Studies in Medievalism Vol. 20

Coming soon from D. S. Brewer:

Studies in Medievalism XX
Defining Neomedievalism(s) II
Edited by Karl Fugelso

First Published: 16 Jun 2011
13 Digit ISBN: 9781843842675
Pages: 212
Size: 23.4 x 15.6
Binding: Hardback
Imprint: D.S.Brewer
Series: Studies in Medievalism
Subject: Modern Literature
$90.00

Following on from previous issues, this volume continues to explore definitions of neomedievalism and its relationship to traditional medievalism. In four essays that open the volume, Harry Brown, KellyAnn Fitzpatrick, David W. Marshall, and Nils Holger Petersen underscore the elusive nature of distinctions between the two fields, particularly when assessing contemporary film, music, and electronic media. Seven articles then test the need for these distinctions, on subject matter ranging from Sir Walter Scott as a historian; M. E. Braddon's gendered medievalism; friendship models in Mary Elizabeth Haweis's Chaucer for Children; Jorge Luis Borges's Northern interests; medieval practices in Ellis Peters's Cadfael novels; innovative exhibits at the Museum of Wolframs-Eschenbach; and Celtic patterns in modern tattoos. Theory and practice are thus juxtaposed once again in a volume that is certain to fuel a central debate in not one but two of the fastest growing areas of academia.

Contributors: Harry Brown, KellyAnn Fitzpatrick, David W. Marshall, Nils Holger Petersen, Mark B. Spencer, Megan L. Morris, Karla Knutson, Vladimir Brljak, Alan T. Gaylord, Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand, Maggie M. Williams

Contents

1 Editorial Note
2 Baphomet Incorporated, A Case Study in Neomedievalism
3 [Re]producing [Neo]medievalism
4 Neomedievalism, Identification, and the Haze of Medievalisms
5 Medieval Resurfacings, Old and New
6 Quentin Durward and Louis XI: Sir Walter Scott as Historian
7 Chivalric Terrors: The Gendered Perils of Medievalism in M. E. Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret
8 "Lessons Fairer than Flowers": Mary Elizabeth Haweis's Chaucer for Children and Models of Friendship
9 Borges and the North
10 O Rare Ellis Peters: Two Rules for Medieval Murder
11 Performing Medieval Literature and/as History: The Museum of Wolframs-Eschenbach
12 Celtic Tattoos: Ancient, Medieval, and Postmodern
13 Notes on Contributors

A Companion to Medieval Popular Romance--Now in Paperback

Forthcoming in paperback from D. S. Brewer:

A Companion to Medieval Popular Romance
Edited by Raluca L. Radulescu and Cory James Rushton

First Published: 16 Jun 2011
13 Digit ISBN: 9781843842705
Pages: 224
Size: 23.4 x 15.6
Binding: Paperback
Imprint: D.S.Brewer
Series: Studies in Medieval Romance
Subject: Medieval Literature
BIC Class: DSBB
$29.95

First Published: 20 Aug 2009
13 Digit ISBN: 9781843841920
Pages: 224
Size: 23.4 x 15.6
Binding: Hardback
Imprint: D.S.Brewer
Series: Studies in Medieval Romance
Subject: Medieval Literature
BIC Class: DSBB
$90.00

Popular romance was one of the most wide-spread forms of literature in the middle ages, yet despite its cultural centrality, and its fundamental importance for later literary developments, the genre has defied precise definition, its subject matter ranging from tales of chivalric adventure, to saintly women, and monsters who become human. The essays in this collection seek to provide an inclusive and thorough examination of romance. They provide contexts, definitions, and explanations for the genre, particularly in, but not limited to, an English context. Topics covered include genre and literary classification; race and ethnicity; gender; orality and performance; the romance and young readers; metre and form; printing culture; and reception.

CONTRIBUTORS: ROSALIND FIELD, RALUCA L. RADULESCU, MALDWYN MILLS, GILLIAN ROGERS, JENNIFER FELLOWS, THOMAS H. CROFTS, ROBERT ALLEN ROUSE, JOANNE CHARBONNEAU, DESIREE CROMWELL, AD PUTTER, KARL REICHL, PHILLIPA HARDMAN, CORY JAMES RUSHTON

Contents

1 Introduction
2 Popular Romance: The Material and the Problems
3 Genre and Classification
4 The Manuscripts of Popular Romance
5 Printed Romance in the Sixteenth Century
6 Middle English Popular Romance and National Identity
7 Gender and Identity in the Popular Romance
8 The Metres and Stanza Forms of Popular Romance
9 Orality and Performance
10 Popular Romances and Young Readers
11 Modern and Academic Reception of the Popular Romance
12 Bibliography

Margaret Rogerson's The York Mystery Plays: Performance in the City

New (appropriately) from York Medieval Press:

The York Mystery Plays: Performance in the City
Edited by Margaret Rogerson

First Published: 21 Apr 2011
13 Digit ISBN: 9781903153352
Pages: 266
Size: 23.4 x 15.6
Binding: Hardback
Imprint: York Medieval Press
Subject: Medieval Literature
BIC Class: DSBB
$90.00

This volume provides a wealth of new insights into the performance of mystery plays in medieval York and their modern revival. It utilises both academic study, and the practical experience of those who now produce the cycle within York itself on wagons in the street, in an approximation of their original performance. A number of topics are covered. The manuscript is linked to Richard III; the Masons are introduced as non-guildsmen in an enterprise assumed to be guild-specific; families, not just male heads of households, are shown to be important to the dramatic narrative; and cognitive theory elucidates performance past and present. Recent productions are discussed in lively detail by those directly responsible for them, leading to analyses of performances in Israel, Spain, and Australia, not all of them of a predictable kind, which offer further angles on the medieval dramatic tradition.

Professor Margaret Rogerson teaches in the Department of English at the University of Sydney.

Contributors: Margaret Rogerson, Keith Jones, Richard Beadle, Sheila K. Christie, Mike Tyler, Jill Stevenson, Elenid Davies, Ben Pugh, Peter Brown, Tony Wright, Steve Bielby, Emma Cunningham, Alan Heaven, Linda Ali, Paul Toy, Gweno Williams, John Merrylees, David Richmond, Alexandra F. Johnston, Sharon Aronson-Lehavi, Pamela M. King

Contents

1 Introduction: Performance in the City
2 Foreword: The Mystery Plays and the Community
3 Nicholas Lancaster, Richard of Gloucester, and the York Corpus Christi Play
4 Bridging the Jurisdictional Divide: The Masons and the York Corpus Christi Play
5 Group Dynamics: The Noah Family in the York Pageant of The Flood
6 Embodied Enchantments: Cognitive Theory and the York Mystery Plays
7 Performing Mystery Plays in twenty-first-century York: Practicalities of Modern Production: Setting the Groundwork
8 Performing Mystery Plays in twenty-first-century York: The Pageant Master's Overview
9 The York Wagons: Construction, Dressing, and Performance: Designing for the Fall of the Angels [Young York Civic Trust]
10 The York Wagons: Construction, Dressing, and Performance: A Custom-built Wagon for the Crucifixion Play [Company of Butchers]
11 The York Wagons: Construction, Dressing, and Performance: Creation of the World to the Fifth Day - the Wagon [York Guild of Building]
12 Interpreting the York Text: Words and Music: The Potters' Pageant of Pentecost [Pocklington School]
13 Interpreting the York Text: Words and Music: The Pageant of The Resurrection - Christ's Appearance to Mary Magdalene
14 Interpreting the York Text: Words and Music: Music and the York Mystery Plays
15 Producing The Creation and Fall of Man in twenty-first-century York: 'Thys werke is wroght now'
16 The Communities of the York Plays
17 Raising the Cross: Pre-Textual Theatricality and the York Crucifixion Play
18 Confraternities and Civic Ceremonial: The Siena Palio
19 Devotional Acting: Sydney 2008 and Medieval York
20 Glossary
21 Bibliography

Hugh Magennis's Translating Beowulf: Modern Versions in English Verse

New from D. S. Brewer:


Translating Beowulf: Modern Versions in English Verse
Hugh Magennis

First Published: 17 Feb 2011
13 Digit ISBN: 9781843842613
Pages: 254
Size: 23.4 x 15.6
Binding: Hardback
Imprint: D.S.Brewer
Subject: Medieval Literature
BIC Class: DSBB
$90.00

Translations of the Old English poem Beowulf proliferate, and their number continues to grow. Focusing on the particularly rich period since 1950, this book presents a critical account of translations in English verse, setting them in the contexts both of the larger story of the recovery and reception of the poem and of perceptions of it over the past two hundred years, and of key issues in translation theory. Attention is also paid to prose translation and to the creative adaptations of the poem that have been produced in a variety of media, not least film.

The author looks in particular at four translations of arguably the most literary and historical importance: those by Edwin Morgan [1952], Burton Raffel [1963], Michael Alexander [1973] and Seamus Heaney [1999]. But, from an earlier period, he also gives a full account of William Morris's strange 1898 version.

Contents

1 Preface
2 Beowulf and Translation
3 Approaching the Poetry of Beowulf
4 Reception, Perceptions, and a Survey of Earlier Verse Translations of Beowulf
5 Edwin Morgan: Speaking to his Own Age
6 Burton Raffel: Mastering the Original to Leave It
7 Michael Alexander: Shadowing the Old English
8 Seamus Heaney: A Living Speech Raised to the Power of Verse
9 Other Post-1950 Verse Translations
10 Epilogue
11 Bibliography

Hugh Magennis is Professor of Old English Literature at Queen's University Belfast.

Medievalism at Plymouth State University

Last weekend there were several medievalism-themed papers at Plymouth State University's annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum. Relevant papers follow:

FRIDAY, 15 APRIL

11:05-12:25 Session 2
Examining the Self and Re-Imagining the Past Hartman Union Building (HUB) 109
Moderator: Brian Kosanovich, Plymouth State University/Loomis Chaffee
2) “You are my Father and Mother”: Love, Friendship, and the Surrogate Family in Medieval Novels for Young Adults, Angela Jane Weisl, Seton Hall University
3) From ‘Romeo and Juliet’ to ‘Letters to Juliet’: Elizabethan Tragedy Re-envisioned as Romantic Comedy, Charles R. Forker, Indiana University

4:00-5:20 Session 4
Teaching the Middle Ages Rounds 304
Moderator: Meriem Pagès, Keene State College
1) Making Chaucer Relevant to High School Seniors of Various Ability Levels, Patricia Hageman, Hollis-Brookline High School
2) Podcasting and Pedagogy, Andrea R. Harbin, SUNY Cortland


SATURDAY, 16 APRIL

10:35-11:55 Session 6
Reading Chaucer in America Rounds 203
Moderator: Paulette Barton, University of Maine, Orono
1) The Adams Family Chaucers, M. C. E. Shaner, University of Massachusetts—Boston
2) The William Van Wyck Translation of The Canterbury Tales, Illustrated by Rockwell Kent, Geraldine S. Branca, Merrimack College

3:00-4:20 Session 7
Medieval Roots, Modern Dreams Rounds 303
Moderator: Arthur Fried, Plymouth State University
1) Introducing the Medieval Roots of Modern Gender Equality, Robert Myles, McGill University
2) Print Warfare and Foxe’s The Book of Martyrs: Woodcuts as an Early Modern Precursor to 20th-21st Century Comics, Forrest C. Helvie, Norwalk Community College
3) Prince Valiant and Beyond: (Re-)Assessing the Corpus of Medieval-Themed Comics, Michael A. Torregrossa, Independent Scholar

Clare Simmon's Popular Medievalism in Romantic-Era Britain

New from Palgrave Macmillan:

Popular Medievalism in Romantic-Era Britain: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters
Clare A. Simmons

Palgrave Macmillan, January 2011
ISBN: 978-0-230-10374-0, ISBN10: 0-230-10374-X,
5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches, 246 pages, Includes: 5 pgs figs,
Book Hardcover $80.00

Popular Medievalism in Romantic-Era Britain examines ways in which British writers and readers used the idea of the Middle Ages to challenge contemporary political structures and to claim historical national rights at a time when fears that Britain would follow the example of the French Revolution caused the British government to undermine individual and collective rights. Through the consideration of canonical authors such as Blake, Scott, and Wordsworth and of lesser-studied works such as radical press writings and popular drama, this study suggests that the imaginative appeal to the social structures and literary forms of the Middle Ages served as a powerful means of raising awareness of Britain’s past and the tradition of freedom.

Contents:
Rites and Rights: The Topography of Ancient British Law * The National Melody * Medievalism Onstage in the French Revolutionary Era * The Radical Bestiary * Buried Alive: Gothic Reading and Medievalist Subjectivity * Scottish Lawyers, Feudal Law

Clare A. Simmons is a Professor of English at The Ohio State University. She is the author of Reversing the Conquest: History and Myth in Nineteenth-Century British Literature; Eyes Across the Channel: French Revolutions, Party History, and British Writing 1830-1882; and numerous essays on nineteenth-century British literature. She is the co-editor of Prose Studies and has edited the essay collection Medievalism and the Quest for the “Real” Middle Ages and Charlotte Mary Yonge’s novel The Clever Woman of the Family.


"By investigating the popular medievalism of the Romantic era, Simmons adds an essential and hitherto neglected facet to the continually evolving picture of the reception of medieval culture in postmedieval times. As an important corrective to the widely investigated medievalist reinventions of Romantic and Victorian elites, her study focuses on expressions of medievalism adopted by or accessible to the less privileged classes of British society. Expertly conversant with the longue durée of English responses to the Middle Ages since the beginnings of early modernity, Simmons demonstrates how the increased literacy and interest in political matters among those in skilled occupations as well as those who performed manual labor led to a popular view of a uniquely English continuity between the nation’s present and its medieval past."--Richard Utz, Professor and Chair, Department of English, Western Michigan University

CFP International Conference on Medievalism (4/18/11; Albuquerque 10/20-22/11)

Another I just came across:

The 26th International Conference on Medievalism
Institute for Medieval Studies
University of New Mexico
(Albuquerque, NM)
October 20-22, 2011

The conference committee for Studies in Medievalism is pleased to invite paper and session proposals for its 26th Annual International Conference on Medievalism, to be held at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, on October 20–22, 2011.

The theme of this year's conference is “Medievalism, Arthuriana, and Landscapes of Enchantment.” We therefore especially invite proposals addressing any or all of these concepts. We will also welcome proposals on any topic related to the invocation or representation of the Middle Ages in post- medieval periods. As an interdisciplinary organization, we also encourage proposals from all areas of the humanities, social sciences, and beyond, particularly proposals that address interdisciplinary themes or employ interdisciplinary theories and methods. Post-medieval interest in Arthuriana has flourished unabatedly since the 19th-century medieval revival and is, for instance, reflected in the 2010 publication of Joerg O. Fichte’s From Camelot to Obamalot: Essays on Medieval and Modern Arthurian Literature.

Subthemes for the conference might include, but are not limited to:
Re-imaginings of important Arthurian figures (King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Gawain, Morgan le Fay, Perceval, Lady of the Lake, etc.)
Representations of Arthuriana in art
Women and questions of gender in Arthuriana
Arthurian themes in music
Roles of landscapes in modern Arthurian works
Arthuriana and enchantment in modern historical novels (including mysteries)
Connections between magical enchantments and landscapes
Arthuriana and enchantment on the contemporary stage
Arthuriana in Shakespeare
Tolkien, Arthuriana, and enchantment
Enchantment in contemporary Arthurian works
Arthuriana portrayed on film, television, and/or the radio
Arthuriana and enchantment on the Internet
Arthuriana and enchantment in electronic and/or non-electronic games

Publication Opportunities: Selected papers related to the conference theme will be published in The Year’s Work in Medievalism.

Submission Deadline: April 18, 2011
Please send 250-word abstracts for individual papers and session proposals as an email attachment in Word or pdf formats to:
Anita Obermeier, Conference Chair International Conference on Medievalism Institute for Medieval Studies University of New Mexico AObermei@unm.edu
http://ims.unm.edu/sim
The University of New Mexico is located in Albuquerque, in the Land of Enchantment.


The annual International Conference on Medievalism (ICOM; known as the General Conference on Medievalism until 1993) began with two meetings at the University of Notre Dame in 1986 and 1987. Subsequent conferences were organized through the Newberry Library and Northeastern Illinois University (Chicago, Illinois: 1988), the United States Military Academy (1989), Burg Kaprun (jointly with the 5th Symposium on Mittelalter-Rezeption, Austria: 1990), the University of Delaware (1991), the University of South Florida (1992), the University of Leeds (UK: 1993), Montana State University (1994), the Higgins Armory Museum (Worcester, Massachusetts: 1995), Kalamazoo College (1996), Christ Church College (Canterbury, UK: 1997), University of Rochester (1998), Montana State University (1999), Hope College (Michigan: 2000), Buffalo State College (2001), the University of Northern Iowa (2002), St. Louis University (2003), University of New Brunswick (Canada: 2004), Towson University (Baltimore, Maryland: 2005), Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio: 2006), University of Western Ontario (London, Ontario, Canada: 2007), Wesleyan College (Macon, Georgia, 2008), Siena College (Loudonville, New York, 2009), and University of Groningen (The Netherlands, 2010).

Year's Work in Medievalism 24 (2009) and 25 (2010)

Just came across these. Both were published in 2010 by Wipf and Stock Publishers.

The Year's Work in Medievalism, 2009
Edited by Amy S. Kaufman
Retail Price: $12.00
Web Price: $9.60
ISBN 10:
ISBN 13: 978-1-60899-543-1
Pages: 88
Binding: Paperback
Publication Date: 06/01/2010
Street Date: 05/17/2010
Division: Wipf and Stock
Category: Humanities
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Book Description
The Year's Work in Medievalism 2009 includes papers delivered at the 23rd Annual Conference on Medievalism, organized by the International Society for Studies in Medievalism, and held at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia in October 2008. The topic of the conference was "Regional Medievalisms," a topic this volume conceives of broadly; the enclosed essays address medievalism in different genres and academic fields as well as geographic regions. The conference was organized by Amy S. Kaufman, who is the editor of this volume; the Director of Conferences and Series Editor of the Year's Work in Medievalism is Gwendolyn Morgan.

Contributors:
Gwendolyn Morgan, Beowulf and the Middle Ages in Film
Cory James Rushton, Canadian Grail
Alexander Moffett, "Certain Fragments of Yellow Parchment": Remembering the Medieval in Virginia Woolf's "The Journal of Mistress Joan Martyn"
Kathleen Coyne Kelly, Russ Meyer, Bricoleur: King Arthur, Wonder Woman, and Nazis in Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Karl Fugeslo, Regional Medievalisms in Academia: Pictorial vs. Textual Responses to the Divine Comedy
M.J. Toswell, Earle Birney: Medievalist Bard of British Columbia
Cory Lowell Grewell, Vanquishing the Beast Within: Christianization of the Hero Ethos in Robert Zemeckis's Beowulf


The Year’s Work in Medievalism, 2010
Edited by Gwendolyn Morgan
Retail Price: $18.00
Web Price: $14.40
ISBN 10:
ISBN 13: 978-1-60899-991-0
Pages: 158
Binding: Paperback
Publication Date: 12/06/2010
Street Date: 12/06/2010
Division: Wipf and Stock
Category: Humanities

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Book Description
The Year's Work in Medievalism, volume XXV, is based upon but not restricted to the 2010 proceedings of the annual International Conference on Medievalism, organized by the Director of Conferences for the International Society for the Study of Medievalism, Gwendolyn Morgan, and, for 2009, Dr. Pam Clements. The Year's Work in Medievalism also publishes bibliographies, book reviews, and announcements for conferences and other events.

Richard Utz, Pi(o)us Medievalism vs. Catholic Modernism: The Case Of George Tyrell
Martha Oberle, The Legacy of the Medieval Mendicant Orders
Chelsea Gunter, Mysticism and Messianism in the Poetry of Paul Celan
William Calin, Postcolonialism and Medievalism: How French Regional Cultures/Literatures Reshape Their Past and Present
Jana K. Schulman, Retelling Old Tales: Germanic Myth and Language in Christopher Paolini's Eragon
Arthur Russell, From English Stage to American Page: The Transatlantic Dissemination of Leonard MacNally's Robin Hood; or, Sherwood Forest
Gwendolyn Morgan, The Battle of Maldon in Imitative Translation
Edward L. Risden, The Battle of Maldon: A One-act Play for Readers' Theater
T.S. Miller, A Look at Some New Lays of Beowulf: The Misunderstood Monsters of Contemporary Popular Music
Aspen Hougen, Debilitating Dracula: Vampire as Illness Metaphor from the Middle Ages to the Present Day
Peter Johnsson, Purged by Fire: The Influence of Medieval Visionary Literature on Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction
Gerald Nachtwey, Unburied Corpses: The Violence of the Past in William Morris's Froissartian Poems
Karl Fugelso, Dante as Surfer Medievalism: Sandow Birk's Commedia Illustrations

Medievalism at Plymouth States

The Plymouth State Medieval and Renaissance Forum will be held this week from Friday, 15 April, to Saturday. 16 April, and includes a number of medievalism-themed papers as follows. The complete schedule (including two sessions on pedagogy) can be accessed at http://www.plymouth.edu/events/medieval-and-renaissance-forum/2011-forum/schedule/.

FRIDAY, 15 APRIL

11:05-12:25 Session 2
Examining the Self and Re-Imagining the Past Hartman Union Building (HUB) 109
PAPER 2: “You are my Father and Mother”: Love, Friendship, and the Surrogate Family in Medieval Novels for Young Adults, Angela Jane Weisl, Seton Hall University


SATURDAY, 16 APRIL

10:35-11:55 Session 6

Reading Chaucer in America Rounds 203
Moderator: Paulette Barton, University of Maine, Orono
PAPER 1: The Adams Family Chaucers, M. C. E. Shaner, University of Massachusetts—Boston
PAPER 2: The William Van Wyck Translation of The Canterbury Tales, Illustrated by Rockwell Kent, Geraldine S. Branca, Merrimack College

3:00-4:20 Session 7

Medieval Roots, Modern Dreams Rounds 303
Moderator: Arthur Fried, Plymouth State University
PAPER 1: Introducing the Medieval Roots of Modern Gender Equality, Robert Myles, McGill University
PAPER 2: Print Warfare and Foxe’s The Book of Martyrs: Woodcuts as an Early Modern Precursor to 20th-21st Century Comics, Forrest C. Helvie, Norwalk Community College
PAPER 3: Prince Valiant and Beyond: (Re-)Assessing the Corpus of Medieval-Themed Comics, Michael A. Torregrossa, Independent Scholar

Monstrous Medievalisms 2011 (Call for Papers)

CALL FOR PAPERS
MONSTROUS MEDIEVALISMS 2011
SPONSORED BY THE VIRTUAL SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF POPULAR CULTURE AND THE MIDDLE AGES
FOR THE SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY, AND LEGEND AREA
2011 Conference of The Northeast Popular / American Culture Association (NEPCA)
Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, Connecticut (181 White Street, Danbury, CT 06810)
Friday 11 and Saturday 12 November 2011
Proposals by 1 June 2011

Given the proximity to Halloween, proposals are invited from scholars of all levels for papers devoted to investigations of the medieval in Gothic and Horror narratives for a session entitled “Monstrous Medievalisms 2011" to be sponsored by The Virtual Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages (http://popularcultureandthemiddleages.blogspot.com/) and included under the Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Legend Area (http://sf-fantasy-legend.blogspot.com/). Presentations will be limited to 15-20 minutes in length. We are particularly interested in discussions of texts that have been neglected by the academy and/or offer unique representations of medieval motifs.

If you are interested in proposing a paper or panel of papers, please send a paper proposal of approximately 250 words and a one-page CV to both the Program Chair AND to the Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Legend Area Chair at the following addresses (please note "SF/Fantasy/Legend Proposal" in your subject line and indicate in the body that it is for the "Monstrous Medievalisms" session):

Don Gagnon
Program Chair
gagnond@wcsu.edu

Michael A. Torregrossa
Science Fiction, Fantasy and Legend Area Chair
Popular.Culture.and.the.Middle.Ages@gmail.com


The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) is a regional affiliate of the American Culture Association and the Popular Culture Association. NEPCA is an association of scholars in New England and New York, organized in 1974 at the University of Rhode Island. We reorganized and incorporated in Boston in 1992. The purpose of this professional association is to encourage and assist research, publication, and teaching on popular culture and culture studies topics by scholars in the northeast region of the United States. By bringing together scholars from various disciplines, both academic and non-academic people, we foster interdisciplinary research and learning.

Membership in NEPCA is required for participation. Annual dues are currently $30. Further details are available at http://users.wpi.edu/~jphanlan/NEPCA.html.

Advance Notice Kalamazoo 2012

The Virtual Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages has proposed the following sessions for the 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies to be held from 10-13 May 2012. Further details on each session can be found by clicking the respective links.

Are You From Camelot? Recent Arthurian Film, Television, and Electronic Games as Innovators of the Arthurian Tradition and Their Impact (Roundtable)


The Comics Get Medieval at Kalamazoo: New Perspectives for Incorporating Comics into Medieval Studies Teaching and Research (Roundtable)

Kalamazoo 2012 Sessions

We are in the final stages of writing our proposals for next year's (2012) Medieval Congress and will post the details soon. Pending approval by the organizing committee, submissions will be accepted starting this summer.