1. Session 10 - Thursday, May 9 - 10:00-11:30 - Room 313, Valley III SIR THOMAS MALORY: TEXTS AND CONTEXTS I Organizer: D. Thomas Hanks, Jr., Baylor University "De Worde's Morte D'arthur: Printed Text and Context" Kevin T. Grimm, Oakland University "Marriageable Daughters in Malory: Lyonesse and Elaine of Astolat Karen Cherewatuk, St. Olaf College "To Make Some Mention of the French Book" Bryan P. Davis, Ohio State University 2. Session 47 - Thursday, May 9 - 1:30-3:00 - Room 313, Valley III SIR THOMAS MALORY: TEXTS AND CONTEXTS II Organizer: D. Thomas Hanks, Jr., Baylor University E-Mail Address: tom_hanks@baylor.edu Presider: Allan Robb, Baylor University "Merlin to Monks: Interpreters in Malory's Le Morte Darthur Christine Rose, Portland State University "Who is Malory's Balin? Christopher L. Scott, Virginia Tech "The Symbolic Importance of Processions in Malory's Le Morte Darthur Ann Elaine Bliss, Western Oregon State College 3. Session 155 - Friday, May 10 - 10:00-11:30 - Room 1360, Schneider REPRESENTATIONS OF MASCULINITY IN CHAUCER Organizer: Bonnie Wheeler, Southern Methodist University "`Slydyng' Masculinities in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde" Stephanie Dietrich, University of Houston "`Is this a manners herte': Troilus (mis)reads the Ars Amatoria" Maud Burnett McInerney, Haverford College "Giving the Husband a `Thyng': Masculinizing the Merchant of St. Denis in Chaucer's Shipman's Tale" Peter Beidler, Baylor University "`With lokkes crulle' and `of greet strength': The Masquerading Masculinities of the Squire and his Tale" Steven Weiskopf, Indiana University 4. Session 165 - Friday, May 10 - 1:30-3:00 - Room 313, Valley III SOCIOLINGUISTIC APPROACHES TO GERMANIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES Organizer: Tracy Crouch, Stephen F. Austin State University "The Missing Gender in Bald's Leechbook" Freda Beatty, Stephen F. Austin State University "English a Creoloid? Possible Explanations of, and Explanations for, Only Partial Creolization" Robert McColl Millar, Institutt for Humanistiske Fag: Avdeling for Kultur og Humanistiske Fag "Taunts and Insults: The Rules for Challenge in Germanic Poetry" Thomas A. Shippey, Saint Louis University 5. Session 246 - Saturday, May 11 - 10:00-11:30 - Room 313, Valley III MOAXAJAS AND KHARJAS: MOZARABIC RESPONSES TO ARABIC LOVE SONGS Organizer: Paula Luteran, Stephen F. Austin State University "The Andalusian xarja-s: Poetry at the Crossroads of Two Systems?" Otto Zwartjes, University of Nijmegen "Transgender Co-opting of the Female Voice in the Kharjas" Fran Meuser-Blincow, Oakland University "A Jewel in its Setting: Reading a Kharja in its Context" Paul Larson, Baylor University 6. Session 285 - Saturday, May 11 - 1:30-3:00 - Room 304, Valley III TRADITIONAL ELEMENTS IN BEOWULF Organizer: John Schwetman, Sam Houston State University "Scholarly Prejudice and the Beowulf Dragon" Jonathan Evans, University of Georgia "Three Minims and a Quandary: Scribal Error and the Wundi/Wandini/ Wundu(m), Wundun, Wundnu Readings of Beowulf 1382a" Greg Rose, University of Connecticut "The Traditional Text of Beowulf" Robert D. Stevick, University of Washington 7. Session 374 - Sunday, May 12 - 8:30-10:00 - Room 307, Valley III THE MATERNAL IN MEDIEVAL DRAMA Organizer: Victor I. Scherb, University of Texas at Tyler "Silencing the Mother's Voice in the Fleury Ad Interfectionem Puerorum Sarah B. Campbell, Catholic University of America "Challenged Motherhood: The Maternal Instinct in the English Cycle Drama" Denise Ryan, University of Sydney "`Frely Foode' and the Eucharistic Maternal in the Wakefield Salutation of Elizabeth Regula Meyer Evitt, San Francisco State University