Women Warriors and Popular Culture: Representations Across
Time and Space
Panel Proposed for the Fantastic (Fantasy, Horror, and
Science Fiction) Area
Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of
Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture
2018 Conference of the Northeast Popular Culture/American
Culture Association (NEPCA)
Worcester State University, Worcester, Massachusetts
19-20 October 2018
Proposals due 1 June 2018
Women warriors have been important figures throughout history,
but their reception and representation in popular culture is often overlooked.
As a means of furthering discussion and debate on these indivuduals, the Association
for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular
Culture invites paper proposals that explore the histories, mythologies,
cultural presentations and workings of women warriors across time and space. We
welcome papers that delve into the popular cultural appropriation of notable
women warriors, such as Boudicca, Joanna of Flanders Joan of Arc, or Grace O’Malley,
as well as papers that address the place and signification of women warriors in
the historical and mythic fiction of popular culture (TV, movies, comics, etc.),
such as Snow White and the Huntsman, The Vikings, and Wonder Woman.
Presentations will be limited to 15 or 20 minutes in length
depending on final panel size.
Directions for Submission:
Please contact the organizers Michael A. Torregrossa and
June-Ann Greeley at medievalinpopularculture@gmail.com,
using “Women Warriors and Popular Culture” as your subject line, with any
questions in advance of the 1 June 2018 deadline.
Submissions for the panel will be made by the organizers to
NEPCA. We need contact information, academic affiliation (if any), an academic
biographical statement (between 50 and 200 words), a paper title (no more than
60 characters), and a paper abstract (no more than 250 words). Please send this
to us at medievalinpopularculture@gmail.com, using “Women Warriors
and Popular Culture” as your subject line.
Membership in NEPCA is required for participation and annual
dues are included in conference registration fees. Further details are
available at https://nepca.blog/membership-information/.
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