Here are the details of our sponsored sessions for next week's meeting on the Northeast Modern Language Association.
The full schedule can be accessed at http://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention.html.
Northeast Modern Language Association 51st Annual Convention, 5-8 March 2020
Marriott Copley Place, Boston, Massachusetts
Friday, Mar 6 Track 8, 11:45-01:00
Location: FAIRFIELD (Media Equipped)
8.10 Afterlives of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Sponsored by the Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Matter of Britain
Organized by Michael A. Torregrossa (Independent Scholar)
Chair: Michael Torregrossa, Independent Scholar
American & Cultural Studies and Media Studies
"Sir Boss, His Successors, and His Surrogates: Classifying Adaptations of Connecticut Yankee" Michael Torregrossa, Independent Scholar
"‘Thou Swell’: The Power of Words (and Music) as a Connecticut Yankee goes Back to the Future" Tammy Rose, Independent Scholar
"A Secret Agent in King Arthur's Court: MacGyver Saves the 7th Century from Nuclear Proliferation" Emily Race, Sewanee: The University of the South
Saturday, Mar 7, Track 17, 03:15-04:30
Location: HARVARD (Media Equipped)
17.19 Does the Matter of Britain (Still) Matter? (Roundtable)
Sponsored by the Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Matter of Britain
Organized by Michael A. Torregrossa (Independent Scholar)
Chair: Christopher Berard, Providence College
Cultural Studies and Media Studies & British
"The Figure of King Arthur in the 21st Century" Christopher Berard, Providence College
"Is There a Place for the Matter of Britain in Contemporary Arthurian Narrative?" Rachael Warmington, Seton Hall University
[WITHDRAWN] "Death Redeems Us Not from Tongues: Thomas Hughes and the 16th-century Crisis of Arthurian History" Liam Thomas Daley, University of Maryland College Park
"From Round Table Tournaments to Renaissance Festivals: Arthuriana and the Hyperreal" Theresa FitzPatrick, Concordia University Saint Paul
"'And What Everybody Else Needs, Too': Seeking the Grail in The Unwritten" Emily Race, Sewanee: The University of the South
