Anita Obermeier and the UNM Institute for Medieval Studies hosted the 26th Annual International Congress on Medievalism on October 21-22, 2011.
The program focused on “Medievalism, Arthuriana, and Landscapes of Enchantment” and included exciting plenaries by Elizabeth Sklar (Wayne State University) on “King Arthur in Kentucke: Alternative Arthurian History” and Kevin Harty (La Salle University) on “Walt in Sherwood; or, The Sheriff of Disneyland.”
The program also featured a number of English department participants:
Megan Abrahamson: “I do know Celtic things”: J. R. R. Tolkien, the Accidental Celticist
Justin Brock: Through Bogey, Hoodies, and Muscular Men: Examining the Visual Tradition of Dante in the Twenty-First Century
Bruce Carroll: The Renaissance Nation State Prefigured: Law in Malory’s Le Morte Darthur
Emilee J. Howland-Davis: Hermione Granger—La belle inconnue: A Transgendered Look at the Modern Lancelot
Christine Kozikowski: Ripping off the Bodice in Medieval Romance Novels: Feminist Heroines?
Lisa Myers: T. H. White and Malory’s Forest of Adventure
Anita Obermeier: Merlin’s Incubus Conception and Magic in Shakespeare and Rowley’s Birth of Merlin
Janelle Ortega: Lying in the Bed you Make: The Malorian Allusions of Evelyn Waugh
Marisa Sikes: Medievalisms in Roleplaying Games: Long Live the King
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