Kalamazoo 2010

The following represents the details for our sponsored session for next year's International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, MI. Many thanks to everyone for their interest.

 Twenty-first Century Medievalisms: Re-envisioning the Medieval in the Contemporary World (Roundtable)

Sponsor: The Virtual Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages

Organizer: Michael A. Torregrossa (The Virtual Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages)

Presider: Carl James Grindley (Eugenio María de Hostos Community College)

Paper 1: “Siegfried the Volk-Song: Examining the Interpretations of Siegfried the Dragon-Slayer and the Making of a National History”

Peter H. Johnsson (San Francisco State University)

Paper 2: “Analysis of Arthurian Film Reviews”

Laurie Rizzo (University of Delaware)

Paper 3: “Beowulf in the Twenty-First Century”

Suanna H. Davis (Houston Community College: Central)

Paper 4: “I Want to Believe: Finding the Medieval in The X-Files”

Rebecca Johnson (Princeton University)