MEDIEVALISM-THEMED SESSIONS AND/OR PANELS
2009 JOINT CONFERENCE OF THE NATIONAL POPULAR CULTURE AND AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATIONS
NEW ORLEANS MARRIOTT, NEW ORLEANS, LA
8-11 APRIL 2009
The annual meetings of PCA and ACA offer a number of opportunities to explore the medieval in popular culture. Most sessions on medievalism are sponsored by the Arthurian Legends and Medieval Popular Culture areas, but other areas (as noted below) also continue to offer an additional assortment. In addition, the Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages usually sponsors a session on the general topic of "The Comics Get Medieval" (hosted originally by the Arthurian Legends Area but now moved to the Medieval Popular Culture Area since its revival under the current area chait, Kate Laity), but this year, as in some past years, we did not have enough proposals to warrant an entire session.
I have noted below all sessions/panels with genuine medievalism-related content as well as those that seem to relate or address aspects of the Gothic that might be of interest to medievalists.
The complete program (405 pp) and registration information can be found online at the PCA/ACA website. This listing is based on the online version posted on 3 April 2009, which is (or was) scheduled for at least one more update on 7 April 2009.
WEDNESDAY, 8 APRIL: 12:30-2:00 PM
Regent (4th Floor): 1010 Mythology in Contemporary Culture I: Men and Mythology: Thieves, Tricksters, and (of course) Beer
Chair: Kate Rittenhouse, Pacifica Graduate Institute
PAPER 1 OF 4: From Green Shores to Green Beers: The Mythstory of Ireland‘s Saint Patrick
Kevin Michael Visconti, University of Miami
WEDNESDAY, 8 APRIL: 2:30-4:00 PM
La Galerie 5 (2nd Floor): 1029 Film Adaptation I: Canonical Classics in Film Adaptation
Chair: Andrew MacDonald, Loyola University
PAPER 2 OF 3: 'Gently to hear, kindly to judge…': Olivier and Branaugh's Chorus in Henry V
Anthony LaPorte, University of South Florida
WEDNESDAY, 8 APRIL: 2:30-4:00 PM
La Galerie 6 (2nd Floor): 1035 Shakespeare on Film and Television I: Backstory and Settings in Macbeth, Hamlet, and Henry V
Chair: Roberta N. Rude, University of South Dakota
No Hamlet, Two Hamlet: The Shakespearian Tragedy Directed By Carmel Bene and Celestino Coronado.
Armando Rotondi, University of Strathclyde
Diachronic Design in Olivier‘s Henry V
Howard Schmitt, University of Southern California
Backstory in Some Recent Film Versions of Shakespeare's Plays
Richard Vela, University of North Carolina-Pembroke
WEDNESDAY, 8 APRIL: 2:30-4:00 PM
Balcony L (4th Floor): 1049 Science Fiction & Fantasy II: Technological Tensions With and Among Humanity and the Natural World
Chair: Keith Dorwick, University of Louisiana, Lafayette
PAPER 3 OF 4: 'Reclaiming' Middle-Earth: Tolkien's Illustrations for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
Susana Brower, University of California, Riverside
WEDNESDAY, 8 APRIL: 4:30-6:00 PM
Bonaparte (4th Floor): 1053 Medieval Popular Culture I: Medieval Movies
Chair: K. A. Laity, College of Saint Rose
The Hero‘s Hard Body and Monstrous Sex: Sons and Lovers, or Re-visioning Heroic Masculinity in Zemeckis' Beowulf
Jennifer Ash, Loyola University Chicago
'Perhaps you lust for what you cannot have': Excalibur and the Quest for Neopagan Authenticity
Peg Aloi, Emerson College
The Virgin Spring: The Timeless World of Humanity
Catherine Dumas, College of Saint Rose
Nationalism in Popular Medievalism: Beowulf, Prince of Geats
R. Scott Nokes, Troy University
WEDNESDAY, 8 APRIL: 4:30-6:00 PM
Balcony K (4th Floor): 1056 The Vampire in Literature, Culture, & Film II: Male, Female and Bad Girl Vampires
Chair: Melissa Anyiwo, Curry College
The Evolution of the Male Vampire in Literature and Film
Megan Martin, University of Louisiana-Monroe
The Mythic and Potential Genetic Origins of the Female Vampire Warrior in Film
Marc Porter, West Virginia State University
Bad Girls: Selene and the Redeeming of the Female Vampire in the Underworld Series
Melissa Anyiwo
WEDNESDAY, 8 APRIL: 4:30-6:00 PM
La Galerie 6 (2nd Floor): 1068 Shakespeare on Film and Television II: Post-modern and Gender Issues in The Tempest, As You Like It, Othello and Macbeth
Chair: Roberta N. Rude, University of South Dakota
PAPER 1 OF 5 (?): Coppola, Mazursky and the 18 Year Gap
Peter Babiak, York University
PAPER 3 OF 5: 'Gently to hear, kindly to judge, our play': The Representation of Olivier and Branagh's Chorus in HENRY V
Anthony LaPorte, University of South Florida
PAPER 4 0F 5 (?): The Adaptive Journey to Meaning.
Meenakshi Bharat, University of Delhi
WEDNESDAY, 8 APRIL: 4:30-6:00 PM
Balcony L (4th Floor); 1085 Science Fiction & Fantasy III: Video and Role-Playing Games
Chair: Sarah Lynne Bowman, University of Texas, Dallas
PAPER 3 OF 3: The Evolution of the Character Concept in Fantasy Role-playing Games
Sarah Lynne Bowman
THURSDAY, 9 APRIL: 8:00-9:30 AM
Bonaparte (4th Floor): 2002 Arthurian Legends I: In the Margins
Chair: James Noble, University of New Brunswick
Lancelot‘s Ecocriticism: The Healing Power of Nature in Arthurian Legend
Randall S. Frederick, Northwestern State University
A Suited Knight: The Quest of Eli Stone
Christina Francis, Bloomsburg University
The Paracinematic Uses of the Arthurian Legend
Samuel J. Umland, University of Nebraska at Kearney
The Sword in the Stone in Fringe Arthuriana
Carl Pyrdum, Yale University
THURSDAY, 9 APRIL: 8:00-9:30 AM
Iberville (4th Floor): 2017 American Literature II: Influences of Early to 19th Century American Literature
Chair: Sue Richardson, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
PAPER 3 OF 3: Emerson and the Gothic Mode
Jason Richards, Rhodes College
THURSDAY, 9 APRIL: 8:00-9:30 AM
La Galerie 4 (2nd Floor): 2024 Game Studies III: Gaming Communities
Chair: Kelly Bergstrom, University of Calgary
PAPER 2 OF 3 (?): Quixote‘s Ludic Hero-Quest as a Precursor to G4M3R S7UDI3S
Jimmy Butts, Winthrop University
THURSDAY, 9 APRIL: 8:00-9:30 AM
La Galerie 6 (2nd Floor): 2037 Theatre & Drama II: The Dark Side
Chair: Kayla Wiggins, Martin Methodist College
PAPER 2 OF 3: Macbeth[noir]
Dennis Rendleman, University of Illinois, Springfield
THURSDAY, 9 APRIL: 10:00-11:30 AM
La Galerie 2 (2nd Floor): 2047 Radio I: Golden Age of Radio: Orson Welles, Radio Noir, & This American Life
Chair: Frank Chorba, Washburn University
PAPER 3 OF 4 (?): Inmate Performance of Hamlet & a Warrior Queen: Outgroup Radio Narratives from 'This American Life' Subvert Ingroup Definitions of Cultural Normality
Jessica Savalla, California State University, San Marcos
THURSDAY, 9 APRIL: 10:00-11:30 AM
Bonaparte (4th Floor): 2052 Arthurian Legends II: The King on Stage and Screen
Chair: Jeremy Adams, Southern Methodist University
Translating Spamalot: From Broadway to the West End
Susan Aronstein, University of Wyoming and Laurie Finke, Kenyon College
Reinventing an Iconic Arthurian Moment: The Sword in the Stone in Films and Television
Lorraine K. Stock, University of Houston
Remediating Arthur
Martin B. Shichtman, Eastern Michigan University
The Best Arthurian Cartoon You‘ve Never Seen: Hugh Harman‘s Unfinished 'King Arthur's Knights ' (c. 1941)
Michael Salda, University of Southern Mississippi
THURSDAY, 9 APRIL: 10:00-11:30 AM
La Galerie 6 (2nd Floor): 2067 Film VII: The Politics of International Cinema: Kurosawa's Rashomon, Italian "Peplum," & Almodovar's Volver
Chair: Marco O. Íñiguez-Alba, Texas A&M University, Kingsville
PAPER 1 OF 4: Rashomon in Context
Bill Cook, Columbus State Community College
THURSDAY, 9 APRIL: 12:30-2:00 PM
Bonaparte (4th Floor): 2092 Arthurian Legends III: Arthur in Contemporary Culture
Chair: Elizabeth S. Sklar, Wayne State University and Donald L. Hoffman
Round Table Tactics: Arthurian Strategies and Contemporary Corporations
Bonnie Wheeler, Southern Methodist University
Runescape, or Athena meets the Lady of the Lake: Arthurian Legend in the Electronic Era
Rebecca Umland, University of Nebraska at Kearney
When it‘s the end of the world as we know it: Arthur at the Apocalypse
Ann F. Howey, Brock University
King Arthur Goes to Parliament: Quixotic Arthurian Figures in Contemporary Political Culture
Christine Neufeld, Eastern Michigan University
THURSDAY, 9 APRIL: 12:30-2:00 PM
La Galerie 4 (2nd Floor): 2099 Game Studies IV: Structures and Identities
Chair: Angela Winand, University of Illinois-Springfield
PAPER 1 OF 4 (?): Doin' the (Post-Modern) Dance: Representations of Race and Gender in the Dances of World of Warcraft
Regina McMenomy, Washington State University
PAPER 2 OF 4 (?): Scantily Clad and Well Proportioned: Sexism and Gender Stereotyping in the Gaming Worlds of TSR and Dungeons & Dragons
Chris Danielson, Benedict College
PAPER 3 OF 4 (?): Farmer, Why Do I Hate Thee? Let Me Count the Ways: Subject/Object Politics within World of Warcraft
Douglas Schules, University of Iowa
THURSDAY, 9 APRIL: 2:30-4:00 PM
Bacchus (4th Floor): 2150 Mystery & Detective Fiction V: Literary Borrowings
Chair: John V. Halbrooks, University of South Alabama
PAPER 4 OF 4: P.D. James Reads Beowulf
John Halbrooks
THURSDAY, 9 APRIL: 2:30-4:00 PM
Balcony L (4th Floor): 2157 Science Fiction & Fantasy IX: What It Means to Be Human
Chair: Bonnie Jo Noonan, Xavier University
PAPER 1 OF 3: The Virgin, the Swine, and the Author: Evangeline Walton‘s Fantastic Mabinogion
Kristin Noone, University of California, Riverside
THURSDAY, 9 APRIL: 4:30-6:00 PM
Bonaparte (4th Floor): 2186 Medieval Popular Culture II: Transforming the Medieval
Chair: Constance Wagner, Saint Peter's College
Impure Songs: Music and Morality in Early Medieval Christianity and Islam
Lisa Nielson, University of Maine, Orono
Beowulf and the (Sequential) Art of War
David W. Marshall, California State University
Putting the Grail Back in Grrl Power: How a Girl Saved Camelot (without even getting medieval on anyone‘s ass) and Why It Matters
Katherine Allocco, Western Connecticut State University
Arresting Strangeness: Fantasy Fulfilled in The Lord of the Rings Onstage
Constance Wagner
THURSDAY, 9 APRIL: 4:30-6:00 PM
Galvez (5th Floor): 2187 Festivals & Faires I: Where There are No Footlights: Participants as Performers
Chair: Kimberly Tony Korol-Evans, University of Arizona
PAPER 3 OF 4: That‘s Ren-tertainment: Role-playing, Renaissance Festivals, and American Nostalgia for an Idealized English Past
Audrey Becker, Marygrove College
THURSDAY, 9 APRIL: 8:30-10:00 PM
Regent (4th Floor): 2201 Gothic in Literature, Film, & Culture I: Televised Versions
Chair: Michelle Kay Hansen, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
My ugly came out‘: True Crime TV and Suburban Gothic
Judith Broome, William Paterson University
The Rage of Willow: Witchcraft Fantasy in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Lisa Vetere, Monmouth University
Saving Grace: The Glimmer of Redemption in the American Gothic
Michelle Kay Hansen
THURSDAY, 9 APRIL: 8:30-10:00 PM
Bacchus (4th Floor): 2227 Eros, Pornography & Popular Culture II: Eros and Porn on the Fringe
Chair: Ken Muir, Appalachian State University
PAPER 2 OF 3: History and Misogyny: 'For Her Pleasure': The Tudors, The Other Boleyn Girl, and the Paradox of Women's Pornography
Melissa Jones, Eastern Michigan University
FRIDAY, 10 APRIL: 8:00-9:30 AM
Bonaparte (4th Floor): 3012 Arthurian Legends IV: Refiguring Arthurian Personae
Chair: Jo Goyne, Southern Methodist University
Quest of the Eternal Adolescent: The Percival of Chrétien de Troyes and Jim Hunter
Jane Minogue, California State University, Northridge
Percival Munn's Grail Quest: Robert Penn Warren and Arthurian Literature
Leverett Butts, Georgia Military College
'Tis Folly to be Wise': Merlin and Vivian in E.A. Robinson's Merlin
Thomas Hoberg, Northeastern Illinois University
Bearing the Royal Seed: The Body of Mordred‘s Mother in Feminist Fiction
Amy S. Kaufman, Wesleyan College
FRIDAY, 10 APRIL: 8:00-9:30 AM
Regent (4th Floor): 3014 Gothic in Literature, Film, & Culture II: Contemporary Stylings
Chair: Richard Keitel, Point Park University
The Gothic Subtext in Housseini's The Kite Runner
Rehana Whatley, Oakwood University
Deathdream's Hybrid Horror: The Soldier as Vampire and Living Dead
Joyce Thomas, Castleton State College
Conservative Gothicism: The Effect of Creolization
James Callahan, Northwestern State University
Mary Shelley and Her Frankenstein: The Musical
Richard Keitel
FRIDAY, 10 APRIL: 8:00-9:30 AM
Balcony J (4th Floor): 3032 Literature & Science II: Scintersections
Chair: Zachary Umstead, University of Northern Iowa
PAPER 3 OF 3: Nineteenth Century Up-to-date with a Vengeance: Fin-de-siècle Science and Mysticism in Dracula
Zachary Umstead
FRIDAY, 10 APRIL: 10:00-11:30 AM
Bonaparte (4th Floor): 3045 Arthurian Legends V: The Once and Present King (Special Undergraduate Session)
Chair: Richard Scott Nokes, Troy University
The Magician: The Journey of Merlin from his Childhood in The Lost Years of Merlin to his Mature Character in The Once and Future King
Eric Anderson, Troy University
King Arthur for the Millennial Audience: Faith in Antonio Fuqua and Chretien de Troyes
Erin Warde, Troy University
Reversing the Polarity: Arthurian Science and Politics in Doctor Who
Joel Norman, Troy University
'She look'd down to Camelot': The Lady of Shallot, Elaine of Ascolat, and Lorena McKennitt
Jessica Williams, Troy University
Tristan and Isolde: From the Nineteenth Century through the Twenty-First Century
Rebecca Jordan, Troy University
FRIDAY, 10 APRIL: 10:00-11:30 AM
Balcony K (4th Floor): 3067 The Vampire in Literature, Culture, & Film—Buffy II: Fear and Loving in BTVS
Chair: Jennifer M. Santos, Virginia Military Institute
PAPER 3 OF 3: Gender Re-gendered: How Buffy the Vampire Slayer Revitalizes Gothic
Jennifer Santos
FRIDAY, 10 APRIL: 12:30-2:00 PM
Balcony N (4th Floor)
3078 Animation I: Animation and Gender
Chair: Amy Davis, University of Ulster, Coleraine
PAPER 3 OF 3: On Wooden Boys and Assistant Pig-Keepers: Depictions of Boyhood in Disney Feature Animation
Amy Davis
FRIDAY, 10 APRIL: 12:30-2:00 PM
Regent (4th Floor)
3086 Gothic in Literature, Film, & Culture III: British Variations
Chair: Mary Goodwin, National Taiwan Normal University
Sending Religion to the Devil: The Inquisition in the Gothic Novel of the Romantic Era
Laura Kremmel, Lehigh University
Stranger Fiction: The Asian Ghost Tales of Rudyard Kipling and Lafcadio Hearn
Mary Goodwin
FRIDAY, 10 APRIL: 12:30-2:00 PM
Bonaparte (4th Floor): 3102 Medieval Popular Culture III: Appropriating the Medieval
Chair: Laurel LaCroix, Houston Community College Southwest
Re-generating the Fisher King through Laurell K. Hamilton's Merry Gentry Books
Christine M. Havens, University of Northern Iowa
From the Medieval Black Plague to 1980s Technological Terror: Alterity, Vision, and Faith in THE NAVIGATOR
Robert J. Blanch, Northeastern University
Reality Cites: Why TRISTAN + ISOLDE Imitates Art Rather Than Life
Marc Guidry, Stephen F. Austin State University
A Gest of Robyn Hode.com: How Fan Fiction and Youtube Videos Based on the Current BBC ROBIN HOOD Carry on the Ballad Tradition
Leah Larson, Our Lady of the Lake University
FRIDAY, 10 APRIL: 4:30-6:00 PM
Preservation Hall Studio 9: 3170B Visual & Verbal Culture III: Cinema
Chair: Carol Samson, University of Denver
PAPER 3 OF 4 (?): Pop Shakespeare: Representations of William Shakespeare in Popular Culture
Rebecca Gorman, Metropolitan State College of Denver
FRIDAY, 10 APRIL: 4:30-6:00 PM
Bacchus (4th Floor): 3175 Popular American Authors III:
Chair: Michael Alleman, Louisiana State University, Eunice
PAPER 1 OF 4: Befriending Botticelli: The Life and Art of the Italian Renaissance Painter in Anne Rice's Blood and Gold
Deborah Cibelli, Nicholls State University
FRIDAY, 10 APRIL: 4:30-6:00 PM
Preservation Hall Studio 1 (2nd Floor): 3176 Adaptation (Film, TV, Lit., & Electronic Gaming) VII: Shakespeare, Xenophon, and Palahniuk
Chair: Phillip Block, University of South Dakota
PAPER 1 OF 3: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle and Hamlet Two: Bringing Shakespeare to a Whole New Audience in a Whole New Way
Margaret Mishoe, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
PAPER 2 OF 3: The Queering of Our Discontent: My Kingdom for a… Queen in Richard III
Stephen Tompkins, Montgomery County Community College
FRIDAY, 10 APRIL: 4:30-6:00 PM
Balcony J (4th Floor): 3194 Stephen King V: Ghosts, Gunslingers, and God?
Chair: Patrick McAleer, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
PAPER 2 0F 3: From the Dark Tower to the Dark Tower: Cyclical Narrative in Stephen King's Dark Tower and Robert Browning‘s 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came'
Evdokia Valiou, University of Delaware
FRIDAY, 10 APRIL: 6:30-8:00 PM
Regent (4th Floor): 3230 Film XXII: Shifting Cinematic Representations of Women: A Celluloid
Century of Social Evolution
Chair: Ashley York, University of Arizona
Susana, Viridiana, & Tristana: Patriarchal Submission to Desire in Three Films by
Bunuel
Camilo Gomides, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus
FRIDAY, 10 APRIL: 8:30-10:00 PM
Mardi Gras F (3rd Floor): 3238 The Vampire in Literature, Culture, & Film—Buffy Roundtable
Discussion 2: Science and Sorcery in BTVS
Chair: Tiffany Knoell, Bowling Green State University
This roundtable will discuss the elements, uses, and nature of science and sorcery in BTVS.
Derek Sweet, Luther College
Tiffany Knoell
SATURDAY, 11 APRIL: 10:00-11:30 AM
Bonaparte (4th Floor): 4042 Festivals & Faires V: All Across America: Celebrations in the City and the Country
Chair: Colleen Reilly, Yale University
PAPER 4 OF 4: The Power of Parsifal: Urban Spaces and Festivalized Places
Colleen Reilly, Yale University
SATURDAY, 11 APRIL: 10:00-11:30 AM
Napoleon Suite (41st Floor): 4047 Film & History X: Larger than Life: The Real and Imagined Lives of Historic Figures
Chair: A. Bowdoin Van Riper, Southern Polytechnic State University
PAPER 2 OF 3: Blanchett and the Bandit Queen: Shekhar Kapur's Representations of Female Authority
Grant Moss, Utah Valley University
PAPER 3 OF 3: The Noblest Roman: Rewriting History in Antoine Fuqua's KING ARTHUR (2004)
A. Bowdoin Van Riper
SATURDAY, 11 APRIL: 10:00-11:30 AM
Balcony L (4th Floor): 4053 Science Fiction & Fantasy XXII: A SF/F Potpourri: Lord of the Rings and (Dis)Embodiment
Chair: Anne Savage, McMaster University
PAPER 1 OF 3: What a Bitch: The Ring in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
Mali Stanforth, Northeast Lakeview College
SATURDAY, 11 APRIL: 12:30-2:00 PM
Regent (4th Floor): 4060 Gothic in Literature, Film, & Culture IV: American Iterations
Chair: Louis H. Palmer, III, Castleton State College
Across the Boundaries: Liminality and Haunted Space in Richard Matheson's A Stir of Echoes
Rebecca Janicker, University of Nottingham
'The Repository of Secrets': Villains and Tricksters in The Bondwoman‘s Narrative
Jeffrey Pusch, University of Southern Mississippi
The Miltonic Satan in Poe‘s 'The Cask of Amontillado'
Laura Reeder, University of Northern Iowa
Gothic Masculinity: A Regional Genealogy
Louis Palmer
SATURDAY, 11 APRIL: 12:30-2:00 PM
Preservation Hall Studio 6 (2nd Floor)
4083 Visual Culture IX: Visual Culture and Narrativity
Chair: Royce W. Smith, Wichita State University
PAPER 5 OF 5 (?): Icons of Irishness: Contemporary 'Celtic' Imagery in Jewelry, Body Art, and Souvenirs
Maggie Williams, William Paterson University
SATURDAY, 11 APRIL: 2:30-4:00 PM
La Galerie 4 (2nd Floor): 4096 Game Studies IX: Processing/Performing Identity
Chair: Gerald Voorhees, Highpoint University
PAPER 3 OF 4 (?): Baptism by Firing Squad: Crusades, Conversion, and Coercion in Left Behind: Eternal Forces Strategy Gaming
Deborah Wills, Mount Allison University
SATURDAY, 11 APRIL: 4:30-6:00 PM
Balcony J (4th Floor): 4135 Literature & Science VI: Sci-ontology
Chair: Kristine Larsen, Central Connecticut State University
PAPER 3 OF 3: Lions and Hobbits and Science: Oh My! Using J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis in the Science Classroom
Kristine Larsen
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