Title of Presentation or Performance
Keynote Address---"'The Boy Who Was a Girl": Nature, Nurture and the 13th Century Maiden Knight
Submission Type
Oral Presentation
Area of Study or Work
Women's and Gender Studies
Expected Graduation Date
2016
Location
Memorial Center, Illinois Wesleyan University
Start Date
4-16-2016 12:15 PM
End Date
4-16-2016 1:00 PM
Disciplines
Education
Abstract
Gina Paski is the Giustina Family Professor of Italian Language and Literature in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Oregon. She received her Ph.D. in Medieval Studies at Cornell University in 1989. professor Psaki has published criticism on the translations of medieval misogyny. In 2014 she published a collaborative history with Gloria Allaire entitled The Arthur of the Italians: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval Italian Language and Culture. Her current project is The Traffic in Talk About Women: Misogyny and Philogyny in the Middle Ages, a study of writing in praise and blame of women from the French and Italian Middle Ages.
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Keynote Address---"'The Boy Who Was a Girl": Nature, Nurture and the 13th Century Maiden Knight
Memorial Center, Illinois Wesleyan University
Gina Paski is the Giustina Family Professor of Italian Language and Literature in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Oregon. She received her Ph.D. in Medieval Studies at Cornell University in 1989. professor Psaki has published criticism on the translations of medieval misogyny. In 2014 she published a collaborative history with Gloria Allaire entitled The Arthur of the Italians: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval Italian Language and Culture. Her current project is The Traffic in Talk About Women: Misogyny and Philogyny in the Middle Ages, a study of writing in praise and blame of women from the French and Italian Middle Ages.