NeMLA Sponsored Sessions Schedule

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[WITHDRAWN] "Death Redeems Us Not from Tongues: Thomas Hughes and the 16th-century Crisis of Arthurian History" Liam Thomas Daley, University of Maryland College Park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

Arthuriana 22.2 Now Available

Arthuriana 22.2 (Summer 2012) is now available:

Famous in Song and Story Arthurian Legends in Heather Dale's Music

Ann F. Howey


T.H. White, The Once and Future King, and the Scientific Method

Jake La Jeunesse


Castles and the Architecture of Gender in Malory's 'Knight of the Cart'

Molly Martin


Geoffrey's 'Very Old Book' and Penda of Mercia

Edwin Pace


Lost in the Woods: Grey Areas in Malory and the Stanzaic Morte Arthure

Samantha Rayner


An Archaic Tale-Type Determinant of Chrétien's Fisher King and Grail

William Sayers



REVIEWS

Siân Echard, The Arthur of Medieval Latin Literature: The Development and Dissemination of the Arthurian Legend in Medieval Latin

William Sayers


Joseph Glaser, trans., with Christine Chism, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Derek Pearsall


William Kuskin, Symbolic Caxton: Literary Culture and Print Capitalism

Paul J. Patterson


Arthur Phillips, The Tragedy of Arthur

Claire M. Busse


Rhiannon Purdie and Michael Cichon, eds., Medieval Romance, Medieval Contexts

Nicole Clifton


Gaêlle Zussa, Merlin, un myth médiéval recyclé dans la production culturelle contemporaine

Stephen Knight