Jamie Keener (she/hers)

• Contributor, Playing with Old English: a Playful Pedagogy Resource. ed. Megan Cavell and Renée Trilling. Champaign-Urbana: Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (IDEALS), 2024. https://hdl.handle.net/2142/122753.
• “Entry #15: Sir John Mandeville.” Catalogue entry. In Seeing Race Before Race: Visual Culture and the Racial Matrix in the Pre-Modern World. ed. Noémie Ndiaye and Lia Markey. Tempe, AZ: ACMRS Press, April 2023. asu.pressbooks.pub/seeing-race-before-race/. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title, organized by and presented at the Newberry Library, September 2023. This edited volume received the 2024 Association of American Publishers’ PROSE Award in the ‘Art Exhibitions’ category.

Conference Papers and Workshops

• “Imagining Others: Race and Borders in Le roman de Mélusine.” International Medieval Congress 2025, University of Leeds, Leeds, England, July 7-10, 2025.
• “Repenting of the Demonic: Relationality and Racialization in Sir Gowther.” 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 8-10, 2025.
• “Contextual Trifles: Gender, Race, and the Non/human in the Fairy Episodes of De Nugis Curialium.” Open Access Medieval Studies Conference (OAMS), March 20-23, 2025.
• “Uncanny Relationality and Racialization in Sir Orfeo.” Theorizing Premodern Alterity and Racial Rhetorics, The Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, November 8, 2024.
• “'Audivimus demones incubos et succubos': (Non)Human Forms of Race in De Nugis Curialium.” International Medieval Congress 2024, University of Leeds, Leeds, England, July 1-4, 2024.
• Roundtable Discussion: “Seeing Race Before Race.” Renaissance Society of America 70^th Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, March 21-23, 2024.
• “More-Than-Human Monstrosities: Sir Gowther, Nation, and Race.” Medieval Academy of America 99^th Annual Meeting, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, March 14-16, 2024.
• "Language Learning and the Pedagogy of Play." Birmingham-Illinois Partnership for Discovery, Engagement and Education (BRIDGE). University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK, May 14-21, 2023.
• “Remaking, Rereading, Renaming: Mixed-Race Identity in Sir Gowther.” Gesa E. Kirsch Graduate Student Symposium, The Center for Writing Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, April 27-28, 2023.
• “Making Mermaids: Early Modern (Re)writings of Eve and Mary.” Center for Renaissance Studies. Attending to Women, 1100-1800: Performance, Newberry Library, Chicago, IL, September 30 – October 1, 2022. (Co-led with Cassidy Short)
• “Race in Fairy Descent: Mélusine and her Afterlives.” Center for Fantasy and the Fantastic, Once and Future Fantasies, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, July 13-17, 2022.
• “Fairy Fruit in India and the British Isles: Mandeville’s Orientalist Mirroring in the Cotton Manuscript.” 57^th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 9-14, 2022.
• “Recognizing Race through Sir Orfeo’s Uncanny Fairy Other.” Medieval Studies Student Association, Redefining the Middle Ages, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, March 11-12, 2021.
• “The Constance of Race: Religious Racialization in The Man of Law's Tale.” New England Medieval Studies Consortium, Illuminating Hidden Figures: Difference and Diversity in the Middle Ages, Brown University, Providence, RI, March 16-17, 2018.