PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS

A Culture of Transformation: Why Medievalists Should Pay Attention to Adaptation Theory, and What They Can Say Back to It

Britt Mize, Texas A&M University Weaving with Philomela: Adaptation as Process in The Legend of Good

Women

Rachel Stuart Duke, Florida State University Growing Narrative: Chaucer’s Adaptation of Boccaccio’s Winter Garden in

the Franklin’s and Merchant’s Tales Jamie Fumo, Florida State University

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LAAH 467

OLD ENGLISH I: ANGLO-SAXON LEARNING Presider: John Howe, Texas Tech University

Good Readers, Weak Readers, and Reading the Old English Exodus

Janet Schrunk Ericksen, University of Minnesota–Morris The Formal Circles of the Soul: Plato via Calcidius in the Old English Book

of Consolation

Karmen Lenz, Middle Georgia State University The Performance of Learning in the Old English Soliloquies Jonathan D. Quick, Stanford University

LAAH 262

MANUSCRIPT STUDIES Presider: Matthew Evan Davis, McMaster University

Localizing Readerships in a Fifteenth-Century Book of Hours: College

Station, Texas, Cushing Memorial Library and Archives MS Laughlin 73 Caitlin R. Brenner, Texas A&M University Creating an Online Exhibit for an Unidentified 13th-Century Manuscript

Fragment Laney McGlohon, Stanford University Sacred Spaces, Burial and Carceral Locations, and the Formation of

Communal Identity Katayoun Torabi, Texas A&M University

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LAAH 463

IBERIAN STUDIES II: TRAVEL IN TALE AND IMAGE Presider: Connie L. Scarborough, Texas Tech University

Exploración del palimpsesto iconográfico entre la Virgen de Guadalupe de

Extremadura España y la Guadaupe Mexicana Yumary Alfonso Entralgo, Texas A&M University Ulises: de la “curiositas” medieval al viaje interminable Yoandy Cabrera, Texas A&M University Form and Function on the Road to Santiago Paul Larson, Baylor University LIGHT REFRESHMENTS 4:30–5:00, LAAH 453 PERFORMANCE Staged Reading of Percy MacKaye, Beowulf: A Drama of Anglo-Saxon Legend (c. 1899) 5:15–6:45, LAAH ground floor, Black Box Theater By reservation. If you reserved a ticket, it is in your registration packet. HAPPY HOUR 7:00–11:00, World of Beer Registrants who would like to gather socially after Friday’s formal conference events

can meet at World of Beer, on the corner of University Drive and Texas Avenue, which has a full menu as well as an exceptional selection of beers. Drink vouchers good for Friday night are found in your registration packet, and your conference badge entitles you to a 15% discount on food all weekend. For free parking, turn into the garage behind the restaurant from either University or Texas (right turns only).

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

SESSION 3, 8:00–9:30

LAAH 453

HISTORY I: AND GLADLY WOULD HE TEACH: A SESSION IN REMEMBRANCE OF JEREMY DUQ. ADAMS

Organizers and presiders: Bruce Brasington, West Texas A&M University, and Lane J. Sobehrad, Texas Tech University

An open discussion panel dedicated to attendees’ reflections on the career and

contributions of the late Professor Adams.

LAAH 262

FORMULATING THE MS COTTON NERO A.X. (ART. 3) Organizer: Sarah J. Sprouse, Texas Tech University Presider: Julie Nelson Couch, Texas Tech University

The Thematic Poynt of Patience: Transitioning from Divine Strife to Grace

in Cotton Nero A.x Clinton Morrison, Texas Tech University “Haf I Prys Wonnen?” The Economics of Social Exchange in Sir Gawain and

the Green Knight David Sweeten, Eastern New Mexico University Lady Bertilak’s Pearls: Instrumenta Dei in the Cotton Nero A.x Sarah J. Sprouse

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LAAH 463

EARLY MODERN CONTINUITIES Presider: Tommy Pfannkoch, Texas A&M University

Towneley Manuscript as Tudor Text Lauren Liebe, Texas A&M University Quixotic Courtliness: Charlotte Lennox Reforms Criseyde Zaynah Danquah, Texas A&M University–Central Texas Marie de l’Incarnation, the Ursulines of Québec, and Forms of Medieval

Religion in the New World Nancy Bradley Warren, Texas A&M University

LAAH 467

OLD ENGLISH II: LATE(ISH) PROSE Presider: J. Lawrence Mitchell, Texas A&M University

Æthelred’s Ræd Rule: Reading the Rhetoric of Ambition Jay Paul Gates, John Jay College, City University of New York Reform for the End Is Near: Ælfric’s Homiletic Constructions of

Apocalypse as Expressions of Religious and Communal Anxieties Alexis M. Milmine, Texas Tech University Are Saints Good for Teaching Theology? Some Thoughts on Old English

Prose Saints’ Lives Johanna Kramer, University of Missouri

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LAAH 255

RELIGIOUS STUDIES II: RE-FORM-ING, PER-FORM-ING, AND TRANS-FORM-ING: THE IMPACT OF RELIGION ON WOMEN IN LATE MEDIEVAL ENGLAND

Organizer: Beth Allison Barr, Baylor University Presider: Yasmine Beale-Rivaya, Texas State University

When Re-form-ation Leads to De-form-ation: How Canonical Reforms

Constricted the English Nunneries Elizabeth Marvel, Baylor University Proving by Per-form-ance? Evaluating the Historicity of Margery Kempe

from the Evidence of Sermons Beth Allison Barr “In Her Dance She Had No Regard Unto God”: The Trans-form-ation of

Salome in English Religious Texts Lynneth Miller, Baylor University

LAAH 372

ROUNDTABLE II: DISCUSSION OF MACKAYE’S BEOWULF: A DRAMA OF ANGLO-SAXON LEGEND

Organizer and presider: Britt Mize, Texas A&M University Panelists: Michaela Baca (Texas A&M University), Melissa Filbeck (Texas A&M

University), Kimberly Fonzo (University of Texas at San Antonio), Lorraine K. Stock (University of Houston).

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SESSION 4, 9:45–11:15

LAAH 372

HISTORY II: FORMING THE PAST Presider: Craig M. Nakashian, Texas A&M University–Texarkana

Conforming to Tradition? Interpretations of the Comet of 1264 in Prussia

and Livonia Daniel Wells, Houston Community College Transforming Nobility, Performing Race/Caste: El Cid and the Legend of

Martin Peláez from Late Medieval Chronicles to the Early Modern Stage Alexander J. McNair, Baylor University A Portuguese National Hero becomes Portugal’s Warrior Saint: Constable

Nuno Alvares Pereira, a.k.a. Friar Nuno de Santa Maria L. J. Andrew Villalon, University of Texas

LAAH 467

OLD ENGLISH III: POETRY Presider: Tiffany Beechy, University of Colorado

Satan and Diabolical Power in the Old English Andreas Perry Neil Harrison, Baylor University Formless Foes: The Grendel-kin and the Place of Beowulf in English History Brian McFadden, Texas Tech University Encountering Ruins Lisa M. C. Weston, California State University–Fresno

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LAAH 109

FORM AND MIDDLE ENGLISH POETRY Presider: Nancy Bradley Warren, Texas A&M University

What’s in Criseyde’s Book? Leah Schwebel, Texas State University Performing the Ormulum Kathryn Wymer, North Carolina Central University A Missing Lydgate Stanza, and Why It Matters Andrew Kraebel, Trinity University

LAAH 124

MEDIEVALISM I: MUSICAL MEDIEVALISM Organizer: Alison Gulley, Appalachian State University Presider: Janet Schrunk Ericksen, University of Minnesota–Morris

Turn-of-the-Century American Musical Medievalism: The Bostonians’

North American Tour of De Koven’s and Smith’s 1901 Operetta Maid Marian, the Sequel to the 1890 Robin Hood

Lorraine K. Stock, University of Houston Rocking Out with Beowulf: Musical Depictions of the Old English Poem Frances Thielman, Texas A&M University Bluegrass and Beowulf: An Appalachian Revisioning Alison Gulley

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LAAH 463

MEDIEVAL LATIN I Panel organizers: Lindy Brady, University of Mississippi, and Kristen Carella,

Assumption College Presider: Bruce Brasington, West Texas A&M University

Bede’s Commentary on the Catholic Epistles: Hiberno-Latin Sources and

Literary Nachleben Kevin Kritsch, McNeese State University The “Anglo-Saxon” Charters of Historia Croylandensis Lindy Brady Refer to Wm. Morris: Translational Quandaries in the Kelmscott Utopia Kevin O’Sullivan, Texas A&M University

LAAH 255

ADAPTATION IN PRACTICE: MEDIEVAL ADAPTATION II Organizer: David F. Johnson, Florida State University Presider: Jamie Fumo, Florida State University

The Old English Dialogues of Gregory the Great: Successful Appropriation

or Failed Adaptation? David F. Johnson Language and Legacy: Lay Le Freine, Source Material, and Textual

Adaptation Kimberly Tate Anderson, Florida State University Betrayal on His Lips: Judas’s Mouth in Late Medieval Visual Culture Rabia Gregory, University of Missouri

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LUNCH AND MUSICAL PERFORMANCE BY HEARTSEASE 11:30–1:45 By reservation. If you registered for this event, tickets are in your registration packet.

Check to see whether your sequence is lunch 1 and performance 2, or performance 1 and lunch 2.

11:30–12:30 Lunch 1, LAAH 453 Musical performance 1, LAAH ground floor, Black Box Theater 12:45–1:45 Lunch 2, LAAH 453 Musical performance 2, LAAH ground floor, Black Box Theater SESSION 5, 2:15–3:45

Black Box Theater

MALORY Organizer: Britt Mize, Texas A&M University Presider: Julie Nelson Couch, Texas Tech University

Sir Palomydes: Love and Loss in Malory Bonnie Wheeler, Southern Methodist University Malory and Participatory Grief Karen Cherewatuk, St. Olaf College The Form and the Function: IS There a Text for the Audience of Malory’s

Morte Darthur? Tom Hanks, Baylor University

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LAAH 463

OLD NORSE Presider: Kevin Kritsch, McNeese State University

“Name the Terms Yourself”: The Role of Women in the Formula of

Betrothal in Njal’s Saga

Greg Laing, Harding University Malformed Vengeance? The Role of Violent Women in the Old Norse

Family Sagas Kim Laing, Harding University Transformation of the Hero? Resolving the Frustrated Connection between

Beowulf and Bǫðvarr Bjarki Carl Edlund Anderson, Universidad de La Sabana

LAAH 109

CORPSES April Najjaj, Texas A&M University–San Antonio

Spectatorship and the Aesthetics of Deformation in Late Medieval Iberia Samuel Sánchez y Sánchez, Davidson College Corruption Contained: The Enshrinement of Body in Pearl Carla Cannalte, University of Colorado Robin Hood’s Death in Robin and Marian (1976) and the BBC’s Robbin Hood

(2006-09): Religious and Spiritual Representations for 1970s and Millennial Audiences

Rose Pentecost, University of Houston

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LAAH 467

MEDIEVALISM II: EDUCATIONAL CONTEXTS AND YOUTH AUDIENCES

Organizers: Michaela Baca, Texas A&M University, and Melissa Filbeck, Texas A&M University

Presider: Michaela Baca The Middle Ages for Everyman (and Everywoman): The Redpath

Chautauqua and Medievalism Bruce C. Brasington, West Texas A&M University Handling Hondscio: Personal Bonds in Children’s Adaptations of Beowulf Mallorie Williams, Independent Scholar Medievalism Twice Removed: The Role of Song in Suzanne Collins’s

Mockingjay

Sally Ann Schutz, Texas A&M University

LAAH 255

ROUNDTABLE III: THE FORMAT OF TEACHING THE MIDDLE AGES Organizer and presider: Craig M. Nakashian, Texas A&M University–

Texarkana Panelists: Craig M. Nakashian, Devin Fields (Texas Tech University), Yasmine

Beale-Rivaya (Texas State University), Sarah J. Sprouse (Texas Tech University), Brooke Bartosh (Texas Tech University), Kathryne Beebe (University of Texas at Arlington), Daniel Wells (Houston Community College).

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LIGHT REFRESHMENTS 3:45–4:30, LAAH 453 SESSION 6, 4:45–6:00, PLENARY Animal Industries Building (AIEN), room M207. This building is adjacent to LAAH on the south side.

AIEN M207

KEYNOTE LECTURE BY PROFESSOR NANCY VAN DEUSEN Free and open to the public

Greeting from the Head of the Department of English Maura Ives, Texas A&M University Presentation of the TEMA 2016 Best Graduate Student Paper prize Britt Mize, Texas A&M University Introduction of Keynote Speaker

Nancy Bradley Warren, Texas A&M University KEYNOTE ADDRESS

“We Prefer Gods We Can See”: Forma, Figura, and Music’s Representational Power

Nancy van Deusen Louis and Mildred Benezet Chair in the Humanities Claremont Graduate University

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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25

SESSION 7, 8:00–9:30

LAAH 255

OLD ENGLISH IV: POETRY Presider: Kathryn Wymer, North Carolina Central University

Reordberend, Poetic Formulae, and the Weight of Words Amber Dunai, Texas A&M University–Central Texas Body, Voice, and Torture in Dream of the Rood Bruce Gilchrist, John Abbott College Making a Formal Exit: The Heavenly Home Motif and Old English Poetic

Performance Ginger Hanchey, Baylor University

LAAH 262

RELIGIOUS STUDIES III: INTERFAITH CONTACTS AND TRANSITIONS Presider: Don Kagay, Albany State University

Late Pan-tiquity: Forms of the God Pan in the Dark Ages Judd H. Burton, South Texas College A Positive Form of the Jewish Other?: The Conversion of Jews to

Christianity in The Golden Legend

Jacob Lackner, University of Oklahoma

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LAAH 467

HISTORY III: HISTORICAL WRITING IN THE MIDDLE AGES Presider: L. J. Andrew Villalon, University of Texas

The Descent from Virtue: Leadership Style in the History of Nicetas

Choniates Scott Hieger, University of Dallas The Deeds of Frederick Barbarossa: Transforming Reality into Perfection J. Christian Petersen, University of Dallas The Two Versions of Hardyng’s Chronicle: Reforming Lancastrian History

for a Yorkist Audience Noah Peterson, Texas A&M University

LAAH 372

FAMOUS WOMEN IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY Presider: Diane Lovell, Blinn College

This Is Not Your Father’s Apostelesse: Mary Magdalene and the Apostola

apostolorum in East Anglian Religious Drama Matthew Evan Davis, McMaster University The Traumatic Margery Kempe: Memory, Violence, and Identity Formation

in The Book of Margery Kempe

Nicole Ethier, Texas A&M University A King’s Defense of Criseyde Rebecca Kempe, Texas A&M University

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LAAH 463

MEDIEVAL LATIN II Organizers: Lindy Brady, University of Mississippi, and Kristen Carella,

Assumption College Presider: Lindy Brady

Judas and the Penitential Saxa Lesleigh Jones, Southern Methodist University Chivalric Culture and the Rewriting of Merovingian History in the Grandes

Chroniques de France Justin Lake, Texas A&M University Demons and the Eucharist: Implications of a Clerical Latin Narrative Motif Lindsey Zachary Panxhi, University of Arkansas SESSION 8, 9:45–11:15

LAAH 453

RHETORIC Presider: Justin Lake, Texas A&M University

Of Abbesses and Tactics: How Hildegard von Bingen Created Feminine

Language in the Third Space Tracee Roe, Abilene Christian University Crazy in Love: Rhetoric, Affect, and Agency in Chaucer’s Criseyde Rachelle Cates, Texas A&M University “Streite unto My Myrrowr and My Glas”: Disability and the Social

Performance of Intersubjectivity in Hoccleve’s “My Compleinte” Christina Cedillo, University of Houston–Clear Lake

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LAAH 467

IN-FORMATION: ORDER AND THE NATURAL WORLD IN OLD AND MIDDLE ENGLISH TEXTS Organizers: Jacqueline Fay, University of Texas at Arlington, and Kevin

Gustafson, University of Texas at Arlington Presider: Amber Dunai, Texas A&M University–Central Texas

Being a Plant in Anglo-Saxon England Jacqueline Fay “To Sleep, Perchance to…?”: Bad Dreams in Old and Middle English Rebecca Dark, Dallas Baptist University Richard Rolle’s “Medicyne of Wordes”: Natural Philosophy in the English

Psalter Kevin Gustafson

LAAH 372

WOMEN AND THEIR POWERS Presider: Diane Lovell, Blinn College

A Female War Administrator: Elionor of Sicily Don Kagay, Albany State University Set the World on Fire: The Transformative Nature of Female Mysticism as

Spiritual Disability Karen L. Milmine, Texas Tech University What Do Women Want? Issues of Agency, Autonomy, and Authority in The

Wife of Bath’s Tale and Its Analogues Mark Patterson, Abilene Christian University

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LAAH 463

RELIGIOUS STUDIES IV: THEOLOGY AND FAITH PRACTICES Presider: Ginger Hanchey, Baylor University

Byzantine Sacred Arts as Therapeutic Way: A Medieval Pharmakon for the

Cyberman Inti Yanes Fernandez, Texas A&M University Refusing to Conform: A Heretic Attacks Predestination John Scholl, Trinity Classical School

⟡⟡⟡ TEXAS MEDIEVAL ASSOCIATION BUSINESS MEETING 11:30–12:00, LAAH 453

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Map 1: LAAH and AIEN Locations on Campus (Green Arrows)

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Map 2: Food Vendors near LAAH (Friday Only; Yellow Circles)

We thank World of Beer, at the corner of University Drive and Texas Avenue, for its sponsorship in the form of 15% food discounts to TEMA registrants throughout the weekend. Show your conference badge to receive the discount.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

TEMA 2016 is made possible by the support of the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, the Department of English, the Department of Performance Studies, the Glasscock Center Medieval Studies Working Group, and Liberal Arts IT, and by the work of the Logistics Committee (see list below). Thanks are due to the judges of the graduate student paper prize (see list below), to Heartsease (Robert Boenig, Candace Benefiel, Elizabeth Boenig, Claudia Nelson, and Harriet Smith), and to Caitlin Brenner, Karen Bollermann, Cary Nederman, Rashelle Spear, Kathy Torabi, Nancy Bradley Warren, and Jennifer Wollock for input during early planning. The website was designed by Bryan Tarpley of Halcyon Digital Solutions and is maintained by webmaster Kathy Torabi. Bailey Woods serves as the 2016 President’s Assistant with the support of a UPREP from the Department of English. The authorized production of Percy MacKaye’s Beowulf: A Drama of Anglo-Saxon Legend, directed by Melissa Filbeck, is hosted and sponsored by the Department of Performance Studies and is funded by a grant from the Academy for the Visual and Performing Arts. The Department of English has graciously provided staff support for the administration of AVPA funds. TEMA 2016 LOGISTICS COMMITTEE Michaela Baca, Emily Bartz, Caitlin Brenner, Derek Brown, Crystal Bustamante, Rachelle Cates, Nicole Ethier, Melissa Filbeck, Nicole Hagstrom-Schmidt, Grace Heneks, Becca Kempe, Lauren Liebe, Sophia Martínez, Randal McDonald, Sally Schutz, Fran Thielman, Kathy Torabi. JUDGES OF THE 2016 TEMA BEST GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER PRIZE Beth Allison Barr, Baylor University; Yasmine Beale-Rivaya, Texas State University; Robert Boenig, Texas A&M University; Bruce Brasington, West Texas A&M University; Kimberly Fonzo, University of Texas–San Antonio; Hilaire Kallendorf, Texas A&M University; Justin Lake, Texas A&M University; Cary Nederman, Texas A&M University; Leah Schwebel, Texas State University; Lorraine K. Stock, University of Houston; and Nancy Bradley Warren, Texas A&M University.