Contact Zones

Writing companions: Toward a critical entanglement with the more-than-human world, Elizabeth S. Leet.- Human and insect bookworms, Emma Maggie Solberg.- Francis’s animal brotherhood in Thomas of Celano’s Vita Prima, Brandon Alakas & Day Bulger.- Reading the medieval fur experience: Peire Vidal and the poverty of Pelletiers, Sarah-Grace Heller.- Becoming object/becoming queen: the marital contact zone in Chrétien de Troyes’ Erec et Enide, Elizabeth S. Leet.- ‘Do not allow an empty goblet to face the moon’: lyrical materialities in the drinking poems of Li Bai 李白(701–762) and Du Fu 杜甫 (712–770), Elizabeth Harper.- Jahāngīrī portrait shasts: Material-discursive practices and visuality at the Mughal court, Krista Hall Gulbransen.- The hungry monk: Bernard of Clairvaux in a trans-corporeal landscape, Melanie Holcomb.- ‘Skin black and wrinkled’: The toxic ecology of the Sibyl’s cave, Alan S. Montroso.- ‘De aymant en dyamant’: Lexical transmutations in the works of Philippe de Mézières, Julie Singer.- Drink up! Losing yourself in the contact zone, Stacy Alaimo.- Posthumanism and the claim to rational action, Karl Steel.