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Chaucer in Context:
Society, Politics, and Gender

A one-day seminar in interdisciplinary teaching in the secondary schools
Friday, October 10, 2003
on the main campus of the University of New Mexico
Willard Room, Zimmerman Library


The purpose of this intensive one-day seminar is to promote secondary school teachers' professional development by enriching their knowledge of Chaucer scholarship as well as medieval English history and literature. Teachers will participate in a learning environment that will allow them to strengthen their intellectual base through individual scholarly talks and discussions. Eminent scholars will introduce new approaches and angles to presenting Chaucer in the classroom. By the conclusion of the seminar, participants will have a broadened understanding of Chaucer's late fourteenth-century England and will be equipped with new material that will enhance the learning experiences of their students.

SCHEDULE

8:00-9:00 a.m.   Morning Coffee
9:00-9:10 a.m.   Welcoming Address
9:10-10:15 a.m.   Lecture: "Chaucer and Non-Christian Foreigners"
    Professor Henry Ansgar Kelly
 10:15-10:30 a.m.   Break
10:30-11:30 a.m.   Lecture: "Chaucer's Nuns, Wives, and Virgins"
    Professor Anita Obermeier
11:30-12:45 p.m.   Lunch
12:45-1:45 p.m.   Lecture: "Three Readings of 'The Knight's Tale': Clanvowe, Chaucer, and James I of Scotland"
    Professor John M. Bowers
1:45-3:30 p.m.   Workshop/Panel Discussion



FACULTY

Henry Ansgar Kelly
Director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of California, Los Angeles Professor Kelly is a specialist in the field of Chaucer and Middle English literature. In addition to authoring 12 books and more than 50 articles, Professor Kelly has written over 250 contributions to the forthcoming Chaucer Encyclopedia. Professor Kelly's awards and recognition include: Guggenheim Fellow; NEH Fellow; Fellow, Medieval Academy of America; Councillor, Medieval Academy of America; President, Medieval Association of the Pacific; and University of California President's Research Fellow.

John M. Bowers
Department of English, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Professor Bowers has taught Chaucer and Middle English literature for 25 years. He is the author of several books and nearly 30 articles, and is recognized for both scholarship and teaching. Professor Bowers' awards and recognition include: Rhodes Scholar; NEH Fellow; Teacher of the Year Award, University of Nevada; Nevada Regents' Teaching Award; Guggenheim Fellow; Visiting Research Fellow, Oxford University; and the Barrick Distinguished Scholar Award, University of Nevada.

Anita Obermeier
Department of English, University of New Mexico
Author of The History and Anatomy of Auctorial Self-Criticism in the European Middle Ages and of numerous articles on Chaucer and medieval poetry, Professor Obermeier teaches the full range of medieval literature, from Beowulf to medieval drama to Chaucer. She is the recipient of the University of New Mexico English Department's 2003 Keleher Award for Outsanding Teaching and Research.

 

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