Notice Re-Creating Camelots at Kalamazoo 2024

Re-Creating Camelot? Community-Building in Arthurian Studies (A Roundtable) (Virtual)

59th International Congress on Medieval Studies (you must register to attend)

Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI)

Virtual Session

Session 474: Saturday, 11 May 2024, from 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM


Co-Sponsored by Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Matter of Britain and

International Arthurian Society, North American Branch (IAS/NAB)


Co-Organizers: Michael A. Torregrossa, Bristol Community College, and Joseph M. Sullivan, Univ. of Oklahoma


Presider: Carl B. Sell, Univ. of Pittsburgh 


(This session will be recorded.)

Paper 1:

“There Are One or Two Changes I'd Like You to Consider”: The Elusive Attempts to Revise Lerner and Lowe’s Camelot in Contemporary America

Jarrod DePrado, Sacred Heart University 


Pronouns: He/Him/His

Jarrod DePrado is an instructor at Sacred Heart University in the Departments of Languages & Literature and Catholic Studies. He received his graduate degree from Boston University in English and American Literature. His area of specialization is transhistorical drama—bridging Shakespeare, 20th- & 21st-Century American Drama, and musical theatre—with a focus on adaptation studies and American politics. He will begin his PhD in English at the University of Connecticut in the Fall.

Paper 2:

Tournament of "Diversity": Inclusion, Expulsion and Panic

Tirumular (Drew) Narayanan, University of Wisconsin-Madison


Pronouns: He/Him/His


Drew Narayanan is a PhD Candidate in Art History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His dissertation project focuses on the “Sultan of Babylon” as historical and fantastical racialized construction in 14th and 15th century Latin Christian manuscripts. He has also won a prize for his peer-reviewed article titled “Sir Palamedes the Indelibly ‘Saracen’ Knight: Heraldry, Monstrosity, and Race in Fifteenth-Century Arthurian Romance Manuscripts.”



Paper 3:

“(Re)creating Camelot:  Scholars, Networks, and the Academy”

Richard Utz, Georgia Institute of Technology


Pronouns: he, him, hine, hisse, hes, him-seluen

Richard Utz is Professor of Medievalism Studies and Interim Dean in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at Georgia Tech. His contributions to the Roundtable topic include "The Chameleon Principle: Reflections on the Status of Arthurian Studies in the Academy," Arthuriana (2007) and Medievalism: A Manifesto (2017).