RMMRA

Rocky Mountain Medieval & Renaissance Association

Call for Papers

Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association
Annual Meeting
June 8-10, 2006
Rexburg, ID
“Interpreting Cultures: Reception and Interpretation of the Middle Ages and Renaissance”

The Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association invites submission of abstracts for its annual meeting. The conference is being hosted by Darin Merrill and Brigham Young University—Idaho, at the Best Western Cottontree Inn and Conference Center in Rexburg, ID.

The theme for the conference will be “Interpreting Cultures: Reception and Interpretation of the Middle Ages and Renaissance.” This theme invites a wide range of papers relative to the perception of the Medieval and Renaissance periods by both contemporary audiences and authors as well as later antiquarians, authors, and audiences. University faculty, independent scholars, and graduate students are invited to attend. Time will be reserved on Saturday, June 10th for panels of advanced undergraduates, if there is sufficient interest and pending approval of the program review committee. Please submit proposals for sessions and 250 word abstracts for papers by March 15, 2006, in either paper or electronic form, to:

Darin Merrill
Department of English
Brigham Young University—Idaho
SA 123
Rexburg, ID 83460
e-mail: merrilld@byui.edu

The plenary speaker will be Robert Bjork , Professor of Medieval Literature at Arizona State University, and Director of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and Director of the Medieval and Renaissance Text Society. Professor Bjork is currently co-editing with colleagues from Wisconsin and Indiana the 4th edition of Fr. Klaeber's Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburg, and he is General Editor of the forthcoming 4-volume Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages. He has served as General Editor of Modern Scandinavian Literature in Translation for the University of Nebraska Press, and from 1993 to 2001, he was Co-General Editor (with George C. Schoolfield of Yale University) of Studies in Scandinavian Literature and Culture for Camden House / Boydell & Brewer. His book (with John D. Niles), A Beowulf Handbook (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997) is one of the staples of Beowulf and Old English classes.