The Novel Echoes research group warmly invites you to a research paper by Prof. Megan Moore (University of Missouri) on Weds 2nd April at 3pm at Ghent University (Faculteitsraadzaal, Blandijnberg 2, Campus Boekentoren) entitled “Ecologies of Resistance: Transformative Disabilities in Medieval Romance.”
Prof. Moore is a medievalist whose research explores gender, identity, and cross-cultural exchange in the medieval Mediterranean and who is currently Professor of French and Chair of the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Missouri in the United States. Her current research project focuses on feminist ecocriticism, disability studies, trans* studies, and critical conversations about space, including non-representational geography, to explore a potential remapping of medieval courtliness in which non-dominant subjects’ and their bodies’ performance of space is integral to medieval ways of knowing, and to the idea of the court itself. By imagining nondominant spaces–say, the forest, with its hideous, outcast creatures–as integral to the geographies of medieval knowledge, this new project seeks to redefine the spatial ecologies of medieval romance.
Please contact Claire.Jackson@UGent.be in the case of any questions or requests for further information. We look forward to seeing many of you there!