CFP Saving the Day for Robin Hood Studies: Perspectives and Reflections on Comics Adapted from the Matter of the Greenwood (Roundtable) (10/11/21; IARHS virtual 12/3-5/21)

Saving the Day for Robin Hood Studies: Perspectives and Reflections on Comics Adapted from the Matter of the Greenwood (Roundtable)

Sponsored by The Medieval Comics Project, an outreach effort of the Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture.

For Global Outlaws: The Biennial Conference of the International Association for Robin Hood Studies

Tentative Date: 3-5 December 2021.                                          

Medium: VIRTUAL.

Deadline for Proposals: 11 October 2021.

 

            According to a recent search of the Grand Comics Database, creators of comic books and graphic novels have produced over three thousand comics directly based on or inspired by the Robin Hood tradition. These comics span almost ninety years and come from over twenty countries; however, the true scope of Hood’s influence on the medium appears much larger. A variety of archers, both heroes and villains, also feature within the pages of comics, and Hood and his fellows have also frequented both cartoons and comic strips, though their adventures there remain largely uncatalogued.

            Of these thousands of comics, how much and what items are actually known to enthusiasts of the Matter of the Greenwood? Robin Hood scholars, since the1990s, have started to offer some answers, but much work still remains to more fully explore the world of Sherwood Forest depicted in their panels. In this sponsored session, we hope to create a deeper connection between Robin Hood Studies and Comics Studies to highlight this rich corpus and provide tools and resources for how to find, access, and employ Robin-Hood-themed comics in our classroom and research.

Please send proposals of approximately 250 words and a short academic biography to the panel organizers at Comics.Get.Medieval@gmail.com. We will forward the full panel details to the conference committee.

For more information on the Medieval Comics Project and the Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture, please check out our websites at https://medieval-comics-project.blogspot.com/ and https://medievalinpopularculture.blogspot.com/.

 

 

 

The Comics Get Medieval This Weekend at Keene State

 Here are the details of our upcoming panel this weekend. Further details and registration information are available on the conference website.

41st Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum: Scent and Fragrance in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Virtual event, hosted by Keene State University, Keene, New Hampshire

Friday and Saturday, 16-17 April 2021

 

Session VI--Saturday, 17 April from 3:00 PM to 4:20 PM

Arthurian Comics (Breakout Option C)

Sponsored by the Medieval Comics Project, an outreach effort of the Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture

 

Moderator: Hayley Cotter, University of Massachusetts—Amherst

 

From Canon to Comics: Adaptations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in the Comics

Medium

Michael Torregrossa, Independent Scholar

Michael A. Torregrossa is a graduate of the Medieval Studies program at the University of Connecticut (Storrs) and works as an adjunct instructor in English in both Rhode Island and Massachusetts. His research focuses on popular culture’s adaptation and appropriation of literary classics, including the Arthurian legend, Beowulf, Dracula, and Frankenstein.  In addition, Michael is the organizer of The Comics Get Medieval, a series of sessions run at various conferences since the early 2000s. This work is sponsored by both Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Matter of Britain and The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture, which Michael founded and serves as editor for their various blogs and moderator of their discussion lists. 

 

Old Norse Gods and Ethnically Different Slaves in the Comic Book Series Thorgal

Anna Czarnowus, University of Silesia, Katowice (Poland)  

Anna Czarnowus, PhD, D. Litt., is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Silesia, Katowice (Poland). She specializes in Middle English literature and medievalisms. She published Inscription on the Body: Monstrous Children in Middle English Literature (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego 2009) and Fantasies of the Other’s Body in Middle English Oriental Romance (Peter Lang 2013). She authored over 40 journal articles and chapters in monographs. She co-edited (with Professor Margaret Jane Toswell from the University of Western Ontario) Medievalism in English Canadian Literature: From Richardson to Atwood (D.S. Brewer 2020).

 

Vampires, Zombies, Aliens, and Superheroes: Reimaginings of Arthurian Legend in Comics

Rachael K. Warmington, Seton Hall University 

Rachael Warmington is a full-time instructor at Seton Hall University. She earned her B.A. in English from Montclair State University, M.A. in English from Seton Hall University, her MFA at CUNY City College and she is a doctoral candidate at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Rachael is also the editor-in-chief of the open access academic journal, Watchung Review.  She is currently writing her dissertation which focuses on themes of Arthurian Legend in medieval texts and in contemporary literature, film and television adaptations and appropriations and how these themes create the space that challenges oppression in its various forms, but have also been used to perpetuate racism, sexism and religious intolerance.