Members & Membership

Membership in the Société Rencesvals is open to anyone interested in the medieval Romance epic. Check out our membership list! The list of our Branch Officers is here.

If you meet the criteria for the "Bourse jeunes chercheurs", you may be eligible for support to participate in the next triennial International Congress, and the Pan-American branch is also pleased to announce a grant program to help cover conference registration for some scholars at our events.

Our main activities are providing sessions at various conference venues, international congresses, branch meetings, and the publication of bibliographical materials. The Pan-American Branch of the Société distributes the annual Bulletin Bibliographique  of the International Organization. We also maintain an active email discussion list.

The Pan-American branch is excited to announce calls for papers for two interesting sessions at next year's 62nd International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo.  The first section,  "Rereading Christian, Saracen, and Genre in Medieval French Literature (2001): Papers in Honor of Lynn T. Ramey" will honor scholar Lynn Ramey and invite questions raised by her book.  The second session engages with social discourse approaches to the epic, "Constructing the Self in the Romance-Language Epic". We invite you to join us by proposing a paper.