Marie de France Translations/Adaptations Roundtable Help for Kalamazoo 2027

Sharing on behalf of the organizers. Updated deadline 9/20/2026.

 

Reimagining Marie de France: Adaptations, Translations, and Fan-Fiction (A Roundtable)

Description

The Lais of Marie de France have been the subject of a number of translations, adaptations, and even fan-fiction. There are medieval translations like the Old Norse Strengleikar, contemporary adaptations such as Emilie Mercier’s animated short film and Kel McDonald’s graphic novel, and even novels about Marie de France, like Lauren Groff’s Matrix, a sort of fan-fiction that re-imagines the context of Marie’s Lais. This roundtable seeks contributions on any aspect of translating, adapting or re-interpreting Marie de France, using any methodological approach, in order to better define the history and significance of the works of Marie de France.

Submit an Abstract to this Session

CFP Medievalisms in Times of (mis)information (9/1/2026; Online 10/9-10/2026)

Medievalisms in Times of (mis)information

deadline for submissions:
September 1, 2026

full name / name of organization:
International Society for the Study of Medievalisms

contact email:
anchietaguerra@gmail.com

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/07/02/medievalisms-in-times-of-misinformation




In 1996, Carl Sagan warned us of a time when people would lose their ability to question, “when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few . . . when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.” Maybe Mr Sagan was somewhat pessimistic when writing The Demon-Haunted World. But then again, in times of conspiracy theories, Ancient Aliens, Antivaxxers, and Holocaust Deniers, the Age of Information appears just as capable of spreading dangerous frauds and charlatans as it is of disseminating reliable scholarship.


Now we witness a Minister of War, an evangelical, tattooed with the medieval crusader motto “Deus vult”, calling for an American Crusade. In another country, we see the memory of the Knights Templar invoked again and again as a founding myth to justify a quasi-manifest destiny. And all over the world, the achievements of our predecessors are often discarded as impossible, explained as the works of aliens, supernatural forces, or ancient lost (often white) civilisations, disregarding the works of historians, archaeologists, and other researchers. The past is ripe for conspiracies, and the Middle Ages are a particularly fruitful part of it.


The Studies of Medievalisms, often in dialogue with disciplines like Literature, History, Cultural Studies, and others, may not always identify itself as a hard Science. Nevertheless, it is still an academic field with its own methodologies, structures, and rigour. Faced with this encroaching darkness, as Sagan would say, we invite scholars to submit papers examining the multiple challenges of researching medievalisms and how we should address the growing spread of disinformation. Of course, other themes related to medievalisms, neo-medievalisms and the reception of the medieval as a whole are all welcome.


Organised by the ISSM (International Society for the Study of Medievalisms), the annual conference is the oldest to be entirely dedicated to the subject of medievalisms, and this year, for the first time, it will be taking place in the South Americas, Brazil. For this to be possible, we will be working with the Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel) to promote dialogue with professors and researchers from different countries and institutions, “aiming to connect the public with scholars engaged in Medievalism Studies around the world.”


The conference is accepting papers and entire sessions via this link. Submissions are open until September 01, 2026.


This is a 100% online conference, which will take place between October 9 and 10. More information about the guests, keynotes, and schedules will start to be published soon.


For more information, please email us.


Proposal:
– Each participant may submit up to 2 papers.
– Proposals for entire sessions can include a maximum of up to 6 people divided into two tables of 3.
– English will be considered the default language. Sessions in Portuguese, French, and Spanish will only be considered if there are enough papers to fill them.
– The themes of the proposals must include medievalisms, neo-medievalisms, or medieval reception. Papers that work with representations and memories of the medieval period and the history of historiography about the period are also welcome.
– In addition to the abstract (maximum of 500 words), it is possible, but not mandatory, to send the full text upon registration. This can assist in the evaluation of the proposal.
– For proposals for a complete session, the abstract must (in up to 600 words) describe the theme as a whole, as well as clearly identify what each proponent will talk about.

Evaluation:
– The evaluation, acceptance, or elimination of submission is the conference’s Organization’s responsibility through a double-blind peer-reviewing process.

General Observations:
– The certificate of presentation will be issued only to presenters who were not absent during the entire panel in which they participated.
– The result will be published on September 15, 2026
– The presenter’s fee will be $20 for Staff and $5 for Students and Independent Scholars. Any requests to waive the fee should be sent to our email BEFORE the deadlines.


Last updated July 14, 2026

CFP Using Popular Culture in the Classroom Collection (8/1/2026)

Of related interest:

CALL FOR CHAPTERS: Using Popular Culture in the Classroom

deadline for submissions:
August 1, 2026

full name / name of organization:
Josef Vice and Laura Getty

contact email:
jvice@purdueglobal.edu

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/04/21/call-for-chapters-using-popular-culture-in-the-classroom

Call for Chapters!

Using Popular Culture in the Classroom: Teaching Traditional Skill Sets with Popular Culture Artifacts





Editors: Laura Getty, University of North Georgia (lgetty@ung.edu) and Josef Vice, Purdue University Global (jvice@purdueglobal.edu)



Deadline for submitting chapter proposals (400 words): August 1, 2026

Notification of acceptance: ongoing, no later than September 1, 2026

Provisional deadline for essay draft submission (approximately 5,000-8,000 words, including teaching resources): December 31, 2026



Proposals are sought for essays for a volume that critically examines using popular culture to teach traditional skill sets in the classroom. A wide range of voices and perspectives would be particularly valuable and welcome. We welcome chapters that address skill sets across disciplines, especially skill sets in STEM courses. We have submitted a formal proposal to McFarland Press, and they have already expressed interest in the book.



Chapters should explain how instructors can use popular culture artifacts in specific classroom assignments in place of and/or to supplement traditionally used materials. They should include one or more pop culture artifacts from any medium: from film, TV, and literature to music, sports, and video games, plus many other options. Specify the skill sets that are taught, with examples and explanations. Chapters should also include resources (for example, class discussion questions) that could be used to support classroom instruction.



Submissions: Submit your proposal and short bio no later than August 1, 2026 to both lgetty@ung.edu and jvice@purdueglobal.edu



Last updated April 21, 2026

CFP Fostering Interpretive Communities in the Classroom and Research through Adaptation Studies (Roundtable) (Virtual) (9/30/2026; NeMLA 3/6-9-2027)

Fostering Interpretive Communities in the Classroom and Research through Adaptation Studies (Roundtable) (Virtual)

Co-organizers Michael A. Torregrossa and Carl B. Sell

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

Call for Papers - Please Submit Proposals by 30 September 2026

58th Annual Convention of Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)

Salve Regina University (Newport, RI)/Online.

Hybrid event: 6-9 March 2027


This session’s modality is Virtual Only, meaning all presentations will be delivered via Zoom regardless of whether the presenters are in-person.

Rationale

Explorations of adaptations offer many ways to investigate the conference theme of Empowering Communities. Adaptations, especially contemporary ones, create opportunities for inclusion that may not have been present in the source. This forges a new space for receivers of the text to connect to its narrative. Highlighting how and why these new works appeal to and have an effect on us can help our students (and ourselves) relate to older material and see the ways that a story can find new relevance.

Topics might include adaptations that recast, reset, and/or restage a text; adaptations that rewrite and/or reboot a text; adaptations that expand texts (such as prequels, midquels, or sequels); and adaptations that present ways to remedy problematic texts and authors.

We welcome investigations of adaptations across all media, as well as adaptation within transmedia franchises/universes.

Submission Instructions

All proposals must be submitted into the CFPList system at https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/22514 by 30 September 2026. You will be prompted to create an account with NeMLA (if you do not already have one) and, then, to complete sections on Title, Abstract, Brief Bio, Media Needs, and Modality. This session’s modality is Virtual Only, meaning all presentations will be delivered via Zoom regardless of whether the presenters are in-person.

Notification on the status of your submission will be made by 16 October 2026. If accepted, NeMLA asks you to confirm your participation with the session chairs by accepting their invitation and by registering for the event. The deadline for Registration/Membership is 9 December 2026. For the 2027 Convention, registration will be the same for in-person and remote attendance. (See NeMLA’s Membership and Registration page, at https://www.nemla.org/about/members.html, for full details.)


Be advised of the following policies for the Convention: All participants must be members of NeMLA for the year of the conference. Participants may present on up to two sessions of any type. Registrants at NeMLA may not present the same abstract/paper on two different sessions. (See NeMLA’s Presenter Policies page, at https://www.nemla.org/convention/policies.html, for further details. Information on Session Types can be found at https://www.nemla.org/convention/sessions.html.)


NeMLA offers limited funding for travel to graduate students and to contingent faculty, adjunct instructors, independent scholars, and two-year college faculty. Details can be found at NeMLA’s Travel Awards page at https://www.nemla.org/awards/travel.html.


Thank you for your interest in our session. Please address questions and/or concerns to the organizers at MedievalinPopularCulture@gmail.com.


For more information on the Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture, please visit our blog, Mass Mediævalisms: The Middle Ages of Popular Culture, at https://MedievalinPopularCulture.blogspot.com/.

CFP Asian Medievalism (Online) (9/15/2026; ICMS Kalamazoo/Online 5/13-15/2027)

International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo

13-15 May 2027



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

Online session



ASIAN MEDIEVALISMS


Asian medievalisms can be seen from two perspectives: either as continuations of the global Middle Ages in various Asian countries, including Japan and China, or as popular culture phenomena at least partly inspired by the European Middle Ages or simply by European medievalisms in popular culture. TV shows about Chinese culture, such as Kingdom, or Japanese manga can be seen as global medievalisms or as what demonstrates interest in Western fantasy. They can be inspired by such texts as Chinese wuxia narratives, which situate warriors in the distant past, and by how Western fantasy creates alternative worlds.



Please enter your proposal into the Confex system by 15 September 2026.


Asian Medievalisms


Additionally, please send your proposal at: annaczarnowus@op.pl.

CFP Medievalist Fantasy and Science Fiction (6/13/2026; NEPCA 10/15-17/2026 online)

Northeast Popular Culture Association conference
15-17 October 2026
ONLINE SESSION


Session Proposal:

Medievalist Fantasy and Science Fiction

This session intends to put together discussions about medievalist fantasy and medievalist science fiction. It could be argued that medievalist fantasy is more related to the historical Middle Ages while science fiction medievalism is more generic, hence it includes elements of medieval provenance, yet without resorting to the historical period. Yet medievalist science fiction has been trying to overcome this limitation and increasingly there are analyses of how medieval history and literature reverberates in sci-fi. On the other hand, medievalist elements in fantasy that do not point to specific elements in the history or literature need to be adequately addressed as well.

Please send an abstract of up to 250 words to: annaczarnowus@op.pl
The deadline for the abstracts is 13 June 2026

Kalamazoo 2026 - Day 3 - Remembering the Middle Ages Roundtable and Comics Sessions

We'll be wrapping up our participation at the International Congress on Medieval Studies this weekend with a roundtable session (below) and two panels on comics.

See the Medieval Comics Project (https://medieval-comics-project.blogspot.com/) for full details on the comics sessions.

Remembering the Middle Ages: Memories of the Medieval across Time and Space (A Roundtable) (Hybrid)

61st International Congress on Medieval Studies

Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, Michigan)/Online through Confex

Session 302: Saturday, 16 May 2026, 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Sangren Hall 3130 (hybrid)

Organized by Michael A. Torregrossa, Bristol Community College; Siân Echard, University of British Columbia; Alexander L. Kaufman, Ball State University

Cosponsored by Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture; International Arthurian Society, North American Branch (IAS/NAB); International Association for Robin Hood Studies (IARHS)

Presider: Kristin Noone, Irvine Valley College 

1 - Malory, Caxton, and Chaucer, social critics in the greenwood (In-Person)

Jennifer Goodman Wollock, Independent Scholar

“The Gest of Robyn Hode” (c. 1450) and Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur (Westminster: William Caxton, 1485), both possibly Malory's work (cf https://printinghistory.org/robin-hood-and-the-printers/), stand at the foundation of much of today’s popular culture. They attack evil customs of Malory's day, and ours, while also prizing restraint against violence,

Jennifer Goodman Wollock is delighted to be able to merge Robin Hood and King Arthur in a new research project, of which this paper is a part. 

2 - Adaptations of the ‘Sir Lancelot Fights Tarquin’ Arthurian Episode Through Time, Space, Genres, and Media (In-Person)

Lorraine Kochanske Stock, Univ. of Houston

This presentation traces the development of an Arthurian episode, the combat between Lancelot and Sir Tericam/Tarquyne/Tarquin from its inception in the Vulgate Lancelot, to Thomas Malory's Morte, to Thomas Deloney's broadside and its reprintings, to Richard Thorpe's 1953 film Knights of the Round Table, to Daniel Kelley's folk song.

Lorraine Kochanske Stock is taking a temporary vacation from the greenwood of Robin Hood to explore an Arthurian episode, featuring the mortal combat between Sir Lancelot and Tarquin, that traveled widely over both time and space, from the Vulgate Cycle of 13th-century France to the 21st-century game Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. 

3 - Charles William Purnell’s The Modern Arthur, or “Liking” Arthurianism in the 1912 New Zealand (Remote)

Anna Czarnowus, Uniw. Śląski w Katowicach

This paper presents Arthurianism beyond the nineteenth century and ultimately beyond England, even though the volume of poetry "The Modern Arthur" by Charles William Purnell was published in London. The poem "The Modern Arthur" centers on the idea of liking and disliking (or ignoring) the medieval in colonial New Zealand.

Anna Czarnowus is Associate Professor at the University of Silesia, Katowice (Poland). She specializes in Middle English literature and medievalisms. She recently co-edited  (with Laurel Ryan) Medievalism in Slavic Popular Culture (2025, Arc Humanities Press).

4- “Long Live King Richard!”: Problems with Robin Hood’s Idolization of a Crusader King (Remote)

Averie Mercedes Basch, Univ. of New Mexico

This project traces how a romanticization of Robin Hood and of the Crusades can be problematic for a modern society, especially one that cannot ignore the use of medieval imagery for radical movements.

Averie Basch is a third-year doctoral student at the University of New Mexico, pursuing a degree in Medieval Studies within the Department of English. Averie focuses on the exchange of ideas between medieval Irish and Arthurian storytellers through their depictions of otherworlds. She assesses how portrayals of liminal spaces represent borderlands in geographic and cultural contexts and can point to contemporary religious and/or social anxieties regarding colonization. She takes great interest in how Arthurian literature reveals interactions between the Christianized North Atlantic and the Celtic fringe, and how the Pre-Christian traditions survived in converted communities through narrative practices.

5- A Band of Not So Merry Men: Grimdark Echoes of Robin Hood in Mark Lawrence’s Broken Empire Trilogy (Remote)

Carl B. Sell, Univ. of Pittsburgh

Post-apocalyptic settings are rife with recreations of the Middle Ages, often creating a world with traces of the past—physically through buildings, roads, and historical memory—in addition to a reimagining of what the medieval world was like. Often, there is a sense of the feudal realms of history and imagination, and the work of Mark Lawrence is no exception to this tradition. Where Lawrence diverges, however, is his use of what is known as “grimdark” elements of fantasy: irredeemable characters, brutal combat, oppressive law systems, and nobles willing to sacrifice anyone to gain a throne. This fits right at home in a post-apocalyptic world, but Lawrence does not reveal that his fantasy world is, really, the far future of our own earth. Remnants of asphalt roadways, skyscrapers-turned-castles, nuclear fallout, science disguised as magic, and works of literature like those of Plato and Shakespeare oft-quoted by learned characters are slowly uncovered in the middle hundred pages or so of the first novel, Prince of Thorns. Prince of Thorns introduces both the setting and the character of Prince Honorious Jorg Ancrath, “Jorg” to friend and foe, a noble in disguise who becomes a cross between the leader of a band equal parts outlaw and mercenary. These “Brothers,” the name by which each member calls another, are composed of characters that at first seem to have no relationship to the merry men of Robin Hood, at least until “Little Rikey” is introduced: he is called “little” because he is anything but, a huge man with a small name reminiscent of Little John. I seek to explore the relationship between our own memories of the medieval and the grimdark fantasy subversions to the Robin Hood legend in these novels, but particularly Prince of Thorns.

Dr. Carl B. Sell (he/him/his) is the Associate Director for McNair and Undergraduate Research Programs and is a Part-Time Instructor of English Literature at the University of Pittsburgh. His research explores appropriations of Arthurian legend narratives, characters, and themes in popular culture as an extension of the medieval adaptive tradition. He serves as a member of the advisory boards for The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture and the Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Matter of Britain, and he is the author of journal articles and book chapters on Arthurian topics and DC’s Aquaman.

6 - The Other King in the North: Recreating the Medieval in Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell Corpus (In-Person)

Amanda Bohne, Univ. of Illinois–Chicago

Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell hints at­ a magical English past, when a mysterious magician ruled from Newcastle for 300 years before departing for Faerie in 1434. Clarke’s recent work has added to the fictional medieval sources alluded to in the novel.

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Kalamazoo 2026 Day Two - Monsters and Business Meeting

Two events upcoming for Day Two of the 2026 International Congress on Medieval Studies.

Magics, Marvels, Metamorphoses, and Monsters: Horrors of the Medieval Past, Present, and Future

61st International Congress on Medieval Studies

Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, Michigan)/Online through Confex

Session 282: Friday, 15 May 2026, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM EDT

Co-Sponsored by Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association; Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture, International Society for the Study of Medievalism

Organized by Michael A. Torregrossa, Bristol Community College; June-Ann Greeley, Sacred Heart University.

Full details at https://popularpreternaturaliana.blogspot.com/2026/05/kalamazoo-2026-sponsored-session-magics.html. 

Getting Medieval on Popular Culture: Gathering, Information Session, and Business Meeting for the Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture

61st International Congress on Medieval Studies

Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, Michigan)/Online through Confex

Friday, 15 May 2026, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM EDT

Sponsored By: Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture, Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Matter of Britain, and Medieval Comics Project. 

Kalamazoo 2026 Day 1 - (Re)Visiting the Reel/Un-Reel Middle Ages:

The International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo starts tomorrow (5/13). Here are the details on our first sponsored session of the week.

(Re)Visiting the Reel/Un-Reel Middle Ages: Pathways to Furthering Research on Medievalisms on Screen (A Roundtable) (Virtual)

61st International Congress on Medieval Studies

Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, Michigan)/Online through Confex

Session 25: Thursday, 14 May 2026, 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM



Organized by Michael A. Torregrossa, Bristol Community College; Scott Manning, Independent Scholar; and Siân Echard, Univ. of British Columbia

Co-sponsored by Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture; International Arthurian Society, North American Branch (IAS/NAB); International Society for the Study of Medievalism


Presider: Michael R. Evans, Delta College 



1 - Once and Future: Reflections on the Rise of Medieval Screenic Studies

Michael A. Torregrossa, Bristol Community College

This presentation will highlight my experiences as an enthusiast and scholar of medievalisms on screen by mapping out the beginnings of the field of Medieval Screenic Studies, highlighting key moments in its advancement, and suggesting where it needs to go next to best serve Medieval Studies in general.


Michael A. Torregrossa (he/him) is a graduate of the Medieval Studies program at the University of Connecticut (Storrs) and works as an adjunct instructor of writing and literature courses in both Rhode Island and Massachusetts. His research focuses on popular culture’s adaptation, appropriation, and transformation of stories and includes foundational studies on the figures of Merlin and Mordred on screen. In addition to these pursuits, Michael is the founder of The Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Matter of Britain (2000-) and The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture (2004-). He also serves as editor for these organizations' various blogs and as moderator of their discussion lists and leads the development of their conference activities.



2 -

Scott Manning, Independent Scholar

This roundtable paper will focus on my experience working with Kevin J. Harty on continuing his work on The Reel Middle Ages, specifically through the edited volume Cinema Medievalia: New Essays on the Reel Middle Ages (2024) and the in-progress volume tentatively titled The European Middle Ages on Film (2027).


Scott Manning is an independent scholar whose work on cinematic medievalism has appeared in Studies in Medievalism, The Year's Work in Medievalism, Mise-en-Scène, and Film & History, among other venues. He is co-editor, with Kevin J. Harty, of Cinema Medievalia: New Essays on the Reel Middle Ages and the forthcoming European Medieval Cinema. He is also the author of Joan of Arc: A Reference Guide to Her Life and Works and co-chair of the Medieval and Renaissance Area of MAPACA.


3 - Murder and Medievalism on The Traitors

Kristin Noone, Irvine Valley College

The contemporary reality show genre inherits and reinscribes the medieval confessional narrative: the drama of sin, repentance, and confession reflects a medievalizing rhetoric of ritualized emotion in a public context. The Traitors, especially in its popular US incarnation, provides a form of experiential medievalism, in location, theming, and emotional affect.


Kristin Noone (she/they; either is fine) is an English professor and Writing Center faculty at Irvine Valley College in Southern California; her research interests include medievalism, fantasy, adaptation studies, and popular romance. Her publications have included studies of ethics in the work of Terry Pratchett, examinations of food and feasting in modern outlaw romance, and the co-editing (with Caroline-Isabelle Caron) of the first academic book-length study of Star Trek tie-in fiction. She is a recent recipient of both the Diane Calhoun-French Grant for Two-Year College Faculty, administered by the Popular Culture Association, and the Kathleen Gilles Seidel Grant, administered by the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance. In her not-too-secret identity, she is an Amazon bestselling author of LGBTQ romance fiction (often paranormal or fantasy), a Rainbow Award winner, a Queer Indie Book Award winner in Fantasy, and a Good Sex Awards (in writing, that is!) Runner-Up.


4 - (De)Constructing Gender in On-Screen Science Fantasy Medievalisms

Lars Olaf Johnson, Cornell Univ.

Using the on-screen adaptations of Nimona and The Wheel of Time as case studies, this roundtable contribution will discuss how the collision of futuristic and neomedieval aesthetics within the science fantasy genre creates queer temporalities with the potential to challenge normative essentialist models of race, gender, and sexuality.


Lars Johnson is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University. His research concentrations include Old Norse, Old English, and Middle English literatures and their legacies in contemporary medievalisms. His dissertation, (Un)Familiar Pasts: Queer Uses of the Middle Ages in Fantasy Medievalisms, comparatively analyzes how these bodies of literature construct identities such as gender, race, and sexuality.

CFP Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America (6/1/2026; Toronto 4/15-17/2027)

From the Medieval Academy of America:

MAA News – 2027 Call for Papers

Posted on March 4, 2026 by Chris

Source: https://www.themedievalacademyblog.org/maa-news-2027-call-for-papers-3/.

The 102nd Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America will take place on the campus of the University of Toronto, 15-17 April, 2027. The meeting is hosted by The Centre for Medieval Studies, in partnership with the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies and the Canadian Society of Medievalists. The Annual Meeting will be held at Trinity College and St Michael’s College, two of the federated colleges in the University of Toronto college system. Scholars may wish to extend their visit and take advantage of opportunities for research at the library of the Pontifical Institute, one of the premier research libraries in Medieval Studies.


The Program Commitee welcomes innovative panels that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries or that use various disciplinary approaches to examine an individual topic. We encourage papers on Asia, Africa, the Middle East, or Eastern Europe and the networks and exchanges between East and West.

Click here for more information and to submit a proposal. Proposals must be submitted by 1 June 2026.

Uncharted Medievalisms at NeMLA

Here's the information on our other sponsored session at NeMLA this weekend. My thanks to my co-organizer, Carl Sell, for the idea.



Northeast Modern Language Association 57th Annual Convention

Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown (Pittsburgh, PA)/Zoom
3.7 Uncharted Medievalisms: Medieval Borrowings in Games

Organized by Michael A. Torregrossa, Bristol Community College, and Carl B. Sell, University of Pittsburgh

Sponsored by the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture




Thursday, Mar 5: Track 3 (01:15-02:30 EST)


Chair: Carl Sell, University of Pittsburgh

Chair: Michael Torregrossa, Bristol Community College

Location: Birmingham (Media Equipped)

Comparative Literature & Cultural Studies and Media Studies




"Losing to Win: Failure, Loss, and Legacy in Middle-Earth: Shadow of War"

Seth Lee, Slippery Rock University



Dr. J. Seth Lee earned his PhD in English literature from the University of Kentucky. He is a scholar of the literature of exiles and a digital humanist. He has published on Early Modern exile in SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 and Reformation. Lee’s monograph, The Discourse of Exile in Early Modern English Literature, is available as part of the Routledge Research in Early Modern History Series. It examines questions about the formation of subjectivity and nationalism in the minds of exiles and the development of exile from a “nation” in its modern sense. Additionally, he researches and writes on interdisciplinary approaches to literary studies informed by digital technology. He published most recently in Medieval Perspectives on how eye-tracking cameras revealed insights into student engagement with medieval illuminated manuscripts. He teaches literature and writing at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania.




"The Evolution of Medieval Virtue in the Ultima Series"

Amir Saffar, Kent State University



Amir Saffar is currently doing his PhD in English Literature with his dissertation being based on pulp literature. Amir also enjoys bridging the gap between different disciplines, in order to create more dynamic discussions. This is born from his prior work in Environmental Engineering, Civil Engineering and Biology.




"Immersive Simulation of Medieval Play Spaces: Modeling the York Cycle in Unity3D"

Dennis Jerz, Seton Hill University



Dennis G. Jerz, Associate Professor of English at Seton Hill University, has scholarly interests that include critical code studies, digital archeology and ecocritical game studies (all connected to the study of the foundational text adventure game "Colossal Cave Adventure." He posts about his Unity3D projects at jerz.setonhill.edu/blog/tag/unity3d/ (on what has been described as the first blog devoted to English studies, established in 1999).

Twainian Regeneration Sessions at NeMLA 2026

 We've got some sessions running this weekend at NeMLA. Here are the details on today's panels.

Northeast Modern Language Association 57th Annual Convention

Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown (Pittsburgh, PA)/Zoom

15.18 Twainian Regeneration: Adaptations of the Works, Life, and Legacy of Mark Twain (Part 1) - Twain and Time Travel

Organized by Michael A. Torregrossa, Bristol Community College, and Carl B. Sell, University of Pittsburgh

Sponsored by the Mark Twain Circle of America

Saturday, Mar 7: Track 15 (01:00-02:30 EST)

Disney's "Connecticut Yankees" (remote) - WITHDRAWN

Cindy Mediavilla, University of California, Los Angeles

A Michigan Loudmouth in a Primitive Screwhead's Court: Sam Raimi's Army of Darkness and Twain's Connecticut Yankee (in person)

Carl Sell, University of Pittsburgh

Dr. Carl B. Sell (he/him/his) is the Associate Director for McNair and Undergraduate Research Programs and is a Part-Time Instructor of English Literature at the University of Pittsburgh. His research explores appropriations of Arthurian legend narratives, characters, and themes in popular culture as an extension of the medieval adaptive tradition. He serves as a member of the advisory boards for The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture and the Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Matter of Britain, and he is the author of journal articles and book chapters on Arthurian topics and DC’s Aquaman.

Resisting Closure: Continuations of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (remote)

Michael Torregrossa, Bristol Community College

Michael A. Torregrossa (he/him/his) is a graduate of the Medieval Studies program at the University of Connecticut (Storrs) and works as an adjunct instructor of writing and literature courses in both Rhode Island and Massachusetts. His research focuses on popular culture’s adaptation, appropriation, and transformation of literary classics, including the Arthurian legends, Beowulf, Dracula, Frankenstein, Robin Hood stories, and Winnie-the-Pooh, and the larger corpus of writers H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, and H. G Wells. In addition to these pursuits, Michael is the founder of The Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Matter of Britain (2000-) and The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture (2004-). He also serves as editor for these organizations' various blogs and as moderator of their discussion lists and leads the development of their conference activities. Besides this work, Michael is active in the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association (a.k.a. NEPCA) and organizes sessions for their annual conference in the fall. Since 2019, Michael has been NEPCA’s Monsters and the Monstrous Area Chair, but he previously served as its Fantastic (Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror) Area Chair, a position he held from 2009-2018.

Twain Explains Another Century in Kupperman’s Mark Twain’s Autobiography 1910 – 2010 (in person)

Wesley McMasters, Carson-Newman College

Dr. Wesley Scott McMasters is Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Carson-Newman University in Jefferson City, Tennessee.

16.18 Twainian Regeneration: Adaptations of the Works, Life, and Legacy of Mark Twain (Part 2) - Tom & Huck

Organized by Michael A. Torregrossa, Bristol Community College, and Carl B. Sell, University of Pittsburgh

Sponsored by the Mark Twain Circle of America

Saturday, Mar 7: Track 16 (02:45-04:15 EST)

Racial Adaptations: The Changing Historical Contexts of the Huckleberry Finn on Film (in-person)

Reynolds Scott-Childress, SUNY New Paltz

Reynolds Scott-Childress teaches cultural history of the United States with a focus on categories and practices of race and culture.

“We can just black them”: Giving Jim a Voice (in-person)

Robert Myers, Lock Haven University

Robert Myers is a Professor of English at Lock Haven  University.  He has published books and articles on late-19th and early 20th-century American literature.  Myers’s most recent book, Reconciling Nature: Literary Negotiations of the Natural, 1876-1945 (SUNY Press, 2019), has a chapter on Huckleberry Finn.

“Tom . . . or wait, Jack Sawyer: Stephen King and Peter Straub Regenerate Mark Twain" (remote)

Abigail Sloan, Blue Ridge Community College

Abby Sloan serves as Associate Professor of English at Blue Ridge Community College, where she has taught since 2007 and advises the college's Phi Theta Kappa chapter.  Her research interests range from Shakespeare to Stephen King.

Big Jim and the White Boy as a Palimpsestic Reimagining of Twain’s Huckleberry Finn (remote)

Seema Sharma, Jai Hind College

Dr Seema Sharma is Professor of English Literature at Jai Hind College, University of Mumbai. She obtained her BA, MA and MPhil degrees from University of Delhi and PhD degree from SNDT University, Mumbai. She was a Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford University (2015-16), where she was engaged in a research project on Mark Twain and India. During her tenure in the U.S., she delivered talks at several universities and public platforms, and published papers in leading scholarly journals.

CFP Fragments I: Putting the Worlds Back Together (8/15/2026)

Call for Submissions: Journal of Medieval Worlds (Relaunch Issue)

Posted on February 9, 2026

Source: https://www.themedievalacademyblog.org/call-for-submissions-journal-of-medieval-worlds-relaunch-issue/

Call for Submissions: Journal of Medieval Worlds Special Issue: Fragments I: Putting the Worlds Back Together (Spring 2027) 

Submission Type: Short Essays & Critical Responses (1,000–3,000 words)

The Journal of Medieval Worlds is relaunching with a special issue dedicated to the “fragment” as a critical lens. We invite submissions of short-form essays that address the evolving landscape of Medieval Studies, with an emphasis on race, gender, sexuality, decolonization, and the Global Middle Ages.

This is a unique opportunity to publish shorter, critically engaged work that reflects on:

• Archival Fragments: How do we build history from residue and partial objects?
• Professional Fragmentation: The experience of the “Lone Medievalist” or contingent faculty.
• Global Perspectives: How the Global Middle Ages has shifted pedagogical and scholarly approaches.

Submission Deadline: August 15. 

Full Call for Submissions: Here. 

Send manuscripts to: JMW_editorial@ucpress.edu 

Journal Details: https://online.ucpress.edu/jmw.

CFP Sports Medievalism - TSW Special Issue (3/31/2026)

Sports Medievalism - TSW Special Issue

deadline for submissions:
March 31, 2026

full name / name of organization:
The So What/Arthuriana

contact email:
thesowhatpub@gmail.com

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/07/sports-medievalism-tsw-special-issue

In athletics, athletes are often described as ‘throwing down the gauntlet’ when they record a particularly impressive jump, race, throw, indicating a raise in the competition stakes, a nod to their fellow competitors that they are the champion to beat. In the 2001 movie A Knight’s Tale, jousting enthusiasts are depicted like modern day sports fans, with Ulrich’s friends even singing a football chant in the pub.



The So What welcomes proposals for short (1500-3000 words), public-facing pieces engaging with sport and the medieval, with a planned online publication of early 2027. We welcome pieces that are critical, creative, or pedagogical and topics that engage with the relationship between sporting culture and medieval aesthetic, whether that’s through the use of the medieval in modern sports or sporting teams, the medieval history of a sport, or reenactment of medieval sporting competitions, and so on. We welcome a wide variety of topics, including but not limited to:

• The use of medieval imagery in sporting culture/teams;
• The revival of medieval sports or activities in the modern era;
• The development/history of medieval sports and sporting competitions;
• Depictions of medieval sport in media and popular culture;
• The use of ‘medieval’ phrases and language in sport commentary and discourse.

Please send us your proposals by March 31, 2026. Style and submission guides are available on our site. Proposals and questions can be emailed to issue editor, Mairi Stirling Hill, at: mairi.hill@unimelb.edu.au



You can also view the CFP online here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N3ajj-fN02ozhR4eRXZzDz2ma-cfPqSB/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=111283483144674200251&rtpof=true&sd=true%C2%A0.



Last updated February 7, 2026

CFP Vikings and Norse Myths in Post-Medieval Reception (9/15/2026)

This came up in my feed in Academia.Edu. 

UPDATED: The main page for the call is at https://periodicos.ufpb.br/index.php/scandia/announcement/view/1076.

Call for papers: 

Vikings and Norse Myths in Post-Medieval Reception

Scandia 9, 2026, Deadline: September 15, 2026. Editors: Dr. Susan Filoche-Rommé, Dr. Alberto Robles Delgado, Dr. Johnni Langer. Editing support: Reception Research Group (University of Alcalá).

“Viking! There are few words whose radiance is as magical as this one. Barely uttered, it evokes a legendary aura and a body of imagery that is more or less conventional” (Régis Boyer, Le mythe viking dans les lettres françaises, 1986, p. 9). Reception studies regarding the Vikings is essential for an in-depth understanding not only of art, literature, and the media, but also of the historiography of the Viking Age, as it has been constructed since the nineteenth century. Initially shaped by nationalist and Romantic idealisations — particularly through the rediscovery and reinterpretation of the Icelandic sagas — the image of the Viking gradually consolidated into a set of powerful stereotypes, many of which continue to inform cultural production and even academic discourse today.

A similar process can be observed in the reception of Norse mythology. Since the so-called Nordic Renaissance inaugurated by the work of Paul-Henri Mallet in the mid-eighteenth century, Norse myths have become one of the central symbolic repertoires mobilised by Romantic artists and political thinkers to construct, negotiate, or contest national identities in contexts such as Germany, England, France, and the Scandinavian countries. During the twentieth century, Norse mythology increasingly intersected with what has been described as “Vikingmania”, acquiring a pronounced dimension of popular entertainment while retaining strong ideological and idealised connotations, particularly in North-American popular culture, as well as forms of social validation within contemporary movements of Nordic paganism. As Christopher Abram has noted, “Norse myths make up one of the world’s great mythologies, and their popularity shows no sign of diminishing in the twenty-first century” (Myths of the Pagan North, 2011).
This dossier aims to bring together studies on the post-medieval reception of Vikings and Norse myths in the Western world, from the late Middle Ages to the present. It welcomes contributions addressing their representation and reinterpretation in the arts (including theatre, opera, visual arts, and music), in literature, in academic research (archaeology, history, literary studies), and in popular and mass media such as comics, cinema, television, and digital culture. Contributors are invited to examine a wide range of written, visual, musical, architectural, and monumental sources.

Methodologically, the dossier is grounded in reception studies and related approaches such as Neomedievalism, the uses of the past, and the invention of tradition. Particular attention is given to how different recipients — artists, politicians, scholars, and diverse publics — have interpreted, appropriated, and repurposed figures and narratives associated with the Viking world and Norse mythology. Rather than treating myths and historical images as static survivals, the contributions should approach them in terms of dynamic cultural artefacts, shaped by the social, ideological, and belief systems of each historical context. In this sense, reception is understood as an active and historically situated process of appropriation, through which the past is continuously reimagined and resignified.

Contributions should be sent in English, Spanish, French, Italian or Portuguese. Submissions must be sent no later than September 15, 2026, only through the website: https://periodicos.ufpb.br/index.php/scandia

Scandia Journal may also accept papers whose subject is not related to this dossier. In this case, the approved papers may be included in the free article section, and the deadline is the same. The free article section accepts papers regarding any area or field of Scandinavian Studies related to the Viking Age and Medieval Scandinavia. 

Scandia Journal of Medieval Norse Studies (ISSN: 2595-9107, Qualis-Capes A4).
Contact and information: scandiajournalneve@gmail.com

Reception Research Group: https://reception.web.uah.es

CFP Reading Chaucer outside the Anglophone World: Receptions, Translations, and Traditions (6/30/2026; Taiwan 3/12-13/2027)

From the Global Chaucers site: https://globalchaucers.com/2026/01/20/reading-chaucer-outside-the-anglophone-world-receptions-translations-and-traditions/. 

In Sondry Ages and Sondry Londes

Reading Chaucer outside the Anglophone World: Receptions, Translations, and Traditions

Date: March 12–13, 2027
Venue: National Taiwan University, Taiwan

**

The recent Mandarin Chinese translation of The Canterbury Tales (Linking Publishing, 2025) by Dr. Francis K. H. So offers a timely opportunity to reflect on the growing presence, vitality, and diversity of Chaucerian studies outside the Anglophone world. This significant contribution not only opens new avenues for engaging with Geoffrey Chaucer’s language and narrative art, but also foregrounds the crucial role of translation, pedagogy, and local scholarly traditions in shaping how Chaucer is read, interpreted, and taught across different linguistic and cultural contexts.

Aligned with the New Chaucer Society’s (NCS) ongoing initiative “In Sondry Ages and Sondry Londes” (curated by Dr. Jonathan Fruoco), this international conference seeks to advance a more globally grounded Chaucerian studies, one that situates the significance of Chaucer beyond the Anglophone world by foregrounding translation, adaptations, multilingual readerships, pedagogical practices, and cross-cultural intellectual exchange. By bringing together scholars working across diverse linguistic regions and by creating a venue for established scholars, early-career researchers, and graduate students, the conference aims to foster sustained conversations about Chaucer’s afterlives and to strengthen transnational scholarly networks shaped by translation, adaptation, and comparative inquiry.

The keynote speakers are Dr. Candace Barrington, Professor of English at Central Connecticut State University and President of the New Chaucer Society, whose work focuses on Chaucer and medieval English literature, especially global reception, translation, and adaptation, and Dr. Francis K. H. So, Professor Emeritus at National Sun Yat-sen University, whose scholarship centers on Chaucer, medieval and Renaissance English literature, East–West comparative studies, and the translation and global circulation of premodern texts.

We invite proposals that explore any aspect of Chaucer’s works, their translations and adaptations, as well as their critical or creative receptions outside the Anglophone world, or in comparative and transregional contexts. Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

• Translation, Adaptation, and Literary Mediation
• New approaches to, or challenges in, translating Chaucer into non-Anglophone languages
• Histories of major translations and translators, and the role of translation in shaping local understandings of Chaucer
• Considerations of the role publishers (both university and commercial presses) supporting and promoting editions of Chaucer outside the Anglophone sphere
• Theoretical reflections on translation, vernacularity, and Middle English in multilingual or cross-cultural contexts
• Chaucer-inspired works in contemporary literature, media, or visual culture
• Reception, Pedagogy, and Intellectual HistoriesHistories of Chaucerian scholarship in non-Anglophone academic traditions
• Pedagogical practices and challenges in teaching Chaucer in multilingual or non-Anglophone classrooms
• Chaucer in textbook cultures, anthologies, curricula, and the formation of literary canons, particularly the “World Literature” category Chaucer in Global and Comparative Perspectives
• Cross-cultural approaches to medieval narrative, performance, humor, or religiosityComparative medievalisms across linguistic, national, or cultural traditions
• Reading Chaucer alongside non-Western or premodern texts (for example, The Tale of Genji, The Cloud Dream of the Nine, and Romance of the Three Kingdoms), with attention to narrative framing, irony, or social satire
• Intersections between Chaucer and local philosophical or aesthetic traditions
• Texts, Traditions, and Critical MethodsCritical innovations on Chaucer’s oeuvre (The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, the dream visions, Chaucer’s translations of Latin and French texts, and shorter poems), through lenses such as gender, race, affect, ecology, embodiment, or disability
• Manuscript studies, material culture, digital humanities, or archival research, particularly Middle English manuscripts housed in Asia and the global South.
• Chaucer, colonialism, and postcolonial reception histories in non-Anglophone contexts

The conference will be held in person on March 12–13, 2027, at National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. Please submit a proposal (250 words in English) along with a brief bio of 100 words to readingchaucer@gmail.com by June 30, 2026. In addition to individual paper proposals, the conference welcomes panel proposals consisting of three to four papers organized around a shared theme. Panel submissions should include a panel abstract (300 words) outlining the panel’s coherence and relevance to the conference theme, along with individual paper abstracts (250 words each) and a brief 100-word bio for each participant.

We particularly welcome submissions from graduate students and early-career scholars, and we hope this gathering will reinforce and expand long-term networks of Chaucerian research beyond the Anglophone world. There is no registration fee for the conference. For updated information, please visit the conference website: https://readingchaucer.com/.

This event is co-sponsored by the New Chaucer Society (NCS), the Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies (TACMRS), University Paris Nanterre (CREA), and the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), Taiwan.

Conference Organizers:
Sophia Yashih Liu, National Taiwan University
Yu-Ching (Louis) Wu, National Central University
Jonathan Fruoco, University Paris Nanterre (CREA)

CFP Wooden O Symposium 2026 (3/31/2026; Utah 8/3-5/2026)

Wooden O Symposium

deadline for submissions:
March 31, 2026

full name / name of organization:
Southern Utah University-Utah Shakespeare Festival

contact email:
tvordi@suu.edu

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/09/wooden-o-symposium

August 3-5, 2026

Southern Utah University - Utah Shakespeare Festival



The Wooden O Symposium is a cross-disciplinary conference exploring the impact of Shakespeare's plays on culture and history, from his time to the present. This face-to-face conference aims to foster research in the field of Shakespeare Studies and to provide connections between academia and professional theatre productions through our partnership with the Utah Shakespeare Festival. The Wooden O Symposium limits participation to 25 presenters to ensure robust conversation and feedback as we strive to create a community of scholars engaged with the work of Shakespeare.

Our 2026 keynote speaker is Dr. Daniel Vitkus, Rebeca Hickel Endowed Chair in Elizabethan Literature at the University of California, San Diego

We invite proposals for presentations on any topic relating to Shakespeare and his plays, including:

• Shakespeare and Adaptation
• Shakespeare in Performance
• Shakespeare and History, Culture, and Society
• Shakespeare and Rhetoric
• Shakespeare and the Arts
• Shakespeare and his Global Contemporaries
• Theoretical Approaches

We also encourage papers and presentations speaking to the Utah Shakespeare Festival’s 2026 summer season: Troilus and Cressida, Hamlet, and Twelfth Night. Conference registration includes 1 ticket to Troilus and Cressida and 1 to Hamlet, as well as 50% off any USF ticket from August 3-5 for you and your guests.

The deadline for proposals is March 31, 2026. Please include a 200-250-word abstract and the following information:

• name of presenter
• participant category (faculty, graduate student, or independent scholar)
• college/university affiliation
• email address
• audio/visual requirements and any other special requests.

All abstracts should be submitted through the following link: 2026 Wooden O Symposium Submission Form

For more information, please contact the conference co-organizers, Scott Knowles at scottknowles@suu.edu or Jessica Tvordi at tvordi@suu.edu


Last updated January 9, 2026

CFP Echoes of Shakespeare: Intertextual Dialogues across Centuries (6/1/2026)

Echoes of Shakespeare: Intertextual Dialogues across Centuries

deadline for submissions:
June 1, 2026

full name / name of organization:
Rachel Wifall / Saint Peter's University

contact email:
rwifall@saintpeters.edu

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/18/echoes-of-shakespeare-intertextual-dialogues-across-centuries

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that submissions are open for the upcoming Special Issue, Echoes of Shakespeare: Intertextual Dialogues across Centuries. The Guest Editor, Rachel Wifall (Saint Peter’s University), welcomes articles that consider how the works of William Shakespeare have informed other artists and thinkers over time. Literature (ISSN 2410-9789) provides an advanced forum for studies related to the literature of all times and places. It publishes reviews, regular research papers, and short communications, as well as Special Issues on particular subjects. For this Special Issue, studies in intertextuality, adaptation, and appropriation are encouraged, from diverse fields such as history, philosophy, theater, music, film, and media studies. Since Shakespeare remains the most influential and most adapted English author, this issue aims to update the ongoing conversation between the works of Shakespeare and subsequent generations. While papers considering contemporary literature and other art forms are encouraged, studies are welcome that look back into history, as far as the seventeenth century.

We request that, prior to submitting a manuscript, interested authors initially submit a proposed title and an abstract of 200-300 words summarizing their intended contribution. Please send it to the Guest Editor, Dr. Rachel Wifall (rwifall@saintpeters.edu), and CC the Section Managing Editor of Literature, Ms. Joyce Xi (joyce.xi@mdpi.com). The guest editor will review abstracts for the purpose of ensuring a proper fit within the scope of the Special Issue. Full manuscripts will undergo double-blind peer review.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/literature/special_issues/7099MS9755



Last updated January 20, 2026

Conference Update - 2026 Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America

The Medieval Academy of America has issued the following update on its upcoming annual meeting. The program is online and includes some panels and papers devoted to the medieval in post-medieval contexts.

MAA News – 2026 Annual Meeting Registration is Open!

Posted on January 8, 2026

Source: https://www.themedievalacademyblog.org/maa-news-2026-annual-meeting-registration-is-open/.


Registration is now open for the 101st Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America. The Meeting will take place on March 19–21, 2026 on the campuses of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Amherst College, and will also include events at Mt. Holyoke College and Smith College. Hosted by the Five College Consortium, the theme of the meeting is “Consortiums and Confluences.” The program will bring together scholars from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds addressing the medieval world and critical topics in Medieval Studies. Our plenary lectures will be given by Elly Truitt (Associate Professor of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania), Peggy McCracken (President of the Medieval Academy of America and Professor of French, Women’s Studies, and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan), and Jesús Rodríguez-Velasco (Augustus R. Street Professor of Spanish & Portuguese and Comparative Literature at Yale University). We are excited to welcome you to Amherst, Massachusetts, and its environs, and look forward to meeting you, learning from you, and celebrating our shared commitment to Medieval Studies.

Click here for more information and to register!

CFP Medieval Feminist Forum

Cross-posted from our listserv Forever Medieval. 

Dear all,

I write on behalf of Lynn Shutters and myself, to invite you to consider Medieval Feminist Forum as an outlet for your scholarly work on medievalism. As the recently appointed co-editors of Medieval Feminist Forum, we would like to warmly invite submissions of articles for consideration. We welcome work from scholars at all stages of their careers. While literature and history are traditional strengths of the journal, we also welcome papers across disciplines.

Because we have a number of very exciting special issues in the publishing pipeline at the moment, including Intersections of Gender and Genres in Medieval Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and New Visions for Julian of Norwich, we are not accepting proposals for complete issues at this time.

You can find more information about MFF and submission policies here:
https://wmich.edu/medievalpublications/journals/mff

Also feel free to contact either Lynn (lynn.shutters@colostate.edu) or me (lbarnhouse@astate.edu) directly with any questions.

All best,
Lucy


Dr. Lucy C. Barnhouse (she/her/hers)
Assistant Professor of History, Arkansas State University
Director, Medieval and Renaissance Studies minor
Co-edited with Winston Black: Beyond Cadfael: Medieval Medicine and Medical Medievalism
Now out: Hospitals in Communities of the Late Medieval Rhineland
Podcaster, Footnoting History