53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies
Western Michigan University
10- 13 May 2018
Saturday, 5/12, at 12:00 noon
SCHNEIDER 1160 Business Meeting
Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching
of the Medieval in Popular Culture
Saturday, 5/12, at 1:30 PM
417 SCHNEIDER 1160
Past, Present, Future: Medieval Monsters and Their
Afterlives I
Sponsor: Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and
Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture
Organizer: Michael A. Torregrossa, Independent Scholar
Presider: Anna Czarnowus, Univ. of Silesia
Giants in the History of England: The Final Frontier and
Steven Spielberg’s The BFG
Geneviève Pigeon, Univ. du Québec–Montréal
The Monstrous Host: Hospitality and Hostility in Kazuo
Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant
Matthew Vernon, Univ. of California–Davis
Merlin the White(washed): The Entertainment Industry’s
Evasion of Merlin’s Demonic Heritage
Michael A. Torregrossa
A Rapacious Daemon in King Arthur’s Court: Re-designating Merlin
as a Demonic Rapist in Arthuriana [note
corrected title]
Tirumular Narayanan, California State Univ.–Chico
Saturday, 5/12, at 3:30 PM
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Past, Present, Future: Medieval Monsters and Their
Afterlives II
Sponsor: Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching
of the Medieval in Popular Culture
Organizer: Michael A. Torregrossa, Independent Scholar
Presider: Whitney Dirks-Schuster, Grand Valley State Univ.
Haunting Poltergeists: Historical and Cinematic
Representations of Ghosts as Demonic Monsters
Rex Barnes, Columbia Univ.
The Queer and the Dead: Medieval Revenants and Their
Afterlives in In the Flesh
Elliot Mason, Concordia Univ. Montréal
The Witcher’s Anal Eye: Monstrous Technologies of the
Medievalized Other in Witcher 3: Wild
Hunt
Kevin Moberly , Old Dominion Univ.; Brent Addison Moberly,
Indiana Univ.–Bloomington
The Monstrous Mongols in Medieval Eurasia and Modern Day
Film
Colleen C. Ho, Univ. of Maryland
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