JIAS 2022

Apologies for having missed posting this sooner.


The latest issue of the Journal of the International Arthurian Society was released in the fall of 2022 as a special issue on Arthurian Medievalism. It includes studies on comics, fiction, and film. Copies of the journal are sent to members of the society, and access to individual articles is possible through the publisher De Gruyter through the links below. 

Volume 10 Issue 1

Issue of Journal of the International Arthurian Society

CONTENTS
JOURNAL OVERVIEW

Contents

Publicly Available September 8, 2022

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Editorial
Leah Tether, Samantha J. Rayner
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Guest Editors’ Foreword: Arthurian Medievalism
Andrew B. R. Elliott, Renée Ward
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Desire, Consent and Misogyny in Post-medieval Adaptations of the Pelleas and Ettarde Story
Hannah Piercy
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Notes Towards a Close Reading of David Lowery’s 2021 Film The Green Knight
Kevin J. Harty
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‘An Ancient Procession’: Memory, Myth and Movement in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant
Alexie Labrom
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Restorying Arthurian Legend: Space, Place and Time in Once & Future and Legendborn
Elizabeth Elliott
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Deviant Characters and the Limits of Inventio in ‘Le Chevalier et la Charrette’
Karen Casebier
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Obituary
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Geoffrey Ashe (1923–2022)
Scott Lloyd
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Simon Gaunt (1959–2021)
Thomas Hinton
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Willem Pieter Gerritsen (1935–2019)
Bart Besamusca
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Douglas Kelly (1934–2022)
Keith Busby
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Angus Johnston Kennedy (1940–2021)
Nadia Margolis
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Nigel F. Palmer (1946–2022)
Almut Suerbaum
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Ursula Schulze (1936–2020)
Ricarda Bauschke-Hartung
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Fiona Tolhurst (1968–2021)
K. S. Whetter
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Notices
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Biennial JIAS Essay Prize Competition 2023
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XXVIIth International Arthurian Congress, Aix-en-Provence, France, 11–18 July 2024
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Arthuriana Fall 2022

Sorry for being late on this.

Here are the contents from the last number of Arthuriana for Fall 2022.

Subscriptions can be ordered from the journal home page accessible at this link. The journal can also be accessed from Project MUSE and JSTOR if you have access to an institutional subscription.

Table of Contents
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Safe Behind Doors? Sleep Deprivation in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 3

Kristin L. Bovaird-Abbo



Exploration of Rationality: Der Stricker’s Contributions to the Intellectual Revolution in the Thirteenth Century, or, the Transformation of the Arthurian World

Albrecht Classen



Seminal Semiotics and Pornographic Displeasures in David Lowery’s The Green Knight (2021) 41

Tison Pugh



‘First You Get the Money’: Anachronism, Brexit, and King Arthur in Lavie Tidhar’s By Force Alone

Stephanie Russo



In Memoriam: Robert Simpson 75

Alan Lupack, Barbara Tepa Lupack, and Kevin J. Harty



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REVIEWS

Stephanie L. Batkie, Matthew W. Irvin, and Lynn Shutters, eds., A New Companion to Critical Thinking on Chaucer

Kevin J. Harty



A.S.G. Edwards, ed., Medieval Romance, Arthurian Literature: Essays in Honour of Elizabeth Archibald

K.S. Whetter



Maud Burnett McInerney, Translation and Temporality in Benoît de Sainte-Maure’s Roman de Troie

Sylvia Federico



Annegret Oehme, He Should Have Listened to His Wife! The Construction of Women’s Roles in German and Yiddish Pre-Modern ‘Wigalois’ Adaptations

Evelyn Meyer



Myra Seaman, Objects of Affection: The Book and the Household in Late Medieval England

Megan G. Leitch

Now Out in Paperback: A New Companion to Malory

A New Companion to Malory

Edited by Megan G Leitch and Cory James Rushton

Full details and order information are available from the publisher at this link. 


TITLE DETAILS

344 Pages

23.4 x 15.6 cm

11 b/w illus.

Series: Arthurian Studies
Series Vol. Number: 87

Imprint: D.S.Brewer




Paperback

9781843846758

November 2022

£25.99 / $37.95




A comprehensive survey of Malory's Morte Darthur, one of the most important texts of the Middle Ages.

Malory's Morte Darthur is now a canonical and widely-taught text. Recent decades have seen a transformation and expansion of critical approaches in scholarship, as well as significant advances in understanding its milieux:textual, literary, cultural and historical. This volume adds to and updates the influential Companion of 1996, offering scholars, teachers and students alike a full guide to the text and the author. The essays it contains provide a synthetic overview of, and fresh perspectives on, the key questions about and contexts connected with the Morte.




CONTENTS

Introduction
Malory in Historical Context - Catherine Nall
Malory and His Sources - Ralph Norris
Writing the Morte Darthur: Author, Manuscript, and Modern Editions - Kevin S Whetter and Thomas Howard Crofts
Malory in Literary Context - Megan G. Leitch
Malory in Print - Sian Echard
Malory and Form - Cory Rushton
Malory and Character - Dorsey Armstrong
Malory and Gender - Amy S. Kaufman
Malory and Emotion - Andrew Lynch
Secular Malory - Lisa Robeson
Spiritual Malory - Raluca Radulescu
Malory and the Wider World - Meg Roland
Malory in Wartime Britain - Robert Gossedge
Malory in Japan - Masako Takagi
Malory in America - Daniel Glynn Helbert


AUTHORS

MEGAN G. LEITCH is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Cardiff University; CORY JAMES RUSHTON is Associate Professor in the Department of English at St Francis Xavier University, Canada.

Contributors: Dorsey Armstrong, Thomas Crofts, Siân Echard, Rob Gossedge, Daniel Helbert, Amy Kaufman, Megan Leitch, Andrew Lynch, Catherine Nall, Ralph Norris, Raluca Radulescu, Lisa Robeson, Meg Roland, Cory Rushton, Masako Takagi, Kevin Whetter.

Last Call CFP: Revisiting a Racialized Camelot: Lesser Known "Knights of Color" and Addressing Lacunas in Our Approaches (A Round Table) (proposals by 9/15/2022)

Call for Papers ICMS 2023

Revisiting a Racialized Camelot: Lesser Known "Knights of Color" and Addressing Lacunas in Our Approaches (A Round Table).

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

Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): Monsters: The Experimental Association for the Research of Cryptozoology through Scholarly Theory and Practical Application (MEARCSTAPA)

Keywords: Arthur, Arthurian, Camelot, knights, race and racialized, monstrosity.



This session contributes to ongoing discussions about "Race in the Middle Ages," focusing on minor "Knights of Color" in Arthuriana and how their characterizations might nuance scholarly perspectives of the racial dynamics at Camelot. We emphasize that the expected categories for determining race such as skin color, physiognomy, costume and, at times, religion remain insufficient and inconsistent when dealing critically with premodern race. Thus, the modifier of "Color" here should be understood to cover a variety of polities and geographical locations and not just epidermal difference. While a great deal has been written about Palamedes, Morien, and Feirefiz, we seek to forefront lesser-known, non-Latin Christian knights, including those with “monstrous” origins, present in Arthurian narratives. Additionally, given that the majority of medieval critical race frameworks come out of literary studies, this session seeks to create a crucial opportunity for other fields such as art history, performance studies, and philology, as well as more "global” approaches, to provide new lenses for understanding a racialized Camelot.

This session is especially interested in: the borders between race & monstrosity in Arthuriana, methodological lacunas in approaches to Camelot material, Arthurian enemies, the relationship between "Knights of Color" in Arthuriana and such knights in different traditions that appear in the same manuscripts, philological studies about the "garbled" names of “Knights of Color,” their linguistic origins, the presence of Arthurian narratives in non-Latin Christian contexts, teaching experiences around “Race in Arthuriana” and the roles “Knights of Color” play in medievalism when imagining a post-racial Camelot without having a post-racial present.

Please send an abstract (300 words maximum) to the ICMS Confex site https://icms.confex.com/icms/2023/cfp.cgi & Drew Narayanan at tnarayanan@wisc.edu by September 15th. The session will consist of 6 ten-minute papers followed by questions. The session will be In-Person at the International Conference on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo 2023.

CFP Accessing Avalon Today: Best Practices for Connecting Contemporary Readers to Arthurian Texts Online (9/15/2022; Kalamazoom 2023)

Call for Papers for Virtual Session of the 58th International Congress on Medieval Studies to be in a hybrid format Thursday, 11 May, through Saturday, 13 May 2023

Accessing Avalon Today: Best Practices for Connecting Contemporary Readers to Arthurian Texts Online

Sponsored by the Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Matter of Britain

Contact: Michael A Torregrossa

Modality: Virtual

The Matter of Britain is a living tradition with new texts produced each year in a variety of media and genres. The vastness, vitality, and adaptability of the corpus, from medieval to modern, allow for an incredibly rich potential for scholarship and teaching. However, the availability and cost of many items greatly restrict what can actually be accessed by us and our students. In this session, we’d like to start a conversation related to the digital humanities about Arthurian works that are open-access materials or open-educational resources and how they can best be used in the classroom and research.

Please submit paper proposal into the Congress’s Confex system accessible at the Call for Papers page for the event (at https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress/call). Scroll down to select “Make a Proposal,” and, once on that page, select our session under the list of “Sponsored and Special Sessions of Papers”.

Submission must be made no later than 15 September 2022.

More information about the Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Matter of Britain can be found at our blog at https://kingarthurforever.blogspot.com/.

CFP Sponsored Sessions Kalamazoom 2023 (deadline for proposals 9/15/2022)

 Sorry for being so late sharing this.

Please submit a proposal into Confex (from this link) , if you're interested in presenting. 

Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Matter of Britain

Accessing Avalon Today: Best Practices for Connecting Contemporary Readers to Arthurian Texts Online

Contact: Michael A Torregrossa
Modality: Virtual
The Matter of Britain is a living tradition with new texts produced each year in a variety of media and genres. The vastness, vitality, and adaptability of the corpus, from medieval to modern, allow for an incredibly rich potential for scholarship and teaching. However, the availability and cost of many items greatly restrict what can actually be accessed by ourselves and our students. In this session, we’d like to start a conversation related to the digital humanities about Arthurian works that are open-access materials or open-educational resources and how they can best be used in the classroom and research.

Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture

Medieval Women from the Middle Ages to Modern Mass Medievalisms

Contact: Michael A. Torregrossa
Modality: Virtual
Popular culture offers both positive and negative representations of medieval women in medievalist and medievalesque works from Arthuriana and depictions of Joan of Arc and Hildegard von Bingen to Disney’s Princesses, films like The Lord of the Rings, Snow White and the Huntress and The Duel, and streaming series like House of the Dragon and Rings of Power. There has been an increasing focus on these figures in both the popular press and academic discourse; however, much work remains to be done to more fully assess how these texts adapt, adopt, and/or appropriate medieval characters and tropes.

Michael

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Michael A. Torregrossa (he/his/him), M.A.

*Founder, The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture:https://medievalinpopularculture.blogspot.com/

*Founder, The Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Matter of Britain: https://kingarthurforever.blogspot.com/

King Arthur in Smithsonian Magazine

My thanks to my sister for the head's up on this:

Joshua Hammer's "Was King Arthur a Real Person?" is the spotlight article for the current issue (September 2022) of Smithsonian Magazine featuring Rubin Eynon's sculpture Gallos on the cover.

Out Now Arthuriana 32.2

Contents for the latest number of Arthuriana:

Arthuriana for Summer 2022

Table of Contents
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Source: https://www.arthuriana.com/322-2; access by subscription or via Project MUSE.

What Should a Knight do for Ladies? Knightly and Scholarly Ethics and the Different Versions of the Morte Darthur

Laura K. Bedwell



Aggravain in the Night: Malory's Comet-Villain

D. Thomas Kanks, Jr.



Chivalric Adventure (Âventiure) as Resistance to Law

Jonathan Seelye Martin

The Round Table:

News and Notes from the North American Branch



Some Thoughts on The Northman

Shaun F.D. Hughes



In Memoriam: Geoffrey Ashe

Christopher Snyder



In Memoriam: Douglas Kelly

Keith Busby 

REVIEWS

Amy V. Ogden, ed. and trans., The Life of Saint Eufrosine: In Old French Verse with English Translation

Joan Tasker Grimbert



W. Mark Ormrod, Winner and Waster and its Contexts: Chivalry, Law, and Economics in Fourteenth-Century England

Jennifer Goodman Wollock



Nicholas Perkins, The Gift of Narrative in Medieval England
Walter Wadiak



A.W. Strouse, Form and Foreskin: Medieval Narratives of Circumcision
William Robert



Leah Tether, Laura Chuhan Campbell, and Benjamin Pohl, with the assistance of Michael Richardson, The Bristol Merlin: Revealing the Secrets of a Medieval Fragment

Jean Blacker



M.J. Toswell and Anna Czarnowus, eds., Medievalism in English Canadian Literature: From Richardson to Atwood

Raymond H. Thompson



Megan Woller, From Camelot to Spamalot: Musical Retellings of Arthurian Legend on Stage and Screen

Kristin Yri

CFP: Tolkien’s Medievalism in Ruins: The Function of Relics and Ruins in Middle-earth at NeMLA

 

Tolkien’s Medievalism in Ruins: The Function of Relics and Ruins in Middle-earth at NeMLA

deadline for submissions: 

September 30, 2022

full name / name of organization: 

Nick Katsiadas and Carl Sell / Slippery Rock University and University of Pittsburgh

contact email: 

nicholas.katsiadas@sru.edu

This call for papers is for the NeMLA conference which is scheduled to take place in person in Niagara Falls, NY between March 23-26, 2023.

 

Many notable scholars have probed the motif of ruins in ancient and medieval texts: Alain Schnapp, Alan Lupack, Geoffrey Ashe, and Richard Barber read the poetics of ruins in Latin poetry, the Exeter Book, and Arthuriana. Scholars working outside of the Classical and Middle ages have also examined how this topos persists in literary periods up through the Renaissance, Romanticism, and to today. In short, the structural and symbolic purposes of ruins in literary texts have a long history, and the literary-critical history of engaging these poetics influences our interests in presentations grounded in reading the relationships between ruins and Tolkien’s legendarium. It is time for a formal study on the topic, and we are pleased to welcome proposals from a variety of theoretical approaches for a special session at the 54th Annual Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, with possible inclusion in a special issue of The Journal of Tolkien Research.

 

Throughout J. R. R. Tolkien’s history of Middle-earth, ruins appear as images that capture the mood, personality, and disposition of the characters. From the ruins of Erebor in The Hobbit to the various images of Amon Sûl, Moria, and Osgiliath in The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien captures each character’s awareness of the glories of the past and their desire to emulate them. This panel seeks to deepen the awareness and importance of ruins in Middle-earth while simultaneously focusing on how Tolkien’s vision of history functions within and outside of the Middle Ages.  

 

Topics and texts about Tolkien’s legendarium may include, but are certainly not limited to, the following:

 

• Ruins and trauma and/or war
• Ruins and nostalgia and/or melancholy
• Ruins and loss
• Ruins and memory
• Ruins and travel
• Ruins and Medievalism
• Ruins and Classicism
• Ruins and Romanticism
• Golden Ages
• Literary History
• Abandoned cities

 

We seek 300-word abstracts for critical essays across periods and nations that address topics related to ruins and Tolkien’s Middle-earth. Abstracts should clearly delineate the essay’s argument in relation to this theme. Once abstracts have been collected, the organizers will send out acceptance and rejection letters after the due date (30 September 2022). We ask that abstract submissions follow MLA format.

 

Please submit abstract proposals to Nick Katsiadas and Carl Sell through the NeMLA portal here: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/19804

Kalamazoo 2023 News

I am pleased to report that the proposal for our sponsored session at new year's International Congress on Medieval Studies was approved. This is great news since many of our past attempts to propose a session have been refused.
 

The theme of our session (proposed as hybrid) will be "Accessing Avalon Today: Best Practices for Connecting Contemporary Readers to Arthurian Texts Online." A full call for papers will follow later in the summer.

Michael A. Torregrossa

Founder, Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Matter of Britain