My focus has been mostly on Arthurian comics but at times I've expanded to look at the larger corpus of medieval-themed comics.
“Prince Valiant and Beyond: (Re-)Assessing the Corpus of Medieval-Themed Comics.” “Love, Friendship, Marriage”: 32th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum, Plymouth State University (Plymouth, NH). 16 April 2011.
“Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man in King Arthur’s Court: A Way into the Corpus of Arthurian-Themed Comics.” Presented under The Beowulf to Shakespeare: Popular Culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance Area. 2009 Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association Conference, Hilton Boston Logan Airport (Boston, MA). 7 November 2009.
“America’s First Arthurian-Inspired Superhero: Quality Comics’ Merlin the Magician (1940-42).” Presented under The Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Legend Area. 2009 Conference of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association, Queensborough Community College, CUNY (Bayside, NY). 24 October 2009.
“Contextualizing King Arthur Was a Gentleman (1942): The Matter of Britain as World War II Propaganda: Focus on Ace Magazine’s The Sword (1942-45).” Presented as part of “Medievalisms at War I,” a session sponsored by The Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages and organized by Michael A. Torregrossa. 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI). 8 May 2009.
“Introducing the Medium,” “The Medieval Comics Project: Defining the Corpus (Again),” and “Using Comics in Your Teaching and Research.” PowerPoint presentations presented as part of “The Comics Get Medieval at Kalamazoo: A Workshop on the Comics Medium in the Medieval Studies Classroom and Medievalist Research,” a session sponsored by The Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages and organized by Michael A. Torregrossa. 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI). 10 May 2008.
“Holy Grail, Batman! The Use (and Abuse) of the Grail Legend in the DC Comics Universe.” Presented as part of “The Grail in Popular Culture,” a session sponsored by the International Arthurian Society, North American Branch, and organized by Janina P. Traxler of Manchester College. 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI). 8 May 2008.
“Undead Arthuriana: Vampires and the Matter of Britain.” Presented as part of “Manuscripts, Monsters, and Medievalism,” a session sponsored by the Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages for the Medievalism in Popular Culture Area and organized by Michael A. Torregrossa. 2007 Conference of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association, Clark University (Worcester, MA). 27 October 2007.
“Lost in the Stargate? The Matter of Britain in Science Fiction Film and Television Programming.” Presented as part of “Cinema Arthuriana: Old and New,” a session sponsored by the International Arthurian Society, North American Branch, and organized by Peter H. Goodrich of Northern Michigan University. 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI). 5 May 2006.
"Comics." In “The Arthurian Legend in Literature, Popular Culture, and the Performing Arts, 1999-2004.” Eds. Raymond H. Thompson and Norris J. Lacy. Arthurian Literature 22 (2005). Print, ISBN 1-84384-062-6. (This listing is the fourth supplement to The New Arthurian Encyclopedia, ed. Norris J. Lacy [New York: Garland, 1991].)
“A ‘Marvel’-ous Morgan: Phillip De Guere’s Dr. Strange (1978), a Forgotten Example of Cinema Arthuriana.” Presented as part “Arthurian Film,” a session sponsored by the Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages and organized by Michael A. Torregrossa. 28th Annual New England Popular Culture Association Conference, Sacred Heart University (Fairfield, CT). 29 October 2005.
“Holy Grail, Batman! The Dark Knight Detective in King Arthur’s Court—DC Comics’ Batman and the Arthurian Legend.” Presented as part of “The Comics Get Medieval 2005,” a session sponsored by the Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages and the Arthurian Legend, the Comics & Comic Art, and the Medieval Popular Culture Areas of the Popular Culture Association and organized by Michael A. Torregrossa. 35th Annual Meeting of the Popular Culture Association, San Diego Marriott Hotel and Marina (San Diego, CA). 24 March 2005.
“Once and Future Kings: The Return of King Arthur in the Comics.” In Adapting the Arthurian Legends for Children: Essays on Arthurian Juvenilia. Ed. Barbara Tepa Lupack. Studies in Arthurian and Courtly Cultures. Series ed. Bonnie Wheeler. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Pp. 243-262.
“The Many Returns of King Arthur during World War Two: King Arthur Was a Gentleman (1942) and Its Contexts.” Presented as part of “Heroes and Heroism in Medieval Films at War,” a session sponsored by The Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages and organized by Michael A. Torregrossa. War in Film, Television, and History: 3rd Biennial Conference of the Film & History League, American Airlines Training & Conference Center (Dallas, TX). 12 November 2004.
“The Comics Get Medieval: Defining the Corpus.” Presented as part of a “Medieval Classics Illustrated: Using the Comics to Teach Medieval Legends and Text (A Roundtable),” a session sponsored by the Arthurian Comics Discussion List/Society for the Arthurian Popular Culture Studies and organized by Michael A. Torregrossa. 39th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI). 9 May 2004.
“Visions of Merlin in Four Colors: Illustrating the Legend of Merlin in the Comics.” Presented as part of “Arthurian Illustration,” a session sponsored by the International Arthurian Society, North American Branch, and organized by Donald L. Hoffman of Northeastern Illinois University. 38th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI). 10 May 2003.
“The Women of Camelot in Four Colors: Representations of Arthurian Women in the Comics Medium.” Presented under the Arthurian Legends Area. 33rd Annual Meeting of the Popular Culture Association Conference, Marriott Hotel (New Orleans, LA). 17 April 2003.
"Comics." In “Arthurian Literature, Art, and Film, 1995-1999.” Eds. Norris J. Lacy and Raymond H. Thompson. Arthurian Literature 18 (2001): 193-255. Print. ISBN 0-85991-617-0. (This listing is the third supplement to The New Arthurian Encyclopedia, ed. Norris J. Lacy [New York: Garland, 1991].)
“Professor Pendragon and His Uncanny X-Knights of the Round Table: The Use and Abuse of the Arthurian Legend by Marvel Comics.” Presented as part of “The Medieval in Popular Culture,” a session organized by Michael G. Cornelius of the University of Rhode Island. English Studies and the Uses of Popular Culture III, University of Rhode Island (Kingston, RI). 27 October 2001.
“An Abundance of Arthurs: The Myth of the Return of King Arthur in the Comicbook Medium.” Camelot 2000: A Millennial Conference on the Arthurian Legends, University of Rochester (Rochester, NY). 26 October 2000. (Portions incorporated, with extensive revision, in my essay “Once and Future Kings? The Return of King Arthur in the Comics” [2004].)
“Camelot 3000 and Beyond: An Annotated Listing of Arthurian Comic Books Published in the United States c. 1980-1998. Revised ed. (May 2000).” Part of The Arthuriana / Camelot Project Bibliographies. Maintained by Alan Lupack. University of Rochester, May 2000. Available at http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/acpbibs/comicbib.htm. Web.
“Merlin at the Multiplex: A Filmography of Merlin in Arthurian Film, Television and Videocassette 1920-1998.” In 1999 Film & History CD-ROM Annual. Eds. Peter C. Rollins, John E. O’Connor, and Deborah A. Carmichael. Cleveland, OK: Film & History, 1999. 31 pp. CD-ROM. ISBN 0-641775-6-8.
“Camelot 3000 and Beyond: An Annotated Listing of Arthurian Comic Books Published in the United States c. 1980-1998.” In Modern and Post-Modern Arthurian Literature. Ed. John Matthews. Spec. issue of Arthuriana: The Journal of Arthurian Studies 9.1 (Spring 1999): 67-109. Print. ISSN 0890-4944.
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