I have organized and the Kalamazoo ICMS programming committee has approved two special sessions under the theme, “Speech, Performance, and Authority in Later Medieval Literature,” for the 2014 Congress.

Speech, Performance, and Authority in Later Medieval Religious Literature I
“Who’s Taking Now? Dialogues in the Works of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe”
Therese Novotny, Marquette University

“Figuring out the Son’s Dede: Julian of Norwich and the Theology of Pun”
James Howard, Emory University

“The Last Words of Robert Henryson’s Fox”
Chad Schrock, Lee University

Speech, Performance and Authority in Later Medieval Religious Literature II
“Texting Yourself: Vernacular Confessional Texts and the Verbalization of Interiority”
Krista A. Murchison, University of Ottawa

“The Gast of Gy: Appropriation of a Personal Purgatory”
Deirdre Riley, Binghamton University

“Like an Empty Bubble: Demonic Saints, Illitterata, and Cura Mulierum from the Fourth Lateran Council to the Fifth Monarchy”
Stacie Vos, Yale Divinity School