“Chaucer’s Walls”

(MLA 2020 Chaucer Forum)

What makes a wall medieval? Chaucerian walls as physical, political, phenomenological, and psychic structures. Porosity and impenetrablity. Demarcation and enfoldment. Polity and publicity. Privacy and voyeurism. Classical echoes and contemporary resonances. 250-word abstracts by March 15 to Wan-Chuan Kao (kaow@wlu.edu) and Eleanor Johnson (ebj2117@columbia.edu).