tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31969367412891452372024-03-09T21:46:30.575-05:00The Medieval Comics ProjectThe Medieval Comics Project, sponsored by The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture, is an ongoing effort conducted by a small (but dedicated) group of comics scholars, Arthurian enthusiasts, and medievalists to compile a comprehensive listing of the representations of the medieval in the comics medium. The corpus is international in scope and extends as far back as (at least) the 1920s. We welcome your help in achieving our goal.The Medieval Comics Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10197285962452972510noreply@blogger.comBlogger114125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3196936741289145237.post-53785463323844164412023-08-12T02:41:00.005-04:002023-08-23T01:58:45.206-04:00CFP UPDATE Comics Get Medieval 2023: New Work on the Comics Medium in Medieval Studies (virtual) (9/15/2023; ICSM 10/26-28/2023)<h2 style="text-align: left;">Comics Get Medieval 2023: New Work on the Comics Medium in Medieval Studies (virtual)</h2><br /><br /><br /><br />Call for Papers (UPDATED) - Please Submit Proposals by 15 September 2023<br /><br />The Medieval in Cyberspace: 2023 International Conference for the Study of Medievalism<br /><br />The UNICORN Castle (https://unicorn-castle.org/)<br /><br />Online event: Thursday, 26 October, through Saturday, 28 October, 2023<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">Comics Get Medieval 2023: New Work on the Comics Medium in Medieval Studies (virtual)</h3><br /><br /><br /><br />Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Comics Project<br /><br />Organizers: Michael A. Torregrossa, Richard Scott Nokes, and Carl Sell<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The comics medium offers a wealth of material of relevance to medievalists from comic-like art and illustrations created during the Middle Ages to cartoons, comics, and related media designed in post-medieval times. <br /><br />Comics from the medieval era present unique insights into the past and allow us to forge a connection with those that lived and worked then through a now-familiar artform. <br /><br />Meanwhile, modern comics with medieval themes adapt, appropriate, and transform the medieval, allowing present-day creators to bring history, legends, literature, myths, and personages to life through disparate formats and genres presented for audiences across the globe. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />In this session, we seek to celebrate and explore the variety and vitality of medieval comics (both those from the medieval past as well as more contemporary ones) and to share that material with our colleagues to promote further debate, discussion, and inquiry and to, hopefully, inspire future research and teaching.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Topics might include:<div><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Creating medieval or medieval-themed comics </li><li>Sharing resources for accessing medieval or medieval-themed comics</li><li>Study of a particular character across a series or variety of comics</li><li>Study of a particular comic or series of comics</li><li>Study of a particular creator (artist, writer, etc.) of comics</li><li>Using medieval comics in the classroom or for research</li><li>Using medieval-themed comics in the classroom or for research</li></ul><br /><br /><br /><br />We are especially seeking coverage on comics from outside the United States. We also welcome assistance through bibliographies, interviews, and/or resource guides that can be shared with our audience.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />All proposals for the session must be submitted directly to the organizers, at <a href="mailto:Comics.Get.Medieval@gmail.com">Comics.Get.Medieval@gmail.com</a>, by 15 September 2023. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Please check out our growing resources on medieval-themed comics at the Medieval Comics Project (<a href="https://medieval-comics-project.blogspot.com/">https://medieval-comics-project.blogspot.com/</a>) and the Arthurian Comics Project (<a href="https://arthur-of-the-comics-project.blogspot.com/">https://arthur-of-the-comics-project.blogspot.com/</a>) websites. We also maintain two listservs of relevance–both the Medieval Comics Discussion List (at <a href="https://groups.io/g/medieval-comixlist">https://groups.io/g/medieval-comixlist</a>) and the Arthurian Comics Discussion List (at <a href="https://groups.io/g/arthurian-comixlist">https://groups.io/g/arthurian-comixlist</a>)--and welcome new members. : <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Thank you for your interest in our session. Please address questions and/or concerns to the organizers at <a href="mailto:Comics.Get.Medieval@gmail.com">Comics.Get.Medieval@gmail.com</a>. <br /><br /></div>The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01669907740972508440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3196936741289145237.post-275227674991324482023-08-07T04:45:00.002-04:002023-08-07T04:45:25.323-04:00CFP Comics Get Medieval 2023: New Work on the Comics Medium in Medieval Studies (virtual) (8/15/2023; ICSM 10/26-28/2023)<br /><h2 style="text-align: left;">Comics Get Medieval 2023: New Work on the Comics Medium in Medieval Studies (virtual)</h2><br /><br />Call for Papers - Please Submit Proposals by 15 August 2023<br /><br />The Medieval in Cyberspace: 2023 International Conference for the Study of Medievalism<br /><br />The UNICORN Castle (https://unicorn-castle.org/)<br /><br />Online event: Thursday, 26 October, through Saturday, 28 October, 2023<br /><br /><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">Comics Get Medieval 2023: New Work on the Comics Medium in Medieval Studies (virtual)</h3><br /><br />Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Comics Project<br /><br />Organizers: Michael A. Torregrossa, Richard Scott Nokes, and Carl Sell<br /><br /><br />The comics medium offers a wealth of material of relevance to medievalists from comic-like art and illustrations from the Middle Ages to post-medieval cartoons, comics, and related media. Comics from the medieval era present unique insights into the past and allow us to forge a connection with those that lived then through a now-familiar artform. Meanwhile, modern comics with medieval themes adapt, appropriate, and transform the medieval bringing history, legends, literature, myths, and personages to life through disparate formats and genres presented for audiences across the globe. <br /><br /><br />In this session, we seek to celebrate and explore the variety and vitality of medieval comics (both those from the medieval past as well as contemporary ones) and to share that material with our colleagues to promote further debate, discussion, and inquiry and to, hopefully, inspire future research and teaching.<br /><br /><br />Topics might include:<br /><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Creating medieval or medieval-themed comics </li><li>Sharing resources for accessing medieval or medieval-themed comics</li><li>Study of a particular character across a series or variety of comics</li><li>Study of a particular creator of comics</li><li>Study of a particular series of comics</li><li>Using medieval comics in the classroom or for research</li><li>Using medieval-themed comics in the classroom or for research</li></ul>.<br /><br />We are especially seeking coverage on comics from outside the United States. We also welcome assistance through bibliographies, interviews, and/or resource guides that can be shared with our audience.<br /><br /><br />All proposals for the session must be submitted directly to the organizers, at <a href="mailto:Comics.Get.Medieval@gmail.com">Comics.Get.Medieval@gmail.com</a>, by <b>15 August 2023</b>. <br /><br /><br /><br />Please check out our growing resources on medieval-themed comics at the Medieval Comics Project (<a href="https://medieval-comics-project.blogspot.com/">https://medieval-comics-project.blogspot.com/</a>) and the Arthurian Comics Project (<a href="https://arthur-of-the-comics-project.blogspot.com/">https://arthur-of-the-comics-project.blogspot.com/</a>) websites. We also maintain two listservs of relevance–both the Medieval Comics Discussion List (at <a href="https://groups.io/g/medieval-comixlist">https://groups.io/g/medieval-comixlist</a>) and the Arthurian Comics Discussion List (at <a href="https://groups.io/g/arthurian-comixlist">https://groups.io/g/arthurian-comixlist</a>)--and welcome new members. : <br /><br /><br />Thank you for your interest in our session. Please address questions and/or concerns to the organizers at <a href="mailto:Comics.Get.Medieval@gmail.com">Comics.Get.Medieval@gmail.com</a>. <div><br /></div>The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01669907740972508440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3196936741289145237.post-84792297343394215032023-08-07T03:54:00.004-04:002023-08-07T03:54:35.615-04:00CFP Saving the Day at Kalamazoo: Finding Comics for Medievalist Research and Teaching (A Workshop) (virtual) (9/15/2023; ICMS 5/9-11/2024)<h2 style="text-align: left;">Saving the Day at Kalamazoo: Finding Comics for Medievalist Research and Teaching (A Workshop) (virtual)</h2><br /><br />Call for Presenters - Please Submit Proposals by 15 September 2023<br /><br />59th International Congress on Medieval Studies<br /><br />Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, Michigan)<br /><br />Hybrid event: Thursday, 9 May, through Saturday, 11 May, 2024<br /><br /><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">Saving the Day at Kalamazoo: Finding Comics for Medievalist Research and Teaching (A Workshop) (virtual)</h3><br /><br />Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Comics Project<br /><br />Organizers: Michael A. Torregrossa, Richard Scott Nokes, and Carl Sell<br /><br /><br />The comics medium has much to offer to the field of Medieval Studies, but medievalists are often unfamiliar with comics and how to go about locating them and incorporating them productively into their work. <br /><br /><br />The focus of this workshop will be to present resources for finding comics of relevance to medieval topics (and legitimate scholarship on them) and to allow participants to employ these tools under the guidance of experts in the field. In addition, we hope that this forum will serve as a safe space to ask questions and address concerns about comics and their value.<br /><br /><br />To support our endeavors, we are interested in contributions to the workshop towards helping participants access medieval-themed comics in general as well as approaches to more focused topics relevant to the field of Medieval Studies. We are especially seeking coverage on comics from outside the United States. We also welcome assistance through bibliographies, interviews, and/or resource guides that can be shared with our participants.<br /><br /><br />All proposals for the workshop must be submitted directly to the organizers, at <a href="mailto:Comics.Get.Medieval@gmail.com">Comics.Get.Medieval@gmail.com</a>, by 15 September 2023. <br /><br /><br /><br />Please check out our growing resources on medieval-themed comics at the Medieval Comics Project (<a href="https://medieval-comics-project.blogspot.com/">https://medieval-comics-project.blogspot.com/</a>) and the Arthurian Comics Project (<a href="https://arthur-of-the-comics-project.blogspot.com/">https://arthur-of-the-comics-project.blogspot.com/</a>) websites. We also maintain two listservs of relevance–both the Medieval Comics Discussion List (at <a href="https://groups.io/g/medieval-comixlist">https://groups.io/g/medieval-comixlist</a>) and the Arthurian Comics Discussion List (at <a href="https://groups.io/g/arthurian-comixlist">https://groups.io/g/arthurian-comixlist</a>)--and welcome new members. : <br /><br /><br />Thank you for your interest in our session. Please address questions and/or concerns to the organizers at <a href="mailto:Comics.Get.Medieval@gmail.com">Comics.Get.Medieval@gmail.com</a>. <div><br /></div>The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01669907740972508440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3196936741289145237.post-63559032492483014522023-07-12T21:51:00.002-04:002023-07-12T21:51:25.925-04:00Smith on Dante and Comics Theory<i>New scholarship update:<br /></i><br />Smith, Philip. “Sandro Botticelli’s Visual Language in Illustrations of<i> The Divine Comedy</i>.” <i>Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society</i>, vol. 7, issue 1, Spring 2023, 49-73. <i>Project MUSE</i>, <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/30/article/898386/">https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/30/article/898386/</a>. <br /><br /><br /><br />Abstract <br /><br />“This paper seeks to offer a close reading of Botticelli’s illustrations for The Divine Comedy using Neil Cohn and Thierry Groensteen’s tools of comics analysis. Botticelli uses a visual language, I argue, which is distinct from that of modern comics (what Neil Cohn calls American Visual Language), most notably in its flexible reading paths. Unlike modern comics creators, who use panel ordering as a primary means to convey sequence, Botticelli is not tethered to a specific horizontal reading direction; the vertical book positioning facilitates a narrative path which is not dependent upon a fixed start and end point to a given page but tracks a passage down the page. In the absence of a standard reading path, Botticelli uses a rising perspective and a distinctive color palette for recurring icons to guide his readers through a narrative.”<br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br />The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01669907740972508440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3196936741289145237.post-56783463451902432082023-04-02T20:12:00.007-04:002023-04-02T20:24:40.293-04:00Don Quijote in Comics New and Recent ScholarshipJust came across the first reference in the recent number of <i>International Journal of Comic Art a</i>nd found the second reference in the bibliography.<br /><br /><br />McGowan, Mackenzi. “Quixotic ‘Adaptations’: 21st Century Illustrations and Written Tributes of <i>Don Quijote</i>.:” <i>International Journal of Comic Art,</i> vol. 24, no. 2, Fall/Winter 2022, pp. 337-55. <br /><br />Warrier, Karuna. “A Recreation of Don Quixote: From Comics to Popular Culture.” Ph.D. dissertation. McGill University, 2018. <i>eScholarship@McGill</i>, <a href="https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/concern/theses/37720g31g">https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/concern/theses/37720g31g</a>. <br /><div><br /></div>The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01669907740972508440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3196936741289145237.post-78659534273355128382023-03-02T22:16:00.004-05:002023-03-02T22:16:59.153-05:00New Book: Beowulf in Comic Books and Graphic Novels<p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi72HjEfLDBCnVzTSp5brlm9kOQ6aoIdkV3mkT44SA6oC7WrRUR8yGzAfIrWefmYq3XhUIAFNZAS8ijDOOrnLFfPjJCOIzUgVXxbZvVkW7MxtqThYmHhksUD_30DJNJ_Wsq_bZZUJ2vr0TlgmeYwDLjh2PyomH2SF02Jfw25MIUhjUyjFWlb1j3NQ/s750/BiCBaGN.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi72HjEfLDBCnVzTSp5brlm9kOQ6aoIdkV3mkT44SA6oC7WrRUR8yGzAfIrWefmYq3XhUIAFNZAS8ijDOOrnLFfPjJCOIzUgVXxbZvVkW7MxtqThYmHhksUD_30DJNJ_Wsq_bZZUJ2vr0TlgmeYwDLjh2PyomH2SF02Jfw25MIUhjUyjFWlb1j3NQ/s320/BiCBaGN.jpg" width="213" /></a></b></div><b><br />Cross-posted from <i><a href="https://beowulf-transformed.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Beowulf Transformed: Adaptations and Appropriations of the Beowulf Story</a></i>.</b><p></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Just released this week. Congratulations to Scott Nokes:</i></p><div><br /><h1><i>Beowulf </i>in Comic Books and Graphic Novels</h1>Richard Scott Nokes</div><div><br /></div><div>(Full details and ordering information from the publisher are available from this <a href="https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/beowulf-in-comic-books-and-graphic-novels/" target="_blank">link</a>.)</div><div><br /><br /><h3>Bibliographic Details</h3><br />Format: softcover (6 x 9)<br />Pages: 209<br />Bibliographic Info: 25 photos, notes, bibliography, index<br />Copyright Date: 2023<br />pISBN: 978-1-4766-8778-0 ($49.95)<br />eISBN: 978-1-4766-4842-2<br />Imprint: McFarland<br /><br /><br /><br /><h3>About the Book</h3><br />The legendary story of <i>Beowulf </i>comes to us in only one medieval manuscript with no illustrations. Modern comic book and graphic novel artists have created visual interpretations of <i>Beowulf </i>for decades, both illustrating and altering the classic story to pull out new themes.<br />This book examines the growing canon of <i>Beowulf </i>comic books and graphic novels since the 1940s, and shows the remarkable emergence of new traditions—from re-envisioning the medieval look, to creating new plotlines, and even to transforming his identity. While placing Beowulf in a fantastical medieval setting, a techno-dystopia of the future, or modern-day America, artists have appropriated the tale to comment on social issues such as war, environmental issues, masculinity, and consumerism. Whether Beowulf is fighting new monsters or allying with popular comic book superheroes, these artists are creating a new canon of illustration that redefines <i>Beowulf</i>’s place in our culture.<br /><br /><br /><br /><h3>Table of Contents</h3><br />Acknowledgments vi<br />Timeline of Beowulf Comic Books and Graphic Novels ix<br />Note on Citations xi<br />Preface 1<br />Introduction 5<br />1. The Artist as Manuscript Illustrator 13<br />2. The Further Adventures of Beowulf 74<br />3. Beowulf as Storyteller 96<br />4. Beowulf Transformed 107<br />5. Beowulf for Younger Readers 129<br />Conclusion 172<br />Chapter Notes 177<br />Bibliography 189<br />Index 193<br /><br /><br /><br /><h3>About the Author(s)</h3><br />Richard Scott Nokes is a professor of medieval literature at Troy University in Troy, Alabama. His previous published research has focused on popular medievalism and manuscript culture.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01669907740972508440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3196936741289145237.post-49908235846580251272023-03-02T20:58:00.003-05:002023-03-02T21:05:59.086-05:00Medieval Comics Papers at NeMLA 2023<div style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Please support Casey and Rachael if you are attending this year's meeting of NeMLA.</span></i></div><div style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Northeast Modern Language Association 54th Annual Convention<br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Niagara Falls Convention Center (Niagara Falls, NY)<br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">23-26 March 2023<br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6d2a4eb8-7fff-d002-f220-87e890664370"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">(full schedule at this </span><a href="https://cfplist.com/nemla/Webforms/Schedule.aspx" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">link</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">)</span></span></span></span></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-8e9ef265-7fff-e6c4-dd0e-96eb7adedc53"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Friday, 3/24: Track 7 (10:00-11:30 AM): 7.15 King Arthur's Coconuts: Towards an Understanding of Animals and the Medieval Mind (Olmstead / NCC) - Karen (Casey) Casebier (University of Tennessee-Chattanooga) presents 1st on "Men and Monsters in the Old French Werewolf Lays and </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Merlin</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, the Graphic Novel". </span></span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sunday, 3/26: Track 21 (10:30 AM -12:15 PM): 21.18 Discrimination in Comic Books (Part 2) (Whitney / NCC) - Rachael Warmington (Seton Hall University) presents 3rd on "Oppressive Isms in Comic and Graphic Novel Adaptations of Arthurian Legend".</span></span></p></li></ul><br /></span>The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01669907740972508440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3196936741289145237.post-4117756529720836432022-10-14T00:00:00.006-04:002022-10-14T00:31:56.034-04:00Comics Sessions in November at MAPACA<p>I'm pleased to announce the the Medieval Comics Project is sponsoring another session on medieval-themed comics at this year's meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association to be held online 10-12 November 2022. Access to the conference is through paid registration. Full details are available at MAPACA's website accessible from this <a href="https://mapaca.net/" target="_blank">link</a>. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here the the session details:</p><h2 style="text-align: left;">Comics and Medieval Studies: Reflections on the Field in Commemoration of the 85th Anniversary of Prince Valiant</h2><p>MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE / PANEL</p><p>Friday, November 11, 11:00 am to 12:15 pm (The Paper Nautilus)</p><p>Presentations</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p>Comics in Medievalist Research and Teaching: Pitfalls and Possibilities</p><p>Michael A Torregrossa (Independent scholar)</p><p>Reworkings of Arthurian Legend in Comics: Positive Change and Perpetuation of Isms</p><p>Rachael Kathleen Warmington (Seton Hall University)</p><p>Horrible Hags and Villainous Vixens: Visual images of Female Villains in Medieval Comics</p><p>Diana Vecchio (Widener University)</p></blockquote><p>Session chair</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;">Scott Manning (Independent scholar)</p></blockquote><p><br /></p>The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01669907740972508440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3196936741289145237.post-25199553406494380922022-10-04T00:23:00.004-04:002022-10-04T00:23:40.068-04:00Comics Sessions at ICSM This MonthTwo sessions on medieval-themed comics (one sponsored by us and one independent of us) this month at the International Conference for the Study of Medievalism, a hybrid event hosted by Appalachian State University. The main page for the conference with information on registration and full program can be accessed by clicking this <a href="https://medievalisms.org/conferences/">link</a>. Do reach out if you have any issues. Please support both sessions if you can. <br /><br /><br /><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">Friday, 10/21, at 2-3:30 PM EDT (virtual session)</h3><h4 style="text-align: left;">*XII. Session: Making Comics Matter: A Celebration of Medieval-Themed Comics in Honor of the 85th Anniversary of Prince Valiant. </h4>Sponsored by Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture<br /><br />Presider: Michael Torregrossa, Independent Scholar<br />Richard Scott Nokes, Troy University, “<i>Beowulf </i>Comic Books as a Critique of Academia”<br />Carl Sell, Lock Haven University, “Arthuriana Post-Arthur: DC’s <i>Demon Knights</i> and the Extension of the Matter of Britain”<br />Rachael Warmington, Seton Hall University, From Swords to Lasers: The Evolving Arthurian Mythos in Comics and Graphic Novels<br />Iain A. MacInnes, University of the Highlands and Islands, “Comic Depictions of The Hundred Years’ War”<br /><br /><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">Saturday, 10/22, at 9-10:30 AM EDT (hybrid session)</h3><h4 style="text-align: left;">XIX. Comics/Graphic Novels</h4><br />Presider: Craig Fisher Appalachian State University<br />Karen Casebier, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga “Merlin’s Pseudo-Brythonic Prehistory in <i>Merlin</i>, the Graphic Novel<br />*Karl Fugelso, Towson University, “Direct and Indirect Validation in <i>Green Dante/Green Virgil </i>#1”<br />*Michael A. Torregrossa, Independent Scholar, “Arthuriana vs. the Axis Powers Revisited: Turning the Spotlight on American Comics of World War II<br />*Holly Aldridge, Appalachian State University, “The Fantastic Misadventure of Hawthorne and Bells”<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01669907740972508440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3196936741289145237.post-52803370668296031042022-05-28T23:09:00.004-04:002022-05-28T23:29:37.815-04:00Coming Soon from McFarland: Beowulf in Comic Books and Graphic Novels<h2 style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivBa5Qh-r_FLj3izJ-blnpUGZgOU1XHw-0rnoCWfwJlMj2CCNLfaXmnAtXL_O6zdMd6qtnXA8tVM6EkqFlS5NNKOqQuw5bnAOfqhFcG6hF6gy2BqqTu28uYLh7Nq3mMYBGVqYRn97m3cInPfL3azhZVJc_NLRw-bSs9IjsJqymr76PAgCRGEM_dA/s750/BiCBaGN.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivBa5Qh-r_FLj3izJ-blnpUGZgOU1XHw-0rnoCWfwJlMj2CCNLfaXmnAtXL_O6zdMd6qtnXA8tVM6EkqFlS5NNKOqQuw5bnAOfqhFcG6hF6gy2BqqTu28uYLh7Nq3mMYBGVqYRn97m3cInPfL3azhZVJc_NLRw-bSs9IjsJqymr76PAgCRGEM_dA/s320/BiCBaGN.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><i>Beowulf </i>in Comic Books and Graphic Novels</h2><div>Not Yet Published<br /><br />$39.95<br />New 2022 Pre-Order<br /><br />Available for pre-order at <a href="https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/beowulf-in-comic-books-and-graphic-novels/">https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/beowulf-in-comic-books-and-graphic-novels/</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Richard Scott Nokes<br />Format: softcover (6 x 9)<br />Pages:<br />Bibliographic Info: ca. 24 photos, notes, bibliography, index<br />Copyright Date: 2022<br />pISBN: 978-1-4766-8778-0<br />eISBN: 978-1-4766-4842-2<br />Imprint: McFarland<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Richard Scott Nokes is a professor of medieval literature at Troy University in Troy, Alabama. His previous published research has focused on popular medievalism and manuscript culture.</div>The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01669907740972508440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3196936741289145237.post-2101886924112254302021-11-14T20:44:00.001-05:002021-11-14T20:44:07.300-05:00Murphy on Comics and Teaching<p>Published recently in <i>SMART </i>is a fascinating essay by medievalist and cartoonist Patrick Murphy of Miami University, in Oxford, Ohio. The full issue can be <a href="https://www.wichita.edu/academics/fairmount_college_of_liberal_arts_and_sciences/smart/index.php" target="_blank">purchased directly from <i>SMART</i></a>. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the citation:</p><p>Murphy, Patrick. “Teaching the History of the English Language with Comics.”<i> Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching</i>, vol. 28, no. 1, Spring 2021, pp. 101-21. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01669907740972508440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3196936741289145237.post-75691957469175176402021-05-10T21:18:00.002-04:002021-05-11T00:01:19.488-04:00Our Sponsored Sessions for Kalamazoo 2021<span id="docs-internal-guid-5b6878c1-7fff-5a04-34a2-2109017eafcd"><span id="docs-internal-guid-378e5234-7fff-187f-0b2c-308cde843ed9"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">56th International Congress on Medieval Studies</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hosted online by Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan.</span></p></span></span><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Handouts, notices, call for papers, and a copy of the session agenda can also be accessed </span></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-4a27e03d-7fff-20ca-bffe-e611f12e2545"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">from the shared Google folder at</span></span></span> <a href="https://tinyurl.com/Saving-the-Day-2021">https://tinyurl.com/Saving-the-Day-2021</a>. </span></p><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">106 Tuesday, May 11, 11:00 a.m. EDT</span></p></span><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Saving the Day for Medievalists: Accessing Medieval-Themed Comics in the Twenty-First Century I: Comics and the Classroom (A Roundtable)</span></h1><span id="docs-internal-guid-818c2557-7fff-c8a6-7c88-246ef8b85d18"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sponsor: Medieval Comics Project; Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture</span></p></span><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Organizer: Michael A. Torregrossa, Independent Scholar</span></p><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 13.596pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Presider: Richard Scott Nokes, Troy Univ.</span></h2><br /><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 13.596pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Presenters:</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A roundtable discussion with Dustin M. Frazier Wood, Univ. of Roehampton; Justin Wigard, Michigan State Univ.; Kara L. Maloney, Canisius College; Genevieve Pigeon, Univ. du Québec à Montréal; and Carl B. Sell, Lock Haven Univ.</span></p><br /><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 13.596pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dustin M. Frazier Wood, University of Roehampton</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Comics and the Canon: Medieval and Medievalist Texts in the Undergraduate Literature Classroom</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dustin M. Frazier Wood is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Roehampton in London. He holds a PhD in English and Art History from the University of St Andrews, an MPhil in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic from the University of Cambridge, and a BA in Liberal Arts from Bethany College in West Virginia. His research focuses on medievalism in English culture c1600-c1800, with a particular emphasis on the interplay of textual and visual studies in antiquarian culture. He has published articles on Anglo-Saxonist drama and visual art, on early modern Old English translators, and on antiquarian Old English studies. His book </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anglo-Saxonism and the Idea of Englishness in Eighteenth-Century Britain</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> has just been published by Boydell and Brewer. </span></p><br /><br /><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 13.596pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Justin Wigard, Michigan State University</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Arthurian Legend, Animal-Centric Illustration, and Play in David Petersen’s </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mouse Guard</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Justin Wigard is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at Michigan State University, where he works with and teaches popular culture, game studies, comic studies, children’s literature, and digital humanities in the literature classroom. His work covers a wide range of subjects, including the Hallmark Channel’s Garage Sale Mystery film series (co-written with fellow grad student Mitch Ploskonka); professional wrestling and Street Fighter; chronotopal representations of feminism in Marvel’s Jessica Jones; the visual rhetoric of dinosaurs in Calvin and Hobbes; monstrous motherhood in Neil Gaiman’s Coraline and Beowulf comics; and digital visualizations of early-Modern Mughal biographies. Justin’s dissertation focuses on utilizing, and developing, video games as learning tools within the classroom.</span></p><br /><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 13.596pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kara Larson Maloney, Canisius College (she/her/hers)</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Aquaman to Arthur: How the Round Table Lives on In the Classroom</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dr. Kara Larson Maloney is an adjunct professor of English at several Buffalo-area colleges. She received her PhD from Binghamton University in 2015, focusing on chivalry and identity in King Arthur’s court in medieval British and French texts. While her current teaching duties include convincing an 8 year old to actually do the schoolwork assigned, Dr. Maloney enjoys researching both medieval and modern Arthurian adaptations, including television, film, and graphic novels. She’s especially happy when she can bring this work into the classroom. </span></p><br /><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 13.596pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Geneviève Pigeon, Université du Québec à Montréal</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From Medieval Texts to Contemporary Comics: Sacred Spaces and Communication with the Other World</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Geneviève Pigeon holds a Masters Degree in Medieval Literature and a PhD in Religious Studies, with a focus on Arthurian Britain and myth theories. She is a researcher with the Centre de Recherche Bretonne et Celtique (Rennes, Brest ; France), the Centre de Recherche International sur l’Imaginaire (CRI) and teaches in the Religious Studies department at Université du Québec à Montréal. She is interested in better understanding how humans use space and natural elements to create order out of chaos through popular narratives, whether they are promoted by institutions (religious, political) or not. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Geneviève is also the owner and general director of a publishing house founded in 1986 (L’instant même).</span></p><br /><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 13.596pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Carl B. Sell, Lock Haven University</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Medievalist Comics, ComiXology, and eReaders: Embracing Digital Accessibility and </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the Uses of eReaders in Scholarship and Teaching</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 18pt; margin-top: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dr. Carl B. Sell is the TRIO SSS Writing Specialist at Lock Haven University. Carl’s research explores appropriations of Arthurian legend narratives, characters, and themes in popular culture as an extension of the medieval adaptive tradition. He serves as a member of the advisory boards for The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture and the Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Matter of Britain, and he is the author of various film and literature reviews on medievalist and scholarly blogs and his own website, as well as journal articles on Arthurian topics and DC’s Aquaman.</span></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">142 Tuesday, May 11, 3:00 p.m. EDT</span></p><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 17.644pt; margin-top: 41.216pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Saving the Day for Medievalists: Accessing Medieval-Themed Comics in the Twenty-First Century II: Comics Scholarship (A Roundtable)</span></h1><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sponsor: Medieval Comics Project; Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Organizer: Michael A. Torregrossa, Independent Scholar</span></p><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 13.596pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Presider: Carl B. Sell, Lock Haven Univ.</span></h2><br /><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 13.596pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Presenters:</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A roundtable discussion with Richard Scott Nokes, Troy Univ.; Tirumular (Drew) Narayanan, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison; Karen Casebier, Univ. of Tennessee–Chattanooga; Scott Manning, Independent Scholar; and Michael A. Torregrossa.</span></p><br /><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 13.596pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Richard Scott Nokes, Troy University</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Beowulf</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in Comic Books and Graphic Novels</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dr. Richard Scott Nokes is an Associate Professor of medieval literature at Troy University. He earned his B.A. from Butler University (1992) and PhD from Wayne State University (2002). He taught English in Korea for two years, and developed the American Studies program at Klaipėda University in Lithuania. After being hired at Troy University in 2003, he won a Fulbright-Hayes award to study the Maya epic in the Guatemala highlands (2003), was a regional finalist for the White House Fellows program (2007), founded Witan Publishing (2011), and has been featured several times in </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Chronicle of Higher Education</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">His current book project is a study of comic book adaptations of </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Beowulf</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> His other recent book chapters and articles include a study of medieval leechbooks for </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Health: A History</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in the Oxford Philosophical Concepts series and an article on “Medieval and Public Discourse” for The Heroic Age. As Senior Academic Editor for Witan Publishing, he has edited and published a number of books on subjects ranging from an edition of </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Beowulf </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Formal Combats in the Fourteenth Centur</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">y. Most recently, he has published editions of much older works, such as Ælfric of Eynsham’s Letter to Sigeweard and Elizabeth Elstob’s “English-Saxon Homily on the Birth-day of St. Gregory.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In addition to his academic work, his outreach into fan culture has earned him the title “Professor Awesome” among non-academics. He netcasts on “Professor Awesome and the Minions of Doom” and is co-host of the PopMedieval Podcast. His most recent popular novel, a work of whimsical horror entitled </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From A to Zombie</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, is published under the pseudonym “Professor Awesome.”</span></p><br /><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 13.596pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tirumular “Drew” Narayanan, University of Wisconsin—Madison</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Tarzan the Crusader?” Visualizing the White Cross and the Raced Crescent in the Lord of the Jungle’s Comic Book and Pulp Illustration Appearances </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[no bio provided]</span></p><br /><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 13.596pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Karen (Casey) Casebier, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga</span></h2></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">French Arthurian Comics and the Contemporary Art of </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Inventio</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (access the handout at </span></span><a href="https://tinyurl.com/Saving-the-Day-2021"><span style="font-family: inherit;">https://tinyurl.com/Saving-the-Day-2021</span></a><span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">)</span></span></p><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Karen (Casey) Casebier is an Associate Professor of French at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Her principal area of research is the conflation of the sacred and the profane across different genres of thirteenth-century French literature, including saints’ lives, romance and the </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">fabliaux</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Her research interests include manuscript studies, bestiaries and contemporary interpretations of Arthurian literature. She recently published an article on representations of gender in Arthurian comics for </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Synergies</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> as well as an article on resurrection motifs in Marie de France for </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Le Cygne.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> In her copious free time, she is working on a series of unpublished, unedited miracle tales in a 14</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 0.6em; vertical-align: super;">th</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-century manuscript branch of </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">La Vie des pères</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Useful links:</span></p></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Soleil Productions: </span><a href="https://www.editions-soleil.fr/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></a></span><a href="https://www.editions-soleil.fr/">https://www.editions-soleil.fr/</a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 10pt;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">BDthèque:</span><a href="https://www.bdtheque.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></a></span><a href="https://www.bdtheque.com/">https://www.bdtheque.com/</a></p><span><br /><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 13.596pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scott Manning, Independent Scholar</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lessons Learned in Publishing Scholarship on Comic Books</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scott Manning is an independent scholar and the VP of Conference for the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association. He is published in </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Year’s Work in Medievalism</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Studies in Medievalism</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Scott has several forthcoming works including a chapter in </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The DC Universe</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to be published by McFarland. </span></p><br /><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 13.596pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Michael A. Torregrossa, Independent Scholar (he/him/his)</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What If Merlin Was Mentor to Stephen Strange?: Philip DeGuere's </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dr. Strange</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (1978) and Marvel Comics' Matter of Britain</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Beowulf</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dracula</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Frankenstein</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. In addition, Michael is the founder of The 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; he also serves as editor for these organizations' various blogs and moderator of their discussion lists. Besides these activities, Michael is also active in the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association and organizes sessions for their annual conference in the fall. Michael is currently Monsters and the Monstrous Area Chair for NEPCA, but he previously served as its Fantastic (Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror) Area Chair, a position he held from 2009-2018.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span>The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01669907740972508440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3196936741289145237.post-14654955944392148272021-05-04T02:25:00.002-04:002021-05-04T02:28:41.538-04:00Call for Responses: Comics and Medieval Studies Survey (7/1/2021)<i>Please forgive the cross-posting.</i><div><br /><h2 style="text-align: left;">Call for Responses: Comics and Medieval Studies Survey</h2><br />The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture--in an attempt to further our outreach efforts--seeks to gather some information on experiences with the comics medium and uses of that material by teachers and/or scholars of Medieval Studies.<br /><br />If you're willing to share, please complete the survey at <a href="https://tinyurl.com/Medieval-Comics-Survey">https://tinyurl.com/Medieval-Comics-Survey</a> no later than 1 July 2021.<br /><br />More information on the Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture can be found at <a href="https://medievalinpopularculture.blogspot.com/">https://medievalinpopularculture.blogspot.com/</a>. <br /><br />The Medieval Comics Project is based at <a href="https://medieval-comics-project.blogspot.com/">https://medieval-comics-project.blogspot.com/</a>. We also maintain a listserv, the Medieval Comics Project Discussion List. Please sign-up at <a href="https://groups.io/g/medieval-comixlist">https://groups.io/g/medieval-comixlist</a>. <br /><br /><br /><br />If you have any questions or concerns on the survey or other related matters, please reach out to us at <a href="mailto:MedievalinPopularCulture@gmail.com">MedievalinPopularCulture@gmail.com</a> or <a href="mailto:Comics.Get.Medieval@gmail.com">Comics.Get.Medieval@gmail.com</a>. <br /><br /><br /><br />Michael A. Torregrossa, Founder, Blog Editor, and Listserv Moderator, and The Comics Get Medieval Sessions Organizer</div><div><br /></div>The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01669907740972508440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3196936741289145237.post-74425910624710470252021-04-29T12:32:00.007-04:002021-04-29T12:32:50.092-04:00CFP 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)<p>S<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">aving the Day
for Robin Hood Studies: Perspectives and Reflections on Comics Adapted from the
Matter of the Greenwood (Roundtable)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">For Global
Outlaws: The Biennial Conference of the International Association for Robin
Hood Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Tentative Date:
3-5 December 2021.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Medium: VIRTUAL.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Deadline for
Proposals: 11 October 2021.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>According to a recent search of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Grand Comics Database</i>, 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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Please send
proposals of approximately 250 words and a short academic biography to the
panel organizers at <a href="mailto:Comics.Get.Medieval@gmail.com">Comics.Get.Medieval@gmail.com</a>.
We will forward the full panel details to the conference committee.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">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 <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://medieval-comics-project.blogspot.com/">https://medieval-comics-project.blogspot.com/</a></span>
and <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://medievalinpopularculture.blogspot.com/">https://medievalinpopularculture.blogspot.com/</a></span>.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01669907740972508440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3196936741289145237.post-17461564361150932692021-04-15T21:44:00.001-04:002021-04-15T21:44:14.820-04:00The Comics Get Medieval This Weekend at Keene State<p><i> Here are the details of our upcoming panel this weekend. Further details and registration information are available on the <a href="https://www.keene.edu/campus/events/medieval/" target="_blank">conference website</a>.</i></p><p><br /></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">41st Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum: Scent and
Fragrance in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Virtual event, hosted by Keene State University, Keene, New Hampshire<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Friday and Saturday, 16-17 April 2021<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Session VI--Saturday, 17 April from 3:00 PM to 4:20 PM<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Arthurian Comics (Breakout Option C) <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Moderator: Hayley Cotter, University of
Massachusetts—Amherst <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">From Canon to Comics: Adaptations of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sir Gawain and the Green Knight</i> in the Comics <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Medium <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Michael Torregrossa, Independent Scholar <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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, <i>Beowulf</i>, <i>Dracula</i>, and <i>Frankenstein</i>.
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. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Old Norse Gods and Ethnically Different Slaves in the Comic
Book Series <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Thorgal</i> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Anna Czarnowus, University of Silesia, Katowice (Poland) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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).</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Vampires, Zombies, Aliens, and Superheroes: Reimaginings of
Arthurian Legend in Comics <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Rachael K. Warmington, Seton Hall University<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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, <i>Watchung
Review</i>. 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. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><br /><p></p>The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01669907740972508440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3196936741289145237.post-47856418248776544852021-03-25T12:57:00.004-04:002021-03-25T12:57:43.787-04:00New Robin Hood Comic<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjajSF2X_x6b0mlRTS9XN2UCcBne6aByVnDZiNFvPYkd1ZfE-jRrt5UAZKv4H4vVVSgH7DUiRt7O4qDexvwV6hc2C3-g09DSoTs12cGh8LY7UzsTZtprJQaejZl_mVhyXMlVGlpMNgglA/s668/Nott1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="668" data-original-width="437" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjajSF2X_x6b0mlRTS9XN2UCcBne6aByVnDZiNFvPYkd1ZfE-jRrt5UAZKv4H4vVVSgH7DUiRt7O4qDexvwV6hc2C3-g09DSoTs12cGh8LY7UzsTZtprJQaejZl_mVhyXMlVGlpMNgglA/w131-h200/Nott1.jpg" width="131" /></a></div>Mad Cave Studios has just published the first issue of a dark reinterpretation of the legend in <a fg_scanned="1" href="https://madcavestudios.com/product/nottingham-1/" style="font-style: italic;">Nottingham</a> from writer David Hazan and artist Shane Connery Volk. <p></p><p>Be warned, it is violent and bloody. </p><p>A <a fg_scanned="1" href="https://www.comixology.com/Nottingham-Vol-1/comics-series/154457?ref=cHVibGlzaGVyL3ZpZXcvZGVza3RvcC9saXN0L3Nlcmllc0xpc3Q">digital version</a> can be purchased from comiXology. </p><div></div>The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01669907740972508440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3196936741289145237.post-52445936257071774602020-06-07T22:45:00.000-04:002020-06-07T22:46:26.614-04:00Comics scholarship in From Iceland to the Americas<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>My thanks to Kevin J. Harty for alerting me of this collection, which contains two items of interest:</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>From Iceland to the Americas: Vinland and Historical Imagination </b></i></span><br />
<a href="https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526128751/">https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526128751/</a> (with full contents) <br />
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Edited by Tim William Machan and Jón Karl Helgason<br />
Book Information <br />
Format: Hardcover<br />
ISBN: 978-1-5261-2875-1<br />
Pages: 304 <br />
Publisher: Manchester University Press<br />
Series: <a href="https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/manchester-medieval-literature-and-culture">Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture</a> <br />
Price: £80.00 / $120.00<br />
Published Date: April 2020<br />
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Description <br />
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This
volume investigates the reception of a small historical fact with
wide-ranging social, cultural and imaginative consequences. Inspired by
Leif Eiriksson's visit to Vinland in about the year 1000, novels,
poetry, history, politics, arts and crafts, comics, films and video
games have all come to reflect rising interest in the medieval Norse and
their North American presence. Uniquely in reception studies, From
Iceland to the Americas approaches this dynamic between Nordic history
and its reception by bringing together international authorities on
mythology, language, film and cultural studies, as well as on the
literature that has dominated critical reception. Collectively, the
chapters not only explore the connections among medieval Iceland and the
modern Americas, but also probe why medieval contact has become a
modern cultural touchstone. <br />
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Contents <br />
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11 'Who is this upstart Hitler?': Norse gods and American comics during the Second World War - Jón Karl Helgason<br />
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12 'There's no going back': <i>The Dark Knight</i> and Balder's descent to Hel - Dustin Geeraert<br />
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Editors <br />
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Tim William Machan is Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame<br />
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Jón Karl Helgason is Professor of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Iceland<br />
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<br />The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01669907740972508440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3196936741289145237.post-81112820832587898862020-06-05T00:07:00.001-04:002020-06-05T00:07:33.952-04:00New Scholarship in The Year's Work in Medievalism 33 (2018)The latest volume of <i>The Year's Work in Medievalism</i> includes two items of interest to scholars of medieval comics:<br />
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The Year's Work in Medievalism 33 (2018)<br /><br />Edited by Valerie Johnson & Renée Ward, with Laura Harrison<br /><br /><br />Karl Fugelso: A Mickey Mouse Inferno: Medievalist Legacies and the Marketing of the Middle Ages <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1V12UIm1N94fA52CB9A2LteRmgU380B8q">pdf</a><br /><br />Scott Manning: Warriors “Hedgehogged” in Arrows: Crusaders, Samurai, and Wolverine in Medieval Chronicles and Popular Culture <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1oEkRZvs0f-nhd2qoUrCiyle7ddFGSq5s">pdf</a> <br /><br /><br />
The complete volume can be accessed at <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/theyearsworkinmedievalism/all-issues/33-2018">https://sites.google.com/site/theyearsworkinmedievalism/all-issues/33-2018</a>.<br />
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<br />The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01669907740972508440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3196936741289145237.post-21451297130518441382020-05-30T19:38:00.000-04:002020-05-30T19:38:45.472-04:00CFP Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy in comics and sequential art (7/31/2021)<br /><i>The following call came on the Comix Scholars List earlier this month.</i><br /><br /> <br /><br />-------- Original Message --------<br /> Subject: [COMIXSCHOLARS-L] Call for contributions: Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy in comics and sequential art<br /> From: Mattia Petricola <<a href="mailto:mattia.petricola@gmail.com">mattia.petricola@gmail.com</a>><br /> Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2020, 1:31 PM<br /> To: <a href="mailto:COMIXSCHOLARS-L@lists.ufl.edu">COMIXSCHOLARS-L@lists.ufl.edu</a><br /> CC: <br /><br />(Apologies for cross-posting) <br /><br />Dear all, <br /><br />I recently became involved as co-editor in a project on the intermedial reception of Dante Alighieri headed by Caroline Fischer (University of Pau, France). The project stems from a panel originally held at the 2019 ESCL (European Society of Comparative Literature) Conference in Lille (France) and will result in a collection of articles. The articles will be published by the end of the year in Between (<a href="https://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/index">https://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/index</a>), the open-access, peer-reviewed journal of the Italian Society of Comparative Literature, in the wider context of an international number on intermediality edited by Massimo Fusillo (University of L'Aquila, Italy) and Hans-Joachim Backe (IT University of Copenhagen). <br /><br />In order to further enrich our focus section on Dante and intermediality, we are looking for contributions in English or French (max 40.000 characters) exploring the intermedial reception of Dante (not limited to the Divine Comedy) in comics/graphic novels/manga/sequential art. The deadline for article submissions is July 30, 2020. If you are interested, please write to <a href="mailto:mattia.petricola@gmail.com">mattia.petricola@gmail.com</a> as soon as you can with a short abstract and bio. <br /><br />If you have any questions or require any further information, please let me know. <br /><br />Kind regards, <br /><br />Mattia Petricola <br /><br />________________________ <br /><br />Mattia Petricola <br /><br />University of L'Aquila <br /><br />Department of Humanities <br /><br /><a href="mailto:mattia.petricola@gmail.com">mattia.petricola@gmail.com</a> <br /><br />ᐧ<br />The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01669907740972508440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3196936741289145237.post-55424781306685981912020-03-18T16:42:00.000-04:002020-03-18T16:42:34.689-04:00Kalamazoo 2020 Update<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This year's International Congress on Medieval Studies has been cancelled due to the coronavirus. Full details (and a request for donations) at <a href="https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress">https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress</a>.<br />
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The Medieval Institute has offered to accept any cancelled session for the 2021 congress.<br />
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The Medieval Comics Project was set to run a two-session roundtable this year.The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01669907740972508440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3196936741289145237.post-55222043017472412132019-08-19T20:54:00.000-04:002019-08-19T20:54:45.186-04:00 News of CFP Saving the Day for Medievalists: Accessing Medieval-Themed Comics in the Twenty-first Century (Roundtable) (9/15/19; Kalamazoo 5/7-10/2020)The Medieval Comics Project is sponsoring a session for next year's International Congress on Medieval Studies. The full details on the call for paper can be found on the Making Medievalisms Matter site at <a href="https://medievalinpopularculture.blogspot.com/2019/08/cfpsaving-day-for-medievalists.html">https://medievalinpopularculture.blogspot.com/2019/08/cfpsaving-day-for-medievalists.html</a>.<br />
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Paper proposals are due by 15 September 2019.<br />
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Thanks for your support of our endeavors.The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01669907740972508440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3196936741289145237.post-51377828384398724292019-07-07T00:27:00.001-04:002019-07-07T00:27:33.330-04:00Comics Get Medieval at Kalamazoo 2020!I am pleased to announce that the organizers of the International Congress on Medieval Studies have approved part of our proposal for sessions on medieval-themed comics for their 2020 assembly.<br />
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Details on our session, "Saving the Day for Medievalists: Accessing Medieval-Themed Comics in the Twenty-first Century (Roundtable),", will be forthcoming.<br />
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Michael Torregrossa<br />
Founder, Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular CultureThe Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01669907740972508440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3196936741289145237.post-66819503701567106052018-10-27T23:48:00.000-04:002018-10-27T23:48:23.786-04:00Hurlbut on Medieval Comics<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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From a recent number of the <i>International Journal of Comic Art</i>:<br />
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The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01669907740972508440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3196936741289145237.post-9193344516785560112018-09-22T22:49:00.001-04:002018-09-22T22:49:53.374-04:00Morrison on Beowulf. Leggenda cristiana dell’antica DanimarcaNew well-illustrated article on <i>Beowulf </i>in the comics:<br />
<br />Morrison, Susan Signe. “Grendel’s Mother in Fascist Italy: <i>Beowulf </i>in a Catholic Youth Publication.” <i>International Journal of Comics Art</i>, Vol. 20, no. 1, Spring/Summer 2018, pp. 331-48.<br />
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Morrison includes the following information about the essay on her blog (<a href="http://www.susansignemorrison.com/blog.htm?post=1084681">http://www.susansignemorrison.com/blog.htm?post=1084681</a>):<br />
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I’m delighted that my article “Grendel’s Mother in Fascist Italy: <i>Beowulf </i>in a Catholic Youth Publication,” has just been published in the <i>International Journal of Comic Art</i>. This essay focuses on a 1940-41 Italian comic book version by Enrico Basari (author) and Kurt Caesar (illustrator). An anti-semitic portrayal of Grendel’s Mother grows out of German views of <i>Beowulf </i>in the 1930s. The anti-semitic overtones present in German Beowulf youth translations and adaptations sympathetic to Nazi German propaganda, produced in the decade before and simultaneously with the publication of the comic under scrutiny here, likewise crop up under the Italian fascist reign. The fraught nature of Grendel’s Mother takes on insidious dimensions in Enrico Basari’s <i>Beowulf. Leggenda cristiana dell’antica Danimarca</i>, appearing in serial form from Oct. 5, 1940-Jan. 25, 1941. It was featured in <i>Il Vittorioso</i>, a Catholic youth publication, “a nationalist publication often distributed through Catholic parishes” (Calderón, 2007:112), that attempted to go beyond mere Fascist propaganda for young people. Just how could an anti-semitic inflected <i>Beowulf </i>comic have affected youth readers? </blockquote>
The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01669907740972508440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3196936741289145237.post-2274422373173561462018-09-22T21:55:00.000-04:002018-09-22T21:55:11.757-04:00Sell on Aquaman at MAPACA 2018Advisory board member Carl Sell is presenting a paper at the upcoming MAPACA conference on Aquaman and the Arthurian tradition. Here are the details from the online program at <a href="https://mapaca.net/conference">https://mapaca.net/conference</a>. (He presents in the session just before our comics roundtable.)<br />
<br />Sell, Carl. “The Once and Future King of Atlantis: The Arthurian Figure in Geoff Johns’s <i>Aquaman: Death of a King</i>.” Presented as part of “Dark Arts,” a session of the Medieval & Renaissance Area. 29th Annual Conference of the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association, Lord Baltimore Hotel, Baltimore, Maryland. 10 November 2018. <br /><br /> <br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">
“Writer Geoff Johns had arguably one of the most famous runs of DC’s <i>Aquaman </i>title in 2013. Arthur Curry, the titular hero and King of Atlantis, had previously been derided as a second-rate, low-powered hero without a compelling backstory or link to any serious subject matter. Geoff Johns changed all of that with an Arthur Curry who draws from the most obvious source material presented to the half-human, half-Atlantian king, that of the other—and perhaps more famously celebrated—King Arthur. While Johns drew from the Arthurian mythos as a whole rather than any one specific textual rendering of the legendary King of the Britons—save, perhaps, Sir Thomas Malory’s text via Johns’s title—the Atlantian King Arthur is confronted with an Arthurian return, a Mordred-like figure, a courtly betrayal, and a “final battle” for the kingship just as his namesake is in the many accounts of the famous British king. Johns complicates the established Arthurian cycle in <i>Death of a King</i>, however, in this collected edition of Aquaman #17-19 and #21-25, Johns introduces a rival Arthurian figure which I have termed the “Dark Arthur.” The Dark Arthur figure is a returned Atlantian king of old who sees his realm in peril, but instead of leading his people to salvation, his murderous rage sparks a war between those who follow him and those who seek to embrace the peaceful future of King Arthur Curry. The dual Arthurian figures of Johns’s writing are pulled straight from his larger concept of his mythic sourcetexts, and I argue that, to fully understand the Aquaman presented in these pages, the reader must be fully aware of the Arthurian figure and its literary history from which Johns draws.”</blockquote>
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